Mumbi ANNSTELLA

Mumbi is a business leader with experience working across Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ghana, South Africa and Uganda in Fintech and Edtech, and has an educational background in mechatronics engineering.Based in Kenya, she currently serves as the General Manager at Tala, a fintech company that has disbursed over $5 billion in credit to more than 10 […]

Anjani TRIVEDI

Anjani Trivedi is The Economist‘s global business correspondent. She writes about shifts and trends across global industries. Anjani previously wrote a column for Bloomberg Opinion, based in Dubai and Hong Kong covering industrial companies across Asia-Pacific. Prior to that, she wrote for the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column about industrial companies, banks […]

Jean-Louis MENANN-KOUAME

Jean-Louis Menann-Kouamé, 47 years old and father of 4 children, is originally from Côte d’Ivoire. Since January 2020, he has been the Chief Executive Officer of Orange Bank Africa, the 1st digital bank in the WAEMU with more than 1,700,000 customers, present in Côte d’Ivoire and soon in Senegal. Prior to his appointment, he spent […]

Michael ATINGI-EGO

Michael Atingi-Ego is a Ugandan economist who was appointed Governor of the Bank of Uganda on 10 February 2025. Prior to this appointment, he served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Uganda and as Executive Director of the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa (MEFMI), based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He […]

Abderrahim BOUAZZA

Mr. Abderrahim Bouazza has been the Director General of Bank Al-Maghrib since July 2015. He joined Bank Al-Maghrib in 1980 within the Banking Supervision Department, which he later led from 2001 to 2013. During this time, he served as Vice-President of the Credit Institutions Committee, as a member of the Financial Stability Board, the Financial […]