Experience

DaMina Advisors

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Global Managing Director & Chief Frontier Markets Risk Analyst

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  Sebastian recently stepped down as the Chairman of the Canada-Africa Chamber of Business, Canada’s largest Africa-focused trade and investment association, to take up the role of Special Trade & Investment Envoy to the African Continental Free Trade Secretariat. He was previously Vice Chair of the Christian Children’s Fund of Canada. Sebastian has since 2010 served as the Global Managing Director and Chief Analyst at the Africa focused risk advisory firm, DaMina Advisors LLP. Sebastian led the US debt capital markets surveillance unit at Thomson Reuters in New York where he provided capital markets advice on over $10bn high yield fixed income instruments. Sebastian led the effort to establish the Middle East & Africa practice at leading global political risk consultancy firm, Eurasia Group in New York, London and Tokyo. He concurrently served as the Africa sovereign risk analyst for a novel global risk index developed by Eurasia Group with Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, and subsequently with Citigroup. Sebastian has over his two-decade career counseled dozens of large global multinationals and asset managers in deploying over $20bn of foreign direct investment into Africa and Asia. Sebastian advised former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission on Africa, as well as the governments of Malta, Canada and the US on Africa policy. A prolific writer and an ambidextrous thinker, he has published extensively on Africa and the emerging and frontier markets. Sebastian has been recognized as one of the world’s leading frontier markets analysts and was voted on Wall Street among the ‘Top 30 under 30 Analysts’ by New York’s Institutional Investor Magazine in 2006. Sebastian holds a B.A (double major) in Economics and Political Science from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA and a Juris Doctor of Laws (J.D) from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Sebastian is a past Fellow of the Washington DC Center for the Study of the Presidency. Show less



The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business

• Canada
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Oct 2021 - Present

• • Feb 2019 - Oct 2021

• • Jan 2015 - Oct 2021



Sekondi 11 Wise Football Club (FC)

• Sekondi-Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana

• Executive Chairman

  • May 2023 - Present



Christian Children's Fund of Canada

• Canada
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Board Of Directors; Vice Chair of Board ('18-'19)

  • Mar 2015 - Jun 2019

  Gained very valuable corporate governance experience as vice chair of the board, member of the CEO search committee and key member of the Audit and Risk Committee during key transformational period for a 60+ year old global charity. Served a full 4 year term as board member and director of the corporation. Gained very valuable corporate governance experience as vice chair of the board, member of the CEO search committee and key member of the Audit and Risk Committee during key transformational period for a 60+ year old global charity. Served a full 4 year term as board member and director of the corporation.



AfricaMiningAsset.com

• Managing Director

  • Jul 2013 - Jul 2015

  Leading Africa-focused frontier markets firm, DaMina Advisors launches the first ever global offshore electronic platform to aid M&A deals for impaired African mining assets -- AfricaMiningAsset.com -- The Secure global electronic platform provides the world’s most comprehensive vetted listings of impaired mining assets in Africa The vetted electronic platform allows distressed miners to list assets while accessing new non-traditional sources of capital Leading Africa-focused frontier markets firm, DaMina Advisors launches the first ever global offshore electronic platform to aid M&A deals for impaired African mining assets -- AfricaMiningAsset.com -- The Secure global electronic platform provides the world’s most comprehensive vetted listings of impaired mining assets in Africa The vetted electronic platform allows distressed miners to list assets while accessing new non-traditional sources of capital



Eurasia Group

• United States
• International Affairs
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Analyst, Middle East & Africa

  • Jan 2005 - Mar 2010



Thomson Reuters

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Associate, Fixed Income

  • Jul 2002 - Dec 2005