Archives: Speakers

Jyrki Koskelo has a 30 year plus career in development finance. He worked at IFC starting as an Investment Officer in 1987 and left after serving multiple years in IFC’s senior management team in 2011. He has acted in multiple Advisory and Board positions between 2012 and present focusing in financial sector, agri value chains… Read more »

Albert Alsina has more than 25 years of international experience in multi-national settings where he held several executive positions in General Management at global and European levels in the US, UK, Brazil, Germany, Zimbabwe and Spain. In 2007, Albert joined the financial group Riva y García to lead the fund “Fons Mediterrania Capital” (Mediterrania Capital… Read more »

Andia Laura Chakava is an Investment professional. She is currently the Investment Director at the Graca Machel Trust to lead the organization’s gender lens investing initiative. She is also the Chairperson of New Faces New Voices Kenya chapter (women in finance network) and is passionate about facilitating intra Africa investment, investor education and is a… Read more »

I have an outstanding Professional Career work experience spanning over 28 years in Banking, Insurance, Marketing, Cooperative Management/Consulting, Management of State Government/Community Micro Funds and Micro-Finance. Specialties: Export and International Trade Management, Banking, Marketing, Insurance, Micro Financing and Business Development Consulting. I am a certified banker, a registered professional with the Financial Reporting Council of… Read more »

Chris Low is an international banking, financial inclusion, digital transformation, emerging markets and risk management practitioner, with more than 30 years of proven financial services industry delivery in the UK, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Most recently he advised HM Government on engaging with the UK Banking Sector to promote trade and investment. Also… Read more »

MICHAEL ALDRIDGE, Co-founder & Managing Director of KOFISI and Sunbird Business Services Limited. Michael is a successful entrepreneur with over 15 years business experience in multiple sectors, including business services and retail. He is also committed to creating wider social impact in education through innovation in finance. Michael cofounded KOFISI, the leading provider of flexible… Read more »

Michael is the Chief Operating Officer at TDB as well as Executive in charge of Lending Operations, responsible for managing the Bank’s product houses including Trade Finance and Project & Infrastructure Finance. This includes product strategy and execution, business development and managing strategic multi-country client relationships. He has over 18 years of banking experience and… Read more »

Michael Mills is a renewable energy and climate finance professional with many years experience of managing investments in emerging markets. Prior to joining the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) he established the renewable energy business at responsAbility Investments AG, a development-sector fund manager headquartered in Zurich. responsAbility is the investment manager… Read more »

Samia joined AfricInvest Private Credit as Head of Credit in January, 2014. Prior to that, since 2009 she was Managing Director of the Université Paris-Dauphine, Tunis Campus, where she led the launch of the University’s Tunis campus. Samia also has 11 years of banking experience with Citibank in Tunis, where she joined as a Relationship… Read more »

Richard is Managing Director of UK Climate Investments (UKCI). UKCI is a £200m climate finance vehicle funded by the UK Government to invest in transformational green energy projects and companies in sub-Saharan Africa and India. Before joining Macquarie in 2010, Richard was a UK Senior Civil Servant. Richard holds degrees from the University of Glasgow… Read more »