Board of Directors

Director: Olivier Musafiri

Olivier Musafiri is the Project Manager Anglophone Africa. In his role, he is responsible for the design, implementation, monitoring and reporting for trade-related activities in the region. Olivier has solid project management experience from different countries in Africa and Canada. This includes working as a Program Manager for UN Women’s regional program where among other things he coordinated bilateral projects between UN Women and the governments of Rwanda, Burundi and DRC on cross border trade, agriculture and value chain initiatives. Recently he has worked as Gender Advisor with Vets without Borders Canada for its programme in Kenya and in South Sudan with the Canadian Midwives Association as Field Operations Officer. Olivier has outstanding experience in gender mainstreaming and capacity building, results based monitoring and evaluation with a number of different donors including Global Affairs, USAID, UN agencies, Norway and NEPAD. Olivier speaks over 5 languages including French, English and Swahili and holds different degrees from business including “Disruptive Strategy” Executive Education from Harvard Business School.