Head of DivisionKfW Development Bank
Jenny Scharrer is head of division for financial sector development and education with KfW Development Bank. Her work has focused on agri-finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. In that capacity she has been responsible for setting up several fund such as the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund, the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria and Lending for African Farming Company (LAFCo) on the Board and Credit Committee of which she is serving as a member. Before joining KfW in 2011, Jenny was working with the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, helping to administer the German Stimulus Pact issuing federal guarantee schemes for distressed companies during the financial and economic crisis. Prior to that, Jenny worked for OXFAM Hong Kong as a strategy team manager in Vietnam on improving agricultural value chains to increase income for smallholder farmers. Before moving to Vietnam, Jenny has worked for McKinsey & Company in Germany and Bahrain on economic reform projects.
Eastern and Southern Africa, West and Central Africa