Archives: Speakers

Mr. Keletsositse Olebile is the Chief Executive Officer at the Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC). His role includes, being the lead advocate for a competitive and attractive investment climate in Botswana, facilitation of both domestic and foreign sourced investments, provision of aftercare services for companies doing business in Botswana, facilitation of regional expansions by… Read more »

Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilize debt capital markets for climate solutions. Projects include a green bond definitions and certification scheme with $34 trillion of assets represented on its Board and some 200 organizations involved in its development and governance; working with the Chinese central bank… Read more »

Mohamed Kalif is the Head of Financial Intermediation and Inclusion at the African Development Bank (AFDB) which covers commercial banks, trade finance, SMEs, insurance, leasing, regional development financial institutions and financial inclusion. Before joining the Private Sector Department of the AFDB, Mohamed was Chief Risk of African Development Bank for a period of 7 years…. Read more »

Jesse Corradi is Head of Africa and Product Innovation at USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA). As such, Jesse leads DCA’s Africa regional team, which mobilizes private capital for underserved markets across Sub-Saharan Africa by underwriting partial-credit guarantees, and DCA’s product innovation and fintech strategies. Previously, Jesse held positions in public service, impact investing, and finance… Read more »

Adrien Diouf is the Managing Director of Agence UMOA-Titres which is a Regional Financial institution dedicated to assisting the eight (8) WAMU member countries in raising funds on the financial markets and to the development of the regional Sovereign Debt markets (MTP). Adrien Diouf has a wide operational and managerial experience in finance both in… Read more »

Dr Edward George is the head of the UK representative office of pan-African bank, Ecobank, as well as being head of group research. Edward oversees the teams in the London office, with a focus on corporate banking, international organisations, treasury, research and digital innovation. As head of research he manages a team of eight analysts… Read more »

Barry Cooper is a Technical Director at the Centre of Financial Regulation and Inclusion (Cenfri). He is a lawyer by training and an expert in national payment systems, and financial regulatory landscapes; serving as Cenfri’s lead for these research areas. Barry has been a director on Making Access Possible (MAP) financial inclusion diagnostics in DRC,… Read more »

Leon Isaacs is a seasoned expert and business leader in the payments, remittances, mobile money and money transfer industry. He has over 25 years hands-on experience and since 2007 has led DMA Global, the specialist development consultancy. DMA Global, which is based in the UK but has a global remit, provides a broad range of… Read more »

David Ekabouma joined AGF as the Chief Internal Controller and was subsequently promoted to Deputy, then Head of Business Development. He supports the business development activities, with the main role of developing new and existing products, including and not limited to structured finance. He leads the thinking of the new products/propositions, on-going appraisals of existing… Read more »

Frank-Astère is Investment Manager at Amethis. His responsibilities at Amethis include financial sector deal sourcing and executing, as well as overseeing due diligences and executing transactions. Prior to joining Amethis in 2015, Mr. Ndiyo-Butoyi worked for KPMG’s Transaction Services department in Paris, mainly in the financial services sector, conducting due diligence and valuation missions, primarily… Read more »