Mandiaye Beye

Mandiaye Beye is a climate finance entrepreneur, civil engineer and keynote speaker recognised for translating global net zero ambition into delivery on the ground. He is the Founder of Africa Climate Resilience, a climate finance bridge focused on mass afforestation, water access and community-led resilience in Africa and other emerging regions. His most significant achievement is building a model that connects corporate ESG capital, philanthropies and climate funds directly with indigenous, frontline projects, ensuring finance results in measurable carbon reduction and human impact. Mandiaye speaks with authority because he operates at the intersection of engineering, finance and climate action, offering audiences clarity and credibility grounded in real projects rather than theory.

Mandiaye’s early career was shaped by technical training and long-term exposure to complex international delivery. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering before completing a Master of Business Administration, giving him a rare balance of engineering rigour and commercial understanding. His formative professional years were spent in international cost estimating and project management, working across construction, infrastructure and engineering programmes in over 20 countries. During this period, he developed deep expertise in budgeting, risk management, procurement and governance for high-value projects. These experiences also exposed him to the structural inefficiencies in development finance, where capital often fails to reach the communities most affected by climate change. This gap became the foundation for his later work, shaping his belief that climate finance must be practical, accountable and rooted in local realities to succeed.

His career achievements reflect both scale and impact. Alongside founding Africa Climate Resilience, Mandiaye has served for more than a decade as an International Cost Manager at the U.S. Department of State, managing budgets for major international construction projects. Across his career, he brings over 25 years of global project management, monitoring, tracking, reporting and engineering experience, with projects valued up to half a billion dollars. Through Africa Climate Resilience, he has positioned afforestation and reforestation as credible solutions for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, while embedding robust monitoring, verification and reporting standards. His work supports water-first reforestation, indigenous forest stewardship and fruit-bearing tree programmes that deliver food security, income and biodiversity protection alongside carbon sequestration. Mandiaye is also known for advocating climate action in arid zones, where land potential and human need are greatest, reframing afforestation as both a decarbonisation tool and a rural development engine.

Mandiaye is hired as a keynote speaker because he brings realism, momentum and clear direction. He speaks on climate finance, ESG pressure, regulatory risk, natural decarbonisation, Scope 3 emissions and why developing nations are central to credible global climate solutions. Audiences value his direct style and insistence on action over rhetoric, supported by concrete examples such as water-led tree planting programmes that dramatically improve survival rates and community adoption. His keynotes leave leaders with a clear understanding of responsibility, opportunity and urgency, and a practical framework for turning climate commitments into outcomes that last.