AGC Working Group

Etemore Glover is the Chief Executive Officer of the Impact Investors’ Foundation (IIF), where she leads national efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s impact investing ecosystem and mobilize private capital for social and environmental transformation. With a solid background in financial services—spanning retail, corporate, and investment banking at FBN Merchant Bankers Limited and Zenith Bank PLC—she brings deep strategic and operational expertise to her development-sector work. Her earlier role as Executive Secretary of the Knowledge Exchange Centre (KEC) involved championing entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and inclusive economic growth. Etemore holds degrees in Economics and Education from Ahmadu Bello University, an MBA from the University of Leicester, a Postgraduate Certificate in NGO and Development Management from the University of East London, and a Certificate in Impact Investing from the Said Business School, University of Oxford. A recognized thought leader, she serves as an SDG Impact Standards Consultant and mentors young women through WISCARS and Kilali Tribe in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. She is a recipient of the Women Achievers’ Africa Changemakers Award and the Peak Performer Admirable Women in Leadership Award (2025).

Venan A. Sondo is a sustainable finance specialist with over 20 years’ experience integrating ESG and climate risk into financial systems and policy in Africa and unlocking alternative funding via sustainable finance mechanisms. He pioneered the Sustainability and Climate Change Practice for PwC in West Africa, where he notably led the development of Ghana’s Sustainable Banking Principles with the Bank of Ghana. He is a Certified ESG Trainer/Practitioner and Chartered Environmentalist , advises public authorities on sustainable finance, circular economy, and green policy frameworks. He Leads the TA Facility for ShEquity, supporting women‑led and climate‑smart ventures to become investment‑ready and access aligned capital across the continent

Jewel N. Thompson, MBA, is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of entrepreneurship education, cultural theory, and ecosystem development in Africa. Her work focuses on how Africa's diverse sociocultural realities shape entrepreneurial behavior and the design of innovation systems. She is Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Concentration Lead at Ashesi University, where she leads the flagship Foundations of Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship course, an experiential first-year program that immerses students in human-centered design, venture experimentation, and real-market validation. Her current doctoral research explores how intra-national cultural variation across Ghana's regions shapes entrepreneurial behavior and innovation patterns, contributing to emerging frameworks for context-sensitive entrepreneurship education and policy. Jewel co-developed the Ashesi Venture Incubator as part of the NEXT: Idea to Impact project, a collaboration with MIT D-Lab, which has catalyzed over $600,000 in follow-on funding for emerging ventures and now serves as a cornerstone of the Ashesi Entrepreneurship Center. She co-authored the Ashesi Education Collaborative Incubation Hub Guidebook, a practitioner resource that has shaped entrepreneurship education across five countries: Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Kenya. As visiting faculty at Tetr College of Business, she extends this practice-grounded pedagogy to a new generation of business students working in Africa. Her ecosystem-building work reflects the same cultural intentionality. She led a cross-sector team of African leaders to develop African Women Amplified (AWA), a digital platform designed to close the knowledge and funding gap facing West African women entrepreneurs, translating her research insights on structural exclusion into a scalable community infrastructure. Jewel serves on the ANDE West Africa Steering Committee and has contributed to the Halcyon Africa Food and Climate accelerator program. She is a former World Economic Forum Global Shaper, West Africa Acumen Fellow, and INSEAD Hoffmann Institute Alumna. She has been honored as a Georgia State University 40 Under 40, Atlanta Power 30 Under 30 and a Fast Company World Changing Ideas Honoree. Her work has been featured in NBC Nightly News, Reuters, and Business and Financial Times. She holds a dual Global MBA from Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson School of Business and the Sorbonne IAE Paris School of Business, with advanced international business and social enterprise certificates from Coppead Business School (Brazil) and INSEAD. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Ghana Business School.

Tafadzwa Daphne Judith Chiganga is a Zimbabwean venture builder and the Founder and Principal of Muzambiringa, a pan-African venture studio supporting high-potential entrepreneurs in frontier markets. Her work sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, finance, and ecosystem building, with a strong focus on women, youth, and climate-conscious ventures.She has been recognized globally for her impact, including as a 2025 Forbes 30 Under 50 Women honoree for her work in business and entrepreneurship, a 2025 Crest Africa 30 African Women in Business awardee, and the ASEB Immigrant Ecosystem Builder Champion 2024. In Sierra Leone, she was further honoured with the Opportunity Salone Trailblazer Award by the ILO, European Union, and Government of Sierra Leone for her leadership in MSME development and inclusive market systems.