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Stergomena Tax

Dr Stergomena Tax
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4th Executive Secretary of SADC
Assumed office
September 2013
Preceded by Tomaz Salomão
Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of East African Cooperation
In office
November 2008 – August 2013
President Jakaya Kikwete
Succeeded by Joyce Mapunjo
Personal details
Born (1960-07-06) 6 July 1960 (age 56)
Magu, Mwanza, Tanganyika
Nationality Tanzanian
Children 2
Alma mater University of Dar es Salaam
University of Tsukuba

Stergomena Lawrence Tax (born 6 July 1960) is a Tanzanian civil servant who serves as the incumbent Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Tax was educated at a number of primary schools in Tanzania and at Lake Secondary School in Mwanza where she was a contemporary of Tanzanian Minister John Magufuli.

She obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1991. She thereafter obtained a Master of Philosophy in Policy Management and Development Economics and a Doctor of Philosophy in International Development from the University of Tsukuba in Japan.

She served as the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of East African Cooperation from 2008 to 2013; when she was appointed as the Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community at the 33rd Summit of the Heads of State and Government in Lilongwe, Malawi.


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