Papa Ndiaye

Papa Madiaw Ndiaye is the Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner of AFIG Funds.
He leads the strategic direction of the Fund, manages LP relationships and oversees the investment process as Chair of the Investment Committee.
Papa serves on the boards of several African companies including AFIG Fund’s investee companies.
He is also a board member of AVCA, the Africa PE association.
Prior to AFIG Funds, Papa was Co-Founder and Investment Director at Emerging Markets Partnership in Washington (EMP, now ECP).
He was one of three partners to raise and manage the USD 407 million AIG African Infrastructure Fund, which when launched in 2000, was the largest ever pan-African Fund.
Before EMP, he worked in IFC’s investment department covering financial institutions in Africa between 1996 and 2000 and helped launch several landmark funds in Africa.
Papa spent the early part of his career on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers and later joined JP Morgan’s Emerging Markets Group in 1992.
In 1994, he launched JP Morgan’s securities trading in Africa and the Middle East.
In 2000, Papa was named Special Advisor for Economic and Financial Affairs to the President of the Republic of Senegal and Chairman of the Senegalese Presidential Economic & Financial Advisory Council.
In the same year, he launched MIDROC BVI, a direct investment vehicle for Sheikh Mohammed Al-Amoudi, a lead investor in the AIG African Infrastructure Fund.
He holds an M.B.A.
degree from the Wharton School of Business, an M.A.
in International Affairs from the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute, and a B.A.
in economics from Harvard College.
In 2004, he was selected as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum of Davos and then as one of the ‘’Frontier 100 CEOs’’ of the Initiative for Global Development in 2009.