CEO and Director of the Botswana International Financial Services Center (IFSC).

Chief Executive Officer of the Botswana Development Export and Investment Authority (BEDIA)

Compelled by the kidnapping of one of his students by warlords in 2003, schoolteacher Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed helped found...

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Deputy Executive Director of Freedom House, an organization which promotes peace and democracy worldwide.

Current Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the United States (2008 - present).

Ambassador of Zimbabwe to the United States, 2005 - present.

Activist and national co-ordinator of Women of Zimbabwe Arise! (WOZA), a human rights pressure group formed in 2003.

Current Ambassador from Mauritius to the United States (2007 - present).

Former ambassador from Mauritius to the United States, 2002 - 2007.