Bojan Nastav is a statistician at UNCTAD, working on methodological guidance for measuring tax and commercial illicit financial flows. previously, he has worked as a researcher at University of Primorska (Slovenia), focusing on statistical and economic analysis of the phenomenon of the shadow economy and at the National Statistical Office of Slovenia.

Leo serves as the Deputy Executive Director at Caribbean Export Development Agency, where he leads the Agency's Subregional Office in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

In addition, he is the Programme Manager for the implementation of the Trade and Private Sector Component of the Haiti-DR Binational Programme being implemented by Caribbean Export under the 11th European Development Fund.

Prior to this role, Leo was the Deputy Head of Investment Promotion for US East at Invest Hong Kong, where he led the Consumer Products, Tourism and Hospitality, and Creative Industries portfolios for the eastern half of the United States. Leo was also an International Relations Associate within the Government Contracts Team at the Business Council for International Relations (BCIU) in New York City.

Before stepping into a leadership position, Leo had worked at Caribbean Export as a Competitiveness and Innovation Advisor. He also served as a Trade and Investment Policy Specialist at the Dominican Republic Export and Investment Center.

Anita Nayar directs Regions Refocus and co-chairs the Gender and Trade Coalition. She has worked nationally and internationally on issues including women human rights, economic globalization, and climate justice.

She previously served as Chief of the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service in New York and on the Executive Committee of the South-based feminist network, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).

Mr Vickson Ncube is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA). Fellow of the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants - ZICA Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - ACCA, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has been actively involved in IFAC's Professional Accountancy Organization (PAO) Development Committee and the MOSAIC Steering Committee, and observers the IFAC Board meeting. He has wide range of experience in general management, internal audit, finance management, fund management, pensions, and life and general insurance. Prior to his current position, he was the Chief executive officer of the Eastern Central and Southern African Federation of Accountants - ECSAFA. He has also been the Chief executive officer of ZICA; Regional manager for African Life Financial Services Limited. Director, Life and Pensions, Director of Finance, Director of Internal Audit, and other positions at the Zambia State Insurance Corporation Limited. Finance manager of the Zambia State Financing Company.

Mthuli Ncube is the Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe. He has a background in academia, banking, investments and public policy.

Before his appointment as Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe in September 2018, he was managing director and head of Quantum Global Research Lab (Switzerland), part of Quantum Global Group, the largest Private Equity group dedicated to investing in Africa.

From 2014 to 2016 Professor Ncube led a multi-disciplinary project on the Economics of HIV (Rethink HIV) project at the Blavatnik School of Government as Professor of Public Policy.

He joined the Blavatnik School from the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), where he was Chief Economist and Vice President. He is ranked as a top economic thinker on Africa and globally.

As Vice President and Chief Economist of the AfDB he led the strategic thinking within the bank on development issues, and directly supervised the development Research, Statistics, and capacity development, general knowledge management, and strategy. He led and guided the development of the Bank’s '10 term Strategy' (2013-2022). He championed the “inclusive growth” agenda that underpins the bank’s long-term strategy, and created an “Inclusive Growth Index” for Africa. He represented the AfDB in external engagements and spokesperson on economic/development issues. He has led policy dialogue activities with governments in Africa and globally.

Professor Ncube holds a PhD in Economics (Mathematical Finance) from the University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, UK, on “Pricing Options under Stochastic Volatility”. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Commerce Law and Management, and also Dean and Professor of Finance at Wits Business School, all at the University of Witwatersrand, in South Africa. He founded the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Wits University. He was also a Lecturer in Finance at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Bilha is the CEO of Great Carbon Valley and is dedicated to the transformation of Africa through the building of innovative industries and platforms.

Thuthukani Ndlovu is an Assistant Coordinator at Vrystaat Arts Festival and the Founder and Creative Director of The Radioactive blog. More popularly known as TK – is an author, poet, XR (Extended Reality) enthusiast, digital artist and Art curator learning Video and Film production in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He works for the Vrystaat Literature Festival as an assistant coordinator, while also being a project manager for the Pan African Telematic Art Project - PATAP (an initiative of the Vrystaat Arts Festival).

He’s the founder and creative director of The Radioactive Blog, an online creative hub that aims to drive innovation and creativity through artistic expression, capacity development and technology. In terms of sharing his work, his performance journey spans across Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, and in 2020 he published his debut poetry collection "My Poetic Collage" (Which is the first South African published poetry collection that features Augmented Reality.) Most of his poetry and digital art is centered around social activism, with the objective of trying to develop communities through creative expression. On this note, he also advocates for exploring creative ways to express poetry and digital art through experimenting with technologies like Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

To date, he has worked with Creative Digital Arts Festival – under the banner of the Makhanda National Arts Festival, Fakugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, Harare Litfest, Brighton Digital Festival (in partnership with Urban Flo), Free State Digital Art fest and Tumaini Festival (A festival at the Dzaleka Refugee camp in Malawi). Thuthukani is also part of The Festival Academy Alumni – after being selected to participate in their Atelier for Young Festival Managers in Johannesburg and Gothenburg in 2018. If he’s not blogging, working, reading a book or having a coffee date

Bernard Ndungu is a Public Financial Management Specialist with specific experience in accountancy, audit, value-for-money review, procurement, tax, business risk analysis, systems review and re-engineering, development of process manuals, policies and procedures, training and institutional capacity building covering various sectors. Bernard is currently the Director General Accounting Services and Quality Assurance at the National Treasury, Government of Kenya a position that puts him in charge of accounting function of Government, the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and the Internal Audit Function of National Government. Bernard is also the chairman of the Public Sector Accounting Standards Board of Kenya. The board was constituted in 2014 pursuant to Public Finance Management Act, 2012, of Kenya. The board has already promulgated the applicable accounting standards for public sector entities. Bernard has offered technical support in financial reporting and accounting within the region having been the lead technical resource in financial accounting and reporting reforms for the Government of Rwanda and the Project Manager in an assignment to provide Financial Management Agency Services to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia. Throughout the course of his career, Bernard has been involved in training and capacity building of government accountants and budget officers, reviewing and updating government accounting and financial management manuals, training of senior government staff involved in public financial management, support to the on-going development of an Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS) and formulation of a roadmap for transition from cash basis to accrual basis of accounting and compliance to International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). Bernard holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Nairobi University and is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya.