Mwombeki Baregu

Mwombeki is an Investment Officer with the Agribusiness team at IFC. He has over 15 years of experience in agriculture and financial sectors in areas of finance and investments, policies, and sector development.  

Apart from the World Bank related roles, his previous roles have included Head of Agriculture and Rural Finance at Financial Sector Deepening Trust, Tanzania (FSDT), where he helped to scale financial inclusion and investments to the agriculture, microfinance, and rural sectors.  

Mwombeki was also Head of Product Development and Research at NMB Bank in Tanzania and led their efforts to develop new financial products and solutions for customers. He’s engaged with a wide range of stakeholders, including banks, mobile network operators, health insurance providers, farmer organizations and cooperative societies, agribusinesses, agriculture sector bodies, investment funds, and government at different levels including regulators, policy bodies, and coordinators. 

Mwombeki is a passionate financial services and economic development professional driven to impact growth. He is constantly learning and leveraging his experiences in commercial and investment banking, economic policy development and analysis, and agricultural and commodities markets structures and dynamics to help public and private organizations to innovate and to develop new partnerships, products, services, and solutions that are potentially impactful.