Sipho Moyo Biography

Sipho joined ONE on July 1, 2010 after working for the African Development Bank (AfDB) for 12 years in four different divisions and four different countries. Her most recent position at the ADB was Resident Representative in Tanzania (2007-2010), where she managed the Bank's largest portfolio of nearly USD 1 billion, 60% of which was spent on infrastructure projects (roads/rail/power/water) and the rest on health, education, agriculture, tourism, good governance, and institution building. Sipho led the country-level Policy Dialogue between the Government of Tanzania and the donor community in her capacity as Chair of the General Budget Support group of 14 development partners (4 multilateral and 11 bilaterals), including AfDB, Canada, Denmark, DFID, European Commission, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the World Bank. She was the first multilateral representative to head the GBS in Tanzania, which is also the biggest GBS in Africa and has usually been chaired by bilateral donors. When she departed Tanzania to join ONE, she turned up the role of GBS Chair to the Norwegian Ambassador. Sipho oversaw the ADB office in Nigeria, the ADB's largest shareholder, for one year before being selected to the role in Tanzania, having previously served as the Bank's Principal Country Macroeconomist. Sipho joins ONE with over 18 years of international development experience, having previously worked for the World Bank (MENA area) and the United Nations (Habitat in Nairobi and IFAD in Rome) before joining the ADB in 1998. Her previous positions at the ADB include Senior Research Economist and Managing Editor of the African Development Review, as well as Principal Strategic Planning Economist, where she helped to pioneer the ADB's Strategic Planning function and led the design and development of the Bank's first Balanced Score Card. Sipho formerly served as a Special Research Affiliate on President George H. Bush's Blue Ribbon Commission on Affordable Housing for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Prior to that, she taught undergraduate economics and statistics at Howard University while pursuing her PhD as a Sasakawa Peace Foundation Fellow (Washington DC).

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