H.E. Ms. Lerato Mataboge

Ms. Lerato Mataboge (South Africa) was elected as the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy (I&E) department. Ms. Mataboge is a global policy and trade and investment facilitation expert and is currently the Deputy Director-General in the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. Prior to this role, she founded and was CEO of Trade Invest Africa. She also serves on the Board of the Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC) as a non-Executive Director and is a member of the Finance and Investment Committee.

She previously also served as the Chief Director for Africa at the Department of Trade Industry and Competition in South Africa. She has led the commercial aspects of South Africa’s global multilateral engagements through the BRICS, IORA, G20/B20, the African Continental Free Trade Area, and bilateral engagements. From 2012 to 2018, Ms. Mataboge was the co-chairperson of the South African Presidential Working Group on the North South Corridor during South Africa’s Chair-ship of the African Union’s Presidential Infrastructure Championing Initiative (PICI). In June 2011, she completed her full term as a diplomat - Minister: Economic at the South African Embassy in Washington D.C., USA.

She has a Master’s degree in International Political Economy (International Trade and Global Finance) from the University of Warwick, UK.