Africa Together 2017

Programme

• Master of Ceremony: Henry Bonsu - Broadcaster and Conference host

• Opening Address: Dr. Adam Branch, Incoming Director, Centre of African Studies & Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge

• FIRST KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
  Dr. Nadir Mohammed - Country Director, GCC Countries, Middle East and North Africa, The World Bank Group

(TEA BREAK)

• PANEL 1: IT and Infrastructural Development in Africa

• Mr. Okomboli Ong’ong’a - Partner, Pan African Housing Fund

• Mr. Solo Nnanna - Executive Director at RLGW.co

• Ms. Eunice Baguma Ball - Founder and Director, Africa Technology Business Network

• Mr. Thione Niang - Founder of Give1 Project and Co-Founder of Akon Lighting Africa

• MODERATOR: Mr. Peter Burdin, BBC/ peterburdinafrica.co.uk

• PANEL 2: Life Science and health

• Professor Christian Happi - Director, Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases/ Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard

• Dr. Mark Attah - Associate Postgraduate Dean, NHS Health Education East of England; Medical Adviser, NHS England

• Dr. Yemisi Bokini - Lead Researcher, Daily Run Africa

• Dr. Anne Makena - Programme Coordinator, Africa Oxford Initiative, University of Oxford

• MODERATOR: Mr. John Birchall, Editor, The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies
  

• PANEL 3: Investing in Africa, despite a World in Transition

• Mr. Ade Adebajo - Global Head, Sub-Saharan Africa Coverage (ex-SA), UBS

• Mr. Michael Losembe - COO, Makeba Money and Former CEO, Banque International Pour l’Afrique au Congo

• Mr. Kene Ejikeme - Co-head Sales-Trading and Trading EMEA, Goldman Sachs

• Ms. Chantele Carrington - COO, Africa Business Group, PwC

• MODERATOR: Mr. Peter Burdin, BBC/ peterburdinafrica.co.uk

• PANEL 4: African Higher Education - old problems, present challenges, future perspectives

• Mr. Gossy Ukanwoke - Founder, Beni American University, Nigeria and President, Edutech

• Professor Corli Witthuhn - Vice Rector (Research), University of the Free State, South Africa

• Ms. Sarah Roe - Director, Global Career Company

• Professor Denis Nzonkatu - Secretary General (Academic) of The Higher Institute of Statistics, Kinshasa

• MODERATOR: Mr. Victor Emma-Adamah, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

(NETWORKING LUNCH)

• SECOND KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
  Zeinab Badawi - BBC; Chair, Royal African Society
  

• PANEL 5: Women in Leadership

• Dr. Pauline Long - Broadcaster, Fashion Designer and Public Speaker

• Ms. Esiri Agbeyi - Partner, PwC Nigeria

• Ms. Carol Ibe - Founding President, JR Biotek Foundation

• MODERATOR: Ms. Aisha Wamala, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

• PANEL 6: Lusophone Africa - Economic Development and the Private Sector within the Portuguese-Speaking African Countries

• Mr. Armando Cabral - Senior Partner, McKinsey Angola

• Ms. Anne-Marie Dias Borges - TV Journalist, BBC

• Mr. Miguel Carneiro - CEO, Baia de Luanda

• Mr. Hugo Borges - Regional Market Head Africa and Europe Private Banking, Standard Chartered Bank

• MODERATOR: Ms. Vanuza Pereira Bravo, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

(TEA BREAK/NETWORKING)

• PANEL 7: Governance and Rule of Law

• Mr. Peter Biar Ajak - Member, National Economic Team South Sudan and Director, Center for Strategic Analyses and Research (C-SAR), Juba, South Sudan

• Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou - Professor, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

• Ms. Lilian Monteiro - Former Political Risk Analyst, Lusophone African Countries, IHS Markit

• MODERATOR: Dr. Michael Eze, Department of Politics, University of Cambridge

• THIRD KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
  Dr. Yonov Frederick Agah, Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

• FOURTH KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
  Mr. Rui Barros, CEO and Executive Board Member, Barclays Bank Mozambique

CLOSING REMARKS & VOTE OF THANKS

WINE RECEPTION/BOOK TABLES/PARTNERS’ FAIR/NETWORKING

EVENING GALA, MURRAY EDWARDS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE