ASG

Africa Speakers Group is a leading platform for keynote speakers, influential thinkers and star performers on the African continent, and elsewhere in the world.

EX CEO, KENYA SCHOOL OF LAW

PLO Lumumba

 An Advocate of the High Courts of Kenya and Tanganyika. Prof PLO Lumumba is the Founder of the PLO Lumumba Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He is an ex CEO of the Kenya School of Law. PLO Lumumba has been twice recognized as one of the 100 most influential Africans.

Snr. VP, CCRO, STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP.

Benjamin Akande

A renowned economist and leadership mentor, is a Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer at Stifel Financial Corporation NYSE: SF, a 130-year-old financial service holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with $4.7 billion in revenue, $8 billion in market capitalization.

Techpreneur

Shadrack Kubyane

Shadrack, a certified co-pilot, is a co-founder of Coronet Blockchain, South Africa. He previously had a stint at Deloitte, South Africa, before turning full time entrepreneur. At Coronet Blockchain, he leads a team committed to leveraging blockchain to drive Africa’s supply chain and create hitherto unimaginable wealth across beauty, fashion and agriculture sectors. He speaks on a wide range of topics including blockchain, innovation, supply chain, business transformation, AfCFTA, etc.

Expert, Sports Law

Steve Austin Nwabueze

Steve is a Senior Associate in Perchstone and Graeys LP, a top commercial law firm in Lagos, Nigeria. He leads the sports law practice division of the firm. Steve is currently a member of the Sports Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). He speaks on sports law, law- arbitration, employment law and commercial law.  

Founder, Thari Health

Lerato Masemola

Dr Lerato Masemola is a general family doctor with a passion to provide basic medical and debunking health myths, is a health and fitness fanatic. She has pushed herself from the Comrades Marathon to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. As a motivational speaker, she uses her personal experience of overcoming trauma to inspire people to succeed beyond their limits. She speaks mainly on trauma management and recovery, health and wellness and medical aesthetics, etc.

VC, University of Africa, Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State.

Kingston Nyamapfene

Prof Nyamapfene has expertise in higher education, environment, leadership, agriculture, technology and Innovation. He has served in teaching, research, and management roles at universities in the Netherlands, Portugal, USA, Cote d’Ivoire, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, etc.

International Development Professional

Chidi Koldsweat

Chidi Koldsweat is the Founder and Lead Strategist, Donors for Africa Foundation, a grant management organization working actively with Governments, Funding Institutions, Private Sector, Philanthropic Organizations, Non-Governmental Organisations, and Social Impact Leaders to break the cycles of poverty in Africa.

Consultant - leadership, higher education, public Health

Max Price

Dr Max Price was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town for ten years from July 2008 to June 2018. From 1996 to 2006, he was dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow of The Centre for Global Development.