Alice Usanase is a sovereign and institutional capital strategist with 20 years of experience spanning infrastructure investment, capital mobilisation, economic diplomacy and regional integration across Africa and the Global South. Her work sits at the intersection of capital, governments and markets — mobilising institutional investment, building sovereign partnerships, and translating strategic priorities into investable opportunities across frontier and emerging markets.

At Africa50, a pan-African infrastructure investor and asset manager, she leads corporate development and strategic initiatives, with a focus on scaling the institution’s investment platform, developing new vehicles and partnerships, and mobilising African and global capital for infrastructure. She also acts as the CoS the Group CEO, helping shape and drive the institution’s highest-priority strategic mandates.
Previously at the Africa Finance Corporation, Alice mobilised more than $2 billion in sovereign equity and institutional capital — diversifying AFC’s shareholder base across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond, including AFC’s first non-African member state — and structured a financing portfolio exceeding $5 billion across Egypt, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, and Senegal. She led the largest membership expansion in AFC’s history, growing from 17 to 46 countries through treaty-level negotiations with 29 African governments, contributing to AFC scaling its balance sheet from $4 billion to $10 billion within five years.
Earlier at the World Bank Group and IFC, Alice worked on regional trade policy and economic integration across East Africa, including frameworks supporting the East African Single Visa and cross-border energy reform.
Alice serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Equitable Transition and was recognised as a WEF Young Global Leader in 2024. She is co-author of Infrastructure Financing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Best Practices from Ten Years in the Field.