Sérgio Pimenta is the Chief Executive Officer of the Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (Africa50 IAF), where he leads efforts to mobilize large-scale commercial and institutional capital, expand the fund’s portfolio, and drive transformative investments to help close Africa’s infrastructure gap, and deliver impact at scale.

Sérgio Pimenta was Vice President for Africa at the IFC (World Bank Group), where he led a team of approximately 1,000 people dedicated to strengthening the private sector’s role in addressing the African continent’s most pressing development challenges. He led teams that delivered over US$74 billion in investments (including mobilization) across more than 800 projects in seven years, tripling IFC’s annual investment commitments in Africa. He managed a portfolio of over US$18 billion, making IFC the largest investor in private sector projects in Africa.

Previously, Sérgio Pimenta was IFC’s Global Director for Agribusiness, Health and Education, and Manufacturing and Services, after holding various leadership positions in the Asia-Pacific region, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, based in Hong Kong, Istanbul, and Washington, D.C. Between 2002 and 2005, Sérgio Pimenta served as Chief of Staff to Peter Woicke, IFC Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the World Bank.

Before joining the World Bank Group through the Young Professionals Program in 1996, Sérgio Pimenta worked in the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance in Paris and in the International Department of the Banque Nationale de Paris, also in Paris.

Sérgio Pimenta, a French and Portuguese national, graduated from the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He completed professional training at Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and IMD.