Chair - Lade Araba
Lade leads Financial Services at the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) where she oversees AFAP’s USD 40m trade credit guarantee programme. She joined the REPP Board as our Chair in May 2025.
Lade also serves as a non-executive director of African Risk Capacity (ARC) Ltd, where she chairs the finance and investment committee; is a director of MPower Ventures and is the Co-Founder/President of the Visiola Foundation.
Previously, Lade has been a Sustainable Finance Consultant with UNDP Namibia; Executive Director of AlphaMundi Foundation; and Managing Director for Africa at Convergence Blended Finance. She has also been a technical adviser to a former Minister of Finance and was a Senior Investment Officer at the African Development Bank, where she originated a portfolio of infrastructure projects valued in excess of USD 2 billion.
Lade holds a MBA from Thunderbird and a dual Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems and International Business from the University of Oklahoma.