Jean Philippe PROSPER has been consecutively the IFC Vice President of Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean and the IFC Vice President of Global Clients services from 2013 to 2015.

Between 2008 and 2013, Prosper held the positions of IFC Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and IFC Director for Eastern and Southern Africa. During his tenure with the Africa department, IFC’s investment grew from $140 million in fiscal year 2003 to $4 billion in fiscal year 2012. Prosper has been recognized for his leadership skills at IFC.

He received the Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Award and the Good Manager Award, two of the most prestigious awards of the World Bank Group. Before joining IFC, Prosper was the Regional Coordinator for Mexico, the Andean Countries, Central America, and Panama for the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Between 1986 and 1990, he worked at SOFIHDES, a private development finance company in Haiti, where he became Managing Director. During this period, Prosper was also a professor of mathematics, statistics, and managerial & corporate finance at the State University of Haiti.

In the early 1980's, he worked as Advisor to the Minister of Haiti on Financial, Economic, and Industrial Affairs. In addition, Prosper sits on several Corporate Boards as independent Director. Prosper holds a degree in Mathematics and Civil Engineering and an MBA in Corporate Finance and Monetary Economics. A Haitian national, he is fluent in Creole, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Kiswahili.

Darren is the co-founder of 337 Frontier Capital, one of the largest institutional investors across Africa, and has been involved in frontier markets for 14 years. Prior to founding 337 Frontier Capital, Darren worked for The Rock Creek Group and helped established the Kimberlite Frontier Africa Strategy.

Previous to Rock Creek, he spent three years investing in Frontier Africa at Ashmore Equities Investment Management (US) LLC, where he was as a Co-Portfolio Manager for the Africa Emerging Markets Fund.

Prior to joining Ashmore, Darren spent five years in Dubai researching Middle East and North African stocks for Credit Agricole Chevreux as their Head of Research, Economist & Strategist.

Darren began his career as an investment banker with CIBC World Markets in Toronto. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Bishop’s University in Canada and is a CFA charter holder.

Sonia is a Rwandan business executive with a career in Finance, Human Resources and General Management spanning over 25 years. Throughout her career, she has served in Senior Management Finance and Executive Human Resources roles for Bralirwa Plc, the Heineken operating Company in Rwanda.

During her tenure as Human Resources Director of Bralirwa ( 2009-2017), Sonia successfully led the People and Organizational agenda which was required to support the Company evolvement from an earlier dominant position in the market to a competitive and consumer facing Company. Changes made involved restructuring the Organization across all departments, developing functional, managerial and leadership capabilities within the Organization as well as equipping employees with needed behaviors required to win as a Business. Furthermore, during the same period, despite an increasing scarcity for talents in Rwanda and outside, Bralirwa was able to sustain its position of “Employer of choice” and attract and hire talented professionals at junior, middle and senior levels while also keeping good engagement levels within the Organization. Alsoas a member of Bralirwa Executive committee, she played an important and valued advisory role.

Sonia is currently a business leader in the coffee and tourism sectors in Rwanda, a mentor and a certified professional independent coach providing Executive coaching and facilitation services through Breakfast Club Africa, a Panafrican CEO membership organization which was created with a singular purpose of helping heads of organizations to become better leaders, thus benefitting their organizations and employees. BCA has presence in multiple African countries including Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and a vision for further expansion to the entire African continent

Furthermore, Sonia belongs to various professional membership organizations including the International Women Coffee Alliance(Rwanda Chapter), the Rwanda Tourism and Travel Association(RTTA), the Rwanda Hospitality Association(RHA), the African Women Entrepreneurship Program(AWEP) and the Rotary International(RI). She also serves on the General Assembly of SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda and is a former board member of the Rwanda National Labor Council.

Sonia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Administration from the University of Burundi and Executive Education from INSEAD , IMD, London Business School and Harvard Business School.

She is fluent in Kinyarwanda, French and English.

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Roselyne has been working in the financial sector for more than fifteen years, focusing on Inclusive Finance and Digital inclusion to “leave no one behind”. She specialized in projects management where she implemented various complex projects contributing to the improvement of the livelihood and financial health of marginalized people: women, youth, refugees, and people with disabilities through access to and usage of appropriate and customized financial and non-financial services and products.

Currently, working as the Program Specialist, IDE Country lead at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), implementing the program of Inclusive Digital Economy contributing to SDG 1,5,8 and 17. Previously she worked as the Head of Microfinance at Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR), a not-for-profit multi-donor funded company (DFID, MasterCard Foundation, USAID) with a mandate to stimulate the Microfinance Sector Development.

She also worked for the second largest Commercial Bank in Rwanda, I&M Bank Plc. She was also a board member of a Network of six countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Ethiopia) supporting access to finance to saving groups.

Roselyne holds an MBA in Project Management from Maastricht School of Management (MsM); she is a certified trainer by the House of Training Luxembourg that funded the 1st Rwandan Academy of Finance (RAF) and an Alumni from Harvard Kennedy School on rethinking financial inclusion.

She is fluent in Kinyarwanda, French and English.

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Mr. Francis is a professional Economist, and graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Windsor University in Canada & Makerere University in Uganda.

He has a long public service background, always at the intersection of the private & public sector, aligning private investments with public policy objectives.

This includes his current role as a senior economic & policy advisor to the President, and previously as CEO at Rwanda Mines, Petroleum & Gas Board (RMB), as well as Rwanda Development Board (RDB).

Achumile ' Ace' Majija is currently the Chief Executive in charge of Commercial , Operations and Strategy across Africa for Prudential. Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive for Strategic Initiatives and Market Growth for Prudential Anglophone Markets, after serving as CEO for Prudential in Uganda.

Prior to this, he was a Chief Executive for Retail, Corporate and Strategy for the Francophone markets. Achumile has worked in Ghana as Chief Commercial Officer, Chief of Staff in Poland; and also looked after Risk, Compliance, Operations and Governance when we established our Africa operations.

He has also worked for Old Mutual Investment Group (Manager Research in hedge funds and alternative investments) and Sanlam Investment Management (Investment Operations and Strategy) in South Africa. Since joining Prudential, he has worked in London, Poland, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Uganda.

Ace has a Bcom in Economics and Finance (UPE), BCom Honours in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management (UCT) and an MBA degree (University of Leeds). He has interests in leadership development, economics, politics, youth development and globalization. Ace serves on the Boards of Computershare pty (ltd) and BK Group Plc. He is a member of the YPO, was named a Young Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Choiseul 100 Laureate, Rising Star for the SA Chamber of Commerce in the UK, 200 Young Influential South Africans by the Mail and Guardian, 13 Young African Economic and Business Leaders, Top 50 Most Young South Africans by Avance Media, and a Leader of Tomorrow for the Crans Montana Forum.

He believes in giving back to the less fortunate, making a difference to change society and making it a better place for all. He is passionate about financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship, youth development and empowerment. He has a keen interest in economics and politics.

He is a past recipient of the Vodacom Scholarship, Baden-Wuerttemberg Scholarship to study in Germany, and the Sir Abe Bailey Trust Scholarship for the UK , University Medal of Excellence for Academics and Leadership (NMMU) and the Prestigious Chevening Scholarship from the British Council.