Mamadou Kwidjim Toure is a Senegalese financial expert and leadership coach. He is the founder and chairman of Africa 2.0 Foundation, an initiative-driven advocacy group that brings together emerging leaders representing African countries and the diaspora, who share a common vision of the continent’s future. Starting his professional career with KPMG Audit France as an audit consultant, Toure has over the past one decade worked on advisory assignments and various investment transactions in more than 20 African countries. More recently, he contributed to various publications on telecommunications, media as well as mobile banking topics. He has been a seasoned speaker at various conferences and symposia in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Toure currently works as Managing Director with GE Africa. In this role, Mamadou leads a regional Capital Markets (Sales and Project Finance) team across Sub-Saharan Africa supporting GE’s industrial business growth with sales’ funding solutions.
He holds a master’s in Management from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (EDHEC Business School, in France). The leadership talisman is fluent multilingually with six international languages; French, English, Spanish, German and two African languages.
In the light of his recognition is an influential man in the Black continent, Toure made the 2014 Forbes Top 10 Most Powerful Men in Africa list.
Recently, he contributed to various publications on telecommunications, media as well as mobile banking topics.
