Leona Lillian Abban

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Leona Lillian Abban is the Vice President, Operations and the Country Manager for MIC Global-Ghana, popularly known as MicroEnsure. Leona has 15 years of experience in Insurance, 11 of these in the microinsurance space and with MIC Global. She is passionate about inclusive insurance and is a firm believer that inclusive insurance plays a large role in fulfilling the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – ‘Leaving No One Behind.’

MIC Global is an end-to-end digital microinsurance solution provider with the aim of driving insurance uptake for the mass market through need-based digital insurance. The Company was the first to deliver mobile-backed insurance for the first time in Ghana. They successfully contributed to driving insurance with 1M lives on digital insurance through Tigo and 1.2M lives on Airtel.

Leona won the African Women in Banking and Finance Award for the ‘Micro Insurance Personality of the Year-2020

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Eli Hini

Chief Executive Officer, MobileMoney Limited

Eli Hini is the Chief Executive Officer for MobileMoney Limited, the MTN Ghana subsidiary responsible for mobile financial services. He is responsible for driving strategy, business development, innovation and relevant operations of MTN’s Mobile Money business. Prior to Eli’s appointment as CEO, he was the General Manager MobileMoney Limited, a role he held for approximately five years. Eli was instrumental in setting up Mobile Money services in Ghana and growing the subscriber base, transaction volumes and value. He also led the MTN Mobile Money team to receive ISO certification (ISO/IEC 12007: 2013 certification) in January 2016 and the GSMA Mobile Money Certification in November 2019. Eli is a Chartered Marketer with over 18 years’ experience and has also held leadership positions in Unilever Ghana Limited and The Coca- Cola Bottling Company Limited. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a post-graduate diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.

Eli serves on the boards of MobileMoney Limited, aYo Intermediaries Ghana Ltd and IC Asset Managers.

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Panel Discussion: Harnessing technology to enable access to lending and insurance for financial Inclusion

Yair Solow

CEO & Co-founder, Centraleyes

Yair Solow is CEO and co-founder of Centraleyes, a leading technology innovator in the fast-paced sector of advanced cyber risk and compliance management. He heads a team of world-class cyber security and risk experts in the development of cutting-edge solutions for managing internal risk, vendor risk and executive board risk.

Yair’s experience in disruptive technologies inspired his vision of a new risk management platform that equips organizations with unparalleled tools to achieve and sustain cyber resilience in today’s intensifying threat environment. He assembled a team of technology innovators, military intelligence veterans and corporate leaders and led them to produce the world’s most advanced Integrated Risk Management (IRM) platform. The platform automates, centralizes and visualizes risks to save time and resources, allowing users to concentrate on business success.

Before founding Centraleyes, Yair was a senior executive at Visa, where he led business activities in major European markets. In 2015 he helped spearhead the launch of Visa’s Innovation Hub in Israel. His passion has always been entrepreneurial; he has launched a number of successful technology ventures, always imagining new ways to disrupt inefficient markets.

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Workshop 4: Governance and Risk Compliance in the world of Information Security

Charles Agyemang Badu

Director of Country Operations, Fido Ghana

Charles is the Director of Country Operations for Fido Ghana, a Digital Financial Institution making financial services accessible to the unbanked in Africa and emerging markets.

He holds an MBA Marketing degree from the Coventry Business School, UK and a Bachelor’s degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Charles has over thirteen years’ experience in Business Development and Project Management across the Banking, Telco and Tech industries.

He spent 5 years at Rancard Solutions (An Intel Company) where he led Rancard’s Business Development engagements with Telcos in Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea, Kenya, SA and Cote D’Ivoire deploying the company’s first Voice Application (2nd revenue generator by volume) in the process. Prior to joining Rancard, he worked as the Regional Head of the SME unit at Societe Generale Bank supporting the financial needs of MSMEs in the northern sector of Ghana and administering the DANIDA Grant for small-scale businesses.

He is a Financial Inclusion enthusiast and passionate about the digitization of the Ghanaian economy.

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Panel Discussion: Harnessing technology to enable access to lending and insurance for financial Inclusion

Leona Lillian Abban

Vice President, Operations and Country Manager, MicroEnsure.

Leona Lillian Abban is the Vice President, Operations and the Country Manager for MIC Global-Ghana, popularly known as MicroEnsure. Leona has 15 years of experience in Insurance, 11 of these in the microinsurance space and with MIC Global. She is passionate about inclusive insurance and is a firm believer that inclusive insurance plays a large role in fulfilling the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – ‘Leaving No One Behind.’

MIC Global is an end-to-end digital microinsurance solution provider with the aim of driving insurance uptake for the mass market through need-based digital insurance. The Company was the first to deliver mobile-backed insurance for the first time in Ghana. They successfully contributed to driving insurance with 1M lives on digital insurance through Tigo and 1.2M lives on Airtel.

Leona won the African Women in Banking and Finance Award for the ‘Micro Insurance Personality of the Year-2020

Session

Panel Discussion: Harnessing technology to enable access to lending and insurance for financial Inclusion

H.E. Shlomit Sufa

Ambassador, The State of Israel to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra-Leone.

Shlomit Sufa is the Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra-Leone. Prior to her appointment, she was a participant in the National Security Program at the Israeli National Defense College (INDC) and served as Minister-Councilor, South East Asia Department in the Asia and Pacific Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel.

Ms. Sufa began her career as a lawyer in 1998 at the Legal Department of the Municipality of Ramla and moved on to participate in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Cadet Program to begin her Diplomatic career.

Since 2001, Shlomit Sufa has served in different capacities at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs including Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of Israel to Ethiopia, Rwanda and Burundi; Deputy Director, East Africa Department, Africa Affairs Division; Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of Israel to Switzerland and Lichtenstein; Deputy Director, EU Department, at the Europe Affairs Division; and as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Canada.

Shlomit Sufa is also a member of the Women Diplomatic Network Steering Committee (an Israeli network of female diplomats from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and female diplomats posted in Israel) and Forum Dvorah (a non-partisan, nonprofit NGO that looks at equal representation of women in key decision-making position in the fields of national security and foreign policy).

Ms. Sufa holds a LL.B in Law from the Harry Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya and M.A in Political Science from the University of Haifa.

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Opening Remarks