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The President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com<\/a>), Prof. Benedict Oramah, today in Cairo received the FORBES AFRICA magazine 2023 Person of The Year award.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n At a well-attended award ceremony, which also included the unveiling of the cover for FORBES AFRICA\u2019s December 2023\/January 2024 edition featuring Prof. Oramah as Cover personality, Dr. Rakesh Wahi, FORBES AFRICA Founder and Publisher, and Roberta Naicker, the Managing Director, said that the award recognised the stellar accomplishments of leading Africans contributing to the development of the continent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cWith a career spanning three decades at Afreximbank, Prof. Benedict Oramah is a true pan-Africanist,\u201d said Renuka Methil, Managing Editor of FORBES AFRICA. \u201cIn our almost hour-long interview Prof. Oramah\u2019s stellar track record, coupled with his unbridled enthusiasm, passion, and contribution to the economic development of Africa shone through.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cAmongst many initiatives under his visionary leadership, Afreximbank launched the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) which will be a historic project for cross-border payments in local African currencies. He is a resilient risk-taker and articulated so well what a new united Africa should, and would, look like,\u201d added Ms Renuka Methil.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nominations for FORBES AFRICA Person of The Year are submitted by members of the magazine\u2019s editorial and research teams, including journalists from its bureaus across Africa, and a winner is selected after an Africa-wide review of the prominent contributors to the continent. Prof. Oramah\u2019s name was shortlisted and unanimously adjudged the winner for 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n With the award, Prof. Oramah joins a prestigious list of high achievers who had previously received the award, including Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; Dr. James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Group; Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank; Aliko Dangote, CEO, Dangote Group; Mohammed Dewji, President, MeTL Group; and Thuli Madonsela, former Public Protector of South Africa.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n On 18 November, President Oramah also received the Zik Prize in Professional Leadership at an event in Lagos, Nigeria. He is also the recipient of numerous other awards for his contributions to the development and promotion of trade in Africa, and for the many initiatives he has championed to drive intra-African trade.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Afreximbank.<\/i><\/p>\n Follow us on:<\/strong> About Afreximbank: <\/strong> For more information, visit:\u00a0www.Afreximbank.com<\/a><\/p>\n Source<\/a> The President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), Prof. Benedict Oramah, today in Cairo received the FORBES AFRICA magazine 2023 Person of The Year award. At a well-attended award ceremony, which also included the unveiling of the cover for FORBES AFRICA\u2019s December 2023\/January 2024 edition featuring Prof. Oramah as Cover personality, Dr. Rakesh Wahi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":165795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7b0453e5020596d","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[46131,258,256,6287,377,8504,14373,257,47723,13591,2450,254,6537],"class_list":["post-165794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afreximbanks","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-cameroon-news","tag-emerges","tag-forbes","tag-news","tag-oramah","tag-person","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7b0453e5020596d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAfrican Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is a Pan-African multilateral financial institution mandated to finance and promote intra-and extra-African trade. For 30 years, the Bank has been deploying innovative structures to deliver financing solutions that support the transformation of the structure of Africa\u2019s trade, accelerating industrialization and intra-regional trade, thereby boosting economic expansion in Africa. A stalwart supporter of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), Afreximbank has launched a Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) that was adopted by the African Union (AU) as the payment and settlement platform to underpin the implementation of the AfCFTA. Working with the AfCFTA Secretariat and the AU, the Bank is setting up a US$10 billion Adjustment Fund to support countries to effectively participate in the AfCFTA. At the end of 2022, Afreximbank\u2019s total assets and guarantees stood at over US$31 billion, and its shareholder funds amounted to US$5.2 billion. The Bank disbursed more than US$86 billion between 2016 and 2022. Afreximbank has investment grade ratings assigned by GCR (international scale) (A), Moody\u2019s (Baa1), Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) (A-) and Fitch (BBB). Afreximbank has evolved into a group entity comprising the Bank, its impact fund subsidiary called the Fund for Export Development Africa (FEDA), and its insurance management subsidiary, AfrexInsure, (together, \u201cthe Group\u201d).<\/p>\n
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