Jacqueline Musiitwa is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. 

Musiitwa is the Senior Governance Advisor at the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage, a financial intermediary fund of the World Bank.  She previously served in senior roles at USAID as a Deputy Assistant to the Administrator and as a senior climate finance advisor at USAID.  Musiitwa is an international attorney specialized in business, human rights, and sustainability. She previously served in various leadership capacities at Rio Tinto, the Trade and Development Bank, and the World Trade Organization, and also served as an attorney running a legal consultancy.  Musiitwa is a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy and sat on the boards of IDEO.org, the International Rescue Committee UK, Bank of Zambia, Bushveld Minerals.

Musiitwa currently teaches at Georgetown University. She speaks and writes regularly on African business and geopolitical issues. She has published articles in the Financial Times, Project Syndicate, National Public Radio, CNBC Africa, and has been interviewed by BBC, Newsweek, the National Public Radio, the Guardian, the East African. 

She was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a young global leader of the World Economic Forum, an Archbishop Tutu fellow of the Africa Leadership Institute, an Aspen new voices fellow of the Aspen Institute, a cybersecurity fellow of the New American Foundation, and a Mo Ibrahim Foundation leadership fellow at the World Trade Organization.

She earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Davidson College.