Songwe, Vera

LC control no.	n 97022275
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Songwe, Vera *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Cameroon United States
Associated place	Belgium
Affiliation	United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa World Bank. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management International Finance Corporation University of Michigan Université catholique de Louvain (1970- ) University of Southern California Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Profession or occupation	Economists
Found in	Price selection mechanisms in imperfectly competitive economies, 1996: t.p. (Vera Songwe) p. 11 (Songwe Vera; acknowl. colleagues at CORE and the IRES) L'audace de réformer, 2018: title page (préface, Vera SONGWE) page 16 (Vera Songwe; Secrétaire Exécutif de la Commission Economique pour l'Afrique des Nations unies; Ancienne Directrice du Bureau régional pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre de la Société financière internationale; Ancienne Directrice pays de la Banque mondiale (Sénégal, Cap-Vert, Gambie, Guinée-Bissau et Mauritanie) Wikipedia, January 27, 2019 (Vera Songwe; Cameroonian economist and banking executive; has worked for the World Bank since 1998; in 2015 became Western and Central Africa's regional director for the International Finance Corporation; in 2017 she was appointed as the ninth Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa; grew up in Bamenda, attended Our Ladies of Lourdes College, a private Catholic school, thus part of the local English-speaking elite; B.A. in economics and B.A. in political science, University of Michigan; PhD in mathematical economics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; worked at the University of Michigan for three years; accepted a position with Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and visiting professor at University of Southern California; at the World Bank she worked in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) unit, covering Morocco and Tunisia; filled roles in the PREM unit for East Asia and the Pacific region; member of the Advisory Council, Mo Ibrahim Foundation)
Associated language	eng fre