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Policy Adviser, Covington & Burling LLP

1 / 1 Public Policy Adviser: Covington & Burling LLP; Former head: Public Sector Finance and BEE, Deutsche Bank Baba Mashologu Baba Mashologu is the former Head of Public Sector Finance and Black Economic Empowerment at Deutsche Bank AG (South Africa) ("DB"), and a former member of the Executive Committee of DB. He joined Deutsche Bank in 2010 and has extensive investment banking experience in South Africa having entered the industry in 2001 until 2021. Baba’s investment banking experience straddles traditional M&A and Global Markets, respectively. On the M&A side, he has been involved in a number of significant acquisitions, disposals and capital raisings across various sectors. On the Global Markets side, he has been involved in, amongst others, a number of sovereign and State Owned Enterprises debt issuances approaching USD10BN in aggregate value. In recent times, Baba’s career has pivoted towards Public Policy and since 2022, he practices as a Policy Advisor with Covington & Burling LLP. His work involves supporting blue chip clients, both South African and foreign, in their Government Relations with regulators and the Executive across the African continent in order to enhance inward investment into various African markets and to protect large scale investments from adverse policy actions and enforcements. In this regard, Baba has been active in assignments in key markets in West Africa (Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Niger, Mali) as well as Central and East Africa (DRC, Kenya, Rwanda). Baba is a former President of the Association of Black Securities & Investment Professionals (2009 -2011). He is a former Board member of the Financial Services Sector Charter (2010 – 2011) and a Member of the DTI Advisory Panel on BBBEE (2009 – 2012). He is a Fellow of the seventh class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa, known as Dinatla (meaning “Giants” in Southern Sotho) and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.