Dahlia Khalifa is Division Director for Central Africa and Anglophone West Africa at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), based in Lagos, Nigeria, where she leads IFC’s investment and advisory work across multiple countries to support private‑sector growth and job creation. 
She joined the World Bank Group in 2004 and has held senior roles spanning investment climate advisory, strategy and operations, and youth empowerment initiatives. Before that, she built and managed financial services firms in the Middle East and Africa.