Didier ACOUETEYExecutive PresidentAFRICSEARCH GroupDidier Acouetey is the President and Founder of the AfricSearch Group since 1996, first international recruitment and Human Resources consulting firm specializing in Africa. With their partner Alexander Hughes, an international Executive Search firm, the AFRICSEARCH-ALEXANDER HUGHES Group is present in more than 50 countries.As business advisor to several African major corporations [...]
André Flahaut State Minister and a Member of the Chamber of Representatives. Belgium Kingdom André Flahaut (1955, Belgium) is State Minister and a Member of the Chamber of Representatives. Minister since 1995, a former Defence Minister (1999-2007), and a former President of the Chamber of Representatives (2010-2014), Minister of Budget, Civil Service and Administrative [...]
Serge Yanic NANA CEO FINANCIA Capital Serge Yanic NANA is President & CEO of FINANCIA Capital. President of the Professional Association of Registered Stock Brokerage Companies in Central Africa. Mr. NANA is a specialist in Project Finance, infrastructures finance, mining, energy, transport, insurance, and Public-Private Partnerships. Mr NANA was the Lead Advisor and Financial [...]
Oumar Toguyeni Regional Vice-President, West Africa IAMGOLD Corporation Oumar Toguyeni joined IAMGOLD 2012 and is currently Regional Vice-President, West Africa. In previous roles, Oumar had accumulated over 30 years of international experience in exploration, project development and operations for various commodities. Oumar started his career in gold mining company in Burkina Faso, thereafter joined [...]
Dr Stéphane ESSAGA Director of African Research Center in Oil and mining Policies (CARPIEM) Stéphane Essaga holds a doctorate in law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, an MBA in International Oil & Gas Management from the University of Dundee (United Kingdom) and a Masters in Tax Administration from the University of Douala. [...]
Philippe Close Mayor of Brussels Philippe Close studied law at the Brussels university “Université Libre de Bruxelles” (ULB) and started his career as a parliamentary employee for Senator Roger Lallemand working on Institutional Affairs. In 1999 he started working at the study centre of the Socialist Party and became the spokesman for the President [...]
Marie-Chantal Kaninda Executive Director, Head of Corporate Affairs at Glencore Marie-Chantal Kaninda was named Executive Director of the World Diamond Council (WDC) on March 1, 2017. Immediately prior to joining the WDC, she was the Chief Advisor for External Affairs, Africa at Rio Tinto Corporation, a position she held since 2012. Before joining Rio Tinto, [...]
Lassina Zerbo Executive Secretary of the CTBTO Lassina Zerbo is the Executive Secretary of the CTBTO, a position which he assumed on 1 August 2013. He previously served as Director of the organization’s International Data Centre (IDC). He is a national of Burkina Faso. Zerbo has been instrumental in cementing the CTBTO’s position as [...]
Serge Marie Z. N’Guessan Deputy Director-General, for West Africa, of the African Development Bank Serge is a citizen of Côte d’Ivoire and was until this appointment the Country Manager, Senegal Development and Business Delivery Office, for the African Development Bank since 2017. He brings into this role over 30 years of diversified experience in international [...]
Adama Sanfo CEO Wendkuni Bank , Burkina FasoAdama SANFO is a senior bank executive with over forty years of experience and expertise in the financial and banking field. He took his first steps in the banking world at the International Bank of Burkina where he brilliantly held various positions of responsibility from 1977 to 2003.His [...]
