Mohamed MANSSOURI

Mohamed Manssouri is Director of the FAO Investment Centre, which supports public and private investments in food systems and agriculture in partnership with International Financing Institutions (World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, etc.) and other investors.  He is an agricultural economist and an […]

Leila SERHAN

Leila Serhan currently serves as Senior Vice President and Group Country Manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan (NALP) region – a region which serves 15 countries from five regional offices. In this role, Leila and her team are focused on driving Visa’s business growth in the region with key clients and partners from […]

Joelle HAZOUME ALAO

I am an operational expert in mobile financial services and serial entrepreneur in sub–Saharan Africa:  I led important and strategic projects to launch new products or services, operate digital transformation, or create new companies or business units. Through my 23 years of professional experience, I built strong skills in project and program management in the banking […]

Aissata Koné SIDIBE

Ms. Aïssata SIDIBÉ / KONÉ holds an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (USA), and a Master’s degree in Economic and Social Administration from the University of Nanterre Paris X (France), specializing in Business Administration and Management. She has served as Managing Director of Coris Bank International Mali […]

Hamza RKHA CHAHAM

Hamza is the co-founder of SOWIT, a start-up providing African farmers with the financing and technology they need to increase their productivity and incomes, face climate-change and feed the continent. SOWIT is incorporated in Morocco, France and Senegal and leverages all the power of remote-sensing, AI and agronomy to provide to farmers all they need […]

Chris SMITH

Chris is Global Head of Sovereign Sustainable Finance at BwB – The Investment Bank for Earth and is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Before joining BwB following its launch, Chris had worked in the City of London for nearly 20 years for HSBC and Standard Charted Bank in a range of corporate […]

Gwendoline ABUNAW

Gwendoline ABUNAW is the Managing Director of Ecobank Cameroon, subsidiary of the leading Pan African financial services group present in 35 countries on the Continent. She is equally the Cluster Head for the CEMAC region covering 6 Ecobank affiliates including Cameroon, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, Chad, Equatorial Guinea and Central African Republic. On June 2022, she […]