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Vivianne Infante
Director & co-leader ARIA initiative
British International Investment
Private Sector & Development author
Vivianne Infante is a Director at British International Investment, co-leading ARIA. Since 2015 she has also been BII’s Country Director for Ethiopia (covering the Horn of Africa) and the DRC, countries where she lived from 2015 until 2021. Her investment coverage responsibilities include deal origination, portfolio management support and representative responsibilities. Vivianne qualified as a corporate solicitor in England and Wales in 2004 and worked at the City law firm White & Case as a Project Finance and International Arbitration lawyer. She has also worked and lived in Nigeria, as counsel at the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund (NSIA), and as a corporate lawyer in Ghana.
British International Investment
British International Investment (formerly CDC Group) is the UK's development finance institution, with the mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private-sector growth and innovation. The company has over 70 years of experience in successfully supporting the sustainable, long-term growth of businesses in Africa and Asia, and recently expanded to invest in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. It plays a central role in the UK’s international financing offer, to help developing and emerging countries meet their significant financing needs for infrastructure and enterprise. It plays a central role in the UK’s international financing offer, to help developing and emerging countries meet their significant financing needs for infrastructure and enterprise.