Why the Global South Is the Centre of the Future

For the past twenty years, I’ve worked across continents — from London to Lusaka, from Doha to Kigali — building relationships with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and governments. Not as a consultant or banker in the traditional sense, but as someone who actually listens to the needs of emerging markets and then builds toward those needs.

I’m fascinated by building a financial infrastructure for the Global South — one that understands culture just as much as compliance.

See, the problem isn’t that people in Africa, Latin America, or Southeast Asia lack ideas. It’s that the systems built in the West weren’t designed for them. The very architecture of global finance is colonial by nature — built to extract, not empower.

So, I decided to stop trying to retrofit those systems. I have been working on how do we start from scratch. How do we build a bank built for the Global South, with technology at its core and cultural intelligence in its DNA.

How do you use artificial intelligence not just for credit scoring or KYC automation, but to understand the nuances of identity in markets where formal data is scarce — but trust is everything.

I believe in systems that respect the complexity of humanity. What I’ve found, over and over again, is that success in emerging markets has nothing to do with copying what worked in New York or London. It’s about building something original — grounded in the reality of Nairobi or Dakar.I don’t buy into the idea that Africa needs saving. What it needs is tools. Capital. Infrastructure. Respect.

People ask me why I care so much about this. And my answer is simple: I believe we’re all connected. Not in the soft, spiritual sense — though I do think there’s truth in that. But in the hard, practical sense. The next century will be shaped not by what happens in Washington or Brussels — but by what happens in Bogota, Jakarta, Dhaka. The world just hasn’t caught up to that truth yet.

My writing on this website forms a small part of my wider journey — a lifelong fascination with understanding and exploring how culture, technology, and consciousness shape the world we live in, and a search for evidence that far more connects us than separates us.

Through my work at Tintra Group and The Tintra Foundation, incredible teams are turning that exploration into practice — reimagining finance and development for a multipolar world.