Nadia KARIMU-YESSOUFOU, or Nadiaka as she is popularly known, is the founder and director of the Nadiaka fashion company. Her firm designs, makes, and sells tailored clothing and accessories.

After securing a diploma in IT, she worked shortly as attaché commercial at DHL International in Lomé but ended up turning to her passion.

Today, she is a flagbearer of the Made-in-Togo with her company offering products to both national and international firms. Also, she has organized numerous top-level fashion and design shows (Reavision, Afrimania, Nadiaka Africa). She actively participated in the Lomé Confinement Show at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak in Togo.

N’ripandra Oumar TIWARI is the boss of STEEL CUBE TOGO Sarl, a subsidiary of HCURE IMPEX LLP, a company that makes iron rods. The firm employs around 100 people and the businessman plans to diversify and open factories operating in other sectors in Togo.

After spending 8 years revitalizing the National Health Insurance Institute (INAM), Myriam DOSSOU-D'ALMEIDA is since October 1st, 2020, the Minister of Grassroots Development, Youth and Youth Employment. A graduate of the Institut Africain d'Assurance de Tunis and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers de Paris where she obtained an MBA in insurance company management, the boss of the INAM has solid experience in the world of insurance. She held positions of responsibility at GTA-C2A IARD and NSIA before being appointed head of the government agency.

Mila Aziable, 29, was recently appointed Minister Delegate to the President of the Republic, in charge of Energy and Mines.

Before that, she was working at GRTgaz, the French gas transport leader and a subsidiary of ENGIE, the world's third-largest energy group. She was a gas operations engineer. In the government, she replaced Marc Ably Bidamon, who has been holding the position since 2015.

She completed high school in Lomé and obtained a BAC C4. After enrolling at the National School of Engineering of the University of Lomé (ENSI), Mila Aziablé was awarded a scholarship for excellence and flew to Metz.

In 2012, Mila Aziablé obtained an engineering degree in mechanical engineering at the National Engineering School of Metz (ENIM). She was then accepted the following year by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. At Mines ParisTech, she specialized in Gas Engineering and Management.

Very shortly, he was an economic advisor to President Gnassingbé Eyadema in the 1980s. Since then, Michel Nadim KALIFE has become a key player in the African economic debate. Regularly consulted on monetary or macro-economic issues, the economist of Lebanese origin does not miss any opportunity to remind Togolese and African leaders of their responsibilities in curbing corruption and how African economic policies should be oriented. His latest interventions have focused on the end of the CFA and the creation of the single West African currency. As the anti-CFA movement gains ground, he remains a fervent defender of the currency.

Michel Bagnah is a telecoms expert, with an MBA from ESSEC and an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris. In 1989, he started his career at Accenture. He then took the helm of the "new technologies, object language, artificial intelligence" cluster in 1994.

He moved to Partner in 2002 and became Head of Business Solutions for Enterprises at IBM Global Process Services. In February 2018, he launched Téolis, Togo's third Internet Service Provider, and is the chairman of its board of directors.

The company initially offered internet services for domestic use only but it has been expanding its activities. Now, businesses and individuals have access to Téolis's offers, and the firm eyes the international market and remote areas of Togo.

Mazamaesso ASSIH is barely 40 years old but plays a key role in Faure Gnassingbé's development policies. She is the head of the secretariat in charge of financial inclusion and the informal sector.

Her career, built around health insurance and risk management for actors in the informal sector, began in 2011, in Paris at the Italian company Générali. Between 2013 and 2014, she moved to the FGTI/FGAO (a guarantee fund) in Paris. After this, she returned to Togo and joined the National Fund for Inclusive Finance (FNFI) as an Insurance Manager.

Back home, she rose very quickly through the ranks, taking top positions within the FNFI which now spearheads the President's ambition to end poverty. It was in 2017 that the former ESA (Ecole Supérieure des Assurances) graduate took over the Secretariat in charge of financial inclusion and the informal sector.

Her initiatives contributed to Togo having one of the best inclusion rates in the WAEMU. Involved in politics as well, Mazamaesso ASSIH is the Deputy General Delegate for the youth in the ruling party, the Unir.

A chartered accountant with more than 25 years of experience in auditing and consulting, Maryse ADOTEVI is currently managing partner of Deloitte Togo. Her education and professional experience provided her a strong knowledge of African market. From elementary school in Dakar, through middle school in Côte d'Ivoire and high school in Douala, where she obtained her baccalaureate, Maryse ADOTEVI has come a long way.

With a Master's degree in economics and management of small and medium-sized systems from the University of Quebec and a diploma in accounting and financial management, she is now the head of Deloitte TOGO. Maryse ADOTEVI is also a member of the National Order for Chartered Accountants, ONECCA-TOGO.

Recently ranked among the most influentialbusiness lawyers by the Jeune Afrique magazine, Martial AKAKPO is the head of Martial AKAKPO & associés, a law firm founded a few years earlier by his father Charles AKAKPO, after a rich career as a teacher and magistrate.

Specialized in International business litigation in particular, with a focus on corporate financing and capital markets, he also assists his clients on the new OHADA markets. The law expert helps Togolese firms regarding financings provided by international institutions such as Proparco, the IFC, or the AfDB. Doctor of Law, Martial AKAKPO also holds an executive Master’s in corporate finance and capital markets from SciencesPo Paris and a university degree in international business litigation.

Member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, he mostly teached maritime litigation.

Marius Latif KERIM-DIKENI is a Franco-Togolese designer, one of the ambassadors of Togolese fashion internationally.

The promoter of the clothing brand Mario Exclusive, a 100% Togolese brand, has conquered, through his one-of-a-kind models, the hearts of famous personalities such as President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Koffi Olomidé, King Mensah, the Toofan, soccer stars like Habib Beye, Patrick M'boma or Malick Traoré.

From Abidjan, where his largest store is located, Lomé, Ouaga, Dakar, Bamako, Kinshasa, Paris, and Brussels, the founder of the clothing line with "ethnic" content is making his mark. Eager for more, the entrepreneur wants to expand to Brazzavile, Kigali, New York, and Tokyo.

The secret of this success lies, he confides, in the quality of the fabrics (the kenté, generally woven by hand) he uses.

Besides fashion design, KERIM-DIKENI also heads Tendances Events, a communication company.