H.E. Ms Lerato Dorothy Mataboge

Ms Lerato Dorothy Mataboge is the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy (I&E) at the African Union. Ms. Mataboge is a global policy and trade and investment facilitation expert and was 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 served 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.

Ms Mataboge previously served as the Chief Director for Africa at the Department of Trade Industry and Competition of South Africa. She has also led the commercial aspects of South Africa’s global multilateral engagements in the BRICS, IORA, G20/B20, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement negotiations, among others. From 2012 to 2018, Ms. Mataboge was the chairperson of the South African Presidential Steering Committee on the North-South-Corridor under 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.

Ms Mataboge holds a Masters Degree in International Political Economy (International Trade and Global Finance) from the University of Warwick, UK; an Honours degree in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand, RSA; as well as a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Law and International Relations) from the University of the Witwatersrand, RSA. She has completed executive education in Infrastructure in a Market Economy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.