Conversations designed for decisions.

Serah Makka

The Conversation Architect

Moderator. Interviewer. Strategic facilitator.

We design conversations that leave leaders clearer,
audiences moved, and organizations with an agenda
they can actually execute.

Conference audience listening attentively

Microphone at a podium facing a conference audience

We don't moderate conversations.
We architect them.

Conversations designed for decisions, not just discussions. A great conversation isn't an event. It's an instrument, built to produce the next move.

Conversation as infrastructure, not entertainment.

Most panels fill an agenda. We build ours to change one.

Three principles

Clarity before consensus.

A room that agrees too quickly hasn't been asked the hard question yet.

Every voice, one direction.

Diverse perspectives are a strength only when architected to converge.

Design the outcome before the invitation goes out.

What should be true when this ends that wasn't true when it began?

Not just moderating.

Building the agenda through conversation.

Executive & Public Interviews

One on one conversations that surface the decision behind the headline.

High Stakes Panel Moderation

Multi stakeholder panels engineered so competing interests leave aligned.

Leadership Retreats & Strategy Sessions

Closed door facilitation that turns ambiguity into a working agenda.

Policy & Multilateral Dialogues

Structured conversations for governments and global institutions, built to produce a communiqué that reflects a real decision.

Keynote Speaking

On development finance, the cost of capital, health financing reform, and Africa's place in the global economy.

Who we work with.

Businesses

Navigating strategic
inflection points.

Philanthropy

Setting the funding
agenda.

Government &
multilaterals

Shaping
policy.

Leadership teams
on retreat

Who need a facilitator,
not a note taker.

Two decades inside the rooms where decisions get made.

Executive Director, Africa Advocacy, The ONE Campaign

Helped anchor the cost of capital for Africa on the G20 agenda.

Nigeria Country Director

Secured $153M in government commitments to rural healthcare.

Presidential Delivery Unit, Office of the Presidency

Built the roadmap. Ran the room.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Master of Public Policy.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow.

Global Top 35 Under 35, International Affairs.

Not a moderator hired to keep time.
A strategist who does the work out loud.

Full profile on LinkedIn

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G20 Summit, Johannesburg, 2025

Advocacy that helped anchor Africa's cost of capital agenda inside the G20's 2025 to 2030 Africa framework.

(RED) Talks at UNGA, New York

One on one with Roche's Dr. Allan Pamba on health sovereignty in Africa.

Hamburg Sustainability Conference

Invited speaker: health financing, climate justice, economic reform.

CGD / African Development Bank, Nairobi

Panelist on multilateral development bank reform and Africa's financing priorities.

GIZ Partnership Dialogue, Berlin

Moderated a cross institutional conversation on open source health financing tools.

Read the latest on LinkedIn

Project Syndicate

"The Cost of Capital Is a Public Health Emergency for Africa," with Rosemary Mburu.

Regular columnist

On Africa's financing and development agenda.

Published research

"The Feminization of Poverty," on microfinance's role in poverty reduction.

Hire the conversation, not just the moderator.

Every engagement starts with one question:

What needs to be true on the other side of this conversation?

From there, we architect the format, the questions, the room.