| 0 | Addalla Abdulkhalik CEO Gulf Africa Bank |
| 0 | Lanre Akinola Deputy Editor This is Africa |
| 0 | Wagner Albuquerque de Almeida Chief Credit Officer IFC |
| 0 | Caroline Anyanwu Executive Director, Risk Management & Control Diamond Bank Caroline Anyanwu is responsible for setting up and driving the Group Risk Management function in Diamond Bank Plc, Lagos Nigeria. Her career in banking began in 1988 in the Strategic Planning Unit of a third tier Commercial Bank and in the last 25 years she has held Senior Management positions in various job functions in Banking including Financial Control, Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Banking Operations, Business Process Redesign Credit Risk Management. She has worked in both 1st Africa Plc, Finbank Plc and Diamond Bank Plc. She became the Chief Risk Officer of Diamond Bank Plc Lagos Nigeria in February 2006. In September 2009, she was appointed by the Central Bank of Nigeria as Executive Director, Risk Management in Finbank Plc, one of the rescued banks. She returned back to Diamond Bank in May 2011 as Chief Risk Officer of Diamond Bank Plc. She has extensive experience in Financial Control, Banking Operations, Retail & Commercial Banking, Business Process Redesign and Risk Management. |
| 0 | Justine Bagyenda Executive Director Supervision Bank of Uganda Justine Bagyenda is an Executive Director in charge of the Directorate of Supervision at Bank of Uganda. She is a financial institutions’ specialist with 31 years experience in banks and non-banks supervision, corporate governance matters, restructuring and resolution of troubled financial institutions, financial analysis and policy formulation, implementation of risk management frameworks and risk-based supervision, prudential norms and practices. Her main responsibilities include regulation and supervision of all commercial banks and non-bank financial institutions in Uganda, formulating policy discussion papers on the banking industry issues, developing regulations and prudential guidelines, conducting awareness seminars to strengthen corporate governance in banks. She is also in charge of financial sector stability. She has been instrumental in conducting diagnostic and due diligence reviews of problem banks and has taken a lead role in resolving problem financial institutions and liquidating failed banks. She has acted as short-term IMF consultant for East AFRITAC Missions in the region. She has also been a speaker and discussant at various conferences and workshops organized by IFC, MEFMI, East AFRITAC, AFDB, DFID, World Bank, and IMF. She is currently the Chairperson of Uganda Anti-Money Laundering committee, a national committee affiliated to the regional East and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group. (ESAAMLG) ESAAMLG is composed of 14 member countries. |
| 0 | Ketki Bhagwati Chief Investment Officer & Global Program Head Fragile & Conflict States |
| 0 | Steven Buck Risk Manager IFC Steven Buck is a risk manager in IFC’s Risk & Portfolio Vice-Presidency, with specific responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management, Integrated Risk Reporting and Risk Appetite. In a 20-year career in investment banking, he has been head of Credit Portfolio Management and Economic Capital at two leading South African investment banks, and has also held positions as head of bond research and sales in both buy- and sell-side institutions. His career also includes Structured Finance and Treasury roles.
Before joining IFC, Mr Buck has been involved in consulting on projects encompassing Country Risk, Basel II/III, ICAAP, CPM and Counterparty Risk, in both South Africa and China. |
| 0 | Irma Coetzee Solution Director: Risk & Finance, Fin Services IBU EMEA ORACLE Irma Coetzee is the Solution Director for Enterprise Risk and Finance at Oracle in the Financial Services Industry.She joined Oracle in October 2006, heading up the Presales organisation for Financial Services Industry. Prior to joining Oracle,Ms Coetzee spent 8 years consulting on risk and finance transformation projects in the financial services industry and finance and procurement transformation in the telecommunications industry. Prior to that she practised as an attorney for four years.
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| 0 | Cassandra Colbert Resident Representative, Ivory Coast IFC Currently Resident Representative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for Cote d’Ivoire, Mrs. Colbert is a former bank examiner who has been with the IFC for over 15 years now. She spent her first years at IFC’s headquarters covering South America before transferring to IFC’s field office in Guatemala to oversee IFC’s business development in Central America. Upon return to IFC’s headquarters in 2002, she worked in the manufacturing division, covering a wide variety of sectors, and working in projects in Latin America, East Asia and Southern Europe. For the last 8 years, she has been with IFC Africa, first in Johannesburg, then covering Francophone West Africa out of Ghana. Prior to her current position as Representative for IFC in Cote d’Ivoire, she was Principal Investment Officer in charge of IFC’s business development in the Financial Markets and Extractive Industries sectors in Central Africa. |
| Roland Coulon CEO Access Bank Tanzania Roland Coulon joined LFS Financial Systems in 2010 as Senior Consultant, and since October 2011 has served as Chief Executive Officer of AccessBank Tanzania. LFS is the technical partner of AccessHolding, responsible for establishing new AccessBanks and managing the existing institutions. Under Mr Coulon's leadership the bank has almost tripled its asset base (USD 33m to USD 92m) and loan portfolio (USD 19m to USD 55m) while moving from a loss making institution (-USD 480k pre-tax) into a comfortably profit making bank (USD 1.7m pre-tax and before audit). Before this appointment, he served for one year as Business & Risk Manager in charge of implementing SME loans and financial control at AB Microfinance Bank Nigeria. Prior to joining LFS, he worked for three years as a senior consultant with MicroCred, PlaNet Finance group, specialised in greenfield microfinance, in Nigeria and Madagascar, and for four years as a senior strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little, a major international consulting firm with a focus on strategy, organization and investments. Mr Coulon is an engineer, and speaks French, English and Spanish. | |
| David Crush Manager for Access to Finance Advisory Services in Sub-Saharan Africa IFC David Crush has been in the World Bank Group since 2009, first as part of the World Bank’s Innovative Finance team in Washington DC working with the Global Fund, GAVI and the IFFIm. He moved to the IFC in 2011 where he has been helping build an Access to Finance Advisory team in Sub Saharan Africa with team members located in Dakar, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Prior to the World Bank Mr Crush worked (from 1991 to 2009) for the European Investment Bank, the EU’s development finance institution, in the UK (on financing PPPs) as well as in the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Department, first as Investment Officer on a range of countries in sub-Saharan Africa and then from 2003 to 2009 as Head of the Caribbean and Pacific Division overseeing investments in infrastructure (including renewable energy) as well as financial sector operations (SMEs, microfinance) through a diverse set of funding structures (equity, loans, guarantees and concession based PPP initiatives). From 1985 to 1991 he worked for Barclays Bank in the UK as Senior Economist for Africa and then as a Manager in the Sovereign Lending department. He began his career with the UK Government working at the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire . | |
| 0 | Joe DiVanna Managing Director Maris Strategies Limited Joseph DiVanna is the Managing Director of Maris Strategies Limited, an innovation research and advisory think-tank. Joe’s insight on twenty-first century business centres on the premise that in order to be competitive, all businesses must have a strong value proposition that is memorable, credible, demonstrable, measurable and actionable.
DiVanna researches the nature, behaviour and value propositions of business. He has helped organisations to rethink financial services, redefine entertainment and media production, streamline manufacturing operations, reduce pharmaceutical development time, improve customer service in electric utilities, maximise heating oil delivery routes, revitalise specialty steel production, optimize chemical production processes, and redesign beverage distribution.
Mr DiVanna is the author of the annual Top 500 Islamic Banks supplement issue of The Banker Magazine, and contributor to many other international publications of the Financial Times family. He has recently helped the African Banking Corporation develop its brand strategy in Southern Africa and Barclays Bank, Ghana, develop a strategy for promoting affordable housing in Ghana. He has delivered banking programmes, workshops, masterclasses and live-project work throughout the Middle East and South East Asia, on both traditional and Islamic Banking and Finance. He works with a dozen Chinese banks including The Bank of China, Bank of China Hong Kong, China Merchants Bank, the Industrial Bank of China, Shanghai Pudong Bank, Bohai Bank, Citic Bank, and many others, on the strategic challenges that they face, and advises two dozen other global banks on matters as diverse as electronic payments, innovation, strategy, product portfolio management, channel management and others. His 5-day C-level MBA programme, his R@pid Research Methodology, and his bespoke assessment tools are used by many clients worldwide, in industries as varied as banking and finance, technology, manufacturing, government and retail.
Joe is Faculty member at The Møller Centre, Churchill College, Executive Education Programmes, and at Duke Corporate Education (CE). He is an advisor to the Centre for Risk Studies at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
He also teaches at universities worldwide, including London, Dubai, Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Bali, Johannesburgh, Paris, Vienna, Lisbon, Athens, New York, Boston, and many other international locations.
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| 0 | Andries Du Toit Group Treasurer FirstRand Banking Group |
| Godwin Ehigiamusoe CEO LAPO Microfinance Bank Godwin Ehigiamusoe founded LAPO, a successful a pro-poor development organization with microfinance operations in Nigeria and Sierra Leone, in the late 1980s. He led the transformation of the MFI into regulated microfinance bank in 2010.
In 2006, he led LAPO to win the Grameen Foundation’s award for Excellence in Microfinance. In 2008 and 2010, he won the FATE Foundation’s Model Entrepreneur Award and Professor Schwab Foundation’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneur for Africa Award respectively.
Mr Ehigiamusoe holds first and second degrees in Sociology and Development Studies respectively from the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. Mr. Ehigiamusoe has authored Understanding NGOs and Poverty and Microfinance in Nigeria (2000) and Issues in Microfinance: Enhancing Financial Inclusion (2011). | |
| Hassan El Basri Managing Director and Head of Risk Management Group Banques Populaire (Morocco) In 1983, Mr El Basri joined the body of the General Finance Inspection where he undertook several audit missions on Administrations and public enterprises. He returned later, to the Budget Department where he was responsible for financing public projects.
In 1993, Mr El Basri was appointed chief of the Division of Credit institutions - banks and finance companies - in the Treasury Department, where he contributed to the modernization of the sector through its liberalization and the establishment of its new governance standards. In 2001, Mr El Basri joined the Banque Populaire Group of Morocco, a leader of the Moroccan banking sector, where he held the position of Deputy General Manager in charge of the Reformation and Sociétariat. He was then appointed Deputy Managing Director in charge of Production and Resources Department and then General Manager for Development of the Group. Currently, Mr El Basri is General Manager of Risk Group where he oversees the Departments of Risk Management, Remedial Management, Credit and the Legal and Compliance.
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| 0 | Talal El Bellaj Global Risk Management Manager Attijariwafa Bank Group |
| Cameron Evans Principal Financial Officer, Global Risk Management Advisory IFC Cameron Evans is a Principal Financial Officer with the IFC Global Risk Management Advisory team. He is based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and provides technical expertise to support regional projects with financial institutions on risk management. He joined IFC in 2010 and has worked with financial institutions in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. He also leads the IFC’s global knowledge management program and product tool development in the area of risk management. Before joining IFC, Mr Evans was a Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers providing consulting advisory services in financial risk management to banks in the Asian region from 2007. Prior to this, he worked for 17 years in the Australian financial services industry and held several senior executive positions in the areas of treasury, risk and capital management, mainly with the National Australia Bank and ANZ Banking Group. He specialises in the areas of treasury, liquidity, ALM, capital, risk management and Basel framework requirements. | |
| 0 | Gavin Jones Group Head of Treasury African Bank Limited Gavin Jones is Executive: Capital, Funding and Treasury at African Bank Limited After holding various senior positions in the Tax Division at Arthur Andersen Inc over a five year period, in 1995 Gavin co-founded a financial services company, Mettle Limited, and was deeply involved in growing and running that operation before leaving in 2007 to manage his own investments, as well as providing certain consulting services to Deloitte. Mr Jones joined ABIL in May 2009 to manage the liabilities side of the group balance sheet. In that capacity, he heads up the group treasury and all funding, liquidity and derivative activities for the group. He is a member of the Executive Committee of African Bank and the group ALCO and represents the bank in various forums of the Banking Association of SA. He also sits on the executive committee of the South African Debt Issuers Association. |
| 0 | Athu Karume Regional Director First Access Tanzania Athu Karume is responsible for the management of First Access Tanzania Limited and all, First Access operations throughout East Africa. With over a decade of strategic business development experience, Mr Karume co-founded Infinit Group, an IT and market advisory services firm in Dar es Salaam, where he played a key role in defining the company's strategy, growing revenues and building alliances worldwide. Prior to his return to Tanzania, Mr Karume rose through the ranks for eight years at Thomson Reuters as a Corporate Advisory Director, heading its Corporate Advisory business in the Brussels office and providing European market intelligence to US corporate clients. Deeply committed to giving back to his community, Mr Karume has organized charity events for local populations in Tanzania and Zanzibar. He has multiple years of professional and academic experience in Brussels, London, New York and Boston. |
| Saadia Khairi Vice President and Chief Risk Officer IFC Saadia Khairi is IFC’s Vice President, Risk Management and Portfolio, and a member of the Management Team. As the Chief Risk Officer of the Corporation, she provides leadership to IFC’s Investment and Credit Review, Special Operations, Integrated Risk Management, Portfolio and Operational Risk, and Regional Risk Management teams across IFC’s three regional vice-presidencies. A dual citizen of Pakistan and the United Kingdom, Ms Khairi is a seasoned executive with a diverse career background in risk, banking, capital markets, project finance, and private equity.Prior to Joining the World Bank Group, she was Senior Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Manara Equity Partners, a private equity fund manager based in Bahrain. Before that, she spent more than 23 years with Citibank and Citigroup in London, New York, Karachi, Hong Kong, and Dubai. At Citigroup, Ms Khairi was responsible for a number of innovative project financing deals, including Pakistan’s landmark Hub Power Project, which in 1994, was the first to use the World Bank’s Partial Risk Guarantee under the Enhanced Co-financing Operation. Under her leadership, Citigroup’s Asia-Pacific project finance and structured trade team completed 77 financing or advisory projects with a total value of $42 billion, winning 51 deal awards across the region. Ms Khairi also held several senior positions in Citigroup’s Risk Management Group, including Head of the Global Structured Portfolio Management teams covering Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Subsequently, she established and led the Risk Management Group for Underwriting, Distribution, Conflicts, and Structured Products for the Asia Pacific region. | |
| 0 | Martin Kimmig Chief Risk Officer, Africa IFC |
| 0 | Rose Kinuthia Chief Risk Officer KCB Group Rose Kinuthia is the Chief Risk Officer of the KCB Group, which is Eastern Africa’s largest banking group. Rose has over 20 years’ experience in banking and 10 years in executive management. Appointed as the first CRO in the East African regional market, she developed and established enterprise-wide group risk management for the KCB Group and pioneered change through establishment of state of the art risk management systems and credit management practices. Rose holds a Master of Science Degree in Risk Management from New York University Stern School of Business, an MBA degree from Adelphi University in New York, in Banking and Financial Markets and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and French from the University of Nairobi. Rose has extensive banking experience and previously worked for Barclays Bank and the First National bank of Chicago. |
| 0 | Alex Kwiatkowski Head, Financial Insights Europe IDC Alex Kwiatkowski is responsible for IDC Financial Insights' advisory and consulting services in EMEA. His research concentrates on the technologies used by banking institutions, with particular focus on omni-channel interaction, core systems transformation, BI and analytics, payments and application architecture strategies. Before joining IDC in February 2011, Kwiatkowski spent 4 years as a Principal Analyst in Ovum's Financial Services Technology practice. Prior to this he worked as a senior manager within Lloyds TSB's Business Delivery team, and was closely involved in major modernization programs for the core and online banking systems. Between September 2000 and December 2004, he was an integral member of Ovum's consulting group, working on client-specific projects for enterprise end-users, technology vendors, service providers and public sector bodies, as well as contributing to several of Ovum’s analyst advisory services. Kwiatkowski joined Ovum from Vodafone, where he served in a variety of roles between 1995 and 2000. |
| 0 | Steve Kyerematen Chief Executive Officer Activa International Insurance |
| Frank Lenisa Director Compuscan Frank Lenisa is the Marketing Director of Compuscan, an established full service credit bureau. He joined the company in 1996, only two years after its establishment, after holding various positions in the advertising industry. Currently he is responsible for a range of functions within the company including: Marketing, Strategy Planning and Development, General Management and Skills Training Development. His 16 years of experience in the credit industry has equipped him with several areas of competence, making him a frequent guest speaker at industry events. He has a profound knowledge base in the areas of Credit bureaus; credit risk management and business management. | |
| 0 | Tony Lythgoe Manager, Financial Infrastructure IFC |
| 0 | Augustine Makhoni Senior Manager Accenture |
| Neil Maree Assistant General Manager: Risk Division South African Reserve Bank Neil Maree is a qualified Chartered Accountant who completed articles at Ernst & Young and stayed on in their Financial Services Unit, auditing banks. He moved to Standard Bank, where he was responsible for Basel II implementation. He later headed up the Risk & Capital team, including stress testing and economic capital. He has worked for BSD for almost four years, focusing on capital management (ICAAPs), operational risk and heading up a team of quants.He is responsible for the Basel III capital implementation and capital framework in BSD. Mr Maree is a member of a number of Basel sub-committees representing South Africa. | |
| 0 | Paolo Martelli Director Latin. America and the Caribbean IFC |
| 0 | Biyi Olagbami Chief Risk Officer Fidelity Group Biyi Olagbami Chief Risk Officer of Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited where he leads the transformation of the risk management function to support the Bank’s vision of becoming a world class financial institution. In over 20 years of banking (15+ years in risk management); he has garnered experience across the enterprise risk spectrum (credit, compliance, market, liquidity, operations etc.), financial institutions (local, foreign and international) industry and business sectors (multinationals, local corporate, SME, commercial, retail and consumer) and geographies (Nigeria, West, Central and North Africa). He commenced his banking career in the early 1990’s in Citibank, Lagos, Nigeria; as a Management Associate. After various assignments in the Operations Group, he moved to the Risk Management Group where he held various positions viz. Compliance Officer, Fraud Risk Officer, Operational Risk Manager, Senior Credit & Risk Analyst and Country Portfolio Manager. He left Citigroup in 2005 as the Country Risk Manager for Central Africa, based in Cameroon. He subsequently held various senior positions in local and international banks; including Bank PHB/Keystone Bank where, as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, he led the re-engineering of the risk management function through the period of the intervention and subsequent nationalisation of the Bank by the banking regulators in Nigeria. |
| 0 | Yusuf Omari Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director Barclays Bank of Kenya Yusuf Omari joined Barclays Bank of Kenya in 2004 from Audit Firm, KPMG. He worked as the Head of Internal Audit & then as Head of Compliance before his appointment as the Chief Financial Officer in 2009. He is a qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA) as well as a Certified Internal Auditor. He holds an MBA from Strathmore Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Nairobi. He is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) & Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). |
| 0 | Juma Reli Deputy Governor Bank of Tanzania |
| 0 | James Scriven Director of Global Financial Markets IFC |
| Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder Vice President and Chief Risk Officer World Bank Group Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder was appointed Vice President and Chief Risk Officer for the World Bank Group with effect from February 17, 2014. During this period of transition, she continues her duties as Chief Financial Officer and Director, Finance and Risk at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group. Shyam-Sunder was one of the key contributors to the MIGA/IBRD Exposure Exchange Agreement in the World Bank Group and was responsible for strengthening and enhancing the finance, risk, resource management, IT, and control functions in MIGA. Prior to joining MIGA in March 2011, Lakshmi worked at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) also part of the World Bank Group, where she held a variety of positions. As Director for Corporate Risk Management, she led the development of a new Client Risk Management Advisory Service function for IFC and the creation of the International Financial Institutions Risk Consortium. Before that, Shyam-Sunder was Director of IFC's Risk Management and Financial Policy Department where she developed IFC's integrated economic capital and pricing framework and had responsibility for all financial risks arising from business, portfolio, and treasury activities as well as managing rating-agency issues. She was also Co-Chair of IFC's New Products Assessment Group. Shyam-Sunder has consulted for a wide range of public and private sector institutions in the United States and in emerging markets. Before joining IFC, Shyam-Sunder was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management where she received her doctorate in finance. Shyam-Sunder also holds a master’s of business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. | |
| 0 | Peer Stein Director, Access to Finance IFC Peer Stein is the Director for IFC’s advisory work in Access to Finance (A2F). In this function, he is overseeing and supporting IFC’s technical assistance and advisory services in financial markets world-wide, including SME banking, credit reporting, housing finance, mobile banking, microfinance, and energy efficiency finance. As of May 31 2013, we had an active portfolio of 246 access to finance projects in 79 countries. Mr Stein has also been leading IFC's engagement with the G20 on financial inclusion. He joined IFC in 1996, and has worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe on both the investment and advisory side of IFC. Prior to joining IFC, Mr Stein worked in Germany as a management consultant in enterprise restructuring, and as a partner in a strategic market research firm covering Eastern Europe. He is currently also teaching at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS financial sector reform and development. |
| 0 | Rob Wade Associate Director, Financial Risk Management KPMG Rob Wade joined Barclays International Bank in Bulawayo Zimbabwe 1970, where he was trained in many aspects of retail banking at branch level. I also worked in their Trust and Administration services dealing with deceased estates and Trusts. He started in the foreign exchange division in 1979 in South Africa and was trained as a dealer in Barclay’s London office for 2 years , returning to South Africa to build up a trading team for the bank.He served as Assistant Treasurer before being posted to First National Bank’s newly acquired merchant bank, Henry Ansbacher and Co. as Director and Head of Treasury. After closing the last bank he worked for (de-registered, cleaned the balance sheet up and sold the company) Mr Wade started consulting in a private capacity undertaking work in South Africa, Africa and the Middle East. His key areas of focus were Treasury, Risk Management, Corporate Governance and training (treasury products). He joined KPMG in 2008 and has undertaken projects in a number of African countries (specifically in Basel ll and lll implementation) , Middle East and S. Africa. He was also seconded to Telkom SA for 2 years as Acting Executive Treasury. |
| 0 | Nahashon Wamugi Head, Corporate Credit Analysis Co-operative Bank of Kenya |
| Ian Weetman Manager for Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa IFC Ian Weetman is IFC’s Manager for Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is based in Johannesburg. He heads a team of 40 responsible for developing IFC’s portfolio of equity, debt and other risk products with existing and new clients in the region. IFC currently has a portfolio in excess of $2.8bn with over 150 financial institution clients in the region. Before moving to South Africa he was a Principal Banking Specialist based in the IFC Mexico City Office. He was involved in transaction and portfolio management work in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining IFC, Mr Weetman had 25 years financial sector experience in corporate banking, private equity, investment banking, leasing and trade finance. He worked with HSBC and CDC Group in numerous postings in London, New York and Latin America. | |
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