Keletsosiste Olebile

Mr. Keletsosiste Olebile currently serves as Acting Chief Executive at the Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC). He has served as Executive Director, Strategy and Competitiveness at BITC, where he was responsible for Economic and Market Research, Corporate Strategy Management, Corporate Performance Monitoring, and Records & Information Management. Mr. Olebile previously served at several reputable institutions including Bank of Botswana as Banking and Currency Supervisor, the University of Botswana as Assistant Manager, Financial Services, African Alliance International as the Unit Trust Administrator, Letshego as General Manager of the Insurance Subsidiary, Legal Guard, Barclays Bank of Botswana as Strategy and Planning Manager, and Botswana International Financial Services Center (IFSC), as Strategy and Research Executive.

Mr. Olebile is currently responsible for coordination of the financial services cluster development activities in Botswana, including the International Financial Services Center (IFSC) revitalization project. In July and September 2017, working with a team from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED) and Botswana Unified Revenue Services, he presented Botswana’s submission to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Forum on Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP), where the team defended Botswana’s level of compliance with Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) standards. Mr. Olebile currently serves as a non-executive director for Selebi Phikwe Regional Economic Diversification Unit, (SPEDU (Pty) Ltd), and the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA). At SPEDU, he chairs the Board Tender Committee, and is a member of the Board Projects and Investment Committee. At NBFIRA he is a member of the Board Finance and Audit Committee, and a member of the Board Licensing and Enforcement Committee. He is qualified with a Bachelor of Accountancy (BAcc), and a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA).