Pratibha leads The EIU’s Middle East and Africa team and is also the overall manager of the other regional teams. Pratibha has many years’ experience ensuring that The EIU’s forecasts and analysis for countries’ economies are closely integrated with our global macroeconomic outlook, with the analytical skills and the regional expertise required to diagnose problems and devise viable solutions. Pratibha has an MSc and a BSc in economics from the University of London. She also holds an MA in area studies from SOAS, University of London.

At the beginning of my professional  career, I held different positions at Planning, Controlling and  Operations departments. I am currently Group Treasury Director at MAXAM.

As Group Treasurer, and member of the Corporate Financial team, I am involved in the negotiation and allocation of the main Corporate Debt, in the origination or renewal of LT & ST financing facilities, covering Parent Company and subsidiaries’ funding needs, as well as trade financing, derivative & risks management, and cash management solutions together with Bank relationship management. My team also covers the management of the cash position of the subsidiaries and centralizes the back office for Spanish and some other European subsidiaries´ payments. We have undergone efficiency improvement projects (interface automation, RPAs, global communication project, among others)

I hold an Economics and Business Degree by ICADE, an MBA at IDE, PDD by ESADE, and have taken different Treasury and Capital Markets specialization courses at IEB.

Jan Beukes is the Group Treasurer for the MultiChoice Group and also manages the group’s insurance programs. Jan is a qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA) and holds a master’s degree in forensic accounting. He has close to 9 years multinational group treasury experience and held positions in M&A and internal audit during his 15-year professional career. The MultiChoice Group, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, is Africa’s leading entertainment company, who creates and secures phenomenal content from all over the world across 50 countries. Through Irdeto, they are also a world leader in digital platform security for video entertainment, video games, connected transport and IoT connected industries.”

Edward is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. His Corporate Treasury career spans over twenty five years including leading treasury teams at Rentokil Initial plc and Virgin Atlantic. In late 2017 Edward made the switch to the not for profit sector to lead the Treasury team at Save the Children International. Last year Save the Children worked in 122 countries reaching 45 million of some of the world’s most disadvantaged children.

Mirosha currently holds the position of Executive Director, Cluster Lead, Transaction Banking Sales for South and Southern Africa including responsibilities of Regional Corridor Lead (Africa) focusing on the Europe & Americas corridors.

Mirosha joined the bank in 2011 in the Brand and Marketing team with a focus on key initiatives across Africa and corridor opportunities for the region. She started her Transaction Banking career in 2015 and held several roles in two regions including Africa Regional Sales and Global Transaction Banker in the US and moved back to South Africa during the pandemic in 2020.

Mirosha is a qualified Chartered Marketer with a BCom Business Management and Marketing Degree and Honours level qualification from the Chartered Institution of Marketing in the UK. She completed her MBA through Henley (University of Reading UK) in 2017.

Franca Aeby has been working at Roche since 2014 where she first joined the Treasury back office department and has since then held various roles of increasing responsibility within Treasury as well as international assignments in Finance business partnering. Since 2017 she is working in Treasury Operations as a Senior Cash Manager, overseeing Middle East & Africa and is responsible for the Group’s short term liquidity planning. Franca Aeby holds a master degree (MSc) in business and economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

“I am a Leading the Angola Cables Finance department. I have more that 10 years in the finance area, with large experience in payment process and restructure the finance departme.

All over the year I have being developing the ways to pay and to balance the company treasury, by optimizing the process and always working in a proactive way to prevent any future situation.

I have a doble degree in Finance and managment, and also a Master in Strategy of Investment and Internationalization by ISG- Business School in Lisbon.”

Antti Kyyrö is a treasury, banking and corporate finance specialist with 15 years of experience in building and leading both global and regional treasury functions for large multinational corporations such as Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Bio-Rad Laboratories. In addition to his corporate treasury experience, he has worked in banking at Standard Chartered Bank, advising financial institutions and MNCs in their treasury strategy and operations development. During the past 20 years Antti has worked and studied in various countries in Europe and Asia including Finland, the UK, the Netherlands and Singapore. Currently he and his family are based in Zurich, Switzerland. Antti holds an M. Sc. in Financial Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a B. Sc. in Economics from the University of Kent.

Chigbo Enenmo is a seasoned finance professional with over 20 years of experience covering accounting and financial reporting, auditing, treasury management, planning and budgeting, finance operations, and business/project finance management.

Chigbo holds a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from University of Nigeria; a Master of Science degree in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London; and an MBA from Imperial College London. He is also a Chartered Accountant, with professional qualifications from ICAN Nigeria, ACCA UK, and CIMA UK.

He started his career at KPMG as an Auditor  in 2001 before moving to PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2003. He later joined TotalEnergies in 2003, where he worked as a Budget Analyst. In 2006, Chigbo joined Shell, where he has held various roles including Senior Regional Reporting Accountant at Shell EP Africa from 2006 to 2009; Head of Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable at Shell SNEPCO Nigeria from 2009 to 2011; Group Reporting Analyst at Shell Netherlands from 2012 to 2013; and Finance Manager (Wells/Exploration) and Finance Manager (Corporate) at Shell SPDC Nigeria between 2013 to 2019.

He was appointed Treasury Manager NLNG in 2019 at Nigeria LNG Limited as a secondee from Shell. He holds this position to date.

Chigbo is a two-time winner of the Treasury Today Adam Smith Award (2020 and 2022) for leading and delivering world-class business improvement projects.

Emmanuel is based in London and provides macroeconomic coverage of key markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Francophone SSA. Prior to joining the Bank in 2014, Emmanuel spent a year at the University of Ghana’s Department of Economics as a Teaching Assistant. He holds an MSc in finance and economics from the University of Warwick, and earned his Bachelor’s in economics and statistics from the University of Ghana. Emmanuel is a CFA charterholder.

Franca Aeby has been working at Roche since 2014 where she first joined the Treasury back office department and has since then held various roles of increasing responsibility within Treasury as well as international assignments in Finance business partnering. Since 2017 she is working in Treasury Operations as a Senior Cash Manager, overseeing Middle East & Africa and is responsible for the Group’s short term liquidity planning. Franca Aeby holds a master degree (MSc) in business and economics from the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Michael is a corporate and transactional banking professional with 15 years of experience across Sub-Saharan Africa in financial services covering strategy development, product management, sales and treasury advisory

For the past 7 years, Michael has led Treasury and Trade Solution sales for Corporate and Public Sector clients across East Africa in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.

He was recently appointed as the Global Solution Sales Lead in Sub-Saharan Africa where he is now responsible for treasury advisory for a portfolio of local and multinational corporate clients across their regional and global operations.

Prior to joining Citi in 2015, Michael held roles in transactional banking sales and product development working in Kenya and South Sudan for the Standard Bank Group

He also worked as a management consultant in Johannesburg for 5 years focused on turnaround and growth strategy, organizational design and transactional services.

Simon has over 30 years of experience in finance, treasury and transaction banking across both developed and emerging markets. Simon was previously Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank and lead the client management, product & marketing teams at the UK’s first cloud based infrastructure clearing bank.

Prior to joining ClearBank in 2019, Simon spent over 20 years at JPMorgan. During his time at the bank, he was responsible for treasury solutions in EMEA, supporting clients around the world. He was also Head of Corporate Sales in EMEA from 2012 to 2015 and Asia Regional Executive for Treasury Services from 2006 to 2010, based in Hong Kong.

Simon is actively involved in UK FinTech as a Mentor for TechStars Accelerator programme.