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Amechaguliwa kuwa Senior Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group.

Dr. Frannie Leautier appointed as Senior Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group
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The African Development Bank is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Frannie Leautier as the Senior Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group effective on 9th May, 2016.

A citizen of Tanzania, Dr. Frannie Leautier is currently Chairperson and Co-Founding Partner of Mkopa Private Equity Fund, which is focused on private equity investments in small and medium size enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Frannie Leautier is a globally respected development expert with over 25 years of professional experience and a former Vice President of the World Bank Group. She brings extensive Africa and global experience from both public and private sectors, including strong operations’ management experience in complex multilateral institutions. She is known for being results-oriented and a driver for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.

She graduated with a PhD in infrastructure systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990. She also earned her Masters degree in Transportation from MIT in 1986. She joined the World Bank in 1992-1994 as Transport Economist in the Infrastructure Division, Latin American Region, where she received an award for excellence in the design of infrastructure projects in Peru. She was Research Economist, Development Economics of the World Bank Group from 1994-1995. She was promoted to senior economist, Infrastructure Division of the South Asia Division of the World Bank and from 1995-1997 worked extensively in six Asian countries where she helped to build a cohesive team to deliver on infrastructure projects for the World Bank.

She served as Senior Director, Infrastructure, for the Asia Division of the World Bank, from 1997-1999. She was recognized for innovative projects for water and energy sectors and helped to consolidate the investments of the World Bank in the transport sector. She won the “Good Manager Award” for excellence in management.

Dr. Leautier was appointed the Chief of Staff and Director of the Office of the President of the World Bank Group from 2000-2001. She was later appointed as Vice President for the World Bank Group and Head of the World Bank Institute from 2001-2007. She was credited for helping to restructure the World Bank’s Institute for greater innovativeness, efficiency and delivery, for which she was given an award for Recognition of Extraordinary Work in 2003 by the World Bank, and a Presidential Award for Excellence in 2002 for her contributions to work in Latin America.

From 2007-2013, she was appointed a Distinguished Professor of Leadership in a Globalized World, Sciences Po, Paris, where she taught Masters’ courses in international management and leadership.

Dr. Leautier comes with extensive experience in the private sector and has worked as Managing Partner of The Fezembat Group from 2007-2009, a company that provided risk management and support advisory services for top leadership of companies investing in mining, infrastructure and energy in developing and emerging markets.

She was appointed Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation from 2009-2013, where she is credited with raising and revamping the profile, governance, accountability, efficiency and delivery of the institution. As a result of her hard fought reforms, contributions by African governments increased by more than five times during her tenure, as well as significant increase in funding from non-regional donors. She brings experience, tenacity and resilience needed to deliver change and transformation.

Dr. Leautier is globally respected in development circles. She has served as Board member of several organizations, including Women’s World Banking, Institute for Security Studies, African Economic Research Consortium, International Potato Institute, Nelson Mandela Institution for Science and Technology and the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Africa (2013-2014) and the African Institute of Governing with Integrity.

Dr. Leautier is passionate about development and brings experience in public and private sectors and a track record of working to drive successful organizational change. The New African Magazine listed her among the 100 most influential persons in Africa from 2011-2013. She is fluent in English and French, with advanced level in Spanish and some spoken Arabic.

The President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, said of the appointment, “I am delighted that Dr. Frannie Leautier will be joining the Bank as Senior Vice President. She is a globally respected development expert, with extensive and deep knowledge of Africa. She brings strong experience in operations management, capacity building and the private sector. As one of Africa's top development experts, she will help lead our efforts on improving the overall operational effectiveness of the Bank to drive greater developmental impacts.”
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KVM said:
Kwa nini siyo Mtanzania. Huyu mama namfahamu sana. Alikuwa alisoma Civil Engineering pale UDSM miaka ya 80 kabla ya kuwa TA pale Faculty of Engineering. Nakumbuka vile vile kuwa alikuwa na dada yake ambaye alikuwa anasomea Sociology au Political Science.
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Frannie Léautier was born in the town of Moshi, at the base of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. She was one of seven children – four boys and three girls – who formed a tight-knit family. When she was three years old, her family moved to the village of Lushoto, located along the Usambara Mountains. She and her siblings grew up in the quiet countryside, where goats were termed cash and cows capital. Her family owned one cow. Léautier believes it was this childhood setting, where she watched life grow and blossom before her very eyes, that later ignited her interest in finance and engineering. “My childhood was really an open learning environment,” she says, “mostly interacting with nature as we lived in a remote village.”

The Léautier family lived close to a national park, where elephants roamed freely. Léautier recalls her grandfather asking her to determine how heavy an elephant was simply by looking at its footprints in the soil. “From this childhood experience I learnt how to calculate or estimate the mass of a body by inspecting the footprint, understanding the impact that the body had on the surface,” she says. “My education in engineering was because of my grandfather. He taught me things I would later learn in physics but that he learnt from his life experience.”

At Dar es Salaam university, Léautier enrolled in the science and engineering programme, graduating in 1984 as a civil engineer. She went on to complete her master’s and doctoral studies in the United States, at MIT, before joining the World Bank. There, she worked on infrastructure across various departments and in various positions including Chief of Staff for the World Bank President, James Wolfhenson. She left the World Bank after 15 years of service, the last six of which she served as a Vice President overseeing the World Bank Institute (WBI). Léautier then took up a post as managing partner of the Fezembat Group, a company focused on risk management and leadership development, before moving to the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). Léautier is also a distinguished Professor at Sciences Po (a public research and higher education institution based in Paris and which specialises in social sciences), where she has taught a course on leadership in the globalised world since 2007.

Léautier’s work with a recent project in Ghana earned her the nickname “Nkosuohemaa”, which means “queen of development” in the Ahanta language. The Agona people of central Ghana gave her this name during an Enstoolment ceremony, in recognition of her contribution to the development of Africa and her vision for the future of the girl child. The project centred around a group of 10 girls who were having difficulty getting into secondary school. The goal of the project was to remove the obstacles and barriers to entry preventing these young women from receiving the good education they deserved. Some of the barriers Léautier highlights include the need for young girls to handle demanding daily household chores, take care of younger siblings, a lack of basic infrastructure and electricity, and the need to walk long distances to school.

Léautier felt a connection with the project and its participants because of her own experiences and educational journey. “Someone removed barriers for me to attend MIT in the USA, which is a very good university but too expensive,” she says. It was only through another’s generosity that Léautier received a complimentary ticked from Swiss Air, which allowed her to make the trip. “I got jobs to pay my rent and then a scholarship to do my research primarily because someone removed the barriers for me,” she says.

Workplace attitudes still bear negatively on the role of women in society and Léautier believes that because of this, few people naturally turn to women as leaders. But, she says, many companies have made great strides in this regard, removing barriers to entry. Léautier cites the World Bank as one such example, saying that the organisation’s generous maternity leave policy allowed her the space and time she needed and helped her to make it back to work when she was ready.

Just as company policies and attitudes are changing, so are women’s viewpoints, Léautier says. Nowadays, many women are balancing life with the help of both traditional and modern systems. “A child belongs to the whole village, we say in Africa, and the village takes care of its own,” she says. “At the ACBF we are conscious of the traditional family systems that need to be compensated in urban settings.” This, she says, can be achieved through available life insurance schemes and support to working women through adequate childcare facilities, so that they might work without needing to worry about who is minding their children.

“Because I am a woman and have been through these challenges, and was fortunate to have people remove many obstacles for me, I have tried to do the same in the various positions I have held over the years”, she quips.

Léautier is excited about Africa’s place in the world. The continent is continually unearthing new natural resources and she believes that within a few years, Africa will surpass all other continents. It will become the world’s most populous continent – as well as the continent with the youngest population – making it the prime destination for companies seeking talent.

But, she says, while there has been great progress so far, Africa has not managed to stand on its own two feet just yet. “When countries make progress on implementation they slide back on policy or dynamic capacity,” she says. “We need to get to a point where we make progress on multiple fronts.” To do this, she says, we first need to tackle issues of infrastructure, electricity, water and transportation.

Secondly, we need to make our economies more diverse and not solely dependent on resources. If Africa can securitize the commodities from our resource wealth and raise resources domestically, she says, we can pay for our own development.

Then, we must bridge the generations with better healthcare to handle increased birth rates and increase longevity, and must unlock the potential and talents of our people. Africa has too many experts trapped within country borders and Léautier believes that regional integration can unlocked their potential. Africans are survivors, she says. “Tanzania is known as Bongo [Brain] land because it is an incredibly hard country to survive,” she says. “Yet people do and they thrive.” While she is under no illusion as to the enormity of the task at hand and acknowledges that there is much work still to be done, Léautier firmly believes the continent and its people are moving in the right directi
 
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Amechaguliwa kuwa Senior Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group.



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Hongera sana mama.Mimi niliandika mapema mno kuhusu huyu mama nikiomba Magufuli amteue ubunge au ampe post kubwa.Wenzetu wametuwahi.Soma mjadala niliouanzisha humu jamii forums january 9 mwaka huu kuhusu huyu mtanzania mwenzetu ambaye ni kichwa

Magufuli mpe ubunge mwanamama Dr. Frannie Léautier
 
MJIMPYA said:
Amechaguliwa kuwa Senior Vice-President of the African Development Bank Group.



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Hata kama ni MTZ..... Sio kuula ni kupata nafasi ya kuiwakilisha nchi. Watu mmekalia masilahi binafsi wizi na uzembe. Kitu kidogo..............KUULA, SIJUI NINI.....KUULA...

KUPATA NAFASI KAMA HIYO SI KUULA NI KUPATA NAFASI YA KUWAKILISHA NCHI NA KUONYESHA UMAHIRI NA WELEDI WETU.
 
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KVM said:
Kwa nini siyo Mtanzania. Huyu mama namfahamu sana. Alikuwa alisoma Civil Engineering pale UDSM miaka ya 80 kabla ya kuwa TA pale Faculty of Engineering. Nakumbuka vile vile kuwa alikuwa na dada yake ambaye alikuwa anasomea Sociology au Political Science.
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