The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Mrs. Karen Rot-Mustermann, as its Evaluator-General with effect from April 16, 2022.
Rot-Munstermann, a Dutch, is currently the Acting Evaluator-General and Division Manager, Knowledge Management Outreach and Capacity Development at the Independent Development Evaluation Department (BDEV).
Before joining the bank in 2009, she was a Senior Policy Advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (Treasury Foreign Financial Relations Department).
As a Desk Officer for the African Development Bank, she contributed to various initiatives that led to a 13 per cent increase in the Dutch shareholding in the bank in 2005, as well as 54 per cent increase in the Dutch contribution to the replenishment of the African Development Funds, The Trumpet gathered.
At the ministry of finance, she worked on a wide range of issues, she worked on a wide range of issues, including international development, multilateral development bank governance and financing debt and debt sustainability and contributed to the definition and presentation of Dutch government policy in those areas.
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Rot-Munstermann joined the bank in February 2009 in the Resource Mobilisation Department, which is responsible for the three-yearly redeployments at the African Fund (ADF) and allocation of ADF resources to African countries in June 2014, she was appointed as division manager of the knowledge management, outreach and capacity development division where she established a new identity for the independent evaluation function, which changed its name from Operations Evaluation Department to Independent Development Evaluation.
She then served as Acting Evaluation General from September 2018 to August 2019 and from November 2020 to date.
As Acting Evaluator-General, she has presented over 35 evaluations to the bank’s board, including the very complex and time sensitive evaluation of the implementation of the bank’s development business and business delivery model, among other interventions.
