Anne Kabagambe

Anne Namara Kabagambe is a Ugandan international development and finance executive. She served as the former executive director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, representing the World Bank Group's Africa Group 1 constituency. Additionally, she is a board member of Barrick Gold and Financial Services Volunteer Corps.

Early life and education
Anne Kabagambe was born in a town in the southwestern region of Uganda near the borders with Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is the eighth of twelve children, born to a regional government official and a stay-at-home mother.

After completing her secondary education in Uganda, Anne pursued her undergraduate degree at the University of California at San Diego. She continued her education in the United States, obtaining master's degrees in international relations from Columbia University and public policy from George Washington University. Her educational journey also included studies in corporate board effectiveness at Harvard Business School, strategic public-sector negotiations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and leadership and management at the Cranfield School of Management.

Early career and African Development Bank
Anne Kabagambe began her career representing the City of New York on trade and investment opportunities in China, India and the Middle East. She also worked for the United Nations and the Third World Institute in New York City. In 1989, Kabagambe joined the African Development Bank, where she eventually rose to her final position as chief of staff and director of cabinet. She worked as part of the team tasked with the formulation of the Bank's long-term strategy, and also played a role in its responses to the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the Western African Ebola virus epidemic. In January 2016, she joined the board of trustees at the Africa-America Institute.

World Bank
In November 2018, Anne Kabagambe was elected as the executive director of the World Bank Group's Africa Group 1 Constituency, representing Botswana, Burundi, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe—after having previously served as the constituency's alternate executive director. She became the second woman to hold the position after Ethiopia's Mulu Ketsela. She also served as co-chair of the World Bank Board's working group on gender and is a member of the Board's committees on budget and development effectiveness.

Personal life
Kabagambe has a son. She is fluent in both English and French.