Gulmira McHale

Gulmira McHale joined the IIJ in August 2024 as the Resource Mobilisation Manager. She brings more than twenty years of experience as a senior officer at the United Nations and the Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank and International Monetary Fund). Gulmira has provided policy advice on legal and regulatory reform, innovative financing and investment lending, prepared capacity development programs for governments across Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, South and East Asia. She has facilitated fundraising and strategic dialogue with sovereign and non-sovereign donors, managed externally funded facilities and trust funds and she led replenishment and partnerships teams, respectively.

Prior to her career at the United Nations, World Bank and IMF, Gulmira spent seven years working as a Senior Attorney with US and UK law firms and as a Senior Counsel with the European Union and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She is a member of the New York Bar and holds a JD, LLM, and Ph.D. in Law.