Pawou Batana is a key figure in the Telecom industry in Togo. A brilliant student, he received the Phi Kappa Phi award which is awarded to the best students in the US. In 1991, Pawou Batana started working at Togo Telecom where he stayed over a long period before slowly starting his own business in 2003.

In 2006, the DePaul University graduate quit Togo Telecom to fully focus on his company, IPNET EXPERTS SA, an IT solutions provider which also includes a computer engineering training centre. In 2018, this center became an IT university. BATANA is well known in the region when it comes to IT projects.

A journalist and fact-checker, he holds a master's in web journalism from Ecole supérieure de Paris. Noel Kokou TADEGNON is well known in the Togolese media sphere. The Nukafu kid started in radio but ended up focusing on web journalism.

He launched one of the first online media in Togo, Médiatogo, and won in 2008 the Highway Africa Digital Journalism Award.

Co-founder of TogoCheck (a fact-checking platform), he collaborates actively with many international media, such as Reuters, Inter Press Service, Wren Media, and Deutsch Welle. Noel Kokou Tadégnon is the promoter of Vox America in Togo.

This Togolese-American social entrepreneur is the CEO of Alaffia. The latter, well-known in the sector of fair trade (shea butter, coconut oil, etc...), has an estimated turnover of $50 million. It promotes the economic empowerment of women in Africa and Togo particularly.

In 2018, Alaffia and its owner received an Award for Corporate Excellence from the US State Secretary, under the "Women's economic empowerment" category.

The same year, Olowo-N’djo joined the consultative committee on African trade (for 4 years), an entity that provides counseling on trade and development policies related to sub-Saharan African countries, notably regarding the AGOA.

Director general of the Development Education Agency (AED) since 2018, Dammipi Noupokou is closely related to the energy sector in Togo. A former managing director of the country's power utility, the Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo (CEET), and former minister of mines, energy, and water, he has also headed the ministry of transport.

Now, he is an Advisor to the President of the Republic.

Norman Bayi Flore is at the head of Mawugno. Discreet yet strong in character, she imposed herself in a very competitive rice importing sector. Her company sells rice mostly but other food products as well.

Greatly attached to her country, she strongly believes that Togo has a lot of potential and resources which the youth should exploit to fully contribute to national development.

In a few years only, the former minister of agriculture of Togo, Noël Koutera Bataka, distinguished himself as one of the main actors of agricultural reform in the country. With a bachelor's in agriculture, a master's in public affairs, and another degree in public administration, he truly revealed his capacities by advancing the implementation of the risk-sharing based incentive mechanism for agriculture financing (MIFA).

As minister of agriculture, revolutionizing the Togolese agriculture was one of his main goals, one he pursued by connecting the various actors engaged in the sector (banks and farmers) and successfully carrying out agricultural processing projects.

Among other accomplishments, he coordinated the PNIASA and the Global Alliance for Resilience in the Sahel and West Africa (AGIR).

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.