Serge Ekue

Kemi Ajumobi

June 2, 2026

Serge Ekue
President, West African Development Bank

Serge Ekue is the President at West African Development Bank (BOAD). The bank’s objectives are to promote the balanced development of its member states and to achieve economic integration in West Africa. It also includes raising domestic funds to finance development initiatives and stimulating the regional capital market.

Drawing external resources into the region is core among the missions assigned to the bank and under Serge’s administration, the bank has lived up to her values.

This remarkable feat of excellence in aligning to the goals of the bank didn’t start for Serge today, in fact, in the first six months of office, from September 2020 to the end of March 2021, the bank granted Union economies a total volume of financing of 256.1 billion FCFA (390 million euros) for 24 projects in finance and insurance (38.2%), transport, energy and sanitation infrastructure (35.8%), health and education (12.1%), industry (7.8%) and agriculture and rural development (6.1%).

Serge is a confident and proficient professional. He is globally recognised for his expertise in financial and capital markets. He was head at Natixis’ Capital Markets activities for the Asia-Pacific region between 2010-2016, before assuming the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong-based bank.

Serge has over two decades of professional experience in international and structured finance with global footprints to show.

He is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux and holds a post-graduate degree in Banking & Finance from Paris V University and an Executive MBA from HEC Paris.

He is also the President of International Development Finance Club (IDFC), an association of like-minded development banks, where members operate within the framework of development policies of their respective countries and assist their respective governments in fulfilling their national and international commitments, and within the framework set forth by their constitutive documents.