Bertha Tobias

Known for her razor-sharpeloquence, unyielding drive and professional versatility, international award winningspeaker, MC and youth leader Bertha Tobias has wide-reaching experience instrategic socio-political relations and youth development. She is a graduate of the United World College Changshu China, and is currently pursuing an International Relations and Economics dual majorat Claremont Mckenna College, a leading private […]

Dr. Edward Mabaya

Dr. Ed Mabaya is a scholar and a development practitioner with more than two decades of experience working on development, agribusiness value chains and food security issues with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Global Development where his teaching, research and outreach work focuses on […]

Omar Ben Yedder

Group Publisher and Managing Director “Our group has a passion for Africa and the benchmarks we are trying to establish within the group are to report Africa with professional excellence and deep historical as well as cultural insight; and to present a balanced analytical foresight of its future. We aim to do our best consistently and […]

Mmabatho Maboya

Mmabatho Maboya is the current Chief Executive Officer of Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation. Mmabatho joined the Foundation in 2015 as its Strategy and Partnerships Executive. She managed key processes that enabled the Foundation to meaningfully respond to its development partners and beneficiaries. Mmabatho is an experienced communications and stakeholder relations professional with strong capabilities to link […]

Tabitha Mpamira

A therapist, activist, motivational speaker, and consultant on sexual and gender-based violence, she founded EDJA to provide free medical, legal, and mental health services to survivors of sexual assault in East Africa. EDJA, now a program under Nyaka Global in Southwestern Uganda, supports hundreds of survivors and brings perpetrators to justice. She was recognized by […]

Farid Fezoua

With a career spanning almost 28 years, Farid Fezoua has been leading GE Healthcare’s business growth in Africa since 2012. He has led the development of major large-scale modernization programs with public and private sector project development/partnerships across Africa. Farid joined GE in 2003 to lead customer financing efforts for GE Healthcare’s Middle East, Africa […]

Michele Pisetta

Forester by education, I specialized in plant physiology to work as an agronomist in plantations in Georgia, Chile, South Africa and Australia supporting in managing operations on the ground and field research. Worked in sustainability in the food sector for 12 years. I joined Philip Morris in 2019 in the Leaf Sustainable Agriculture team where […]