Embi Irene Akiy is a digital and transformation executive with one of Africa’s regional services provider. She has over 20 years of working experience, starting off with regional development agencies, including UNDP Africa. She spent the last 15 years with big pan African and global banks where she held diverse leadership roles with Barclays Africa, Absa group and Standard Bank. Playing a pivotal role in driving digitization of the bank’s channels and products, extending their reach via agency banking models and digital inclusive banking solutions.
Irene holds a LLB (hon.) from University of Buea, Cameroon, an MA and MBA from Wits University and Milpark Business schools in South Africa respectively and an Executive master’s in digital and transformation leadership from the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.
Irene is a wife and a mother to 3 children.