Africa Development Conference 2025

An Ivorian entrepreneur specializing in cybersecurity and the digital sector, Franck Kié is managing partner of Ciberobs Consulting, a consulting firm specializing in cybersecurity, and the founding president of Ciberobs – Make Africa Safe, the first African observatory and information portal dedicated to cybersecurity, created in 2019. He is also founder of the Cyber Africa Forum (CAF) since 2021 and joined the Kaydan Group, in October 2022, as Managing Director of Kaydan Digital, with the mission of developing mini data center parks across the African continent.

A graduate of École de Guerre Économique in Paris, New York University and the University of Warwick in the UK, Franck Kié began his career as a corporate finance consultant with Deloitte in Côte d’Ivoire, with assignments in Abidjan and Johannesburg.

Franck Kié has been named Young Leader 2021 by the French-African Foundation, is one of the laureate of the Choiseul Africa 2022, 2023 and 2024 awards, and was awarded the 3rd National Award of Excellence by the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire for the best contribution to the popularization of digital uses through CAF.