Governor, Bank of Botswana Linah Mohohlo of Botswana

Mrs Mohohlo has been the Governor of the Bank of Botswana since 1999, following a 23-year career with the Bank.

Mrs Mohohlo 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.

Mrs Mohohlo is a member of the Africa Emerging Markets Forum.

Mohohlo has worked for the Bank of Botswana since its inception in the mid 1970's.

Mohohlo has recently been awarded the Central Bank Governor of the Year (2001) for Africa and the Middle East by the Financial Time Magazine, The Banker.

the Bank of Botswana since its inception in the mid 1970's.

the Middle East by the Financial Time Magazine, The Banker.

Linah Mohohlo is head of the central bank of one of Africa's most successful economies--the diamond-rich country of Botswana.

Mohohlo has also worked for the International Monetary Fund in the African Department and the Monetary and Exchange Affairs Department.

Mohohlo is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund.

Speaking at a news briefing with several other African finance ministers and officials Saturday, Mohohlo said the IMF should stick to its objective of being a lender of last resort -- to provide aid to African nations that they can use to develop their own initiatives for poverty reduction.

The one thing that truly irks Linah Mohohlo is what she perceives as Afro-pessimism by the west.

Mohohlo has seen Botswana emerge as a powerhouse in sub-Saharan Africa, marching well ahead of its neighbors with annual economic growth exceeding 10.

As well as widening the data used for forecasts, Mohohlo has extended the bank's policy horizon - rather than have an annual inflation target, a rolling three year goal of between 3 percent and 6 percent has now been set.

In addition to serving as Governor of the Bank of Botswana, the position she has held since 1999 following a 23-year long career with the central bank, Mohohlo has worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF.

Mohohlo 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 Africa's Banking Regulator of the Year (2007.

However, there is a strong connection and it is not necessarily because of the fact that Linah Mohohlo is an alumni of the city school.

After her primary schooling in her home village of Ramotswa, Mohohlo had to go and start her junior secondary schooling in Johannesburg (Soweto), in part to keep her father company following her mother’s passing away five years earlier.

Generally, Mohohlo is of the belief that the discipline instilled in her at GSS has greatly defined and influenced the person that she has turned out to be today.

The experience that has also left an indelible mark on Mohohlo is obviously the boarding school environment.

Mohohlo said that the GSS environment had a positive effect on students at the time.

Mrs Mohohlo has been the Governor of the Bank of Botswana since 1999.

In addition to having worked for the International Monetary Fund, Mrs Mohohlo has been a member of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, representing the Africa Group 1 Constituency of the IMF comprising 21 Sub-Saharan countries.

Mrs Mohohlo 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), respectively.

The following is an extract from Euromoney’s World Bank/IMF Meetings edition of September 21, 2003 in an article entitled Policy Makers in Sub-Saharan Africa: “Educated at the George Washington University in the US, where she received a bachelor’s degree in economics, and at the University of Exeter in the UK, where she took a master’s degree in finance and investment, Linah Mohohlo was at the beginning of central banking in Botswana, joining the central bank at its inception in the mid-1970s.

Though it holds foreign currency ratings of A/A1 from Standard Poors, Mohohlo says the country is not seeking to tap international capital markets just yet.

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Linah Mohohlo was appointed Governor of the Bank of Botswana in 1999, following a 23-year career with the Bank.

Linah Mohohlo is born and bred in Botswana in a village called Ramotswa.

rates now as inflation is forecast to slow next year.

Linah Mohohlo is head of the central bank of one.

Born in a small rural community, Mohohlo has risen partly through grit and determination.

Mohohlo has already impressed colleagues.

Botswanas central bank Governor Linah Mohohlo said it would be a wrong move to raise interest rates now as inflation is forecast to slow next year.

The inflation rate, driven mainly by rising food and energy costs, will probably drop to the upper end of the 3 percent to 6 percent target next year, Mohohlo said in an interview in Washington yesterday.

Presenting the MPS, the governor of Bank of Botswana, Linah Mohohlo said this year the statement focuses on policy horizon for the inflation objective based on more rigorous inflation forecasting framework.

Mohohlo said the intermediate target for growth in commercial bank credit has also been dropped.

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Bank of Botswana Govenor explains dwindling foreign reserves25th May 2005The shrink in national foreign reserves is attributable to both exchange rate strength and government consumption, governor of Bank of Botswana (BoB), Linah Mohohlo has said.

Mohohlo said part of the reasons why the reserves declined is that government withdrew P10 billion from reserves to finance the public officers pension fund.

Presenting the mid-term review of the 2008 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) in Gaborone last week, BoB Governor Linah Mohohlo said the crawling band exchange rate regime, which has been in operation for the past three years, would not result in a significant adjustment to top the nominal exchange rate this year.