Hamidou Thiaw 2026 speakers

“I am a Senegalese financial engineer and investment advisor with twenty years of experience spanning development finance, insurance, financial intelligence and technology, operating between West Africa, the United States and Europe. I am Managing Partner of SN Global Capital LLC, a US-based advisory firm, Managing Partner of Africa Experts Incorporated, and Senior Advisor to the Chairman & CEO of Prévoyance Assurances, a CIMA-regulated insurance company in Senegal.

SN Global Capital specializes in sovereign debt management, public-private financing and investment facilitation across West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, The Gambia and Djibouti. A core part of our mission is raising capital for African governments to finance their growth — structuring and mobilizing funding for infrastructure projects such as hydroelectric dams, thermal power plants, transport, healthcare and the industrial supply chain for power transmission, as well as for economic reforms and the modernization of state-owned enterprises. We connect sovereigns with international lenders, development finance institutions and private investors, and we support businesses in fundraising, growth strategy and access to capital markets. Our investment focus also covers equity positions in insurance and banking, where our market knowledge and executive network across the region give us a distinctive origination advantage.

I am currently leading the structuring of a landmark public-private partnership in Guinea: a 300-bed military hospital in Dubréka, an approximately US$85 million turnkey project combining EPC delivery and financing, coordinated with Global Engineering & Green Technologies (GEGT). I am also advising on sovereign financing mandates in the region and engaging development finance institutions, including the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, on long-term financing structures for West African investments. At AFSIC, I am seeking co-investment partners, debt providers and institutional allies interested in bankable infrastructure and financial-services opportunities in francophone West Africa, including partnerships that could lead to the creation of a dedicated investment fund.

As Managing Partner of Africa Experts Incorporated, a consulting firm headquartered in Dakar, I help mobilize an ecosystem of nearly 300 African experts across 26 countries — 74% holding master’s degrees and 65% with more than ten years of experience in institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank. AEI delivers strategic and landscape analysis, evaluation and learning, and technical advisory services to public and private organizations, championing the localization of expertise across the continent.

I bring deep operational knowledge of the African insurance industry, regulated under the CIMA code across fourteen francophone countries. I serve as Senior Advisor to the Chairman & CEO of Prévoyance Assurances and previously led SOGERAS, a Senegalese insurance brokerage firm, for nine years, overseeing portfolio development, insurer relationships and regulatory compliance. I also founded 3M Technologie, an insurtech company whose team designed and deployed a complete insurance ERP — covering policy management, claims and accounting — for a CIMA-regulated insurer and its service providers, giving me first-hand expertise in the digital transformation of African financial institutions.

Earlier in my career, I spent seven years in the United States as a financial and business analyst. At the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., I conducted financial analysis and cost-structure reviews and recovered over US$100,000 in vendor overcharges. I then held analytical roles at Gate Gourmet, where I led client pricing for airline catering contracts, and at Asurion, where I built performance dashboards and automated reporting for large-scale operations. I began my career at CENTIF, Senegal’s financial intelligence unit, investigating money laundering and working with banks and private-sector companies to strengthen suspicious-transaction reporting.

I hold an engineering degree from ESILV Paris (École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci), an MBA in Finance from Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia), and a Master’s in Risk Management from ESA Paris (École Supérieure d’Assurances, 2025). I am bilingual in French and English and based in Dakar, Senegal.”