Carole Wamuyu Wainaina
TORONTO, Canada, 26 June 2024 -/African Media Company(AMA)/- The Mastercard Basis at present introduced the appointment of Carole Wamuyu Wainaina to its Board of Administrators. Carole Wainaina is a senior enterprise chief with 35 years of worldwide expertise in multinationals and multilateral organizations in areas together with technique, organizational transformation, and human sources.
“I’m delighted to welcome Carole Wainaina to our Board of Administrators. The Mastercard Basis is executing a daring technique to create financial alternatives for younger folks in Africa and Indigenous youth in Canada. Carole’s expertise in the private and non-private sectors, international networks, and data of the African continent might be invaluable,” mentioned Zein Abdalla, Chair of the Board of Administrators of the Mastercard Basis.
“I’m honoured to hitch the Mastercard Basis’s Board of Administrators. I sit up for working with a dynamic staff advancing schooling and monetary inclusion to create alternatives for younger folks, construct stronger communities, and contribute to extra inclusive economies. This vital work advantages all of us, and I’m happy to contribute to the Basis’s influence in Africa and Canada,” mentioned Carole Wainaina, Senior Advisor to the CEO at Africa50 and Non-Govt Director at numerous organizations.
Carole Wainaina has labored for a number of years at Africa50, the Morocco-based Pan-African infrastructure funding platform capitalized by African nations and the African Improvement Financial institution. She was beforehand COO, answerable for establishing Africa50 and main a multi-disciplinary staff together with Technique, Investor Relations & Fundraising, Communications, HR & Administration, and Environmental & Social Governance (ESG). She has served because the Assistant Secretary-Basic for Human Sources on the United Nations, main transformational initiatives for the Secretary-Basic and member states. Carole Wainaina’s expertise within the philanthropic sector consists of serving on the non-profit boards Affect(Ed) Worldwide, and Harvard Enterprise Faculty Africa Analysis Board. She is an angel investor and mentor to a number of founders.
The Mastercard Basis’s Board of Administrators consists of:
• Zein Abdalla (Board Chair), Retired President of PepsiCo, Inc.
• Baroness Valerie Amos, CH, Grasp of College Faculty, Oxford College and former Beneath-Secretary-Basic for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Aid Coordinator on the UN.
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of Liberia and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
• Louise Arbour, C.C., Jurist-in-residence at Borden, Ladner, Gervais LLP, and former Justice of the Supreme Court docket of Canada. She additionally served because the United Nations Particular Consultant for Worldwide Migration.
• Jay Eire, Retired President and CEO of Basic Electrical Africa.
• Jennifer Fonstad, Co-founder and chief of the Owl Capital Group.
• Michael Sabia, CEO of Hydro-Québec.
• Robin Washington, Former Govt Vice President and Chief Monetary Officer of Gilead Sciences, Inc.
• Sewit Ahderom, Co-Founder & Chief Working Officer of Gro Intelligence.
• Tsega Gebreyes, Founding Accomplice and CEO at Satya Capital Restricted.
Read more about the Mastercard Foundation Board of Directors here.
Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of Mastercard Basis.
In regards to the Mastercard Basis
The Mastercard Basis is a registered Canadian charity and one of many largest foundations on this planet. It really works with visionary organizations to advance schooling and monetary inclusion to allow younger folks in Africa and Indigenous youth in Canada to entry dignified and fulfilling work. Established in 2006 by way of the generosity of Mastercard when it turned a public firm, the Basis is an impartial group separate from the corporate, with workplaces in Toronto, Kigali, Accra, Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos, Dakar, and Addis Ababa. Its insurance policies, operations, and program choices are decided by the Basis’s Board of Administrators and management.
For extra info on the Basis, please go to www.mastercardfdn.org.
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