Nayé Anna Bathily
Nayé Anna Bathily | |
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| Born | United Kingdom |
| Father | Abdoulaye Bathily |
Nayé Anna Bathily is an international affairs expert and opinion leader in the development and communications fields.
Biography
Early life
Nayé Bathily is a Senegal|senegalese-United Kingdom|british national. Her father is Abdoulaye Bathily, a senegalese politician and diplomat.
Education
Master in Public Administration, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Career
A Harvard alum and Mason fellow, Ms. Bathily is an international affairs expert and opinion leader in the development and communications fields. As the External Affairs Manager for Western & Central Africa at the World Bank, she leads and manages a team of external affairs experts based across 22 countries in Western and Central Africa, and in Europe and Washington DC. She manages the development of strategic communications and stakeholder engagement across West & Central Africa. She is responsible for delivering strategic advice on stakeholder outreach and reputation risk management to the leadership of the region on key development themes like human capital, climate, fragility, conflict and violence, digital transformation, gender inclusion and economic empowerment. Prior to this, she was the Parliamentary liaison for the World Bank where she led global advocacy, policy dialogue on key issues, and high-level outreach activities by creating the WB-IMF Parliamentary Network.
She sits on a variety of advisory boards of key prominent organizations such as Pathfinder International, the Women in Africa Initiative (WIA), and is a member of the Women Investment Club and the Siècle des Femmes. In 2017, she founded an NGO, Shine to Lead / Jiggen Jang Tekki, dedicated to mentoring and supporting marginalized high school girls in the poorest suburbs of Dakar. She is also a founding member of “Espace Jappo,” a network of African professionals from the Diaspora.
In 2015, she was nominated as one of the Choiseul 100 Young African Economic Leaders of tomorrow.[1]
In 2018, she was named one of the 100 most influential Africans in the world.[2]
Her recent book titled "The awakening of African parliaments"[3] comprehensively analyzes the role and history of African Parliaments.
Ms. Bathily advocates for Africa’s economic transformation through the economic and educational empowerment of Africa’s women and girls.
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