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Ned Rauch-Mannino 2021 Speaker

Ned Rauch-Mannino

With Portsmouth Ltd. Co., Ned Rauch-Mannino leads strategic advisory services to better-position global markets engagement. He most recently served as deputy assistant secretary for global operations and senior adviser for global markets in the U.S. Department of Commerce, supporting U.S. competitiveness and reinforcing trade and investment across markets worldwide. Prior, he served as an adviser… Read more »

Rachel Graham 2021 Speaker

Rachel Graham

Rachel Graham leads our BVI corporate transactional practice in the EMEA region, based out of our London office. She is highly regarded in her field, having nearly 25 years of experience practising as a lawyer, 17 of which have been offshore. Rachel advises corporations, high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, financial institutions, seed capital investors, private… Read more »

Constantinos Kypreos 2021 Speaker

Constantinos Kypreos

Constantinos is a Senior Vice President and covers a portfolio of banks in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. He also has oversight responsibilities for Moody’s banks ratings in Romania, and for the ratings of non-bank financial institutions in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Since joining Moody’s Limassol-based banking team in 2005,… Read more »

Mik Kabeya 2021 Speaker

Mik Kabeya

Mik Kabeya is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in the Financial Institutions Group, based in London. Mik primarily covers financial institutions based across the African continent. Prior to relocating to London in 2021, Mik was based in Dubai where he covered financial institutions based in the Middle East. Before joining Moody’s, Mik worked in… Read more »

Karim Bendhaou 2021 Speaker

Karim Bendhaou

Dr. Karim Bendhaou will moderate the panel. Dr. Karim Bendhaou (MD,MBA) has served as President of North and West Africa operations (40 countries of Africa) for Merck for over 18years till September 2018 and since then he heads the Africa Bureau and coordinates all of Merck’s corporate, strategic and executive decisions in Africa. He has… Read more »

Laura Amaya 2021 Speaker

Laura Amaya

Laura is an Associate Partner in Dalberg’s London office, where she works with global organizations to develop market-based solutions for social and environmental problems. Laura’s expertise is in inclusive business model development, impact investing, and ecosystem shaping. She has experience across sectors, with a particular focus on agriculture, energy, and gender. Laura has advised impact… Read more »

Audrey Hanard 2021 Speaker

Audrey Hanard

Audrey is an Associate Partner at Dalberg where she works with clients to improve education, employment, and health outcomes globally through developing, implementing, and measuring impactful strategies in support of inclusive development. Audrey has more than ten years of experience advising corporate, government, and philanthropic clients on a range of development and social impact topics,… Read more »

Maria Largey 2021 Speaker

Maria Largey

Maria Largey has 20 years’ experience as a financial professional with the last decade focused on impact investing in Emerging Markets. Maria has a proven track record in investing across various products and regions, having worked in over 25 countries within Europe, the US and Emerging Markets. She is currently the Head of Financial Services… Read more »

Nerina Visser, CFA 2021 Speaker

Nerina Visser

Nerina Visser CFA is the former president of CFA Society South Africa, a professional body with more than 2,000 members in the SADC region. During her tenure she lead the Africa Outreach Project to develop African capital markets, working with regulators and employers, investment professionals and candidates aspiring to join the industry. The publication of… Read more »

Simon Gray 2021 Speaker

Simon Gray

Simon is the Global Head of Business Development and Marketing at BVI Finance.  Simon is a senior financial services’ professional with strong international experience gained in the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and Asia as well as major experience in both public and in private sectors. Combining an investigative background with 25+ years of first-hand… Read more »