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Women (2018) and Global Citizen Prize World Science from the University of Michigan.
Leader Award, 2019.
In 2010, Songwe was part of the World Bank Group
Anne-Marie Dias Borges team that raised a historic US$49.3 billion dollars
Anne-Marie is a Cape-Verdean journalist who is in concessional financing for the low-income
fluent in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish countries of the world as part of the International
and has worked extensively in TV and radio over the Development Association (IDA) 16th replenishment.
past 18 years. She currently works as a TV Anchor Forbes listed her in 2013 as one of the “20 Young
and Producer for BBC Business in London. Power Women in Africa”, and the following year
the Institut Choiseul for International Politics and
Anne-Marie began her career in 2002 at BBC Geoeconomics chose her as one of their “African
Afrique radio. During her 10 years at this network, leaders of tomorrow”. In 2015 she collaborated with
she was voted “most popular presenter” on the newly-founded Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship
numerous occasions. In Paris, she worked as Chief
Information Officer and TV Anchor for Africa24 TV
- “The African CNN”! There, she hosted a weekly
political TV debate called “Polititia”. The show was
watched by millions of viewers each week and as
a result, Anne-Marie became a household name in
various francophone countries.

When she is not on air, she likes to contribute to
non-governmental and charitable activities, notably
in Cabo-Verde where she has organised two
successful anti-drugs campaigns, in partnership
with the United Nations. Anne-Marie also sits
amongst the list of 100 most influential African
women for 2020.

Vera Songwe
Vera is an economist and banking executive from
Cameroon who has worked for the World Bank
since 1998, and in 2015 became Western and
Central Africa’s regional director for the International Source: Wikipedia
Finance Corporation. She is the first woman to head
the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at
the level of Under Secretary-General.

She holds a PhD in Mathematical Economics Vera Songwe
from the Center for Operations Research and She is the first woman to head the UN
Econometrics and a Master of Arts in Law and Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at
Economics and a Diplôme d’études approfondies in the level of Under Secretary-General.
Economic Science and Politics from the Université
Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. She has a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political

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