The nomination process for the next president of the African Development Bank officially opened on Tuesday, although official candidates won't be announced until February 2015.
But while we wait for that list, it's interesting to take a look at the process of how AfDB chooses its president at a crucial time for the institution, which is preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary and move back to its old headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, after a decade in Tunis, Tunisia.
In case of AfDB, it's not as predictable as the Asian Development Bank or the World Bank, where the leader has always come from Japan and the United States, respectively.