Mphokolo Makara, Executive Head, Energy & Infrastructure, Stanbic Bank Kenya

In her role, she provides strategic oversight and interventions to originate, structure and execute transactions across the East Africa region, primarily in the markets in which Standard Bank has a presence, namely, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Her career highlights include her involvement in the 147MW Roggevelt Wind Farm power project under South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP), which saw her team achieve the lowest bid tariff in the history of the South African REIPPP at the time, and being awarded the Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP) Project Financier of the Year in 2016.