Emmanuel Nyirinkindi is IFC’s Vice President of Cross-Cutting Solutions. He identifies opportunities for closer collaboration and coordination across IFC and the entire World Bank Group to deliver solutions for clients. This involves overseeing work to proactively create markets and enable the conditions for investments; to design effective public-private partnerships and targeted corporate finance solutions to mobilize the private sector’s role in development; and to design private sector strategies that enable all genders and underserved communities to fully participate in the economy.

Mr. Nyirinkindi became Vice President in 2021, building on 18 years of IFC experience and a proven track record of leadership and execution in advising governments on designing and bringing to market commercially robust public-private partnerships across various sectors that provide high quality, affordable and efficient infrastructure and social services to communities. He first joined IFC’s Johannesburg office in 2006 as a Senior Investment Officer and served as the Regional Manager of IFC’s Public-Private Partnerships Advisory Services for Africa. He successfully managed IFC’s Private Enterprise Partnership for Africa, leading all advisory work across the continent. Mr. Nyirinkindi moved to Washington, D.C. in 2015 to serve as the Global Head of Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory Services, a position he held before becoming IFC’s Global Director in 2018 to lead both the Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory and Corporate Finance Services teams and operations.

Prior to joining IFC, Mr. Nyirinkindi worked for the Government of Uganda’s Ministry of Finance where he introduced public-private partnerships in the electricity and railway sectors and coordinated legal and regulatory reforms in the basic infrastructure sectors. He worked in the petroleum products industry in Uganda and with the Faculty of Commerce at Makerere University in Kampala, where he earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree. Mr. Nyirinkindi also holds an MBA from the University of Kansas.

Emmanuel Nyirinkindi is IFC’s Vice President of Cross-Cutting Solutions. He identifies opportunities for closer collaboration and coordination across IFC and the entire World Bank Group to deliver solutions for clients. This involves overseeing work to proactively create markets and enable the conditions for investments; to design effective public-private partnerships and targeted corporate finance solutions to mobilize the private sector’s role in development; and to design private sector strategies that enable all genders and underserved communities to fully participate in the economy.

Mr. Nyirinkindi became Vice President in 2021, building on 18 years of IFC experience and a proven track record of leadership and execution in advising governments on designing and bringing to market commercially robust public-private partnerships across various sectors that provide high quality, affordable and efficient infrastructure and social services to communities. He first joined IFC’s Johannesburg office in 2006 as a Senior Investment Officer and served as the Regional Manager of IFC’s Public-Private Partnerships Advisory Services for Africa. He successfully managed IFC’s Private Enterprise Partnership for Africa, leading all advisory work across the continent. Mr. Nyirinkindi moved to Washington, D.C. in 2015 to serve as the Global Head of Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory Services, a position he held before becoming IFC’s Global Director in 2018 to lead both the Public-Private Partnerships Transaction Advisory and Corporate Finance Services teams and operations.

Prior to joining IFC, Mr. Nyirinkindi worked for the Government of Uganda’s Ministry of Finance where he introduced public-private partnerships in the electricity and railway sectors and coordinated legal and regulatory reforms in the basic infrastructure sectors. He worked in the petroleum products industry in Uganda and with the Faculty of Commerce at Makerere University in Kampala, where he earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree. Mr. Nyirinkindi also holds an MBA from the University of Kansas.