Antoinette Sayeh is a "Working Girl", a high-flying economist, manager and talented negotiator. Proven qualities wherever she has had responsibilities, in Liberia, her country of origin, at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or at the World Bank (WB). Route.

Antoinette Sayeh, is the next deputy director of the IMF. She is the great promotion of the genre, but above all "a capable woman", born on July 12, 1958 in Monrovia in Liberia. After primary and secondary education, she moved to the United States where she obtained a doctorate in international economic relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in 1985.
Back in Liberia, she was hired at the Ministry of Finance and Planning as an economic advisor until the first civil war broke out. She left the country and joined the WB. She will be sent to several countries such as Benin, Togo, Niger and Pakistan.
In January 2006, when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took power in Liberia in a disastrous economic situation, she was appointed Minister of Finance after 17 years abroad. She will be in charge of debt management and the Ebola crisis. After two years of reforms and dialogue with the IMF and the AfDB, it managed to clear a debt of about $4 billion, making the country eligible for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. This episode will make her the relay of the IMF in Africa, in the midst of the Ebola crisis, in 2014.
His firmness in the case of the hidden Mozambican debt, or in the face of the crisis suffered by the CEMAC after 2015 will give him a reputation as a rigorous manager. She left the IMF in 2016, and joined the Center for Global Development (CGD), a non-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C, while collaborating with the World Bank. Antoinette Sayeh is the IMF's first female Africa Director and now the first African woman to become the organization's Deputy Managing Director.