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

Advisory board member
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

Wilson Prichard

Facilitator

Assoc Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science: University of Toronto

Arkebe Oqubay

Advisory board member
British Academy Global Professor at SOAS University of London

Idris Jala

Advisory board member

Chairman of PEMANDU Associates

Deriba Kuma

Coach

Former Minister of Transport and Telecommunication of Ethiopia

Enrique Penalosa

Advisory board member
Fellow of the Institute for Urban Research of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ashveena Gajeelee

Facilitator

Board member of African Union Capacity Building Foundation

Ebrahim Rasool

Advisory board member (former)

South Africa’s Ambassador to the USA; Founder of OneAfrica.Org