Jacqueline Mkindi

Jacqueline Mkindi is a Development Manager specialized in Agriculture Business and Trade. She is the Founding CEO for TAHA and Chairperson of TAHA Commercial Companies (TAHAFRESH Handling Ltd and GreenCert Ltd), an entrepreneur in agribusiness and has provided strong leadership in shaping and transforming the multi million dollars horticultural industry in Tanzania. She has been very instrumental in creating and facilitating transformative partnerships with the Government of Tanzania and Development Partners such as USAID, EU, UNDP, International Trade Centre (ITC), the Dutch, Belgian, Finnish, Swedish (SIDA) and Danish (DANIDA) Governments, to mention but a few. She has participated in a number of trade facilitation and negotiations platforms particularly on EAC, SADC, ECOWAS, EU and also on business issues governing trade relationship between African countries and United States of America.

Jacqueline was recently appointed to serve on the Secretariat of the Presidential Food and Agriculture Delivery Council (PFADC) advising the President of the United Republic of Tanzania on Agriculture and Food Security. She also sits on the Presidential National Advisory Committee on Gender and Equality in line with UN Government commitment that embed gender equality as a central component of Building Back Better from Covid-19 and fuel a significant and lasting change for generation to come.

She serves on Advisory Boards of key Public and Private Local, Regional and International platforms. Jacqueline is the Chairperson of the Agriculture Council of Tanzania and also an independent expert in the Consultative Committee of the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) Executive Board with headquarters in The Hague, The Netherlands.

She has won several local and international awards as A Woman of Impact in transforming agriculture, particularly the horticulture industry in Tanzania.