Linah Mohohlo
Advisory Board Member
Governor, Bank of Botswana, Gabarone, Botswana
Mrs. Mohohlo has been the Governor of the Bank of Botswana since 1999, following a 23-year career with the Bank. She has also worked for the International Monetary Fund and, in her capacity as Governor of the International Monetary Fund for Botswana, she has been a member of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (2000 – 2002), representing the English speaking sub-Saharan African countries.
Mrs Mohohlo was appointed Eminent Person in 2001 by the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Kofi Annan, to oversee the evaluation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa. She served in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa, which addressed Africa’s poverty and stagnation problems, as contained in the 2005 Report entitled “Our Common Interest”. Mrs Mohohlo is a member of the Africa Emerging Markets Forum.
She is a recipient of several awards, among them, The Banker Magazine’s Central Bank Governor of the Year (2001) for Africa and the Middle East, Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year (2003), Presidential Order of Honour (2004 – Botswana’s highest public service award) and Africa’s Banking Regulator of the Year (2007).
Mrs Mohohlo has read accounting and business, economics, finance and investments at the University of Botswana, The George Washington University (Washington DC) and University of Exeter (UK).
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