By sector

Business Services

/ Ivory Coast

Ensuring insurance for growing middle class
Ensuring insurance for growing middle class

Bernard Asso Abouo

CEO of La Loyale and Co-founder of Globus

Finance

/ Ivory Coast

Finance fueled by improved services
Finance fueled by improved services

Jean-Louis Menann-Kouame

Managing Director of La Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l’Industrie de la Côte d’Ivoire (BICICI)

Telecom & IT

/ Cote d'Ivoire

Digital solutions for smart, streamlined government
Digital solutions for smart, streamlined government

Nongolougo Soro

Managing Director of the National Informatics Development Company (SNDI)

Large reserves to maintain energy leadership

Energy

/ Cote d'Ivoire

Large reserves to maintain energy leadership

To meet mounting domestic and external energy demand, Côte d’Ivoire plans to tap offshore hydrocarbon

Agriculture & Fisheries

/ Ivory Coast

World’s cocoa capital gets taste of a more sophisticated sector
World’s cocoa capital gets taste of a more sophisticated sector

Massandjé Touré-Litsé

Director General of the Coffee-Cocoa Council

Abidjan seeks dominance

Logistics

/ Cote d'Ivoire

Abidjan seeks dominance

Port expansion will make trade easier for landlocked neighbors

Logistics

/ Ivory Coast

Chinese investors find regional anchor in Côte d’Ivoire’s main port
Chinese investors find regional anchor in Côte d’Ivoire’s main port

Hien Sie

Director General of the Port of Abidjan

Transport

/ Cote d'Ivoire

Next stop, expanding transport links
Next stop, expanding transport links

Gaoussou Toure

Minister of Transport

Women ride rising tide of gender equity

Economy

/ Maldives

Women ride rising tide of gender equity

More female leaders are in positions of power than ever before, challenging traditional views of the role