Chinwe Ajene-Sagna

Ms. Chinwe Ajene-Sagna is a trusted Advisor, Climate Action Leader for the Built Environment and Board Executive with over 25 years of experience in the real assets/property management industry operating at C-suite levels across the public and private sectors within the US, France, Francophone and Anglophone Africa. She is the Founder & Managing Partner of a full-service real estate firm Catalyst Realty Solutions (CRS), a partner at CSM Advisory, and an adjunct-faculty in the Strategy Department of the Lagos Business School. Chinwe is a green building Expert/Faculty for Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiency (EDGE) by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), LEED Associate (green building certification), a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, and a member of both the UK and Nigeria Institute of Directors (IOD). She serves on the various boards and advisory boards including STANBIC IBTC Real Estate Development Fund (Chairperson of the Investment Committee), Harvard Business School Global Advisory Board, Alpha Mead Group and Facilities, Salus Global for Green Buildings and Sustainable Cities, Africa Proptech Forum (API), Seso Global and AfricaWorks. Previously she was Head of West Africa for JLL, a Fortune 500, NYSE-listed global real estate firm, and Group Head of Business Development Africa for Rendeavour – Africa’s largest private city developers with over 12,000 hectares in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, DRC, and Zambia. Chinwe holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA (High Honors) from Dartmouth College. She is fluent in French, is learning Arabic, enjoys running, travelling and golf, and is married with two children.