Career
Discover Guy Gweth's career, biography and education, as well as his recognized expertise in economic and strategic intelligence serving African sovereignty.
A recognized authority
in competitive intelligence
Dr. Guy Gweth is an international figure in competitive and strategic intelligence. He chairs the African Center for Competitive Intelligence (CAVIE) and directs the external offices of the German Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW) in Benin, Cameroon, Gabon and Togo. He is also the founder and Chief Operating Officer of Knowdys Consulting Group (KCG), a consulting firm specializing in competitive intelligence, due diligence and public affairs in Africa.
Since 2012, he has led the Doing Business in Africa program at CentraleSupélec in France.
A graduate of the École de Guerre Économique (EGE) in Paris, the Centre d'Études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques (CEDS) in Paris, the Institut International de Communication de Paris (IICP) and the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of the University of Yaoundé II, he is a member of the Simone Veil cohort of the Executive Doctorate in Public Affairs (EDPA) at Université Paris Dauphine.
He is or has been a lecturer in African geostrategy, strategic intelligence and due diligence at the Institut des Études de Défense Nationale (IHEDN) in Paris, EGE, ESG Paris, BGFI Business School in Libreville and the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
Regularly interviewed by international news outlets such as RFI, France 24, Deutsche Welle, Les Afriques, Forbes Afrique, Financial Afrik, La Tribune Afrique and Maroc Diplomatique, he has been a speaker for A-speakers and Glamspeak since 2016. Guy Gweth was named by the 2020 Financial Afrik Awards among the 100 people transforming Africa.
Key career milestones
CentraleSupélec
Director of the Doing Business in Africa program.
Founding of CAVIE
Creation and chairmanship of the African Center for Competitive Intelligence.
Financial Afrik Awards
Named among the 100 people transforming Africa.
BVMW Afrika
Director of the external offices in Benin, Cameroon, Gabon and Togo.
Integration at ENAM
Inaugural lecture and integration of comppetitive intelligence into the curricula of the National School of Administration and Magistracy.
Institutional references
He has notably supported and trained the teams of:
Publications
Over the past 15 years, he has written nearly a thousand articles and several reference books.
Puissance 237: For a Regional Power Strategy 2025-2050
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100 Chronicles of Economic Warfare: 15 Years of Monitoring and Competitive Intelligence
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How Artificial Intelligence Improves the Performance of African Public and Private Actors
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