Yavi Madurai

To say Yavi Madurai has a ‘multifaceted’ career is an understatement.
Reinvention is her life philosophy.
Her passion for Africa and activism for gender economic and technology equality is the cornerstone of who she is.
With a foundation of a stellar corporate career, she became an entrepreneur in 2011.

Today, she combines her Technology expertise, her passion for Africa’s economic transformation, and her specialism in AfCFTA Trade Policy, to become one of the continent’s leading Government Advisors.

Her background in Media, Reputation Management and Communications holds her in good stead as she navigates the continent and the African diaspora to mediate funding and investment for Africa’s infrastructure development and industrialization.

She fortified her activism by founding impact organizations as contributors to the SDG’s:
1. Country (I AM South African)
2. Continent (PABWA)
3. Global/Planet (TechEqual)

She believes that strategies designed for “IMPACT & SUSTAINABILITY” ensure our planet has a future.
She only works on projects that are disruptive and drive diversity and inclusion, with digital technologies as an enabler for sustainability, especially as it relates to women & youth empowerment, and environmental protection.

With a resume par excellence, she has trained/lectured to >10 000 people in her career history, which spans 25 years as a Corporate Executive, Board Member, Strategist, Technologist, Entrepreneur, Government Advisor, and of course a Justice and Rights Activist.

Africa knows her best as a Media Analyst for the biggest broadcasters: CNN Africa, Newzroom Afrika, SABC, eNCA, TBC, UBC, Ghana TV, Metropol TV, Primedia 702, PowerFM, NMG, to name but a ‘few’.