Jacqueline Musiitwa 



Senior Climate Finance Advisor, USAID

Jacqueline Musiitwa is a senior climate finance advisor at USAID and an international attorney specialized in business, human rights, and sustainability. She is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and teaches at Georgetown University. Musiitwa previously served in various leadership capacities at Rio Tinto, the Trade and Development Bank, and the World Trade Organization and also served as an attorney running a legal consultancy.  Musiitwa is a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy and sat on the boards of IDEO.org, the International Rescue Committee UK and Bushveld Minerals where she was the Environmental, Social and Governance committee Chair.

She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a young global leader of the World Economic Forum, an Archbishop Tutu fellow of the Africa Leadership Institute, an Aspen new voices fellow of the Aspen Institute, a cybersecurity fellow of the New American Foundation, and a Mo Ibrahim Foundation leadership fellow at the World Trade Organization.

She earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Davidson College.