Kobina has unique skills for researching complex business, social, and public policy issues and presenting them in engaging ways—combining analytical depth with storytelling flair—through writing, graphs, graphics, social media platforms, and videos.
Most recently, he has been an Associate at London-based Kina Advisory, where he’s helped clients, mostly infrastructure companies doing business in Africa, design and implement their social investment strategies and shared their stories. Immediately prior to his Kina work, Kobina served as Strategic Communications Adviser, based in Accra, for the Pan-African think tank, African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), where he led the global launch of the first African Transformation Report, with events in six countries and media coverage in New African, Jeune Afrique, Economist, Politico and many other major channels. (www.acetforafrica.org) At the World Bank in Washington, DC, he created the Governance for Extractive Industries platform, www.goxi.org. GOXI has since grown to become a vibrant community of almost 4,000 professionals working in governance of the extractive industries. Before the World Bank, he served for three years as the U.S. Corporate Affairs Manager for De Beers, the diamond mining company.
Outside the “office,” Kobina pursues his passion of making documentary films on social issues (www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Kobina holds a B.A. in Broadcast Communications from Barry University in Miami and a Master’s in Public Policy with specialization in Trade and Finance from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.