Motivated Financial Risk Management professional with over 20 years of experience and expert knowledge of Economic Capital Management, Best Practices Risk Management and Climate Change Related Financial Risk Management. Innovative African leader with great success at conceptualizing, developing, ...more

Motivated Financial Risk Management professional with over 20 years of experience and expert knowledge of Economic Capital Management, Best Practices Risk Management and Climate Change Related Financial Risk Management. Innovative African leader with great success at conceptualizing, developing, and implementing global business strategies, developing strategic risk analytics, metrics and framework for managing material risks in emerging markets investments portfolios. High-level Government official leading private sector development and investment promotion reform activities generating sustainable results. Consistently recognized for maintaining client focus while managing credit, market, operational risks, and stress testing. I am an Africa leader with a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from the University of Pittsburgh. Worked as the adviser for the President of the Republic of Benin. Led and coordinated from the office of the President all government’s reforms and policies designed to improve investment climate, private sector development, investment promotion, project development, public-private partnership and resources mobilization. I managed relationships between the Office of President and all private investors. I have met and interacted with several hundred private businesses from all over the world interested in investing in Africa. I led the effort of putting in place a PPP regulatory framework in Benin as well as high level project financing negotiations with major international financial institutions. Certified Financial Risk Manager by both the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA). Elected charter member of the Risk Who’s Who Society since February 2009. Adjunct Professor of Risk Management at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Founder of the African Risk Managers Global Network (ARMGN) Former Regional Director for the GARP Washington DC.less