Maria Fasli is a Professor of Computer Science and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health at the University of Essex, UK. She was the Head of School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) between 2009-2014 and the founding Director of the Institute for Analytics and Data Science at Essex between […]
Andreas Diacon is a Professor of Physiology and Principal Specialist in Pulmonology at the University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. He received his MD from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, in 1987, specialized in Internal Medicine and Pulmonology, and earned a PhD from Stellenbosch University in 2007. Andreas Diacon developed […]
A Founding Principal at Imaginable Futures, Teresa Mbagaya is responsible for the strategic leadership, management and execution of IF’s investment strategy in education in Africa. Previously as the Education Lead for Microsoft in East and Southern Africa, she led regional teams in the deployment and implementation of learning solutions and innovations across 10 countries. As […]
After working in audit and as a financial analyst at several banks, Sandrine Boucher joined PROPARCO in 1992 starting as project manager before becoming head of the Infrastructure division. In 2000, she was appointed as Senior Adviser to the Executive Director for France at the IMF and the World Bank. She joined Agence Française de Développement (AFD) […]
Michael Manirakiza is the Chief Operating Officer of Plendify Inc a financial technology company that enables small and medium businesses to find local suppliers and access financing. He is a leader with a 10+ of experience across banking, finance, asset management and business development. Michael has worked with Desjardins, Bank of Montreal and Edwards Jones […]
Andreata is a Partner at TLcom Capital LLP. TLcom is a venture capital firm based in Nairobi, Lagos and London, and has been investing since 1999 in innovative entrepreneurs leveraging technology to find market solutions to significant challenges. Andreata leads VC investments in early to growth stage tech-enabled businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa, from origination, investment […]
Sudip became the 19th chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals in January 2020. Parikh has spent two decades at the nexus of science, policy, and business. Immediately prior to joining AAAS, Parikh was senior vice president and managing director […]
Intan Hamdan-Livramento is an economist working in the Economics and Statistic Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She is responsible for conducting and supervising areas of the division’s work relating to the economics of innovation and intellectual property (IP), and is one of the four co-authors of the World Intellectual […]
Samuel Mensah is a Co-founder and the CEO of BACE Group, an avid software engineer who entered the software development space at the age of 13. With more than a decade of software development experience, as well as being a serial entrepreneur, he started the Python community at Ghana Technology University College in Ghana while studying […]
Arielle Kitio Tsamo, Founder and CEO of CAYSTI (accelerated within Orange Fab France), is the Margaret Prize 2019 winner, and has received from the Cameroonian government the National Award of Excellence for Youth—awarded to the best technology entrepreneur in Cameroon in 2018. She has also received the Norbert Segard Prize and the TechWomen Award 2016, […]