Welcome to AFSIC - Investing in Africa
AFSIC is the leading annual African investment event, taking place outside Africa and one of the most important conduits of investment into Africa. With the support of AFSIC’s sophisticated Investment Dashboard, AFSIC is entirely focused on bringing together Africa’s business leaders and Africa’s most important investors and dealmakers and will showcase investment opportunities from across the whole of Africa.
Networking and focused meetings at AFSIC provide you with an unparalleled opportunity to discover and develop a robust network of the highest quality of African business leaders. A comprehensive programme offers delegates streamed sessions covering Banking, Agriculture, Sustainable Growth, Infrastructure, Education, Informed Investing, Power and Fintech as well as focussed country specific sessions showcasing excellent projects and insight into African investment opportunities.
AFSIC will offer two days of VIP keynotes and premium content panels across the following industry sectors – Banking, Agriculture, Sustainable Growth, Infrastructure, Education, Informed Investing, Power and Fintech. Streams will also feature sector specific networking sessions and investor pitches showcasing the most exciting new projects and businesses. Country focussed sessions will offer an insight into the investment climate and regulations of individual countries with attractive investment opportunities from our Investment Dashboard highlighted.
NETWORKING SESSIONS AND EXHIBITION
Networking is at the heart of AFSIC and free flowing and structured networking sessions have been built into the AFSIC 2021 agenda. High impact scheduled sessions are structured to maximise opportunities to connect with Africa’s most important investors, dealmakers and businesses and the networking Exhibition runs concurrently to the conference offering a more informal way to engage and meet.
The CDC sponsored Meet African Dealmakers Event is specifically designed for high level networking between delegates in a relaxed social environment at the inception of AFSIC. The event has consistently high attendance, offering dealmakers efficient opportunities to develop their pan African contacts.
Our team has developed perhaps the largest network of global institutional investors focused on investment in Africa.
Adding investor-ready project details to the Investment Dashboard is quick and easy and FREE and will be accessible by our network of investors once the project is approved by our team.
Are you a fund, institutional investor, or company looking to invest into Africa? Do you want to get FREE access to our extensive AFSIC African Investments Dashboard? We receive a significant volume of investment opportunities from all regions of Africa. Receive investment opportunities from Africa direct to your Inbox.
INTERACTIVE MEETING AND EVENT APP
The AFSIC Meeting and Event app allows all registered delegates, exhibitors and sponsors to connect and to view in full the conference agenda. This offers the opportunity to schedule meetings, plan session attendance, promote services and projects and maximise chances of having high quality interactions during AFSIC.
2021 SPEAKER LINE-UP TO DATE
Mohamed Maarouf Business Leader
Finance & Development Expert
Benjamin Djoudalbaye Business Leader
Head of Division of Policy, Health Diplomacy and Communication
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

William Tay-Pamart Business Leader
Co-Founder and MD
Africa Financial Institutions Investment Platform (AFIIP)

Kais Zhioua
Africa Healthcare Investment Summit
Milko Skoro Business Leader
Managing Director Advisory & Infrastructure
Africa Merchant Capital Advisory
Marco Yamaguchi
Manager, Non-Sovereign Infrastructure Division, Infrastructure and Urban Development Department
African Development Bank
Nadia Kouassi Coulibaly Business Leader
Head of Research
African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA)
Dr. Michel Hamala Sidibé Business Leader
Former Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
African Union Special Envoy for African Medicines Agency

António Henriques Da Silva Business Leader
CEO
Agency of Investment and Promote Exportation (AIPEX)
Martin Ewald Business Leader
Managing Director & Lead Portfolio Manager Impact Investments
Allianz Global Investors

Jonathan Berman
Autonomi Capital
Gaetan Herinckx Business Leader
Manager - Senior Investment Officer, SME/Corporate direct investment
Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO)
Jessica Schicks
Senior Investment Officer - Financial Institutions
BIO - Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries

Laura Amaya
Dalberg Advisors
Michael Fischer Business Leader
Director - Financial Institutions Africa
DEG - German Investment and Development Company

Kim Bromley Business Leader
Head of Financial Services
DFID

Mike Mompi Business Leader
Managing Partner
Enza Capital
Tarek El Sherbini Business Leader
Head of Agribusiness, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Sarah FitzMorris
Executives In Africa (EiA)
Mahin Dissanayake Business Leader
Senior Director, Head of Bank Ratings: Sub-Saharan Africa
Fitch Ratings
John Onwualu Business Leader
Managing Director
Former U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
Juliet Munro Business Leader
FSD Africa
Michael Edem Akafia Business Leader
Vice President & Head-Legal & Compliance
Gold Fields Ghana Limited
Akinwale Ojomo
GPP Diaspora Project
Lory Camba Opem
Global Lead - Responsible Finance, Financial Inclusion, SME and Digital Finance
IFC Financial Institutions Group
Mateyo Kaluba Business Leader
Group Chief Executive Officer
Industrial Development Corporation Limited (IDC)
Juan Jose Garcia
Regional Syndications Lead, Sub-Saharan Africa & Latin America
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Kioi Wambaa Business Leader
Managing Director - Credit and Portfolio Management
International Housing Solutions - Kenya
Sherif Abdel Aal Business Leader
Regional Head of M&A, Head of Country (Egypt)
KAMCO Investment Company
Dr. Chinyere Almona Business Leader
Director-General/Chief Executive Officer
Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Margaret O’Connor
Launch Africa

Funmi Dele-Giwa
MFS Africa
Patrick Gutmann Business Leader
Managing Director, MFS Africa UK Banks, Institutions and Governments
MFS Africa
Toyin Abiodun Business Leader
Former Strategic Advisor
Ministry Of Trade And Industry, Rwanda, Tony Blair Institute Affiliate
Hoda Atia Moustafa 2021 Speaker
Global Head of Portfolio
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
Andreas Davidsen Business Leader
Vice President of Scalable Enterprises - Agribusiness & Manufacturing
Norfund

Philippe Valahu Business Leader
CEO
PIDG
Hayden Reinders Business Leader
Head of Business Development and Client Management
Prescient Fund Services
Charles Robertson Business Leader
Global Chief Economist & Head of Macro Strategy Unit
Renaissance Capital
Thato Mashigo Business Leader
Portfolio Manager and Vice President CFA Society South Africa
Sanlam Private Wealth
Dan Apungu Business Leader
Vice President- Investment Banking Corporate Financing Solutions
Standard Bank
Patricia Ithau Business Leader
Regional Director
Stanford Seed - Stanford Institute for Development in Developing Economies
Sebastien Duquet Business Leader
Member of the General management - CCO - Chef Commercial Officer
SunFunder
Emilio Cattaneo Business Leader
Head of Technical Assistance
The Private Infrastructure Development Group
Hichem Omezzine Business Leader
TPG - The Rise Fund
Michael Mills Business Leader
Private Finance Adviser
UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Emma Wade-Smith OBE
Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa
UK Department for International Trade (DIT)
Kurt Morriesen Business Leader
Senior Advisor - Impact Investments and SDGs
United Nations Development Programme
Dr. Weixi Gong
Chief of Investment and Technology Promotion Division and Coordinator of Investment and Technology Promotion Network
United Nations Industrial Development Organization