Managing Director of Nioto, n°2 of the national employers association, Thierry AWESSO heads the Nioto plant, one of the main companies in the Togolese free trade area. Very committed to SMEs, he regularly confronts decision-makers on the difficulties these companies face in finding capital to carry out their activities. Thierry AWESSO is particularly interested in bank financing and the modernization of agriculture.

Mrs. Tchotcho D'ALMEIDA BOEVI is an important actress in the Togolese private sector. After holding the position of treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Togo (CCIT), she is currently an advisor in the same structure. Mrs. Tchotcho D'ALMEIDA BOEVI always worked for a stronger and more resilient Togolese private sector.

Combetey Combey Djddjolé is a journalist who fights fake news. In 2019, with three other Togolese, he launched Togocheck, a fact-checking platform. In 2020, the platform was ranked by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) as one of the top 30 platforms fighting fake news related to Covid-19.

Six years before launching Togocheck, he founded Africa Rendez-vous, a pan-African news website. After studying in Ghana, he wrote articles for local and international media (such as TV5, France 24, and Aljazeera TV). Passionate about ICT, he started in 2014 the "VendreTic" hashtag.

Selected in 2014 by the Obama administration to pursue courses at Harvard, Sylvio received an award for his coverage of the 2012 US presidential election.

Stanislas BABA is the current head of the MCA cell in Togo, as well as the supervisor of the High Presidential Council for the Sea. In the 90s, he was minister of national education and scientific research, in charge of technical education and vocational training.

Discreet by nature, BABA is renowned even beyond the borders of Togo as one of the country's finest negotiators. That is why President Faure Gnassingbé made him minister advisor on maritime issues, in a context where Togo has started its blue revolution to better profit from its access to the sea. This makes Stanislas BABA a pioneer of the Togolese legislation in terms of maritime regulations. As a negotiator, on behalf of Togo, he led talks at the first forum on the blue economy in Africa, which took place in London. Under his impetus, Togo secured its first MCC threshold program and now aims to validate the compact, which is more important in terms of financing.

One of the few women at the top of a construction company in Togo, Sonia LAWSON is best known for her role in the restoration and rehabilitation of places of cultural value. She was among others in charge of restoring the Palace of Lomé, a living heritage of the Togolese Republic and once the heart of the central power abandoned for nearly 25 years - a job she did amazingly well. The rise from the ashes of this site marked the artistic and cultural revival of Togo. Before that, in 2014, Sonia LAWSON successfully handled the rehabilitation of the Sarakawa-Lomé Hotel.

Born in 1980 in Lomé, Sénamé Koffi AGBODJINOU is an independent researcher, architect, and anthropologist. Throughout his career, this free-thinker piled up awards and attended high-level conferences where he often emphasized the need for Africans to reappropriate African architecture, combine the modern with the traditional, and create a bridge between ancestral heritage and Afro-futurism.

He is the founder of WoeLab, Togo's first fablab, which brings together a network of Togolese grassroots tech-hubs to "make everyone equal in the face of technology." Sénamé is mainly known for launching the HubCité vernacular smart city project, the WoeLab Grassroots incubator, and making W.Afate which is Africa's first 3D printer built from computer waste. In Togo, he is a true pioneer in the domain.

Santiegou Laré DIOG-BATH is the managing director of the Compagnie d'énergie électrique du Togo (CEET), the country's power utility. The 40-year old has solid experience (17 years) in the energy sector and the business environment of Togo. Before joining the CEET, he was director of ContourGlobal Togo, and CEO of BBOXX Capital Togo, respectively subsidiaries of Electricité de France (EDF) and BBOXX Ltd groups. The latter is a figurehead of the Cizo rural electrification project, aimed at providing affordable solar kits to two million people in Togo).

He is currently the Minister of Economy and Finance. Sani Yaya is a seasoned professional in the banking sector with nearly 30 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Benin, now the University of Lomé, a DES in management from Paris 1-Sorbonne, and another degree from the Centre d'Etude Financière, Economique et Bancaire (CEFEB).

Thanks to his impressive academic background, the Togolese financier built up an equally impressive reputation in the region. From 1995 to 2004, he was successively the head of financial services and banking relations at the Société Nationale d'Investissement et des Fonds Annexes, its deputy commercial director, chief of operations and treasury at UTB, inspector and director at the WAEMU Banking Commission.

Sani Yaya joined ETI (Ecobank) in 2006. There, he was in charge of audit and compliance but briefly worked at NSIA from 2012 to 2014. After shortly working at NSIA, he was appointed to turn around and restructure the BTCI, which was then on the brink of collapse. In June 2015, the former Prime Minister, Selom Klassou, called on him to assist the Minister of State, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Development Planning, in drawing up the budget.

On August 1, 2016, as the country was facing some financial difficulties, Klassou appointed Yaya as minister of economy and finance. A winning gamble. During his mandate, Togo's finances were consolidated, the debt was reduced and the nation even ended up being the only one (so far) to meet the WAEMU's convergence criteria. Sani Yaya led Togo to proceed to its first issuance on the international financial markets and it was a complete success. He has been chairing since April 2020 the board of governors of EBID, the ECOWAS' financial arm.

Currently, Minister Advisor to the Togolese President in charge of the Business Climate Unit (CCA) and Secretary-General of the Presidency since September 27, 2020, Sandra Ablamba JOHNSON is the lady behind the major reforms initiated in Togo in recent years to boost the country's economic attractiveness to investors - reforms which seem to be bearing fruit, given that Togo jumped 59 places in the Doing Business (DB) ranking in two years.

An economist by training, this discreet but energetic technocrat is pursuing her mission: that of improving the Togolese administration, making the country more business-friendly, and enabling it to enjoy more economic opportunities.

Samuel MATHEY is a Togolese economist who strongly believes that Africa's salvation lies in entrepreneurship, which is possible even without a dime. An unfortunate candidate for the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, he popularized this view through the African Foundation for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (AFEED). The structure, which he presides, trains and regroups entrepreneurs in African countries, to create African multinationals, among others.

With various degrees, including a Ph.D. in economics from the United States, he teaches in France, the United States, and Africa. MATHEY is also an international consultant and economic advisor to several political figures.