Jacqueline Musiitwa

Senior Adviser

Jacqueline Musiitwa is a former Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

She previously served in various capacities at Rio Tinto, the Trade and Development Bank Group, and the World Trade Organization, and also served as an attorney running a legal consultancy focused on business and human rights. Musiitwa is a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy and sat on the boards of Bank of Zambia, Bushveld Minerals, PPC Zimbabwe, IDEO.org and the International Rescue Committee UK.

Musiitwa currently teaches at Georgetown University and is a Non-resident fellow at the Africa Center of the Atlantic Council.

She speaks and writes regularly on business and geopolitical issues. She has published articles in the Financial Times, Project Syndicate, National Public Radio, CNBC Africa, and has been interviewed by BBC, Newsweek, the National Public Radio, the Guardian, the East African.

She was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, an Archbishop Tutu fellow of the Africa Leadership Institute, an Aspen Institute new voices fellow, and a Mo Ibrahim Foundation leadership fellow at the World Trade Organization.

She earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Davidson College.