Anusha Naidu

Head of Corporate Finance at Select Africa

Panellist

Anusha heads up Corporate Finance, including capital raising, structuring and investor relations at Select Africa, a pan African housing-focused microfinance institution. She is a South African Chartered Accountant with specialist financial services experience across local and international capital markets. Anusha worked at PwC global offices, including three years at PwC Johannesburg Banking and Capital Markets Audit, and a four-month secondment to PwC Dubai. She spent three years at PwC London M&A Advisory, where she led buy-side and sell-side transactions for financial services clients, including private equity, hedge funds, investment banks, and retail banks. Anusha is a guest lecturer on the University of Cape Town’s Department of Construction Economics & Management and the Master of Commerce in Development Finance programmes. She completed the University of Oxford SAID Business School, Executive Leadership Programme with distinction in 2024 and completed the CFA Certificate in Sustainable Investing in 2025. She serves as a committee member on the South Africa chapter of 100 Woman in Finance.