Coura Carine Sene

Coura Sene is an executive leader with over 20 years of experience in the mobile money, telecom and insurance industries, spanning multiple geographies. She currently serves as Wave Mobile Money’s General Manager (GM) for the WAEMU region. Coura’s stewardship has led to Wave’s explosive growth in Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire and increasingly, rest of Francophone West Africa. As GM for the region, she is responsible for licensing, policy, new products, talent management and scaling operations. Ms. Sene has a master’s in engineering and is a graduate of the prestigious Polytech Polytech’Lille, University of Lilles, in France. She is passionate about technology and the power of Fintechs in driving economic transformation on the African continent.