Kwame K. MARFO

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Kwame MARFO is a social entrepreneur, an opinion writer and a farmer. He has significant experience advising and challenging boards of firms ranging from SMEs to multinationals across four continents. His experiences include advising a $7 billion diversified industrial conglomerate in India in a $135 million opportunity to enter into a new market, to advising an agribusiness in Ghana in raising $25 million to launch a new venture to secure its raw material base.

Kwame most recently worked at the Bank of England, where he was a member of a select team of four, which led the bank in advising on the strategy and long-term viability of business models of a diverse group of firms, with combined assets of $3 trillion and which also employed over 300,000 people. Kwame also taught strategy and business model analysis at the Bank of England. He is the founder of West Africa-focused investment firm, Diaspora Capital LLP where he chairs the Investment Committee and leads the team in sourcing deals, conducting due diligence, structuring, monitoring investments and providing technical and operational support to portfolio firms. 

Kwame is a proponent of foreign investment in Africa through his writings and active engagement with the African policymaking, business, civil society and academic communities. 

Kwame is the International Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary, When Elephants Fight, which was Executive Produced and Narrated by Robin Wright (Claire Underwood from House of Cards). 

He has an MBA from the Ross School of Business (Michigan) and an MSc from the London School of Economics and BS (Hons) from Binghamton University