About

Mr. David Bamlango is group vice president, deputy managing director, and general counsel of TDB Group and is the Group’s chief legal officer, advising TDB Group’s management and governing bodies on various legal, regulatory, and policy issues and leading its legal services department. He co-chairs TDB Group’s executive management board. He also serves as Co-Chair of several statutory committees of the bank and provides senior and strategic oversight to TDB Group’s asset management business.   

Mr. Bamlango has over 18 years of extensive experience as a banking, legal, and finance professional. Prior to his appointment at TDB Group, Mr. Bamlango was a partner in the Finance Practice Group of DLA Piper LLP in Chicago, in the United States. 

He is a member of several industry bodies and has served on numerous boards, including current service on the boards of TDB Group subsidiaries Eastern and Southern African Trade Advisers Limited (ESATAL) and Trade and Development Fund (TDF). He also serves on the global board of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), the largest voluntary professional organisation of in-house lawyers in the world with over 40,000 members, as a director and treasurer. He is an independent director and board chair for Congo Energy Solutions Limited, a Mauritius‑based solar-power development and distribution company operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo through its subsidiary Nuru S.A.R.L.  

Mr. Bamlango holds a Juris Doctor degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law, at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in business law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a License in Law from Université Lille 2, and a Graduate in Law from Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs in Goma. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the State of Illinois. He is fluent in English, French, Swahili, and Lingala.