Magdi M. Amin
Investment Committee

Magdi M. Amin is the Founder and Managing Partner of African Renaissance Partners, aninvestment and advisory firm focused on the Horn of Africa. African Renaissance Partners backs tech-focused entrepreneurs, seeking to use technology to solve major development challenges, such as access to finance, renewable energy, logistics, education, health, and agricultural productivity.

Magdi is also an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, teaching a graduate Practicum on Responsible Digital Development.

Previously, Magdi was Head of Corporate Strategy at the IFC, as well as numerous senior roles at the World Bank in East Asia, Africa, and MENA. He was also Managing Director at Omidyar Network within the Responsible Technology practice before joining the Transitional Government of Sudan in January 2000 as a Senior Advisor to the Minister of Finance, where he supported economic reforms to stabilize the economy, regain access to multilateral financial institutions, restructure Sudan’s external debt, and create broad-based growth. He led the design of the Sudan Family Support Program, a large cash transfer program that provided digital cash transfers to approximately five million Sudanese. 

Magdi received an A.B. from Princeton and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

In his spare time, Magdi writes on ancient Nubia, plays the saxophone, and is into CrossFit, though by no means actually fit.