Dr Stergomena Tax | |
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4th Executive Secretary of SADC | |
Assumed office September 2013 |
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Preceded by | Tomaz Salomão |
Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of East African Cooperation | |
In office November 2008 – August 2013 |
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President | Jakaya Kikwete |
Succeeded by | Joyce Mapunjo |
Personal details | |
Born |
Magu, Mwanza, Tanganyika |
6 July 1960
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.