The United States President, Joe Biden, has picked Nigerian-American Enoh T. Ebong to lead presidential delegation for the inauguration of the new Zambian President, Hakainde Hichilema.
President-elect Hichilema is to be inaugurated on August 24, 2021, in Lusaka, Zambia.
Others in the delegation to Zambia include Mr. David J. Young, Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, U.S. Embassy Lusaka and Ms. Dana L. Banks, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Africa.
The appointments was announced in a astatement by the White House on Saturday.
Ms. Enoh Ebong was on February 2, 2021 appointed by President Biden as the Acting Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).
The appointment meant a return to USTDA where from 2004 to 2019, Ms. Ebong had served in a variety of roles, most recently as the Agency’s General Counsel, and Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer.
As Acting Director, Ms. Ebong is leading an agency that partners with the U.S. private sector to develop sustainable infrastructure and foster economic growth in emerging economies, while supporting U.S. jobs through the export of U.S. goods and services.
Prior to her return to USTDA, Ms. Ebong served as the Head of Strategic Partnerships at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, where she drove the development of strategic partnerships to expand access to education, health, financial empowerment and entrepreneurship.
Prior to joining USTDA in 2004, Ms. Ebong practiced law at the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris and Popeo, P.C., representing public and private companies in public offerings, financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance issues.
Ms. Ebong earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, a Master of Arts in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Arts in History, with Honors, from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is a member of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bar.
