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Belgian national Elisabeth Huybens appointed as the new Operations Manager for the World Bank in Cameroon

Belgian national Elisabeth Huybens appointed as the new Operations Manager for the World Bank in Cameroon
  • Comments   -   Wednesday, 08 July 2015 02:52

(Business in Cameroon) - Since 1st July 2015, the agricultural engineer from Belgium, Elisabeth Huybens, was appointed as Operations Manager for the Bretton Woods institution for Cameroon, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe. She replaces Gregor Blinkert who has completed his term.

Before her appointment, Elisabeth Huybens, who joined the World Bank in 2000, headed the “social, urban and rural development” division for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. The former Country Economist for Gabon, then Chad, holds a PhD in Economics and was a Resident Representative for the World Bank in Timor-Leste from 2002 to 2006.

Fluent in Dutch, English, French, Spanish and competent in Portuguese, Elisabeth Huybens has also worked on Eastern European countries before becoming a Social Development Sector Manager at the World Bank from 2009 to 2012.

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