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Aubrey Hruby is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. 

Hruby is co-founder of Insider and the Africa Expert Network (AXN) and is the former managing director of the Whitaker Group, an Africa-focused advisory firm that has helped facilitate more than $2 billion in capital flows to Africa. Hruby has consulted extensively in over twenty-five African markets and routinely advises senior policymakers and Fortune 500 companies. Hruby sits on the board of Invest Africa USA, the private sector advisory board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the boards of two dynamic Nigerian companies. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Young Leader at the Milken Institute. 

Hruby teaches at Georgetown University and is the co-author of The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse. She earned an Executive MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and BAs in economics, political science and international relations from the University of Colorado.