Linah Mohohlo

Governor, Bank of Botswana

Linah Mohohlo was appointed Governor of the Bank of Botswana in 1999, following a 23-year career with the Bank. She has also worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and, in her capacity as Governor of the IMF for Botswana, she has been a member of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), representing the Africa Group 1 Constituency comprising more than 20 English speaking sub-Saharan African countries.

Linah serves in Boards of major corporations in Botswana and abroad. Among her international engagements, she was appointed Eminent Person in 2001 by the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr.  Kofi Annan, to oversee the evaluation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa. She was later appointed by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, to the Commission for Africa, which addressed Africa’s poverty and stagnation problems. She is also a member of the Africa Emerging Markets Forum.

She is a recipient of several awards, among which are: The Banker Magazine’s Central Bank Governor of the Year (2001) for Africa and the Middle East, Euromoney’s Emerging Markets Central Bank Governor of the Year for Sub-Saharan Africa (2003), Presidential Order of Honour - 2004 (Botswana’s highest public service award), African Times Africa Leadership Award (2007) and African Banker’s Banking Regulator of the Year (2007).

Linah Mohohlo was born and raised in Botswana in a village called Ramotswa. Linah has read accounting and business, economics, finance and investments at the University of Botswana, The George Washington University (Washington DC) and University of Exeter (UK), and has undertaken an Executive Management study programme at Yale University. She has authored, presented and/or published several papers/book chapters mainly in economics, finance, reserves management and governance