Ivanka Trump, White House Senior Advisor and second daughter to President Donald Trump, on Sunday, April 14, arrived Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital on a four days two-nation visit to Africa to promote the Trump administration’s Women’s Global Development and Prosperity initiative.
She is joined by USAID Administrator, Mark Green.
During the visit, Trump and Green are expected to “announce new WGDP deliverables, conduct site visits and host bilateral meetings to promote the three core pillars aimed at driving global women’s economic empowerment throughout Africa.”
Trump will cap off her trip on Wednesday participating in a dialogue focusing on We-Fi, a $1 billion World Bank facility she helped roll out in 2017. She will discuss women-led businesses alongside the President of Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, and Trump ally and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, among others.
The Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (WGPD) initiative builds on the administration’s national security strategy, that recognizes “the critical role of women in achieving peace, prosperity, and stability.”
The fund’s goal is to empower 50 million women in developing countries by 2025.
Ivanka helped unveil the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity initiative earlier this year. Its aim is to “coordinate efforts across federal agencies” to empower women in developing countries through education, entrepreneurship and eliminating legal, regulatory and cultural barriers to women’s economic participation.
Even before her time in the White House, Ivanka Trump has styled herself as a champion of women, and since her father’s administration began, has made efforts to build relationships with world leaders, a development that has fuelled a speculation that she may building herself ahead of Presidential pursuit.
“If she ever wanted to run for president,” the President said in an interview with The Atlantic, “I think she’d be very, very hard to beat,” adding that his daughter hasn’t expressed any interest in running to him.
Born October 30, 1981, Ivanka is an American businesswoman, fashion designer, author, reality television personality, and politician. She is the daughter of Donald’s first wife Ivana. She is the first Jewish member of a First Family, having converted before marrying her Jewish husband, Jared Kushner.
The mother of three followed in the footsteps of her great-grandmother Elizabeth, grandfather Fred, and father, serving for a time as an executive vice president of the family-owned Trump Organization. She was also a boardroom judge on her father’s TV show The Apprentice.
In March 2017, she left the Trump Organization and began serving in her father’s presidential administration as an adviser alongside her husband. She assumed this official, unpaid position after ethics concerns were raised about her having access to classified material while not being held to the same restrictions as a federal employee.
She was considered part of the president’s inner circle even before becoming an official employee in his administration.
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