About Joe DiVanna

With over 35 years of business and banking experience, Joseph DiVanna is the Managing Director of Maris Strategies a Cambridge-based strategy consultancy and think tank for business and financial services.

Author, Speaker, Thinker & Strategist

A strategist for numerous banks, technology companies and multinational businesses, Joe is also a prolific author and regular contributor to global and regional publications on finance, his views on economics, banking and emerging markets can be read in The Banker, Financial World, FT, New Horizons, FinWeek (South Africa), Malta Business Weekly, Islamic Business & Finance (Dubai), and Middle East Banker (Dubai). A frequent commentator on CNBC (Europe, Africa, Middle East), Citi7-TV, Dubai One, and Summit-TV he is considered an expert on banking, economics, human capital management, emerging markets and Islamic finance.

Joe provides cutting edge thinking on banking and financial services with a focus on emerging markets. Joe’s lectures and industry speeches can be heard at numerous industry events on banking, financial services, Islamic finance, emerging markets, economics, innovation, human capital management and leadership.

Joe has lectured at the following institutions of higher education:

  • Harvard Law School (Harvard University)
  • Møller Centre, Churchill College (University of Cambridge)
  • All Souls College (University of Oxford)
  • Herriot-Watt University
  • Gordon Institute of Business Sciences (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
  • Dubai University College (United Arab Emirates)
  • University of Jordan (Jordan)
  • Strathmore University (Kenya)

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