Kwabena Ayirebi, is Managing Director, Banking Operations at the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank). Afreximbank is the foremost pan-African multilateral financial institution devoted to financing and promoting intra- and extra-African trade. 

Kwabena, joined Afreximbank in September 2017 after 13 years with HSBC as an International Manager, serving in various leadership roles in India, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and UK.

At Afreximbank he has led the development of payments and trade services capabilities which has positively impacted the availability of trade finance for the Bank’s member countries and clients. He loves travelling and in August 2023 undertook a 10,000km “Drive for Digitalisation” from Accra to London raising funds for a charity that is delivering technology interventions in rural Ghana.