Speaking
Panels, conferences and teaching
A regular speaker at Global Trade Review events in London, Geneva and across Africa, and at ITFA, BAFT and development finance conferences.
Coming up
10 November 2026
GTR Trade Finance Investor Day
Bridging banks and capital markets: new models for a new asset class
London
Recent and selected
September 2026
Trade Finance Conference of the Parties (TF COP)
Panel speaker
Split, Croatia
May 2026
GTR West Africa
Panel on trade finance assets, African financial institutions and domestic capital
Lagos
April 2023
GTR West Africa
Conference chair and moderator
Lagos
November 2022
GTR London Africa
The African trade gap and the ITFA white paper launch
London
November 2022
ExCred Africa
Speaker
2021
Bayes Business School (formerly Cass)
Lecturer, trade finance course
London
2017
Global Trade Development Week
Speaker
Singapore
Speaker kit
For event organisers
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Short biography
George Wilson is a trade finance banker and former barrister with more than 25 years in law, investment banking and African trade finance. He built institutional trade finance businesses at Absa and Investec and chaired the ITFA African Regional Committee from 2022 to 2025. He is Chief Executive Officer of the ARM Africa Trade Development Fund.