Jacqueline Musiitwa is an international attorney specialized in business and human rights and sustainability. She previously served in various leadership capacities at Rio Tinto, the Trade and Development Bank (TDB Group), World Trade Organization and as an attorney running a legal consultancy. Musiitwa is a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy and sits on several boards.
Musiitwa currently teaches at Georgetown University and and previously taught at universities in the U.S. and Rwanda. She is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. As a Research Associate at the China Law Development Project at Oxford University, her research focuses on Chinese companies’ compliance with international law.
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, the Mail & Guardian and been interviewed by the BBC, Newsweek, NPR, the Guardian, the East African.
She is 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.