Fikile Nkosi

Managing Director, Nedbank (Swaziland) Limited - Pioneer: first woman in Swaziland to head up a Managing Director Post for an International Bank.

Margareth Chacha

Managing Director, Tanzania Women’s Bank Ltd, a pioneer in the Tanzanian Banking industry.

Olive Luena

CEO of Tanzania Gatsby Trust; nominee for the Africa Hunger Prize. In 1990, she was appointed by Pope John Paul II as a member of the Vatican Pontifical Council of the Laity and was recently appointed by the president of the United Republic of Tanzania as a trustee to the Presidential Trust Fund, her third appointment. A real leading lady!

Meaza Ashenafi

Chairperson Enat Bank, Lawyer & Women Activist in Ethiopia. Meaza contributed to the inclusion of women and children’s rights provisions in the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia. She was identified as one of the five prominent women’s rights activists worldwide.

Dr. Jennifer Riria

Group CEO, Kenya Women Holding. A pioneer in microfinance. Award winner of fastest growing & best-managed microfinance company in sub-Sahara Africa.