IFC - International Finance CEO and leadership

Philippe Le Houérou is Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC. Philippe Le Houérou, a French national, joined IFC in March 2016, bringing three decades of experience in international finance and development. His career includes leadership positions at the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he developed and implemented business strategies, helped increase lending and spearheaded new partnerships. Prior to his arrival at IFC, Philippe Le Houérou was Vice President for Policy & Partnerships at the EBRD. In that role, he coordinated country strategies, restructured and redefined the EBRD approach to policy dialogue, and led other initiatives to support the organization’s private sector development and transition mandate. He was also responsible for the mobilization and management of donor funds for nuclear safety and for the EBRD’s engagement with key external stakeholders and organizations. Before joining the EBRD in 2015, Philippe Le Houérou was the World Bank’s Regional Vice President for the South Asia Region. As Vice President, Philippe Le Houérou designed a new regional strategy, restructured the Bank’s portfolio in the region to improve its performance and more than doubled new lending. Previously, Philippe Le Houérou was the Bank’s Regional Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, where he led the Bank’s effort to mitigate the global economic crisis’s impact on the region and ramped up analytical and advisory work, as well as new lending. Earlier in his career, Philippe Le Houérou held a number of other key positions at the World Bank, including Vice President of Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships; Acting Vice President and Chief Information Officer; Director of Finance and Resource Mobilisation; Macro-Fiscal Sector Manager; and Resident Representative in Madagascar. Le Houérou began his career in banking in the private sector, and initially joined the World Bank Group as a Young Professional, which included work in IFC investment operations in East Asia. Born in Montpellier, France, Philippe Le Houérou grew up in North Africa and Italy and went on to attend the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Ph.D in Economics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Mary-Jean Moyo serves as Chief of Staff to IFC’s Managing Director Makhtar Diop.

Before becoming Chief of Staff, Ms. Moyo was Regional Industry Director for Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services in the Middle East and Africa, delivering on key business and development impact targets, with a focus on financial sustainability and scaling up investments in IDA/FCS countries. Previously, she held several positions within IFC, notably as Regional Head of Industry for Manufacturing, Agribusiness and Services in Latin America and the Caribbean, where she led growth through business development, execution and portfolio management.

Prior to joining IFC, Ms. Moyo worked for several years with commercial banks in her home country of Zimbabwe. She also worked for the central bank in Botswana and pan-African private equity funds, where she was Vice President for Financial Institutions.

Ms. Moyo holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Wales and a Bachelor’s degree in Economic History from the University of Zimbabwe.

Mohamed Gouled is IFC’s Vice President of Risk and Financial Sustainability. In this capacity, he’s responsible for setting and updating IFC’s policies and frameworks in the area, and ensuring that the processes for governance of and compliance with these frameworks are operating effectively. He also reports on a regular basis on IFC’s risk parameters and overall financial sustainability outlook to the CEO, the Management Team, and the Board of Directors. A Djiboutian national, Mohamed Gouled was previously Director of the Special Operations Department at IFC. He joined IFC in 1999 as an Investment Officer in what was then the Financial Markets Division of IFC’s Sub-Saharan Africa Department. In this role, Mohamed Gouled was instrumental in IFC’s re-engagement in Nigeria, helping to build its Financial Markets portfolio after many years of absence from the country. In 2002, Mohamed Gouled joined the Global Financial Markets Department where he worked on a number of high-profile and groundbreaking transactions including the first residential mortgage-backed securitization to come out of Eastern and Central Europe, the first tier II instrument in the Tunisian banking sector, and the first residential mortgage-backed securitization in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Previously, Mohamed Gouled was Manager for the Financial Markets Group for Sub-Saharan Africa based in Johannesburg, where he helped build and manage a diverse and high-performing Financial Markets team, significantly increasing the portfolio and reach of IFC’s investments in the region. He moved back to Washington at the end of 2009 as Chief Credit Officer in a heightened risk environment where his experience helped guide the EMENA regional investment and portfolio teams as they managed IFC’s risks. Prior to joining IFC, Mohamed Gouled worked for the Treasury and the Industry and Infrastructure Departments at the African Development Bank based in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.