• BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Date: 17th & 18th October 2016 Venue: Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan

Abdourahmane Cisse — Minister of Budget & Portfolio of State, Cote d’Ivoire

Abubakar Suleiman — Executive Director, Finance & Strategy, Sterling Bank, Nigeria

Adama Kone — Minister to the Prime Minister in charge of Economy & Finance, Cote d’Ivoire

Dr Andrew S. Nevin — Partner, FS Advisory Leader and Chief Economist, Project Blue Global co-Leader, PwC Nigeria

Antoine Traore — Director of Banking Activities and Economy Financing, Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)

Amelie Roux — Director, Sovereign Group, Fitch Ratings

Barthelemy Faye — Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, France

Bassary Toure — Vice President, Development Bank of West African States (BOAD)

Boubkeur Ajdir - Director of Operations in French speaking Countries, IFAAS Group

Rafe Haneef - Chief Executive Officer, CIMB Islamic Bank

Daniel Kablan Duncan — Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire

David Ekabouma — Deputy Head, Business Development / Head of Product & Structured Finance, The African Guarantee Fund

Edoh Kossi Amenounve — CEO, Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières SA (BRVM) Chairman, West African Capital Markets Integration Council

Essis Esmel Emmanuel — General Manager, Centre for Investment Promotion (CEPICI), Cote d’Ivoire

Fabrice Toka — Senior Director, Sub-Saharan Africa Business and Relationship Management, Fitch Ratings

Fadi Al Faqih — CEO, Bank of Khartoum, Sudan

Felister Kivisi — Director, Debt Management Office, The National Treasury, Kenya

Hassan Yusuf — CEO, International Bank of Somalia

Isaac De — President of the National PPP Committee, Cote d’Ivoire

Jean-Jacques Lecat — Partner and Co–head of the Africa Practice, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre

Jean Kacou Diagou — President, The General Association of Enterprises in Cote d’Ivoire (CGECI)

Khaled Al Aboodi — CEO, Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector

Kodeidja Diallo – Director of Private Sector Operations, African Development Bank

Madani M Tall — CEO, MMT Conseils & Strategies, Senegal 

Mahmud Hossain — Managing Director, Millennium Information Solution

Mohamed Damak — Director and Global Head of Islamic Finance, Standard & Poor’s 

Mohammad Raafi Hossain — CEO, Finocracy, the UAE

Mory Soumahoro — Secretary General, Conseil Régional d’Epargne Publique et des Marchés Financiers

Niale Kaba — Minister of Planning & Development, Cote d’Ivoire

Nida Raza — Director & Head of Advisory, Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector  

Ousmane Diagana — Vice President, Ethics & Chief Ethics Officer, the World Bank 

Patrick Achi — Minister of Economic Infrastructure, Cote d’Ivoire

Said Ben Afane Ibouroi — Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa – Corporate & Structured Finance Department, ITFC

Dr Sidi Ould Tah — Director General, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)

Souleymane Diarassouba — President, Professional Association of Banks and Financial Institutions of Cote d’Ivoire

Stanislas Zeze — Chairman and CEO, Bloomfield Investment Corporation

Sylvain Vieujot - Deputy Chairman, Emirates REIT, the UAE

Sylvie Sally Kinda Comopaore — Islamic Finance Project Manager, Groupe Coris Bank

Tiemoko Meyliet Kone — Governor, Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO)

Dr. Yakubu A. Umar — Special Adviser to the Governor on Islamic Finance, Central Bank of Nigeria