Craig Stanley

Chief Operating Officer and Partner at Enko Capital

Chair

Craig is Chief Operating Officer at Enko Capital, an Africa-focused investment firm based in London and Johannesburg, with offices in Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritius, Cameroon, and Rwanda managing an absolute return Africa debt fund, Africa ex-SA private equity, Africa ex-SA ESG/Impact private credit. He has 27 years of investment experience at asset management and consulting firms. Over his career, he has lived and worked in the U.S., Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. For the past 17 years Craig has been immersed in the African and global frontier space in listed equities, debt, real estate, private equity, and private debt. Prior to joining Enko, Craig was a Managing Director at Terra Partners, a global frontier hedge fund manager. He has authored dozens of articles and white papers on a wide range of frontier capital market and economic topics.

In 2023, Craig joined the Board of Alpha Initiatives, a start-up portfolio, order and risk management system specializing in credit and fixed income markets.

Craig earned his B.A. in Political Economy from New York University at the age of 20 (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and pursued MA studies in Japanese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Craig was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2005.