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Runa Alam

Founding Partner and CEO
Development Partners International LLP
Runa Alam is founding partner and CEO of Development Partners International LLP, a leading pan-African private equity fund advisor based in London. Previously, she was chief executive of Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management and a director of the AIG Infrastructure Fund, managed by Emerging Markets Partnership. She has 25 years of investment banking, emerging market management, and private equity experience and has devoted her career to investing in emerging markets.

Ms. Alam serves on the boards of such leading African companies as United Bank for Africa, Eaton Venture LLP, and Letshego Holdings Ltd., and she is a former board member of Celtel.

Ms. Alam holds a BA degree in International and Developmental Economics from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She was a Harry S. Truman Congressional Scholar.