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Dr. Zainab Usman
Dr Zainab Usman is a Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Her fields of expertise include institutions, economic policy, energy policy, and emerging economies in Africa. She currently sits on the advisory board of the Energy for Growth Hub in Washington, D.C., and on the editorial board of Premium Times in Nigeria. Previously she was a Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank where she worked on the governance and institutions of natural resources management, energy sector reforms, service delivery as well as south-south economic relations.
Dr Usman holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Ahmadu Bello University, a Masters Degree from the University of Birmingham and a doctorate from the University of Oxford.