Kati Suominen is a Research Fellow at the Hinrich Foundation. She is the Founder and CEO of NextradeGroup and serves as an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Adjunct Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is also the creator and convener of the new Africa Tech for Trade Alliance with the US government’s Prosper Africa initiative and 20 leading technology companies to promote Africa’s trade through technology.Â