Ms. Fatima Kassam is currently the Chief of Governmental Affairs and Policy of the African Risk Capacity and an Advisor to the African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture. Fatima joined the ARC project at its inception in 2009. As Chief of Governmental Affairs and Policy, Fatima manages the Johannesburg-based client services team delivering capacity-building assistance to AU Member States planning to join the first continental risk pool in 2013, ensures harmonization of ARC with regional and global policy agenda and assists the Managing Director in ensuring the facility\’s financial sustainability.
Prior to joining the ARC, Fatima served as Deputy Director of Governor Schwarzenegger’s California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth. The Jobs Commission focused on structural challenges in the California economy, creating favorable regulatory environments for emerging industries and marketing California technologies abroad. Before moving to California, Fatima lived in Addis Ababa and Rome as a consultant to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on its ground-breaking project with the Government of Ethiopia to write the contingency plan for their weather and climate risk management program. Her work in Africa extends south to Mozambique with TechnoServe and an investment group led by the former Minister of Finance with whom she worked to produce and market new products (pulses, flowers, farmed fish), revive old products (cashews) and lead long term agricultural investment planning for coastal provinces.
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