Lewnis Boudaoui is a senior country manager at the OPEC Fund for International Development, where he has been working for the past 15 years. He has been responsible for the sourcing, implementation, and management of development projects in over 20 African countries, in close collaboration with their governments. He has also led strategic initiatives in the fields of debt relief to highly indebted countries, operational efficiency, institutional partnerships, and trust funds. He currently leads the implementation of the OPEC Fund Clean Cooking Initiative. Lewnis studied social sciences and strategy at the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po), finance and accounting at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and international relations at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He speaks French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi (Persian), German, Russian, Portuguese and Italian.