Biography

Idrissa DIOP is the Director Compliance of Afreximbank since June 2019. Afreximbank is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt and is a the second largest African DFI, owned by the African states and specialised in trade finance. Before joining Afreximbank, Idrissa was the Group Head Compliance of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the Pan African bank headquartered in Lome, Togo, holding company of the Ecobank group present in 36 African countries, Paris, London, Dubai and Beijing.

Before his African exposure, Idrissa worked during 9 years in Luxembourg where he worked at Schroder IM (Luxembourg) and Amundi Luxembourg as Senior Compliance Manager, and as Senior Internal auditor at Société Générale Bank & Trust (SGBT) as a senior internal auditor. Idrissa started his professional career in France where, during 5 years, he worked for Amundi France (formally Credit Agricole Asset Management) and then collaborated with the CIC Est bank in Strasbourg as an internal auditor.

Idrissa studied in France. He holds a Bachelor of Finance from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris I), a postgraduate degree in Finance from the Cergy-Pontoise University, a Master degree in Internal Audit from the Rene Descartes University (Paris V), a university degree in Islamic Finance from the University of Strasbourg and finally diploma on leadership transition from INSEAD Business School.