Ethiopia: Mimi Juggles the Globe

Mimi Alemayehou is the second most powerful person at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, [OPIC], the US government's development finance institution headquartered in

Washington DC Nominated as the Executive Vice President of the organization by President Barack Obama on March 10th, 2010 and confirmed unanimously by the full US Senate, Mimi co-manages OPIC which has a portfolio of more than USD 16 billion invested in over 100 countries around the world. The mother of two is as much a modern woman as she is an African woman. A global power player with a tres chic sense of fashion, Mimi is a naturalized US citizen who was born in Ethiopia and spent her early years in Kenya before immigrating to the United States.

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