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Yves Speeckaert Belgium

Team Leader, Project Finance, Blended Finance and Green Assets

MBA UC Berkeley (USA), he has 25 years’ experience in management consulting in over 35 countries. Yves was director of KPMG Consulting Brazil and director of Structured Finance at Banca Intesa San Paolo. He also works as banker and Fund Director since 2010. He currently focuses on Green Asset financing, renewable energy and economic development projects in Asia, Africa and Latam.

Gustavo Dias Brazil

Head of financial engineering, Agri-business and Industry

Production Engineer, Fed Univ Rio de Janeiro. Gustavo has 25 years of management consulting experience, including 10 y with KPMG. Expert in project management and Business Process Re-engineering. Expertise in audit, due diligence and evaluation programme. Strong IT/ Telecom and production engineering. Recent focus on agricultural reform and agro-industrial projects, in Africa and Latam

Maxime Senecaut Evory Coast

Project & Structured Finance Advisor - Green & Sustainable Finance

M.Sc in Management with a major in Finance from Kedge Marseille Business School. Maxime is former Head of Project & Structured Finance at First Bank of Nigeria (UK) in London covering Energy, Infrastructure and Metals & Mining projects across Africa. He is a seasoned Corporate Finance professional and experienced business developer having held several senior management positions of companies across West Africa. He has an extensive exposure with African governments especially on PPP transactions and worked in +20 African countries over the past 15 years. Maxime was recently in charge of M&A and Business Development for Africa at GFG Alliance, a sustainable and green steel / aluminum / renewable energy conglomerate. Maxime also worked on several Green and Sustainable Bond Issuance projects.

Massandjé Kaba Evory Coast

Head of African Projects (Private Equity, Business Development)

Ex PwC and BDO auditor, she worked in investment banks such as Oddo & Cie and Broker Exane, BNP Paribas. She has 16 years of experience in business and consulting in the fields of banking and financial institutions, industries and services, oil and gas in the European and African markets. Currently implementing large programme with World Bank and the European Union in Africa.

Maïté Kolp Belgium Brazil

Private Equity and Impact Investments, Economic Development Consultant

M.Sc in Sustainability Sciences and Policy (U.Maastricht), B.Sc in Business Administration (ICHEC). Maïté focuses her work on economic development projects (sustainable agriculture, water access and sanitation, renewable energy and Circular Economy) mainly in Africa and Latin America. Specialised in green and climate assets projects, and ESI assessment. She has already worked with DFIs as on EU projects in Namibia and Guinea-Bissau.

Witold Sartorius

Witold Sartorius Germany

Team Leader, Project Manager and Senior Expert with M.A. (cum laude) in Economics, Spatial Planning (Geography) and Sociolog, from University of Heidelberg (Germany) with 2 years at University of Texas at Austin (USA). Witold has 30+ years of experience in public sector reforms, economic development planning, project financing & development in energy, climate, digitalization, sustainable (& medical) tourism. He successfully acquired public and private financing for numerous projects and supervised their implementation, with budgets of up to 25 million EUR when working in 23 African, Latin American, Asian and European (with focus on Balkans, Eastern Europe and Post Soviet space) countries. Witold has strong background on the Polish market and focuses on opportunities related to the coming huge recovery and reconstruction efforts in Ukraine. With long experience of working with International Organisations (UN, EU, WB, KfW, GIZ, SDC, SIDA, DFID, Polish Aid, USAID) and major private sector companies including MVV (Energy & Utilities), Donau Carbon (recycling), Alpinus (chemical technology company), Information and Communication Technology sector, including CISCO, Microsoft, Intel, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Fraunhofer Institute (Berlin) and Banks. He worked directly and advised in various countries 4 Deputy Prime Ministers, 2 EU Commissioners, numerous Government Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Heads of Regional Governments and Heads of Municipalities as well as CEOs and/or Country Managers of all big private companies mentioned above. Long experience in working with research and academic institutions, including the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Maxime Senecaut Evory Coast

Project & Structured Finance Advisor - Green & Sustainable Finance

M.Sc in Management with a major in Finance from Kedge Marseille Business School. Maxime is former Head of Project & Structured Finance at First Bank of Nigeria (UK) in London covering Energy, Infrastructure and Metals & Mining projects across Africa. He is a seasoned Corporate Finance professional and experienced business developer having held several senior management positions of companies across West Africa. He has an extensive exposure with African governments especially on PPP transactions and worked in +20 African countries over the past 15 years. Maxime was recently in charge of M&A and Business Development for Africa at GFG Alliance, a sustainable and green steel / aluminum / renewable energy conglomerate. Maxime also worked on several Green and Sustainable Bond Issuance projects.

Hub basis

Cédric Biart Belgium

Board member, African Funds and Bonds

Master in Business (UCL), he started working at General de Banque in the investment advisory division. In 1999 he joined Foyer Group, first as a wealth manager and later as Chief Investment Officer. He helped the UK-based asset manager Prosperity Capital to launch its first investment fund in Luxembourg . Over recent years Cedric has advised African Governments (DRC, Nigeria, Guinee) on structuring Green Bonds and forestry/ Energy related projects.

Clelia Campos Brazil

Head of Research & Development

Master in Nuclear Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo (USP). Clelia has worked on environmental and water treatment projects in Israel, Holland and Brazil. She later focused 15 years on organisation of large business Conference (Energy, Telecoms, banking;…). Now heads Research unit of EMERGY, in particular in Agriculture, Energy and Circular Economy

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