Yacine Simporé

Founder & Director at Kerawa Partners

Panellist

Yacine is the Managing Director of Kerawa Partners. She is an investment professional with a decade of experience in impact investing, working for Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), Grameen Credit Agricole, and the French Development Agency (AFD). Throughout her career, she invested in SMEs, structured and raised investment vehicles and designed access to finance programs for the African private sector. She has also developed an extensive expertise in creative and cultural industries while working in the media, at the UNESCO and by designing & managing acceleration programs for African businesses in the cultural sector.

She founded Kerawa Partners, a strategic and financial advisory firm drawing on a combined expertise in SME investment, development finance and creative and cultural industries to support organizations in defining and implementing initiatives that enable a sustainable growth of the creative & cultural sector. Kerawa Partners also provides a tailored advisory to high-potential entrepreneurs to help them become prosperous leaders in their industry.

Yacine holds a Master’s degree in International Development with a focus on Development Finance from Sciences Po Paris.