{"id":42174,"date":"2015-09-21T14:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T13:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=42174"},"modified":"2015-09-21T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T13:40:03","slug":"konjo-iweala-named-to-two-key-international-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/konjo-iweala-named-to-two-key-international-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Konjo-Iweala Named to Two Key International Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*ELECTED CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF GAVI, A $12 BILLION MULTILATERAL<br \/>\nPUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ON VACCINES<\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr<br \/>\nNgozi Okonjo-Iweala has accepted two key international positions.<\/p>\n<p>The first is to serve as Chair of the 28-member Board of the Global<br \/>\nAlliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI,<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavi.org\/about\/\">http:\/\/www.gavi.org\/about\/<\/a>), an international public-private partnership<br \/>\ncommitted to saving the lives of children and protecting people\u2019s health<br \/>\nby improving access to immunization in developing countries, including<br \/>\nNigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Okonjo-Iweala was elected to the position after a competitive<br \/>\ninternational search process.<\/p>\n<p>GAVI is a $12 billion multilateral partnership which disburses grants of<br \/>\nupwards of $1.8 billion annually to developing countries for immunization<br \/>\nprogrammes.<\/p>\n<p>GAVI brings together developing countries and donor governments, the World<br \/>\nHealth Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both<br \/>\nindustrialized and developing countries, research and technical agencies,<br \/>\ncivil society, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and other private<br \/>\nphilanthropists.<\/p>\n<p>GAVI is funded by governments of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark,<br \/>\nFrance, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi<br \/>\nArabia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, the People\u2019s Republic of<br \/>\nChina, Republic of Korea, Russia, South Africa, Spain, the State of Qatar,<br \/>\nthe Sultanate of Oman, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States as<br \/>\nwell as the European Commission, the OPEC Fund for International<br \/>\nDevelopment (OFID) and other institutional and corporate partners.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that, from 2000-2015, GAVI disbursed $425m in grants<br \/>\nto Nigeria, an average of about $30m per annum for vaccination and<br \/>\nimmunization of children, including polio vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Okonjo-Iweala succeeds Dagfinn H\u00f8ybr\u00e5ten, a former Norwegian Minister<br \/>\nof Health and current Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers<br \/>\nas Chair of GAVI.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Chairs include Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and<br \/>\nrespected education activist and former First Lady of South Africa, Graca<br \/>\nMachel.<\/p>\n<p>In the second appointment, the former Managing Director of the World Bank<br \/>\nhas also joined the highly respected 167-year-old global investment firm,<br \/>\nLazard (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazard.com\/\">https:\/\/www.lazard.com\/<\/a>) as Senior Advisor. Her focus will be<br \/>\nsovereign advisory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to welcome Dr. Okonjo-Iweala as a Senior Advisor to our<br \/>\nworld-leading sovereign advisory group,\u201d said Matthieu Pigasse, Global<br \/>\nHead of M&amp;A and Sovereign Advisory of Lazard. \u201cShe will bring a unique<br \/>\ninternational expertise and experience that will benefit both our<br \/>\nsovereign and corporate clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Lazard, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will work alongside colleagues including<br \/>\nformer Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating; former Special adviser<br \/>\nto President Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan; former Spanish Economy Minister<br \/>\nand current Snr Managing Director at Lazard, Rodrigo de Rato; former chair<br \/>\nof NASDAQ, Frank Zarb; former Finance Minister of Chile, Andres Velasco;<br \/>\nand former British Minister of Parliament\/Secretary of State for<br \/>\nInternational Development, Andrew Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>In her reaction to the two appointments, Dr Okonjo-Iweala who will be<br \/>\nworking out of Paris, Geneva and London said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to be embarking on this fresh journey. The two appointments<br \/>\nwill enable me to continue doing what I know best &#8211; rendering public<br \/>\nservice and using my financial and economist skills. I thank the<br \/>\ninternational community for the recognition and continued support. 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