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 […]
Youssouf DIAGANA
Serge KOUAO KABLAN
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 […]
Nejia GHARBI
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 […]