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Africa Initiative Speakers

Plenary

Dentaa Amoateng MBE

Founder & CEO, GUBA Enterprise

Cherie Blair

Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

Laurent Cadji

Managing Director, Union Maritime Ltd.

H.E. Rui Jorge Carneiro Mangueira

Ambassador of the Republic of Angola to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and ...

Chika Chukwujekwu

Head of Africa Business Development, Grant Thornton LLP

Amb. John Danilovich

Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce; Former CEO, Millennium Cha...

Madame Monica Geingos

First Lady of the Republic of Namibia

Ronak Gopaldas

Director, Signal Risk

Helen Hai

CEO, Made in Africa Initiative

Lord Dr. Michael Hastings CBE

Chairman, SOAS University of London

Dr. Amy Jadesimi

CEO, Ladol

Gail Klintworth

Non-Exectuive Board Director and Board Advisor - Partner, SYSTEMIQ

Nicholas Logothetis

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, Concordia

Dr. Jabulane Mabuza

Former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Telkom SA SOC Limited

Ibrahim Mahama

Founder & Chairman, Engineers and Planners

Rt. Hon. Lord Mark Malloch-Brown KCMG

Senior Advisor, Eurasia Group

Amb. John D. Negroponte

Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates

Gonçalo Neves-Correia

Partner and CEO, ThirdWay Africa

Mohammed Nyaoga

Senior Partner at Mohammed Muigai Advocates; Chairman of the Board of Directors,...

H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo

Chairman, The Brenthurst Foundation | Former President, Federal Republic of Nige...

H.E. Professor Benedict Oramah

President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, African Export-Import Bank

H.E. Toyin Ojora Saraki

Founder-President, Wellbeing Foundation Africa

Matthew Swift

Co-Founder, President & CEO, Concordia

Hon. Joffre Van-Dúnem Júnior

Minister of Trade, Republic of Angola

Paul van Zyl

Co-Founder, Conduit

Hasnen Varawalla

Co-Head of Banking, Absa Group Limited

H.E. Liu Xiaoming

Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, The Peop...

Partnership Accelerator

Ismail Ahmed

Founder & Non-Executive Chairman, WorldRemit

Roberta Annan

Managing Partner, Roberta Annan Capital Partners

Semhar Araia

Managing Director - Diaspora Partnerships, UNICEF USA

Dr. Patrick Awuah Jr.

Founder & President, Ashesi University

Maxime Bayen

M4D Utilities & Ecosystem Accelerator Insights Director, GSMA

Kuda Biza

Founder, Amani Hope Foundation

Rachel Crawford

Manager, Emerging Markets, Village Capital

Candice Dott

Head of Africa Market Development, Thomson Reuters

Elizabeth Ellis

CEO, iDE

Misrach Mekonnen Gebrewold

Project Manager, CARE Ethiopia

Sheli Gupta

President EMEA Operations, Hu-manity.co

Dr. Marcy Hessling O’Neil

Co-Founder, Three Sisters/ Trois Soeurs

Beth Honig

Director United Kingdom, Ubuntu Pathways

Kate Kiama

Director of Programs, Akili Dada

Rona Kotecha

Director & Head of Global Partnerships, Mara Foundation

Jacqueline Lampe

CEO, RNW

Tanya Lobel

Executive Director, African Leadership University

Matthew MacDevette

Associate Partner, Dalberg Global Development Advisors

Eleonora Mejia Valencia

Director of Marketing, Moringa Schools

Simbarashe Mhungu

Managing Director, HGF Advisory

Louisa Mojela

CEO, Women Investment Portfolio Holdings LTD

Zineb Mouhyi

Policy & Partnership Development Officer, WISE

Adolphine Muley

Member of Parliament, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Noëlla Coursaris Musunka

Founder & CEO, Malaika

Kaunapaua Ndilula

Managing Director, Business Financial Solutions

Mohammed Nyaoga

Senior Partner at Mohammed Muigai Advocates; Chairman of the Board of Directors,...

Maryanne Ochola

Regional Chapter Manager - East Africa, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneu...

Dr. Kennedy Odede

Co-Founder & CEO, Shining Hope for Communities

Ebele Okobi

Public Policy Director Africa, Facebook

Vivian Onano

Youth Representative, Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO

Dr. Kofi Osei-Kusi

Founder & CEO, Osei-Kusi Foundation

Funlola Otukoya

Investment Analyst, McKnight Foundation

Meg Poole

Senior Program Officer, Meridian International Center

Misan Rewane

Co-Founder & CEO, West African Vocational Education

Sabrina Roshan

Director, Schmidt Futures Technologists for Global Transformation (TGT) Program...

George Sarpong

Director of Corporate Affairs, Kosmos Energy

Naguib Sawiris

Chairman, Weather Investments

Karen Sessions

Vice President, Congressional and Public Affairs, Millennium Challenge Corporati...

Alex Shalaby

Chairman of the Board of Advisors, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

Chris Treter

CEO, Higher Grounds Coffee

Chika Umeadi

Co-Founder, Tiphub

Paul van Zyl

Co-Founder, Conduit

Ben White

Chief Economic Correspondent, POLITICO

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