Eme has served as Country Manager for IFC’s Nigeria since late 2014. As Country Manager, Eme oversees all of IFC’s investment and advisory activities in Nigeria. Eme first joined IFC in Washington in 1999 where she worked in the Oil, Gas & Chemicals Department. She then moved to the Nairobi office, where she developed and processed business leads for a range of sectors and served on the advisory and executive boards of IFC investee private equity funds and microfinance institutions in the East Africa region. She transitioned to advisory where, while based in Dakar, she took on oversight of an Africa-wide portfolio of SME investment and capacity building projects. Eme left IFC in 2011 to join the Rockefeller Foundation’s Africa Regional Office in Nairobi where she supported the development and execution of several initiatives, including youth employment and impact investing. She rejoins IFC at a time of significant growth of IFC’s investments in Nigeria.

Adebanji is a consummate business advisor with over 22 years professional work experience of providing value adding financial control, financial statement assurance, sound internal controls and business advisory services in the Financial services and Consumer Markets. Experience gained in Big 4 environment (PricewaterhouseCoopers & Arthur Andersen now KPMG in Nigeria and within Industry (Lead Bank Plc and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Nigeria).

Seyi Kumapayi is the Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Access Bank Plc. with 22 years of progressive experience in finance, risk management and strategy. He joined Access Bank in 2002 as the Head of Financial Control and Credit Risk Management. In this role, he contributed significantly to the transformation of the Bank from an obscure institution to the leading bank in Nigeria. Oluseyi is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lagos, and a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, and a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), and the Charted Institution of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN). Kumapayi is also a board member of the Financial Reporting Council IFRS Academy.

Mr. Avuru is a co-founder of Seplat and became CEO on 1 May 2010. A geologist by background, Mr. Avuru spent 12 years at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, where he held various positions including Well Site Geologist, Production Seismologist and Reservoir Engineer. In 1992, he joined Allied Energy Resources in Nigeria, a pioneer deep water operator, where he served as Exploration Manager and Technical Manager. In 2002, Mr. Avuru established Platform Petroleum Ltd and held the role of Managing Director until 2010, when he left to take up the CEO position at Seplat.

Sylvia Chahonyo is the Country Manager for South Africa and Head of Relationship Management in Africa with dual responsibility for the management and expansion strategies of the commercial and geographic franchise on the continent, and for driving sector coverage across the fundamental franchises in Africa. She has an LLB (Hons) from the University of East Anglia, Norwich and is admitted as an Advocate in the High Court of Kenya.

Sean is responsible for Moody’s analytic teams that rate banks and nonbank financial companies in the Nordics, Baltics, South-Eastern Europe and emerging markets in Middle East and Africa. Prior to relocating to London in 2011, Mr. Marion held various positions of progressive responsibility in Moody’s, including working in the firm’s offices in Mexico City and Toronto. Mr. Marion holds graduate degrees in economics from the Université Paris I (Sorbonne) and the London School of Economics. He also holds an undergraduate degree from Bishop’s University, Canada.

Douglas covers non-financial corporates for Moody’s in the Middle East and Africa with a specific focus on mining, oil and gas along with telecommunications services and infrastructure providers. Douglas holds an Advanced Master of Commerce Degree Specialising in Finance in the field of Financial Management from the University of Cape Town and is CFA Level III candidate.

Over the last 8 years, Aurélien Mali has been at the forefront of Moody’s growing footprint in Africa. He has been sovereign lead or backup analyst for almost all sovereign issuers and multilateral development banks we rate in Africa. He also assumes a greater role in participating in regular Moody’s and third-party conferences on the continent, Africa-related investor briefings, and undertaking analytical outreach to inform and explain Moody’s credit judgments. Aurelien also supports other Moody’s franchises using his unique experience and visibility across multiple sectors and asset classes in the region. Finally, he remains the lead/backup sovereign analyst for few countries including Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and South Africa. Aurélien holds a BSc in Economics and a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Money, Finance and Banking from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris.

Peter Mushangwe joined Moody’s in 2015 and is based in London where he is a lead analyst on a portfolio of Sub-Saharan African banks. Peter has covered banks in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Angola, Ghana and the DRC. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2015, Peter worked primarily as sell-side equity research analyst based in South Africa where he covered South African, Nigerian, and Kenyan banks. In 2014, Peter was ranked in the top 5 for Small cap banks research by the Financial Mail, and was in a team ranked #3 for Governance research. Peter also worked in Treasury for a merchant bank in Zimbabwe. Peter is a CFA charterholder, and holds an MSc in Finance and Investment and a B.Com in Finance (Honours) degrees.

Akin joined in October 2014, and is the lead analyst on a portfolio of Sub-Saharan Africa Banks, focusing initially on Nigeria and then elsewhere in West and East Africa as the team’s footprint in the region grows. Prior to Moodys, for 10 years Akin worked primarily as a structured finance credit analyst (asset back securities) in London for HSBC Investment Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and UniCredit Bank AG. Akin is a CFA charter holder and has a BA in Economics from Leeds University Business School and an MSc in Management from Cass Business School