Magatte Diop

Magatte Diop, Founder and President of Peacock Investments, is an accomplished banker and a confirmed entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in international finance and management. Mr. Diop has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Stern Business School at New-York University. In 1997, he founded a Life Insurance Company and a Real Estate Development Company. Between 1993 and 1997, he was the Managing Director of a consulting firm which he founded after he had left CitiCorp where he served as the Vice President and Regional Director of Citibank/CitiCorp for West and Central Africa.

He is decorated with the medal of merit by the Republic of Senegal. Mr. Magatte Diop is the President of the African Chamber of Commerce in New York and is very active in a number of initiatives aimed at promoting commerce and investments between the United States and Africa. He was a board member of IntraHealth North Carolina, an $800 million NGO with presence in 24 countries. He is the Founder of a think tank called CERSSEM (Center for Strategic Studies for the Emergence of Senegal) to participate in the formulation of new economic policies for the development of Senegal.