WILFRIED AFOPA

Board Chair

Wilfried Afopa is an International Banking Advisor for the U.S. Treasury Department. He joined the Office in 2018 after two years spent in the global compliance division of Citigroup. Overall Wilfried has more than 20 years of experience in the US banking industry and the financial services, including a decade with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the FDIC. Wilfried also founded Sunugal Education Fund, Inc., a Massachusetts-based grass-root organization supporting an elementary school that he opened in the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal in 1999. The school provided basic education to underprivileged Senegalese children. He managed the school and the 501 C(3) non-profit organization until 2005.

Wilfried’s educational background includes a Bachelor degree in Economics from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg France, a Master degree in Applied Economics from Université Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne and an MBA in Finance from Babson College, Wellesley Massachusetts. He speaks fluent French and Portuguese Creole (Cabo Verde Islands).