Speaker Profile

Mamadou Barro is a Regional Investment Specialist  for West and Central Africa and the Caribbean Region at the United Nations Capital Development Fund. Mamadou is a seasoned banker and development finance specialist with over two decades of accumulated experience in banking, project finance, corporate finance, and SMEs financing, mostly matured in the private sector and development finance institutions across Africa and Middle East. He obtained a Global MBA degree from IE Business School. Mamadou speaks English and French.

Mamadou’s work spans across designs of blended finance mechanisms & structures, resource mobilization, and deployment of capital while partnering with other UN Agencies. Prior to joining UNCDF,  Mamadou led for 6 years the Africa office of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), which is a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group. He also spent 3 years secondment as a CEO  of Tamweel Africa Holding an Islamic Banking Group based in Senegal. He also served on several boards of banks in Niger, Senegal, Mauritania, and Guinea as well as in an Islamic fund in Malaysia. Earlier in his career, Mamadou worked at  Shelter-Afrique in Kenya as Investment Officer and Bank of Africa Burkina as Risk Officer.