Mr. Abah Ofon is Senior Manager, Export Development Advisory, at the African Export-Import Bank, a pan-African multilateral trade finance institution created under the auspices of the African Development Bank. Mr. Ofon has over 24 years’ macroeconomic, commodities, trade and research experience in financial markets in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Prior to joining Afreximbank, he was lead analyst at the London firm Agribriefing, head of agri- commodity research and Africa economist for Standard Chartered Bank’s global franchise based in London, Dubai, Singapore and Malaysia. He has provided advisory services on

commodity markets to some of the largest agribusiness names and institutional clients including hedge funds and central banks.