Gail Warrander
Economic Development Team Leader, Nigeria, UK Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office

Sessions: Panel [Prosperity] (Day 1 Morning)

​Gail worked in the private sector for 9 years as a commercial lawyer in the City  of London, first in a law firm and then for Reuters. She left the smoke to support Kosovo in its reconstruction and as then set up the first international law firm and a mineral mining company there, writing its first international tourist guidebook to the new country. After a Sloan Masters at London Business School she joined the Department for International Development (DFID) where she has been working for the last 9 years. She led on climate finance projects and ran DFID’s investment and finance teams, supervising the capital increase and new strategy for CDC Group and then she moved to Ethiopia and worked on manufacturing in East Africa, including many trips to bring Chinese investors to Africa. She moved a year ago to Abuja Nigeria. There she runs the Economic Development team which includes infrastructure, finance, agriculture, economics and climate change aid projects across the country. DFID merged on 1 Sept with UK Foreign Office to form the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. Gail speaks Albanian, German, French and some Serbian and has 2 children.

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