The African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) and Responsible Business Consulting (RBC) invite you to Driving Africa's Development Through Sustainable Financing: The Role of Financial Institutions, taking place on 24 February 2022.
Building on two previous webinars under this series, this third dialogue seeks to engage with financial institutions and their role in driving Africa’s sustainable development.
WHERE: Register HERE to participate
Alain is the IFC portfolio manager for the Financial Institutions Group in Africa, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has prior to that been an IFC Principal Banking Specialist in the Global Financial Institutions Group, focusing on Africa.
Pre-IFC, Alain enjoyed a vast commercial banking experience across Africa, spanning over 20 years, most prominently within Citigroup and Standard Chartered group.
Alain also previously ran green-field banking operations in Africa as general manager.
Heidi is heading up the sustainable finance team at Absa CIB, based in Johannesburg. Her team is leveraging the bank’s strength as a leading African financial institution to channel financing into solutions that support inclusive growth and environmental protection across the continent.
Heidi has been working in banking since 2015 and has experience spanning retail and investment banking.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial engineering from the University of Pretoria and a Master’s degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge.
Mr. Mwangi Githaiga has served the Institution for over two decades and has risen through the ranks to Managing Director. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Strategic Management from Moi University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
He is a visionary leader who has made great strides in championing sustainable developmental growth initiatives in the Microfinance Industry especially by fostering financial inclusion to alleviate poverty for low income women and their families with an aim of uplifting their living standards.
Susan provides freelance/ independent consulting services to create and deliver tailored sustainability and communications solutions in: strategy, programme design, and implementation; capability building; stakeholder dialogue and partnerships; and reporting/evaluation to organisations that bring tangible value and contribute to building a responsible business landscape.
Prior to consulting, Susan was Head, Sustainability & Community Engagement, Standard Chartered Bank Kenya. Before this, she worked with Unilever as Head of Corporate Affairs & Sustainable Business, East Africa. Before that, she was with DHL Express as Head of Marketing & Communications East Africa.
She is currently completing an MSc. in Sustainable Development from SOAS University of London. She is a board member of the Association of Sustainability Practitioners Kenya.
Kudzai Gumunyu is an Agribusiness Finance expert with experience spanning Nigeria and Zimbabwe. He has been very innovative in introducing new Agribusiness finance products solving African challenges in inclusive banking through agency banking and digitally enabled Smallholder Mechanisation solutions.
Kudzai is an innovative Agribusiness banker who has introduced products that are helping in mechanization, digital, and Agritech solutions to agriculture, financial inclusion, and commodity trading in Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
Kudzai is also an Author and published his first book titled Hard Boiled Egg Index; Surviving Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation with LifeRich Publishing.
