Imoni Akpofure is an experienced finance and sustainability professional with 30 years’ of developed and developing country experience.  She is a generalist with wide industry and geographic coverage and has a deep understanding of Sub-Saharan Africa. 

She began her career as a civil & environmental engineer with Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick (now part of URS Corporation) in the UK, becoming a Chartered Civil Engineer in 1993.  Following an MBA, she joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and worked there from 1995 until her departure in 2013 as Director Western Europe.  Her early IFC career in the infrastructure sectors focused on deal sourcing, structuring and project supervision.  In her later career, she was responsible for growing IFC’s business with private clients, managing the portfolio, and building relationships with governments and other stakeholders in 36 countries in Africa and Western Europe.  From 2014-2016, Imoni was one of 2 Regional Directors for Africa for CDC Group Plc, the UK Government’s development finance institution. She was also a Faculty Member of the Business and Sustainability Programme under the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership. From 2016-2020 Imoni was a Senior Associate with KINA Advisory Ltd, a socio-economic advisory firm. 

Imoni is currently a non-executive director of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Nigeria; Africa50, a Morocco-based pan-African infrastructure fund; and a Trustee on the Board of the Engineers in Business Fellowship, UK. She also serves on the Investment Committees of Africa50 and the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN).

Imoni holds an MBA from INSEAD, France, an MSc in Environmental Engineering from Newcastle University, UK, and a BEng in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London.  She speaks French and has a working knowledge of German and Spanish.