Yousif Yahya is an MBA candidate at the University of Oxford (Saïd Business School) and a Skoll Scholar. He serves as Co-Chair of the Oxford Africa Business Alliance and President-elect of the Oxford Sudanese Society, where he works at the intersection of business, policy, and institution-building.
Yousif is the Founder of Savannah Innovation Labs, advising and investing in startups across Africa with a focus on frontier markets, post-conflict reconstruction, and blended finance. His interests include Africa–Gulf investment corridors, financial inclusion, digital public infrastructure, and the role of private capital in state-building and economic transformation.
