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Mimi Alemayehou
Senior Vice President of Public-Private Partnerships, Mastercard
Focus
Energy Finance, Sub-Saharan Africa
Areas of Expertise
Infrastructure Finance

Mimi Alemayehou is the Senior Vice President for Public-Private Partnerships in the Humanitarian and Development Group at Mastercard. Previously, she was the Managing Director at Black Rhino Group, an infrastructure platform focused on the development and acquisition of energy and infrastructure projects across Africa. Before this, she held the position of Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the United States Executive Director on the board of the African Development Bank (AfDB), and prior to AfDB she was Founder and Managing Partner of Trade Links, LLC, a development consulting firm.

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