Sabine Mensah

Sabine Mensah has over 25 years of leadership experience in financial inclusion, digital payment systems and mobile money across multilaterals and the private sector in Africa, US, and Canada. Since July 2021, as the Deputy CEO, Sabine oversees AfricaNenda’s policy, advocacy, and capacity development efforts through strategic partnerships, convenings and thought leaderships. Prior to AfricaNenda, Sabine served 6 years as Regional Digital Hub Manager for the United Nations Capital Development Fund UNCDF in West and Central Africa, working on financial inclusive and digital economy. She successfully drove UNCDF’s global digital infrastructure workstream during her tenure. Sabine also consulted for the mobile money industry in Africa working with telco groups such as Millicom and consulting firms such as MicroSave Kenya and Anthemis UK. She built 15 years expertise in the remittance industry in Africa, US, and Canada with the Western Union Company. As the Regional Director responsible for domestic and international remittances at Western Union Canada, she specialised in agent network management and remittance product design. Sabine is a Certified Digital Finance Practitioner by DFI, and an alumna of the Institut Franco-Américain de Management in France and Central Michigan University in the US. She is bilingual English-French.