Michael Kottoh

Managing Partner - Konfidants

Michael Kottoh is a Management Consultant, Policy Expert & Strategist with years’ experience working for and advising local corporates, multinationals, international development institutions, global charities and governments. He is currently managing partner at international advisory firm Konfidants, where he oversees a network of 40+ Africa-region focused consultants, analysts, advisors and scholars providing client delivery across multiple geographies and sectors. His expertise covers Strategy, policy design, project development, transaction advisory, investment facilitation, Research, and impact evaluation. He has been a consultant to global and regional institutions including the World Bank, IFC, African Development Bank, Ecobank Transnational, Afreximbank, African Union, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He has advised both African and European governments on trade policy, sovereign investment strategies and international development cooperation.

He is a co-founder, chief strategist & head of research at AfroChampions – where he has been active in helping pioneer regional public-private partnerships for African continental integration. He is one of the lead architects of the private sector led “Trillion Dollar Private Sector Investment & Financing Framework for the Implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area” which was endorsed by the Summit of African Union Heads of State in 2020. He is founding Executive Director of the Djondo Fellowship – where led a partnership to launch the “Executive Program in Multinational and Cross-Border Management in Africa” at the University of Pretoria Gordon Institute of Business Science, as part of a broader initiative to support the emergence of more African multinational companies.

Kottoh has led the pioneering of Africa-region industry benchmarking tools & studies. He is project director & co-author of the African Globalizers Index Report – which tracks the global investments of African multinationals across 4 continents; project director & co-author the African Sovereign Wealth Funds Index Report; and co-author the AfCFTA Year Zero Report & Country Rankings of 54 African states implementation capacity for the continental trade agreement. He has a Masters’ in Development from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana and is an alum of the Oxford Leading Strategic Projects Executive Program at the University of Oxford Said Business School. He has been featured by international press including the BBC, Reuters, DW, African Business, CNBC-Africa.