NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Andrew Apampa, CFA, is a Manager in the Content team at Convergence, the global network for blended finance, where he develops data and research activities, including building out Convergence’s database of historical blended finance transactions and developing blended finance trends analysis and benchmarks. Prior to joining Convergence, Andrew worked at the African Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as a Research Associate. While there, he inaugurated the Special Report series, publishing in-depth studies on thematic issues within African private equity, such as political and currency risk in African PE, and the rise of the private credit industry in Africa. He also worked at HSBC, where he focused on frontier equity markets and worked on the European Equity Strategy team and the Global Research Marketing team. Andrew completed his master’s at the University of Cambridge with his thesis on protest and mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa.