Nana Spio-Garbrah

Division Manager
African Development Bank

Biography

Nana Spio-Garbah is a chief financial analyst at the African Development Bank responsible for leading the Client Solutions team. Her division focuses on driving financial innovation in AfDB-led transactions through the use of risk mitigation instruments including local currency, insurance, guarantees and derivatives. She also leads the AfDB’s balance sheet optimization initiatives which seek to risk share on the Bank’s seasoned loans with public and private sector counterparties as part of the institution’s exposure management strategies. She has worked on the structuring of large-scale public and private sector infrastructure transactions throughout her 12-year career at the AfDB. Prior to the Client Solutions division, she has worked in various other departments including Treasury, Resource Mobilization and External Finance and the energy sector PPPs origination team.

Prior to joining the AfDB, she worked for Deloitte Consulting as a Senior Consultant in the Public Sector practice where her main clients were the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Justice Departments.

Ms. Spio-Garbrah holds a M.Sc. in Finance and Development from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a bachelor’s degree in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS).

Speaker at these events:

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2024

• Promoting sustainable development in African sovereigns: How are governments addressing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals?

Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2023

• Rehabilitating the African debt capital markets: How to trigger the return of international bond investors to the continent