Biography
Elisa Mugiraneza is a Legal Counsel at the World Bank. Elisa advises on World Bank operations which promote long-term economic development and poverty reduction by providing technical and financial support to help countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments.
It is imperative that women to be adequately represented in legal spaces at different levels of influence, to ensure that the female perspective and experience form part of strategy formulation, policy making and operational decisions within those spaces and beyond. The Women in Law Initiative plays a critical role in creating opportunities for women in law to connect, network and be recognized for their achievements – which contributes to the overall objective to advance women in law.