Governance Speakers

Book world-class African speakers specializing in Governance. 23 speakers available for keynotes, panels, and workshops.

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Uduak Amimo

Uduak Amimo

Executive Coach | Leadership Facilitator | Communication Advisor • Kenya

Uduak Amimo is the founder of Asanama Leadership. She brings a journalist's understanding of how leaders perform under scrutiny, a coach's capacity to work with

Jan van Schalkwyk

Jan van Schalkwyk

Institutional Capacity Development Champion • South Africa

Jan van Schalkwyk is an institutional capacity-development practitioner, facilitator and co-designer with close to thirty years of experience at the Auditor-Gen

Xolela Mangcu

Xolela Mangcu

The Decision Strategist | Professor, Sociologist, Biographer & Leadership ScholarGeorge Washington University • South Africa,United States of America

Dr Xolela Mangcu is a sociologist, biographer and professor at George Washington University whose work examines how leaders make difficult decisions when values

Sharron L. McPherson

Sharron L. McPherson

Founder and CEO, Resilience Technologies Inc. | Author, From Risk to Resilience • South Africa,United States of America

Sharron L. McPherson helps leaders see what gets missed when big infrastructure and investment decisions are made in silos, before those decisions become expens

Nosipho Damasane

Nosipho Damasane

Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director, Richards Bay Coal Terminal | Former CEO, Richards Bay Coal Terminal, PRASA Rail and Bombela Operating Company | Former COO, Transnet Port Terminals • South Africa

Nosipho Siwisa Damasane is Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director of Richards Bay Coal Terminal and has more than three decades of executive leadership

Andrew Wambari Kairu

Andrew Wambari Kairu

Former Group Chairman, KCB Group PLC | Board Leadership & Governance Practitioner | Founder, AWK Capital • Kenya

Andrew Wambari Kairu is one of East Africa's most experienced board chairs. As Group Chairman of KCB Group PLC from 2018 to 2023, East Africa's largest bank by

Ajay Jivan

Ajay Jivan

The Standards Architect | Professor of Practice | Psychologist | Non-Executive Director | People Governance and Leadership Development Authority • South Africa

Prof Ajay Jivan is The Standards Architect, a psychologist, Professor of Practice at North-West University and Non-Executive Director at JET Education Services.

Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Clarendon Capital Ventures • United States of America

Dr. Chris Brooks works at the intersection of capital, identity, sovereignty and human flourishing. His central argument is deceptively simple: value is not abs

Sthembiso Phakathi

Sthembiso Phakathi

Organisational Transformation Strategist, Leadership Adviser and Author • South Africa

Sthembiso Phakathi is an organisational transformation strategist, leadership adviser and author with more than two decades of experience helping organisations

James Wasserstrom

James Wasserstrom

Integrity, Corruption & the Cost of Speaking Truth to Power • Greece

James Wasserstrom is an American diplomat, international anti-corruption expert, whistleblower and founder of The Integrity Sanctuary whose career has placed hi

Boipelo Letlape

Boipelo Letlape

Visionary Leader | Governance, Transformation & African Sovereignty Voice • South Africa

Boipelo Letlape is a visionary leader, governance advocate, and one of South Africa's emerging voices on African sovereignty, youth leadership, and systemic tra

Michael Ikpoki

Michael Ikpoki

Adviser to CEOs, Boards and Investors on growth, governance, and market expansion in Africa. Former CEO of MTN Nigeria and MTN Ghana. • Nigeria

Michael Ikpoki is a Board Chairman, Non-Executive Director, and Senior Adviser to CEOs, boards, and investors in Africa, drawing on his experience as a multinat

Hubert Danso

Hubert Danso

CEO and Chairman, Africa investor (Ai) Group | Architect of Institutional Capital at Scale • South Africa

Dr. Hubert Danso is the CEO and Chairman of Africa investor (Ai) Group, a pan-African institutional infrastructure investment platform he founded in 2002. For

Shanaaz Majiet

Shanaaz Majiet

The Courage Architect • South Africa

Shanaaz Majiet is an institutional transformation practitioner, ICF Master Credentialed Coach (MCC), and public sector leadership expert with more than three de

Richard Harding

Richard Harding

• United States of America

Global partnerships strategist and media executive with more than 20 years of experience designing collaboration infrastructures linking national government age

Claudelle Von Eck

Claudelle Von Eck

Founder, Brave Inflexions | Board Director | Authority on Ethical Leadership and Governance in Complex Systems • South Africa

Dr Claudelle von Eck works at the point where formal governance meets the considerably less orderly reality of human behaviour. Her central argument is that in

Phillip Tsvangira

Phillip Tsvangira

Dr • South Africa

Dr Phil Tsvangira International Leadership Strategist | Executive Coach | Change Specialist Phil Tsvangira is a distinguished expert in leadership development,

Saakshar Duggal

Saakshar Duggal

AI Governance & Law Expert • India

Saakshar Duggal is one of India's leading youth voices on the legalities of Artificial Intelligence. and has been a guest speaker at prominent organizations lik

Songezo Zibi

Songezo Zibi

African Systems Interpreter for Boards and Leaders | National Leader, RISE Mzansi | Member of Parliament | Chair, SCOPA • South Africa

Songezo Zibi is better known as the Chairperson of the powerful Standing Committee on Public Accounts in Parliament, but he has had a stellar corporate career a

Zipporah Maubane

Zipporah Maubane

Head of Communications and Advocacy, AUDA-NEPAD | Founder Digital Ascent Ltd • South Africa

Zipporah Maubane is Head of Communications & Advocacy at the African Union Development Agency (AUDA‑NEPAD), advancing Agenda 2063 through narrative strategy, in

Evita Nyandoro

Evita Nyandoro

• South Africa

Evita Makura Nyandoro is a Pan-African financial and risk expert,governance strategist, Chartered Accountant CA(SA), FCA, and senior executive with over 20 year

Jay Atara

Jay Atara

Author of Coherent Leaders | Former Chief Financial Officer, FCMA FCT | Executive Coach to Finance Leaders • United Kingdom,Tanzania

Jay Atara is a former chief financial officer and corporate treasurer, the author of Coherent Leaders: Leadership Begins from Within, and an executive coach to

Royal Duduza Khosana

Royal Duduza Khosana

Executive Decision Architect | Governance, Leadership & Institutional Transformation Adviser • United Arab Emirates

Dr Royal Duduza Khosana is an Executive Decision Architect and governance, leadership and institutional transformation adviser who helps boards and executive te

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