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Laurent Bien Legbane
PhD · Chairman
Biography

Strategic architect of an African finance at the highest international level.

Laurent Bien Legbane, PhD — international financial leader based in London, operating at the crossroads of the world's major financial centres and emerging economies.

Laurent Bien Legbane — official portrait

Laurent Bien Legbane, PhD

Laurent Bien Legbane is a leading international financial executive, recognised for his expertise in structured finance, top-level strategic advisory and mobilisation of capital at global scale.

As Global Chairman of CFBANQUE INVESTMENT, he embodies the strategic vision of the Group and ensures its coherence at the international level. He oversees global orientations, defines development priorities and ensures alignment of all activities with the most demanding standards of governance, compliance and institutional performance.

His role goes beyond traditional governance: he acts as a strategic architect of the institution, structuring a model built on excellence, credibility and execution capacity in sophisticated financial environments.

In parallel, as Chairman of Chartered Financial Investment, he leads a platform dedicated to investment, advisory and financial engineering — playing a central role in structuring investment flows between international capital markets and African economies.

Career

An international trajectory

Today
Global Chairman
CFBANQUE INVESTMENT
Today
Chairman
Chartered Financial Investment
Previously
Vice President
Goldman Sachs · Emerging Markets
Previously
Associate Director — Risk
McKinsey & Company
Education

International academic excellence

PhD
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Finance & global markets
MBA
HEC Montréal
Leadership & strategy
Master in Finance
ESSEC Douala
Corporate finance
Financial Engineering
American University
Modelling & structuring
Expertise

Five areas of excellence

A positioning built on connecting local opportunities with global sources of funding.

01
Structuring of complex financings and capital-markets transactions
02
Mobilisation of international capital (equity, debt, hybrid instruments)
03
Strategic advisory: governments, financial institutions, large corporates
04
Risk management & robust governance frameworks
05
Development of investment platforms with international reach