A Jamaican professional is set to take a top role with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Jennifer Lester has been appointed as the organisation’s Director of Corporate Services after having previously served as the Deputy Director of its Corporate Services and Facilities Department.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Lester was appointed to the role after the retirement of incumbent Chris Hemus, who has worked for the IMF for over 20 years, holding a number of senior and leadership positions.
Speaking about Lester’s appointment IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said: “Jennifer is widely recognized for her leadership, her strategic problem-solving and managerial skills, and her ability to engender trust amongst all parties.
“She has been instrumental in transforming service delivery through modernization and process efficiencies, while strengthening engagement with stakeholders.”
The IMF consists of 189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade
Before joining the organisation in 1997, Ms. Lester was a legal officer at the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, and previously practiced corporate law, international trade law and litigation as an associate in private practice with the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton.
JAMAICAN FOREIGN SERVICE
She is a former career foreign-service officer with the Jamaican Foreign Service and served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kingston and as Minister Counsellor in the Jamaican Embassy in Washington from 1985-1991.
Lester received her Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and holds a Master of Science degree in International Relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages from the University of the West Indies.
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The single aim; objective and goal of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)and the World Bank is to lend money to ex-colonial countries of the Global South in the hope that the receiving Government will default on the IMF loan.
Having defaulted on the IMF loan. The IMF can order the defaulting government to privatise its public services; or the sell the nation’s trees and mineral reserves to the foreign globalist elites.
It is for these reasons the mineral rich countries of African remain desperately poor and the people exploited.
I sincerely hope that Voice readers are sophisticated enough to realise that having an African-heritage women, Ms Jennifer Lester, appointed as the IMF’s Director of Corporate Services after having previously served as the Deputy Director of its Corporate Services and Facilities Department, will make absolutely no difference to the ethos of the IMF.
Ms Lester’s appointment will not herald economic justice for countries receiving IMF loans. Ms Lester’s appointment will not benefit the nation’s or Governments of the global south.
Indeed, if Ms Lester had displayed any opposition to the exploitative way the IMF implements its loaning policies, Ms Lester would certainly not have been promoted.
Ms Lester has been promoted because she will not challenge the current loaning practices of the IMF.