Head of Product Development – Botswana Stock Exchange

Mr. Bolokwe has served as the Acting CEO of the BSE [May 2024-March 2025], overseeing more than P700 Billion in listed instruments. He has over 15 years’ capital markets experience tenured in Botswana, South Africa and United States of America, in asset management, investment brokerage and the stock exchange. He is the Head of Product Development since 2016, responsible for leading the diversity of the Exchange in terms of products, issuers, liquidity, capital mobilization, commercialization, regulatory reforms and elevating the BSE’s standing on the global financial stage.

Mr. Bolokwe holds a Degree in Finance and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Botswana. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analysts (CAIA) Charterholder and has completed level two of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program, both administered from the USA. He has graduated from the George Washington University School of Business, USA, with a Graduate Certificate in Capital Markets and subsequently undertaken graduate internship at MarketAxess Corporation in New York, USA, focusing on emerging and frontier debt markets as part of his training under the International Finance Corporation-Milken Institute Capital Markets Program, of which he is an alumnus. Mr. Bolokwe is currently reading for a Doctorate in Management.

Mr. Bolokwe serves as the Secretary General of Botswana Bond Market Association, and is a Board Member of Okavango Diamond Company, a rough diamond marketing company that is wholly owned by the Botswana Government.