Fatoumatta Jobe
- Africa Business Fellow at the U.S.-Africa Business Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Africa Business Fellow, U.S.-Africa Business Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Fatoumatta Jobe serves as the Africa Business Fellow at the U.S.-Africa Business Center (USAfBC) at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she supports strategic programming, research, communications, and stakeholder engagement aimed at strengthening U.S.-Africa commercial relations. In her role, she helps manage the Center's Eastern and Southern Africa portfolio and supports the implementation of Advance with Africa, the Chamber's flagship initiative to promote trade, investment, and business partnerships across the continent.
Jobe leads the Center's Tea with Ambassadors series, facilitating high-level dialogue between the diplomatic and business communities, and oversees communications efforts that elevate the Center's policy priorities, events, and thought leadership.
Her commitment to advancing Africa's economic development was shaped by her experience at the African Leadership Academy in South Africa, where she was part of a diverse community of emerging leaders dedicated to driving transformational change across the continent.
Jobe holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Rochester in English: Language, Media, and Communication as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. She completed a Master of Science in Marketing Analytics from the Simon Business School. She is fluent in English, French and Wolof and proficient in several other languages.
