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UK Export Finance Country Heads and London Team - Africa

How to contact UK Export Finance's Country Heads in Africa.

• From: UK Export Finance
• Published: 4 July 2025
• Last updated: 29 August 2025 — See all updates

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All Country Heads and London Teams by Region

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Team Africa (London Office)

Co-head, Global Origination

Emma Thomas

Email emma.thomas@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Regional Head

Francois Pannetier

Email francois.pannetier@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Business Origination Officer, Sub - Saharan Africa

Charlotte Kemp

Email charlotte.kemp@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Business Origination Officer, North Africa

Yasmine Siddiqi

Email Yasmine.siddiqi@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Country Heads by Region

West and Central Africa

Steven Gray

Based at the British High Commission Accra
Julius Nyerere Link, off Gamel Abdul Nasser Avenue
Accra
PO Box 296
Ghana

Email steve.gray2@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Deputy Head

Dimitri Koffi

Based at the British Embassy Cote D'Iviore
Cocody Quartier Ambassades, Impasse du Belier Rue A58
Abidjan
01 BP 2581
Cote d’Ivoire

Email dimitri.koffi@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

East Africa

Isaac Kahara

Based at the British High Commission Nairobi
Upper Hill Road
Nairobi
P.O. Box 30465-00100
Kenya

Email isaac.kahara@fcdo.gov.uk

Southern Africa

Dirk van den Berg

Based at the British High Commission Johannesburg
Dunkeld Corner
275 Jan Smuts Ave
Dunkeld West
Johannesburg
South Africa

Email dirk.vandenberg@fcdo.gov.uk

Morocco

Meriem Bennani

Based at the British Consulate General Casablanca
Villa Les Salurges
36 rue de la Loire – Polo
Casablanca
Morocco

Email meriem.bennani@fcdo.gov.uk

Egypt and Algeria

Mohamed Saad

Based at the British Embassy Cairo
7 Ahmed Ragheb
Qasr Ad Dobarah
Qasr El Nil
Cairo Governorate 11451
Cairo
Egypt

Email msaad@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Published 4 July 2025

Last updated 29 August 2025 + show all updates

1. 29 August 2025

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2. 4 July 2025

   First published.