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Jacqueline Musiitwa

Program Manager

Jacqueline Musiitwa is the Program Manager for Board Affairs and Governance at the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage. She previously served in senior roles at USAID as a Deputy Assistant to the Administrator managing a $3 billion budget and a team of 240 people and as a senior climate finance advisor where she mobilized $16.7 billion from 2022-2023.  Musiitwa is an international attorney specialized in business, human rights, and sustainability. She previously served in various leadership capacities at Rio Tinto, the Trade and Development Bank, and the World Trade Organization, and also served as an attorney running a legal consultancy.  Musiitwa served as a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy and sat on the boards of IDEO.org, the International Rescue Committee UK, Bank of Zambia, Prime Insurance.

Musiitwa currently teaches at Georgetown University and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

She was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a young global leader of the World Economic Forum, an Archbishop Tutu fellow of the Africa Leadership Institute, an Aspen new voices fellow of the Aspen Institute, a cybersecurity fellow of the New American Foundation, 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. 

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