Full Name
Dr. Mima Nedelcovych
Job Title
Chairman
Company
AfricaGlobal-Schaffer
Speaker Bio
Dr. Nedelcovych is the Founder and Chairman of AfricaGlobal Schaffer, a strategic consulting firm focused on project development, project finance, trade facilitation, and public-private partnerships in developing countries, with a particular focus on Africa. AfricaGlobal Schaffer (AfGS) is a project developer and boutique consulting firm that provides advisory services to a number of corporations with interests in agro-industry, renewable power, oil and gas, and major infrastructure investments. AfGS has also provided advisory and consulting services to a number of African governments, US government agencies and international financial institutions.
He sits on numerous corporate and non-profit Boards of Directors, including West Africa LNG, Vista Bank Guinea, Vista Insurance Guinea, Agbeyewa Farms Nigeria, Ltd., Fayus Inc., the Corporate Council on Africa, and Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI). He is a former member of the US EXIM Bank Sub Saharan African Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the MCC Global Advisory Council.
Dr. Nedelcovych served in the Administration of President George Bush from 1989 to 1993 as the U.S. Executive Director to the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. He was instrumental in formulating and executing the "private sector initiative" at the AfDB, including the African Business Roundtable and the African Export-Import Bank. Prior to being named Executive Director to the AfDB, Dr. Nedelcovych held the position of Principal at Arthur Young's International Consulting Group, specializing in privatizations and private investments in Africa.
After completing his term at the AfDB, Dr. Nedelcovych joined the Schaffer Global Group (SGG) as a Group Partner. For the Schaffer Group, he led the new project development and financing for a number of agro-industrial projects in Africa and Central America (primarily in the cane sugar and rice sectors) and was the lead Partner in the establishment of the Markala Sugar Project in Mali, serving as the Chairman of the Société Sucrière de Markala. To represent Schaffer interests, he was «seconded» as Country Director of Buchanan Renewables (BR) in Liberia, a renewable energy business based on biomass harvested and processed from old economically redundant rubber trees.
In 2018, he merged AfricaGlobal, an advisory group, with Schaffer Global, an EPC engineering firm into AfricaGlobal Schaffer and became its Chairman. The two companies combined have successfully executed nearly 1000 projects in 25 African countries. Most recently, the company has developed the West Africa LNG project in Guinea, the Sun Africa solar project in Angola, the Agbeyewa Farms cassava plantation and the Fayus oil palm plantation, both in Nigeria.
Dr. Nedelcovych received a BA in Political Science from Yale University, an MA in International Relations from George Washington University, and a PhD in Comparative Political and Economic Development from Florida State University (in conjunction with Mohamed V University in Morocco). He speaks Serbian, French, Spanish, and Italian fluently, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.
He sits on numerous corporate and non-profit Boards of Directors, including West Africa LNG, Vista Bank Guinea, Vista Insurance Guinea, Agbeyewa Farms Nigeria, Ltd., Fayus Inc., the Corporate Council on Africa, and Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI). He is a former member of the US EXIM Bank Sub Saharan African Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the MCC Global Advisory Council.
Dr. Nedelcovych served in the Administration of President George Bush from 1989 to 1993 as the U.S. Executive Director to the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. He was instrumental in formulating and executing the "private sector initiative" at the AfDB, including the African Business Roundtable and the African Export-Import Bank. Prior to being named Executive Director to the AfDB, Dr. Nedelcovych held the position of Principal at Arthur Young's International Consulting Group, specializing in privatizations and private investments in Africa.
After completing his term at the AfDB, Dr. Nedelcovych joined the Schaffer Global Group (SGG) as a Group Partner. For the Schaffer Group, he led the new project development and financing for a number of agro-industrial projects in Africa and Central America (primarily in the cane sugar and rice sectors) and was the lead Partner in the establishment of the Markala Sugar Project in Mali, serving as the Chairman of the Société Sucrière de Markala. To represent Schaffer interests, he was «seconded» as Country Director of Buchanan Renewables (BR) in Liberia, a renewable energy business based on biomass harvested and processed from old economically redundant rubber trees.
In 2018, he merged AfricaGlobal, an advisory group, with Schaffer Global, an EPC engineering firm into AfricaGlobal Schaffer and became its Chairman. The two companies combined have successfully executed nearly 1000 projects in 25 African countries. Most recently, the company has developed the West Africa LNG project in Guinea, the Sun Africa solar project in Angola, the Agbeyewa Farms cassava plantation and the Fayus oil palm plantation, both in Nigeria.
Dr. Nedelcovych received a BA in Political Science from Yale University, an MA in International Relations from George Washington University, and a PhD in Comparative Political and Economic Development from Florida State University (in conjunction with Mohamed V University in Morocco). He speaks Serbian, French, Spanish, and Italian fluently, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.
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