Vivian Owuor is based in Lagos Nigeria and co-leads IFCs Financial Institutions Group Banking Advisory Practice Group for Africa. Prior to that she was based in Jordan and South Africa and provides technical assistance to financial institutions on SME Banking, Gender Finance, Risk Management and Non-Financial Services. Vivian has over 20 years’ experience covering more than 23 countries across Africa and the Middle East and joined IFC in 2005 from Kenya Commercial Bank Ltd where she was a Corporate Relationship Manager and Business Advisory consultant working with small and medium sized businesses to structure financing proposals.