- The 2025 version of the Africa CEO Discussion board will collect 2,000 CEOs, traders and public sector leaders from over 75 international locations in Abidjan from Might 12 – 13.
- In a difficult international financial backdrop marked by rising protectionism, diminished improvement support and excessive debt-serving prices, the Discussion board will deal with the prospect of a ‘New Deal’ to strengthen the connection between governments and companies in Africa.
- It’s an agenda that displays the pressing want for progressive approaches to improvement primarily based on robust governance, incentive-based industrial insurance policies, and bolstered commerce integration.
Happening on Might 12-13, the twelfth Africa CEO Discussion board unfolds towards a difficult international financial backdrop marked by rising protectionism, diminished improvement aidand excessive debt-serving prices. But rising alternatives for South-South commerce and funding supply new alternatives for African companies to increase and innovate throughout the African continent and past.
Organized by Jeune Afrique Media group and co-hosted and the Worldwide Finance Company (IFC), the Discussion board will carry collectively 2,000 enterprise representatives and authorities leaders to drive actionable options to those challenges and alternatives. Underneath the theme “Can a New Deal Between State and Non-public Sector Ship the Continent a Profitable Hand?”, the discussion board will deal with optimizing public-private collaboration to advance sustainable improvement.
Discussions will heart on three key pillars to that agenda: enhancing governance, refining public insurance policies, and accelerating the AfCFTA. By innovation and collaboration, the Discussion board goals to strengthen Africa’s financial place on the worldwide stage.
Amir Ben Yahmed, President of the Africa CEO Discussion board, stated:
“The present transactional surroundings provides Africa the last word incentive to take away the limitations nonetheless holding again its personal sector, as no different different can match its adaptive velocity, progressive capability, and strategic agility. That is the core mission of the Africa CEO Discussion board, and we’ll proceed to champion this imaginative and prescient collectively.”
Enhancing governance and accountability shall be key to fostering a business-friendly surroundings, guaranteeing transparency, and enabling simpler decision-making. Public insurance policies should be strategically designed to deal with Africa’s structural challenges, comparable to boosting value-added industries, selling industrialization, and leveraging the continent’s power and labor potential. In the meantime, accelerating the implementation of the AfCFTA is important to unlocking intra-African commerce, bettering infrastructure, and positioning the area as a stronger international financial participant.
The Africa CEO Discussion board will function a platform for high-level debates, negotiations, and workshops, tackling subjects comparable to AI-powered governance, the way forward for African power, provide chain resilience, and the evolving function of native financing in an period the place improvement support is diminishing.
A significant spotlight of this 12 months’s version: The Nice Debate – AfDB Presidential Candidates Go Head-to-Head
For the primary time within the Discussion board’s historical past, the 5 official candidates for the presidency of the African Improvement Financial institution will face off in a high-stakes debate on the way forward for the continent’s main monetary establishment. Moderated by The Africa Report’s Managing Editor, Nicholas Norbrook, this session will see contenders Amadou Hott, Sidi Ould Tah, Swazi Tshabalala, Mahamat Abbas Tolli, and Samuel Maimbo share their imaginative and prescient for Africa’s financial improvement. In a pivotal second for the Financial institution and the continent, these candidates will define their plans for industrialization, climate-aligned infrastructure, and personal capital mobilization — providing a singular alternative to witness management within the making.
“We’re privileged to co-host the Africa CEO Discussion board for the fifth 12 months — a partnership that displays of our dedication to fostering a dynamic and forward-looking personal sector in Africa”, stated IFC’s Managing Director Makhtar Diop. “By advancing regionally pushed options and enhancing their funding readiness, we’re working with Africa’s personal sector leaders to pioneer new and sustainable fashions of progress.”
The Africa CEO Discussion board is the continent’s premier gathering, bringing collectively Africa’s prime executives, international traders, and authorities leaders every year. In partnership with the IFC, this 12 months’s flagship occasion will convene over 2,000 private and non-private sector decision-makers, together with 900+ CEOs.
Confirmed attendees embody : H.E. Alassane Ouattara, President of the Repubic of Ivory Coast; H.E Bassirou Diomaye Faye, President of the Republic of Senegal; H.E. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana; H.E. Taye Atske-Selassie, President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa; Robert Beugre Mambe, Prime Minister, Head of Authorities Republic of Côte d’Ivoire; Kassim Majaliwa Majaliwa; Prime Minister United Republic of Tanzania; Amadou Oury Bah, Prime Minister, Head of presidency of the Republic of Guinea; H.E. Moktar Ould Diay, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of IFC; Sidi Ould Tah, President of BADEA; Serge Ekué, President of BOAD; Christel Heydemann, CEO of the Orange Group; Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, President of Entry Holdings PLC; Samaila Zubairu, President & CEO of AFC; Philippe Labonne President of AGL; Soren TOFT, CEO of MSC; Thierry Hebraud, CEO of MCB; Aboubaker Omar Hadi, Chairman of DPFZA-GHIH; Stan Mittelman, CEO of Vivo Vitality; Mathieu Friedberg, CEO of CEVA Logistics; Françoise Lombard, CEO of Proparco; Aïda Diarra, Senior VP and Head of Sub Saharan Africa of Visa; Abdou Diop, Managing Companion, Forvis Mazars Group; Fatoumata Sanogo, CEO of Petroci; Christian Stammkoetter, President Asia, Africa and Center East of Danone…
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