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Nathalie Kouassi Akon a rejoint la SFI en tant que directrice du département Genre et Inclusion économique en septembre 2023. Nathalie, de nationalité américaine et ivoirienne, était auparavant directrice exécutive de la Mastercard Foundation. Elle était responsable de la plateforme panafricaine, dirigeant à l’échelle de l’entreprise les quatre domaines thématiques programmatiques du genre, du développement de l’entrepreneuriat, de l’économie numérique et des systèmes agroalimentaires et du climat.
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Auparavant, elle a occupé le poste de directrice régionale, supervisant l’expansion de la Fondation en Afrique de l’Ouest, centrale et du Nord, dirigeant une grande équipe dans toute la région, et définissant l’orientation stratégique globale et le cadrage de la programmation en accord avec les valeurs et les priorités de la Fondation.\u202f
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Avant de rejoindre la Mastercard Foundation, Nathalie était partenaire et directrice générale Afrique d’Equator Capital Partners, un gestionnaire de fonds d’investissement à impact, où elle a supervisé l’équipe d’investissement en Afrique tout au long du processus d’investissement, y compris l’origination, la structuration et la négociation, les propositions du comité d’investissement et la représentation au conseil d’administration.\u202f
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Nathalie a été administratrice indépendante de grandes banques africaines et présidente du comité d’investissement de la Facilité pour le secteur privé du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement. Elle a également figuré dans la liste des 100 femmes les plus influentes de la publication 2022 d’Advance Media.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[133,132,250],"class_list":["post-24127","sb_speaker","type-sb_speaker","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-133","evenement-salon-132","evenement-salon-250"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNathalie Kouassi AKON - The African Financial Summit Platform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/fr\/sb_speaker\/nathalie-kouassi-akon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nathalie Kouassi AKON - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nathalie Kouassi Akon a rejoint la SFI en tant que directrice du département Genre et Inclusion économique en septembre 2023. 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