Tarek Mouganie

Tarek Mouganie is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and the Founder and Group CEO of Affinity Africa, a digital bank that provides affordable and accessible services to micro, small and medium sized businesses. Affinity's contribution has been profound, with nearly 90% of their customers previously unbanked, over 60% of whom are women operating in the informal sector. Tarek was previously a Director at Man Group where he managed a portfolio of investments within the $160 billion global investment fund. He started his career as an academic at the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PhD in Physics at the age of 21 and is currently an Entrepreneurship Tutor at the University of Oxford. Tarek is committed to entrepreneurship and the creative industries as a means of enabling social and economic development. He is the creator of Front/Back, a pan-African social venture that nurtures and promotes musicians and artists from Africa and its diaspora and he sits on the board of 1-54, the largest fair dedicated to contemporary African art. He is the co-founder of the Ghana Triathlon Federation after serving as a national athlete and placing top 10 in a number of World Championships. Tarek is also a 2022 Tutu Fellow, part of the African Leadership Institute.