Carlos Lopes is Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, at the level of UN Under Secretary-General, since September 2012. Dr. Lopes previously served as Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva and Director of the UN System Staff College in Turin at the level of Assistant [...]
Paul K. Fokam is the CEO of Afriland First Bank Group, the founder and president of PKFokam Institute of Excellence, a pan African university. He holds a PhD in Management Sciences and is a researcher, lecturer of Leadership and Strategy. He has published several books and essays among which are: How Africans Worsened their Misery, [...]
Patrick Ignatius Gomes of Guyana was elected the new Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) at the 100th Session of the Group’s Council of Ministers, held at ACP Headquarters in Brussels on December 10, 2014. Prior to taking up his position as the Secretary General of the ACP Group, Dr. [...]
Profile High-level managerial positions as Top Executive and Chairman or Vice Chairman in all strategic Company areas: Strategy, Finance – Audit & Control, Large Projects Investment, Merge & Acquisitions, Marketing & Sales, ICT, Public & Environmental Affairs, Traditional & Alternative Energies. Political functions High-level advisor in energy, security and geopolitical issues to: The Belgian [...]
Mrs. Bintou Diallo is the Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Promotion Agency of Burkina Faso. She was appointed in 2013 when the Agency was created under the technical supervision of the Presidential Investment Council (CPI). With more than 20 years of experience, Mrs. Diallo possesses extensive experience and leadership skills from working with charities [...]
Mister Walid Loukil is Deputy Managing Director of Loukil Group, one of the largest diversified industrial groups in Tunisia. The Group has 5 pillars including Industry (Oil, Telecommunications, Environment, etc.); Agro-Industry & Construction; Automotive; Technologies and Trade & Services. The Group has 35 subsidiaries and employs more than 4500 employees. Since 1997, Mr. Loukil [...]
Mr. Paul-Harry Aithnard has been Group Head Research since 2008, and Group Head Securities and Asset Management at Ecobank since September 2012. Prior to joining Ecobank, Paul-Harry worked in various positions between 2000 and 2008 with BBSP, a leading Investment Advisory firm located in Paris, Montreal and Singapore. As Global Head of Commodities, and [...]
Thierry Zomahoun is the President and CEO of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Africa’s first and biggest pan-African network of centres of excellence in mathematical sciences education. Thierry has spent the last 22 years of his career in international development and the consultancy sector, focusing mainly on innovative and scientific educational initiatives. [...]
Mr Curtis was named Managing Director of the Private Investment Promotion Agency in February 2014. He executes the Government’s private investment promotion policies, encourages and enables private investments in Guinea, and contributes to the improvement of the country’s investment climate. Previously, Mr. Curtis worked seven years for BNY Mellon first in New York and [...]
Youssef Travaly holds a PhD in Materials Science together with an Executive MBA. He has 15+ year work experience in managing national, regional and transcontinental projects of strategic importance, with multiple stakeholders in a variety of sectors. He has extensive experience in strategy development and implementation, technology research and pathfinding with a track record [...]
