Archives: Speakers

James Mwangi
James Mwangi CEO, Equity Bank, Kenya Biography Bio
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Ann Cairns
Ann Cairns Vice Chairman, Mastercard, UK Linkedin Biography Bio
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Mahesh Uttamchandani
Mahesh Uttamchandani World Bank, USA LinkedIn Biography Bio
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Akinwumi Adesina
Akinwumi Adesina President, African Development Bank, Cote D’Ivoire LinkedIn Biography Bio
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Kim Wahl
Kim Wahl Chairman and Co-founder, Voxtra Foundation LinkedIn Biography Owner and Chairman of the investment firm Stromstangen AS since 2004. Chairman and Co-founder of the Voxtra Foundation in Norway from 2008; impact investment fund with focus on the agri-sector in East Africa. Deputy Chairman and co-founder of the European private equity firm IK Investment Partners...
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Deepak Malik
Deepak Malik CEO, Arise, South Africa LinkedIn Biography Deepak, who is currently the CEO of Arise has extensive experience and knowledge in the investment and financial services sector in Africa. He joined Norfund as an Investment Director in 2003, where he was instrumental in promoting Norwegian investments in Southern Africa and the region. He also...
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Anita Krohn Traaseth
Anita Krohn Traaseth Innovation Norway Linkedin Biography Anita Krohn Traaseth (47) is former CEO of Innovation Norway (IN). She now works as an adviser to acting CEO in IN until her notice period is over. IN is the Norwegian Government's most important instrument for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry. Prior she was...
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Drew Propson
Drew Propson Financial services Director, World Economic Forum LinkedIn Biography Drew Propson leads initiatives on digital finance at the World Economic Forum. Her work focuses on building multi-industry and multi-sector partnerships to drive strategic digital transformation of financial services. Drew’s current portfolio of projects explores expanding digital payments to advance SME financing, trade, supply chain...
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Sofie Blakstad
Sofie Blakstad CEO, Hiveonline, Denmark LinkedIn Biography Following an early career in publishing and marketing, Sofie taught herself programming and business design, and subsequently spent most of her career building banks, including the first online bank for UBS. Having worked for eight major international banks in everything from IT infrastructure delivery to business transformation, run...
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