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in 2013 and is a member of the WEF’s as serving as an industry expert to the African magazine, he has visited some 50 Council on Youth Unemployment. WEF’s Mining & Metals Industry Group countries across Africa and the world, and Léautier holds a PhD and Master of – an advisory body providing strategic worked on over 100 brands, gaining an Science from MIT, and graduated the advice to leading global mining and incomparable perspective and knowledge Executive Programme at Harvard University. extractive industry companies. on building brands and reputations. She is a Distinguished Professor at Sciences He is a recipient of a Dangote Fellowship As a transformational brand architect, Po in Paris and holds an Honorary Doctorate awarded by the WEF for young Africans Ikalafeng has led the development of in Humane Letters from North Central selected each year for their outstanding leading African national, city, corporate, College in recognition of her contribution to leadership, professional accomplishments consumer, political and institutional brands Africa’s development. She has been named and commitment to society. that shape the continent’s own brand and among the top 100 most influential people in His experience includes lecturing by reputation. These include: Brand Ghana Africa and holds the title of Nkosuohemaa – invitation at Harvard University, MIT, and Brand South Africa, the South African Queen of Development. London School of Economics, Oxford rail network Transnet, the Universities University, IE Business School, the of South Africa (UNISA) and Botswana Dr Martyn Davies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the (UB), Zambia’s Zanaco Bank, Africa Green African Development Bank, the OECD, Revolution Forum in Tanzania and the the European Commission, the British successful political branding campaigns for Parliament and the World Bank. Presidents Atta Mills and John Mahama of Davies is widely published in academia Ghana in 2008 and 2012 respectively. and has written for the Financial Times Ikalafeng is a Non-Executive Director and the Washington Post among many of Mercantile Bank Holdings, Brand South other publications, and is a regular media Africa, WWF South Africa (WorldWideFund commentator for the BBC, CNBC, CCTV, for Nature), South African Tourism, and Al Jazeera, Reuters and AFP. Chairman of Brand Finance Africa, a division He is a Senior Fellow at the of Brand Finance plc. He has served on all MasterCard Centre for Inclusive Growth notable industry bodies and is the Founder – a group comprising leading international and Chairman of the Brand Africa and Public economists, which advises MasterCard’s Sector Excellence initiatives. top management on global macro- Prior to establishing Brand Leadership economic issues. He is also a member 10 years ago, Ikalafeng distinguished Dr Davies is the CEO of Frontier Advisory – of MasterCard’s Africa Knowledge himself as an Executive Director and Chief a leading research, strategy and advisory Panel providing strategic advice to the Marketing Officer for Nike Africa, growing firm specialising in emerging markets. He MasterCard Board. the business over 450%, and earning has advised a large number of multinational more than 75 local and global awards, companies on their strategies in Africa and Thebe Ikalafeng including 10 Cannes Lions and the Institute other emerging markets. of Marketing Management’s ‘Marketing Davies was selected in 2010 as a Company of the Year’ Roll of Honour. Young Global Leader, an honour bestowed Under Ikalafeng’s guidance, Brand by the World Economic Forum annually to Leadership has been recognised as recognise the world’s most distinguished, ‘Marketing Services Agency of the Year’ and nominated, young leaders under the by Finweek magazine (SA) and acquired age of 40. He has chaired both public and several global awards for ‘Effective Brand private sessions at the World Economic Transformations’ by REBRAND 100 (USA). Forum, including a session at the Forum’s Ikalafeng was named a ‘Top 10 Thinker annual meeting in Davos. in Marketing’ in an Ipsos survey and is Davies is a member of the WEF’s one of the ‘Top 10 Africans To Follow On Global Agenda Council on China, the Twitter’ awarded by How We Made It In world’s foremost intellectual network that Africa website. helps inform the Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, as well as set the direction for For more information on the 2014 global, regional and industry agendas. Ikalafeng is arguably the foremost global AMC Summit and Exhibition go to In addition, Davies has been an Advisor African branding and reputation architect, www.africanmarketingsummit.org. Please to the WEF’s ‘Emerging Best Practices advisor and author. Named one of the note that speakers may be subject to of Chinese Globalizers’ initiative, as well ‘100 Most Influential Africans’ by New change due to unexpected circumstances. Third quarter 2014 strategicmarketingafrica 37 36-37 Membership News v5.indd 37 2014/06/26 12:22 PM