Luc Rigouzzo

Managing Partner at Amethis

Speaker

Luc Rigouzzo has spent over 35 years investing in emerging market companies. He is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Amethis, an investment and Impact fund manager dedicated to the African continent created in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity.

Luc Rigouzzo, who holds degrees in both agronomy and finance devoted the first years of his career to project finance in the agribusiness and food sectors of emerging countries, in Africa and Latin-America, both at Proparco and IFC. He then assumed various managerial position notably creating the department of non-sovereign, private and financial sector of the AFD group.

Before co-founding Amethis, Luc was CEO of Proparco, the French Development Finance Institution.