IFC’s Vice President for Africa, Sérgio Pimenta, to Visit São Tomé e Príncipe

SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE, August 24, 2023 - Sérgio Pimenta, IFC's Vice President for Africa, will make his first visit to São Tomé e Príncipe from August 25 to 27 to attend the Lusophone Heads of States Summit.

Accompanied by senior members of IFC's leadership team for Africa, Mr. Pimenta will hold talks with senior government officials and key private sector leaders. Mr. Pimenta will discuss with partners new avenues and opportunities for economic cooperation, trade, and investment to support sustainable economic growth and job creation in Lusophone Africa.

IFC has been growing its investment and engagement in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa. IFC committed $4.4 billion between 2018 and 2023. IFC is also a member of the investment platform, The Lusophone Compact, a partnership between the African Development Bank, IFC, Portugal and the six Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa.

WHO: Sérgio Pimenta, Vice President for Africa, IFC - @SPimentaIFC

WHEN: Friday, August 25, 2023 – Sunday, August 27, 2023                   

WHERE: São Tomé

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Sérgio Pimenta

IFC's Vice President for Africa

Sérgio Pimenta is IFC's Regional Vice President for Africa. In this capacity, he is in charge of all investment, and advisory operations in a region with a committed portfolio of $13.3 billion and more than 800 staff working to expand the private sector's role in addressing urgent development challenges in the financial, manufacturing, agribusiness and services, and infrastructure industries.

Previously, Mr. Pimenta was Director and Global Head of Industry—Manufacturing, Agribusiness, and Services at IFC, managing all operations in these sectors worldwide. Mr. Pimenta also served for three years as IFC's Regional Director responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, based in Hong Kong.

Earlier in his career at IFC, Mr. Pimenta held senior managerial positions in the manufacturing, agribusiness, and services sectors in the Asia Pacific region, the Middle East and North Africa, and Washington, DC.

Prior to joining the World Bank Group through its Young Professionals Program in 1996, Mr. Pimenta worked for the Treasury Department of the French Ministry of Finance, as well as for Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP).

A Portuguese and French national, Mr. Pimenta holds an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique, Paris, and a post-graduate degree from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris.