Arif Chowdhury

Arif Chowdhury is the Managing Partner at Sahel Capital Partners & Advisors (SCP&A), the Lagos- and Kano-headquartered Nigerian specialist agribusiness and food private equity franchise that manages the $110M Sahel Capital Agribusiness Fund (SCAF, 2015 vintage) and the $150M successor Fund II (SCAF II, 2021 vintage), with backing from FMO, AfDB, IFC, and the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA). An Ahmadu Bello University Agricultural Economics graduate and Purdue MBA, Chowdhury previously worked for the UN IFAD and the precursor African Agricultural Capital Fund before founding Sahel Capital in 2009. He is a Nigerian Agribusiness Group (NABG) council member.