Vice President, Product Solutions & Sustainability
Africa Finance Corporation
Kome is a Vice President in the Structured Product Solutions team at the Africa Finance Corporation, a multilateral development finance institution established to help address Africa’s infrastructure needs with an investment portfolio of US$12+ billion. Her key knowledge areas include project development and principal investing across the power, heavy industries, telecoms, transport, climate finance, mining, and oil and gas business areas.
Her primary responsibilities include structuring sustainability linked sovereign and corporate funding solutions while also leading the corporation’s sustainability initiatives across both development and climate impact areas. She has also significantly contributed to the successful closing of both equity and debt transactions across Africa with a total value of US$6+ billion. Kome’s responsibilities also include managing co-investment opportunities with the US$10 billion Green Climate Fund and representing the AFC as a lab member of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance.
Prior to joining AFC, she worked at Kaizen Venture Partners in Lagos and at Goldman Sachs in New York and London.
She holds an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering (with a Specialization in Architectural Design Engineering) from Stanford University, California, USA.
Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa 2024
