Matthew T. Mitro

Matthew T. Mitro is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Indego Africa (IA). Mr. Mitro’s founding vision for IA is to use the power of social enterprise to transform the lives of economically-vulnerable but highly-skilled artisans in Africa. Mr. Mitro has a longstanding interest in African development, stemming from his six years living in Nigeria and his personal experience working with African women.

Mr. Mitro’s professional training includes three years spent as a practicing attorney at Akin Gump LLP in Washington, D.C., where he coordinated the legal aspects of financing large-scale infrastructure projects in developing countries such as Bolivia, Morocco, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prior to joining Akin, Mr. Mitro was a federal law clerk in the Eastern District of Virginia and spent time in the U.S. Departments of State and Justice working on international legal issues.

Mr. Mitro graduated magna cum laude from American University’s Washington College of Law in 2003 and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from Washington University in St. Louis. He has conducted published legal research on the topic of combating exploitative child labor through the global trading system and is conversational in French and German. Mr. Mitro is a Fellow of the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics and the StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation, where he focuses on social entrepreneurship in Africa. Mr. Mitro has traveled to more than 60 countries, living extensively in seven countries on four continents.

In August 2011, Mr. Mitro joined Google as a University Program Specialist for the Middle East & Africa. Mr. Mitro is responsible for building out Google’s strategic hiring programs and acting as Google’s ambassador at target academic institutions across the region. Mr. Mitro was recently recognized by Devex as one of ‘40 under 40 International Development Leaders in London.’