Sector: Diplomacy, Intelligence, Defence, Government, Risk Management

Experience: Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to Great Britain (1978 and 1987), former Ambassador to Togo (1973), Senegal (1984), Equatorial Guinea (1989), Ethiopia (2000), Djibouti (2000), and to the African Union.

Recognition: Ambassador Shinkaiye is renowned as one of the lead negotiators who developed the instruments which transitioned the Organisation of Africa Unity (OAU) into the Africa Union (AU). He chaired several sub-committees and working groups that put together the OAU/AU Treaties, Conventions, Protocols and Charters. He is also highly regarded for providing leadership at the Nigerian Intelligence Agency and for coordinating the activities of all defence attaches, intelligence officers and military advisers at the Foreign Ministry in Nigeria. In recognition of his contributions to strengthening relations between Nigeria and Britain, he was honoured in May 1989 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the award of Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO). He is an Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) in Nigeria and was awarded the Medal of the Grand Cross of the Order of Independence (GCOI) in Equatorial Guinea.

Sector: Defence, Military, Peace and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Security, Risk Management

Experience: Brigadier Ellery was a former Commanding Officer of the Life Guards Regiment. He established the UN Mission in DRC Congo in 1999. He was Chief of Staff to the UN Force in Sierra Leone from 2001 to 2003 and was Head of the UN Mission in Southern Sudan in 2006. He was a senior director at Aegis Defence Services, a leader in the private security industry, and later at GardaWorld. Before joining Aegis, James was a senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and led the 700-strong security framework operation that supported the US Government in Iraq.

Recognition: James was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his leadership in peace building, in particular for his role at various UN Missions in Africa. He worked closely with South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit on the critical issues of putting together the right foundation for an effective public service and cabinet office. He helped to develop the rule for law enforcement for an independent South Sudan.

Sector: Business intelligence, Compliance and Financial Crimes Investigations, Fraud Management, Government.

Experience: Fidelis is the CEO of Adeste Advisory Limited. He is a credible and well-regarded business intelligence professional. He is also an asset tracing, misinvoicing and fraud investigations practitioner. He has over 12 years in experience as a specialist on AML-CFT investigations, and on ABC and EDD-KYC compliance reporting that are mainly focussed on Africa. His reports and executive briefings support those in a leadership position that are responsible for making decisions with regards to capital deployment into Africa and those contemplating an exit. Before establishing Adeste, Fidelis led the Africa practice at Exiger LLC, he was Director of Operations at IPSA International Inc. and Head of West and Central Africa Section at Aegis Advisory, a leading business intelligence firm where he spent eight years honing his skills in the business intelligence sector. He was also formerly an advisor on the Great Lakes region to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace. He has a MA degree in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Westminster, BA (Honours) in Philosophy from the University of Ibadan and a Certificate in Russia Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Recognition: Over the last 10 years Fidelis has advised on capital deployment into Africa with an aggregate value of $2.5 billion from a transactional compliance and market entry points of view. He led a financial services sector-wide investigations that determined the predicate offences for money laundering and terrorist financing in Nigeria and identified how laundered funds were being integrated into the economy. His report, commissioned by the West Africa FATF-styled agency GIABA, has helped to shape the AML-CFT laws in Nigeria. In 2019 he established the first exclusively Africa-focussed asset tracing investigations and business intelligence practice in the UK. He has been recognised for shaping the Angola’s government decision not to revoke the power generation and distribution license of a FTSE-listed company and for not expropriating the company’s power generating assets under the previous regime.

Sector: Diplomacy, Government, Good Governance Advice, Risk Management, Corporate Advisory

Experience: Ambassador Ballard-Tremer was South Africa’s Ambassador to Angola during the Mandela Administration. He was responsible for developing bilateral relationships between South Africa and 23 countries in the North, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel regions of Africa during the 1990s.

Recognition: Ambassador Ballard-Tremeer was the former CEO of the South Africa – Angola Chamber of Commerce. He is also a fellow of the South African Institute of Directors.

Sector: International NGOs and Stakeholders Engagement, Good Governance Advocacy, Civil Society Engagement, Government

Experience: Tom is a governance consultant with a broad range of experience in the field, specifically on anti-corruption, parliamentary development, public sector reform, research, and advocacy. He has worked with governments, national parliaments, civil society, as well as various international organizations. A Kenyan national, and educated at tertiary levels in the US, UK, & South Africa, Tom has dedicated himself to the fight against corruption and pursuit of justice and accountability for people from all walks of life.

Recognition: Tom has worked with organizations such as UN-HABITAT, the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC), the State University of New York (SUNY) Parliamentary Support Program, the Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG), and the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU), the British High Commission (Nairobi), the Government of Kenya, and numerous African parliaments.

Sector: International NGOs and Stakeholder Engagement, Deradicalisation, Anti-Terrorist Financing

Experience: Dr Barkindo heads The Kukah Centre in Abuja, a leading think tank and public policy research and leadership centre in Nigeria. He has a bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies from Zamalek in Egypt and speak fluent Arabic. He also speaks fluent Hausa and Fula – two key languages spoken in the Sahel region in Africa. Dr Barkindo is a highly-regarded advisor to several European countries on de-radicalisation, rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremists. He has consulted for the EU Technical Assistance on the security challenges in Nigeria. He is an advisor to several EU countries on Conflict and Security Risks connected to Boko Haram.

Recognition: Dr Barkindo is a Catholic priest. His PhD research project titled “History, Memory and Resistance in Northern Nigeria: the Transformation of Boko Haram,” was awarded the Horowitz Foundation grant for social policy at SOAS University London. In 2016 he was selected as a member of the UN Group of Experts to review the UN Handbook on Countering Violent Extremism in Africa. He is also an advisor on good governance to several Heads of Government in Africa.

Sector: Financial Services, Extractive Industries, Telecoms, Government

Experience: Fabrice is an experienced board member and Non-Executive Director within the financial services sector in Africa. As a successful investment banker for some of the leading global banks including at Citi, Fabrice worked on some of the major transactions in the telecoms, financial services and mining sectors in Africa. He is currently the Managing Partner at ACT Afrique Group, a corporate Advisory firm based in Senegal. He is a board member on OraBank Group, a pan-Africa financial services institution listed on the West Africa stock exchange. OraBank is owned by the following DFIs Proparco (France), Bio (Belgium) and DEG (Germany) amongst others.

Recognition: Fabrice was the former chairman of the board of Gabon’s Manganese & Ferro Alloy SA, formerly chairman/CEO of Comptoir Gabonaise de Collecte de l’Or, he was Chairman of the board at Resources Golder Gram. He was also formerly a NED at Eramet Comilog Manganese and CEO at Societe Equatoriale des Mines. He was a former Banker at Standard Bank and Citi.

Sector: Nomad Services, Capital Rising, Corporate Advisory Services on Oil and Gas, Mining

Experience: Prior to founding Righini Limited, an advisory and investment firm, in 2017, Tarica spent 10 years at the London office of Canaccord Genuity focusing on originating and executing transactions in Africa in the energy and natural resources sector specialising on Mining and Oil & Gas transactions. The footprints of the transactions he put together span from West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea and Senegal), to Central (CAR, DRC, Congo B) and Southern Africa (Zambia, South Africa, Botswana). Before he joined Canaccord Genuity, Tarica worked for Bank of Montreal’s Investment and Corporate Banking Group (BMO Capital Market) in Toronto for 8 years.

Recognition: Tarica has successfully originated, negotiated and executed transactions of over US$10 billion in the natural resource sector. He has advised on several major transactions in the oil and gas sector in the Gulf of Guinea and on mining deals in Southern Africa. Some of the deals he advised on became industry ‘game changers.’ Tarica was born and raised in Kinshasa, Congo DRC and has a BSc in Economics and International Trade from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC- Montreal) and a MSc in Management from the University of Sherbrooke.