Dedalus Global and Ibex Frontier have announced that Cina Lawson, Minister of Digital Economy and Digital Transformation of Togo, and Admassu Tadesse, President and Chief Executive Officer of Trade and Development Bank, as keynote speakers for Africa Fintech Summit 2020.
Tadesse and Lawson will deliver the opening keynote addresses on November 9 and 10, respectively.
The summit will conclude on November 12 with a headline fireside chat with Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Square.
A three-day virtual event held this November 9, 10, and 12, Africa Fintech Summit 2020 will open with a keynote address by Tadesse.
As TDB’s president and CEO he has been the recipient of several distinctions, including being recognised as the 2019 African Banker of the Year. Since he joined TDB in 2012, Tadesse has launched new business operations and spearheaded critical reforms that have fuelled a $5bn increase in the bank’s assets.
Over the past eight years under Tadesse’s leadership, the bank’s capital and funding have multiplied five-fold and has seen significant growth in its shareholder base, and its portfolio. In 2020, TDB was recognised by African Banker Awards as the ‘African Bank of the Year.’
Day two of the summit will launch with a keynote address by Lawson. Lawson is leading Togo through a profound transition to an inclusive digital economy. Her initiatives as minister have included diversifying private participation in the telecommunications sector, spearheading regulatory reforms for data protection and electronic transactions, setting up an innovation hub, and driving initiatives to deploy high-speed fiber broadband that links key institutions, including all public universities in the country.
In 2012, Forbes magazine ranked her among the 20 most powerful young women in Africa and in 2019, she became the first African woman political figure to receive the Harvard Alumni Public Service Award. She is a fervent advocate of innovative solutions to Africa’s developmental challenges and sits on the advisory board of the Digital Identity, Trade and Economy Initiative of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
