Aubrey Hruby

Co-Founder, Africa Expert Network; Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Atlantic Council

Aubrey Hruby is a Co-Founder of the Africa Expert Network (AXN), Insider PR and an investor in African start-ups. As a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and advisor Fortune 500 companies doing business in Africa, she speaks and writes regularly on African business issues for the Financial Times and Axios. She has interviewed with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg Radio, CNBC, CCTV, and Africa24. Aubrey sits on the board of Invest Africa USA, the private sector advisory board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and two dynamic Nigerian companies. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Young Leader at the Milken Institute. Aubrey teaches at Georgetown University and the co-author of award-winning The Next Africa (Macmillan, 2015). She earned a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a MA from Georgetown University.