CEO Forum
OF AFRICAN DFIs
" Resilient DFIs for Stronger African Economies: Governance, Standards, Regulation, and Development Impact "
Host
Lesotho National Development Corporation
Flashback
About the CEO Forum of African DFIs 2026
The Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) is pleased to announce the 2026 CEO Forum of African Development Finance Institutions, which will take place at the Avani Lesotho Hotel & Casino, Maseru, Lesotho from November 4-6, 2026. The forum theme is ‘” Resilient DFIs for Stronger African Economies: Governance, Standards, Regulation, and Development Impact “. The host institution is the Lesotho National Development Corporation.
Key Highlights
- AADFI Board Meeting
- Special Interest Sessions
- AADFI Economist Forum
- Working Group on Climate Change
- Policy Advocacy Engagement
- Official Openning Keynote Address
- Unveiling of the PSGRS 3.0
- Plenary Sessions
- Appropriate Regulations and Standards for DFIs: Enabling Resilience for Impact
- Redefining DFI strategy for impact
- Capital to Impact: Mobilizing Private Finance and Measuring Development Impact
- Plenary Sessions
- Adoption of the Compact for Resilient Africa DFIs
Objectives
Strengthen governance, risk oversight, and the regulatory framework for African DFIs to build partners’ and investors’ confidence
Launch the revised AADFI PSGRS, reinforce awareness, uptake, and application of the PSGRS mechanism as tools for institutional strengthening.
Define frameworks for measuring, reporting and communicating the development impact of DFI operations to shareholders, regulators and the public
Receive the Report of the 2026 PSGRS peer review and Rating of African DFIs
Strengthen innovative approaches to mobilizing and blending capital, including a practical approach for DFIs in raising capital through the NAFAD arrangement to expand DFIs' financing capacity
Foster networking and strategic partnerships among AADFI members, regulators, and development partners
Speakers
To be updated
Dr. Patricia Ojangole
Chairperson AADFI
MD, UDB , Uganda
Thabo Khasipe
CEO, LNDC, Lesotho
Arshad Rab
CEO, EOSD, Germany
Chairman, International Sustainability Council
Dr. Jesimen Tarisai Chipika
Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u
Chair of the Advisory Board of TDB Academy
Mahamadi Sougrinoma Zoromé
Managing Director, BADF, Burkina Faso
Boitumelo Mosako
CEO, Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)
Dr. Uche Nwachukwu
Chief Strategy & Development Officer Divisional Head, Strategy, Policy & Research, BOI, Nigeria
Prof. Mutiu Abimbola Oyinlola
Chief Economist and Group Head, Research, BOI, Nigeria
Ali Baba Mairami
Acting Director, Development & Finance Institutions Supervision Department,
CBN Nigeria
Dr. Oluwasola Dada Ajewole
Deputy Director, Development & Finance Institutions Supervision Department,
CBN Nigeria
Gift Moonga
Chief Executive, Trade & Development Banking SBU – Southern Africa & Island States (Ad Int), Trade Development Bank
Dr. Michael Mah’moud
Lead Expert on the AADFI PSGRS
Frank M. Nyabundege
Managing Director, TADB Tanzania
Michael Mensah-Baah
Deputy CEO, DBG Ghana
Zeph Nhleko
Chief Economist and GE: Strategy & Sustainability, DBSA South Africa
Dr Misheck Mutize
Lead Expert on support to African countries on credit ratings agencies
Shri Gaurav Bhandari
Head of Research and Analysis Group and the International Relations Group at India Exim Bank
Dr. Muhammed Sayed
Principal Specialist in the Climate & Nature Finance Unit, DBSA South Africa
Violet Ndoro
Deputy Director - Bank Supervision, Surveillance & Financial Stability.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
François Mpuila Mukendi
Directeur des Études au Fonds de Promotion de l’Industrie (FPI), DR Congo
Olivier Mugwaneza
Director, Policy and Regulation Department National Bank of Rwanda
Marina Bizabani
General Manager – Development Finance, LNDC Lesotho
Cyril Okoye
SG, AADFI
Event Schedule
To be updated
Arrival of delegates and check in to hotels
AADFI Board of Directors Meeting (closed session)
Special Interest Session 1: Green Industrial Policy and Industrialization in Africa
Powered by AADFI Economist Forum
Special Interest Session 2: Country Platforms - Putting African DFIs/PDBs at the Centre of Country-Led Investment
Powered by Working Group on Climate Change
Openning Ceremony
Keynote Address: Resilient African DFIs in a Volatile World: The CEO Compact for Impact
Opening Address
Unveiling of the Revised AADFI PSGRS
Plenary Sessions 1 : Appropriate Regulations and Standards for DFIs: Enabling Resilience for Impact
Session 2: Redefining DFI strategy for impact.
Session 3 : Capital to Impact: Mobilizing Private Finance and Measuring Development Impact
B2B / Bilateral meetings and consultation
Panel Session 4: CEO Conversation: Adoption of a Compact for Resilient African DFIs
Closing Session
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