Vera Songwe
 Vera Songwe     ( economist) | |
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| Nationality | Cameroon |
| Alma mater | • Université Catholique de Louvain • University of Michigan |
| Member of | Center for Global Development, Open Society Foundations/Board |
Signatory of the Document:Uniting Behind A People's Vaccine Against COVID-19.
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Vera Songwe is an economist and banking executive from Cameroon who worked for the World Bank from 1998 to 2015. She was a signatory of the Document:Uniting Behind A People's Vaccine Against COVID-19.
Activities
Songwe took up her role as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on 3 August 2017 at the level of Under-Secretary-General.[1]
In June 2020, Songwe and others – Nobel laureates in Economics, architects, chefs and leaders of international organizations – signed the appeal in favour of the purple economy ("Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy"), published in Corriere della Sera[2], El País and Le Monde.
She is also a member of the African Union Institutional reform team under the direction of the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and a board member of the African Leadership Network, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and ID4Africa.[3]
In early 2021, Songwe was appointed by the G20 to the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response, co-chaired by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Lawrence Summers.[4]
On 22 August 2022, Songewe announced her resignation from UNECA.
A Document by Vera Songwe
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| Document:Uniting Behind A People's Vaccine Against COVID-19 | open letter | 14 May 2020 | "COVID-19/Vaccine" | A number of deep state operatives, including 33 members of the Club de Madrid and 14 Bilderbergers, calling for the creation of infrastructure to rapidly jab everyone in the world. At least 5 of the co-signatories had attended meetings of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. Reported in the Financial Times, Le Monde, News Week Español and other commercially-controlled media. |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
| Munich Security Conference/2025 | 14 February 2025 | 16 February 2025 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2026 | 19 January 2026 | 23 January 2026 | Switzerland WEF | Held in Davos, Switzerland January 2026. |
References
- ↑ https://www.uneca.org/pages/biography
- ↑ https://www.corriere.it/cultura/20_giugno_07/per-rinascimento-culturale-dell-economia-dcacbef2-a803-11ea-b900-84da2a1f22a9.shtml
- ↑ Advisory Board ID4Africa.
- ↑ Ministry of Economy and FinanceThe G20 establishes a High Level Independent Panel on financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Ministry of Economy and Finance, press release of January 27, 2021.
