Corporate Management

Meet the Members of the Management

Chief Executive Officer
Komla D. Ayida
Chief Operations Officer
Mary Johnson
Chief Financial Officer
Toussaint Placca

Technical Team Leads

Meet the Creative Work Squad

Dr Dramane Ouattara

Public Policy Specialist

Dr Arafat Mijiyawa

Development Economist

Dr Dramani Ouedraogo

Natural Resources Specialist

Dr Akakpo-Ahianyo

Sociologist, Evaluator

Regional Directors

Ahmadou Diallo
Executive Director, Burkina Faso
John Ofosu
Managing Director, Ghana
Emery Kabongo
Executive Director, D.R.C
Zandile Ndaba
Executive Director, South Africa

Executive Committee

Ben Johnson

Project Leads, associate Exper
Management

Joséphine Amouzou

Project Lead, Public Management

Sophia Tewia

Lead Associate, Environment and Climate change

Omar Sissoko

Project Lead, Strategy and Policy

Carole Mingwa

Project Lead, Decentralization and local development

Karim Niang

Lead Associate, Legal, Justice and Public policies

Mary Odwaka

Project Lead, Governance and Civil Society

Marc Otieno

Lead associate, Education, Capacity Building, Innovation