The School of Transnational Governance (STG) organises high-level lectures by leading experts addressing Africa's specific challenges. Speakers will cover a wide range of topics, including governance, peace and security, democracy, gender, digital policy, economics, sustainability, and migration.
This week, three African leaders join us to discuss trade and start-ups in the African continent.
Lucy Nshuti Mbabazi
Lucy Nshuti Mbabazi is the Head of Africa Advocacy and Partnerships of The Better Than Cash Alliance. This UN-hosted partnership of governments, companies, and international organisations works to accelarates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to reduce poverty and drive inclusive growth. Prior to joining the Better Than Cash Alliance, Nshuti worked for the Rwanda government, Visa Inc. and most recently led the Merchant Payments Business for Ecobank Transnational Inc. covering 33 African markets, based at the headquarters in Lomé, Togo.
Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho
Ms Nkemdelin Uwaje Begho is currently CEO of Future Software Resources Ltd. (Futuresoft), one of Nigeria’s leading digital and technology solutions companies. The company provides a broad range of solutions for the scaling African enterprise to consistently attract and retain its target audience, optimise its processes and increase its bottom line. Her entrepreneurial background, involvement in the global and pan-African Technology landscape and a focus on building the Nigerian Technology ecosystem through enabling policy development, investing, education and mentoring, affords her a deep understanding of cutting edge innovation, emerging and disruptive technologies, as well as access to a large network of technology leaders, policy makers and investors across the continent and globally. Nkemdilim has been recognised as an Obama African Leader, Forbes’s Top Ten Female Tech Founders in Africa, Global Digital Women top 10 Most Inspiring Women in Africa, Lionesses of Africa top 100 Women and Ventures Africa 42 most Innovative Africans.
Sam Gichuru
Sam Gichuru is Founder & CEO of Nailab, one of Kenya’ s leading business incubators. His contribution in establishing the startup business ecosystem in Kenya through Nailab has been significant and as a result was invited as a key speaker during the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), held in Nairobi and officiated by the then President of The United States, Barack Obama. Sam has been instrumental in propagating the set up of strong and vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystem and its through this engagement that he was most recently selected by Jack Ma to lead, through Nailab, the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative, a $10M Initiative that seeks to discover, spotlight and support 10 African entrepreneurs every year for the next 10 years.
The event is part of the Africa's Potential series, carried out at the School of Transnational Governance, as part of the Young African Leaders Programme (YALP) funded by the European Commission, and is open to the EUI community, YALP alumni and the YALP network.
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