Category: Profile

Ranked in the Forbes 2023 list of America’s richest self-made women, 38-year-old Iman Abuzeid is the CEO and co-founder of Incredible Health, a company she set up in 2017 to help solve the nursing shortage plaguing American hospitals. Her fortune is estimated at 350 million usd. Incredible Health, explains Forbes, works like an enhanced version […]

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced, on June 5, that RwandAir CEO Yvonne Manzi Makolo has assumed her duties as Chair of the IATA Board of Governors (BoG) for a one-year term, effective from the conclusion of the 79th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Istanbul, Türkiye on 5 June.  Yvonene Manzi Makolo is the […]

Hugues Kenfack, a native of Cameroon, has been re-elected President of Toulouse Capitole University on Thursday 1 June. He was elected for a 5-year term, renewable once. Hugues Kenfack, says the University of Toulouse, was elected by an absolute majority of the 33 members of the Board of Directors present or represented. He received 28 […]

Dr. Boghuma Titanji, from Cameroon, is the winner of the Health Care Innovator/Researcher Award as part of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2023 Health Care Heroes programme. The Health Care Heroes awards recognise doctors, nurses and innovators. Boghuma K. Titanji, MD, MSc, DTM&H, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases […]

As well as being appointed Managing Director, the Congolese banker will also be head of corporate and investment banking at Standard Bank DRC. She replaces Amedeo Anniciello, who retired in March 2023. Standard Bank is one of the largest investment banks in the DRC. It has injected more than $300 million into the Congolese economy […]

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum and Peter Piot has been honoured for their tireless commitment to health. The ceremony took place on Sunday 21 May, during the high-level opening session of the 76th World Health Assembly. The Global Health Leaders Award was established in 2019 by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He presented the two winners with […]

Following a comprehensive national search, explains a press remease, Morgan State University President David K. Wilson and Provost Hongtao Yu, have appointed a new dean of the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P).  Distinguished global professor Abimbola O. Asojo, Ph.D., will take lead of the rising architectural school, effective August 2, 2023. She is only […]

The South African Football Association (SAFA), has announced on May 8 the appointment of Ms Lydia Monyepao as the Association’s new CEO. She is the first female Chief Executive Officer of the SAFA. Lydia Monyepao holds a Masters in Sports Management from Loughborough University in the UK, obtained during her playing career ; a BCom […]

Joe Chialo has been appointed during the session of April 27, 2023, during which, the House of Representatives of Berlin elected the new Mayor-Governor of Berlin, Kai Wegner. After taking the oath of office as the reigning mayor of Berlin, he appointed the members of his government (Berlin Senate). The Senate of Berlin (in German: […]

Alberto Mendes has been appointed to head “Sociedade de Gestão e Participações Financeiras S.A.R.L”, a holding company with a portfolio of 64 companies, which is the financial arm of the country’s ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). Prior to his new appointment, he was chairman of the board of Grupo Simples, which […]

The Beninese entrepreneur and the young South African writer are among the four winners of this year’s World Literacy Awards, which were presented on April 3 in London. Alain Capo-Chichi was awarded for “significant contribution to literacy by an individual”, while Stacy Fru received her award for significant contribution to literacy by a young person. […]

The African Development Bank has announced, on April 4, the appointment of Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, a Cameroonian national, as the new Vice President for its Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery complex. The appointment is effective from the 1st of April 2023. Before her appointment, Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade was Acting Vice President for the complex, and Director […]