ECONOMICS

Financial Times:Africa Summit 2016

The Way Ahead

02-03 October | London

 By Cheupe Nyati

 The Financial Times is to hold Summit on Africa for the third time now. The meeting shall be held in London the between 2^nd and 3^rd October.

This information has been given out by African Confidential editor, Patrick Smith adding that Financial times shall give a 10 percent discount to African Confidential reader who will attend the meeting with a theme The Way Ahead on the African economic growth.

The meeting shall be chaired by FT’s Editor Lionel Barber and Africa Editor David Pilling. A number of speakers and panelists will discuss how African economies can turn the new, seemingly less benign environment to their advantage. This issue comes up after a period of strong growth in Africa, African Confidential mentioned.

African Confidential listed down the speakers at the meeting including Akinwumi Adesina
President of the African Development Bank Group; Carlos Lopes- Executive Secretary of
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa; Razia Khan, Chief Economist, Africa
Standard Chartered Bank; Justin Lin, Director, Center for New Structural Economics of
Peking University,  Michael Macharia, Founder and Group CEO SevenSeas Technologies Group and Yaw Nsarkoh, Managing Director Unilever Nigeria PLC’

Patrick Smith for the African Confidential reader to  making registration have to use the following code: AFRCONF10 .

Four Reasons were given on why one should attend the meeting listed as such:

• Hear the views of leading captains of industry, politicians and academics on where Africa is today.
• With Africa’s dearth of manufacturing, one can learn what can be done to address the shortfall.
• One can discover what technological advances and alternative-energy solutions may be adopted to provide Africa with power.
• To listen at first hand, the debate on how African countries can mobilize domestic savings for their next phase of development.

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