Advisors
Advisors & Mentors
Jamie Cooper
Co-chair of the AMALI advisory board
Founder and President of Big Win Philanthropy
Edgar Pieterse
Co-chair of the AMALI advisory board
Director of African Centre for Cities
Kesete Admasu
Advisory board member
CEO of Big Win Philanthropy
James Anderson
Advisory board member
Head of Government Innovation programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies
Hastings Chikoko
Advisory board member
Senior Director for Cities at Big Win Philanthropy
Awa Marie Coll Seck
Advisory board member
MD, PhD, Specialist in Infectious diseases and Bacteriology-Virology
Luísa Dias Diogo (1958 - 2026)
Advisory board member (former)
Board member of Big Win Philanthropy
Kivutha Kibwana
Advisory board member
Human rights activist
Mamphela Ramphele
Advisory board member
Co-founder of ReimagineSA
Wanjira Mathai
Advisory board member
Managing Director, Africa and Global Partnerships, World Resource Institute
Vera Songwe
Advisory board member
Chair and founder of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility
Rosine Sori-Coulibaly
Advisory Board Member
Former Minister of Economy, Finance and Development of Burkina Faso
Arkebe Oqubay
Advisory board member
British Academy Global Professor at SOAS University of London
Idris Jala
Advisory board member
Chairman of PEMANDU Associates
Wilson Prichard
Facilitator
Assoc Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science: University of Toronto
Ibrahima Guimba Saidou
Advisory Board Member
CEO of the Partnership for Digital Access in Africa (PDAA)
Enrique Penalosa
Advisory board member
Fellow of the Institute for Urban Research of the University of Pennsylvania.
Deriba Kuma
Coach
Former Minister of Transport and Telecommunication of Ethiopia
Mauricio Rodas
Advisory Board Member
Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador; Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania
