Regional Director, East Africa | DEG
Barbara von Toll is DEG’s Regional Director for East Africa, based in Nairobi. During the past 15 years at the German DFI, she has held different positions: Vice President Stakeholder Relations and Corporate Strategy, Senior Investment Manager for Manufacturing & Service Sector and Senior Investment Manager Infrastructure and Energy. She holds a Master‘s Degree in International and Development Economics (Berlin, Germany) and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business (Maastricht, Netherlands). Her studies brought her to Latin America as well as to the University of Dar es Salaam and Makerere University Business School in Kampala. After her studies she worked for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in the field of public-private partnerships (PPP) in sub-Saharan Africa before joining DEG.