Mariam Doumbia

Mariam is the COO & Operating Country Director of OKO in Mali, an innovative Startup providing mobile-based crop insurance products and financial inclusion solutions to smallholder farmers in emerging markets, using mobile technology. She also led the Mali Startup Act, a co-created initiative between the private sector and the government, aimed to implement incentive frameworks for the creation and growth of startups in Mali. She served as Senior Program Manager at DoniLab, a business Incubator, where she piloted Mali’s first private sector initiated Agribusiness Incubation centre. She was previously with CrossBoundary, an International advisory firm, she worked on a partnership with USAID in Mali, to prepare local agribusiness companies to become investment-ready and raising capital for them on the local and international markets.