Rosemary Archer hails from the
Western Region. She has over 20 years experience in 3 key industries including
media and telecoms (working for Scancom Ghana) but mostly in banking.
Within the 16 years of her
banking experience, she has assumed various roles including ones at Corporate
and Institutional Banking, Retail, SME, Business Development, Treasury, Credit
and Recoveries, Export development from within several local banks including
the Universal Merchant Bank ( UMB), Access Bank ( formerly Intercontinental
Bank), and Fidelity Bank.
She is currently heading the SME
Banking Department at GEXIM where she has been instrumental in advancing key
initiatives to position SME businesses as a useful platform to facilitate the
industrial transformation agenda of the government.
In 2020, GEXIM’s ‘Tuesday
Market’ an initiative she spearheaded to promote made-in Ghana products locally
and internationally received the CIMG President’s special award.
As Head of International
Cooperation at GEXIM, Rosemary Archer was key to the completion of MoUs with
peer international development banks such as US Exim, India Exim, Indonesia
Exim, Hungary, Thai and Slovenia Exim. All of these relationships and
partnerships occasioned new access to funding and knowledge transfer.
In addition to these, her tenure
as Head of International Cooperation occasioned the appointment of the CEO of
GEXIM to the high office of President of the Global Network of Exim Banks and
Development Finance Institutions.
She is expected to bring her
banking experience and extensive familiarity with the organization and its
objectives to bear in this new role.
Rosemary is a product of three academic
institutions including Holy Child School, University of Ghana and University of
Bedfordshire in the UK.