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List of Participants As of 30 April 2013 World Economic Forum on Africa List of Participants As of 30 April 2013 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 9-11 May 2012 Messumbe Stanly Paralegal The ABENG Law Firm Cameroon Abane Yilkal Abate Secretary-General ICT Association of Ethiopia Ethiopia Zein Abdalla Chief Executive Officer PepsiCo Europe Switzerland Amin Abdulkader Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ethiopia Rakeb Abebe Chief Executive Officer and Founder GAWT International Business Ethiopia Plc Olufemi Adeyemo Group Chief Financial Officer Oando Plc Nigeria Tedros Adhanom Minister of Health of Ethiopia Ghebreyesus Tedros Adhanom Minister of Health of Ethiopia Ghebreyesus Olusegun Aganga Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria Alfredo Agapiti President Tecnoservice Srl Italy Pranay Agarwal Principal Adviser, Corporate Finance MSP Steel & Power Ltd India and Strategy Vishal Agarwal Head, sub-Saharan Africa Deals and PwC Kenya Project Finance Pascal K. Agboyibor Managing Partner Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe France Manish Agrawal Director MSP Steel & Power Ltd India Deborah Ahenkorah Co-Founder and Executive Director The Golden Baobab Prize Ghana Halima Ahmed Political Activist and Candidate for The Youth Rehabilitation Somalia Member of Parliament Center Sofian Ahmed Minister of Finance and Economic Development of Ethiopia Dotun Ajayi Special Representative to the United African Business Roundtable Nigeria Nations and Regional Manager, West Africa Abi Ajayi Vice-President, Sub-Saharan Africa Bank of America Merrill Lynch United Kingdom Coverage and Origination Clare Akamanzi Chief Operating Officer Rwanda Development Board Rwanda (RDB) Satohiro Akimoto General Manager, Global Intelligence, Mitsubishi Corporation Japan Global Strategy and Business Development Adetokunbo Ayodele Head, Investor Relations Oando Plc Nigeria Akindele Kemi Lala Akindoju Facilitator Lufodo Academy of Nigeria Performing Arts (LAPA) World Economic Forum on Africa 1/23 Olanrewaju Akinola Editor This is Africa, Financial Times United Kingdom Vikram K. Akula Social Entrepreneur, India Biola Alabi Managing Director, Africa Electronic Media Network Nigeria (M-Net) Mimi Alemayehou Executive Vice-President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), USA Addis Alemayehou Managing Director 251 Communications Ethiopia Getachew T. Alemu Op-ed Editor Addis Fortune Ethiopia Haiko Alfeld Group General Manager, Stakeholder Sasol Limited South Africa Relations Ahmed Bin Ali Senior Vice-President, Corporate Emirates Telecommunications United Arab Emirates Communications Corporation (Etisalat) Osayi Alile Oruene Executive Director Fate Foundation Nigeria Diezani K. Minister of Petroleum Resources of Alison-Madueke Nigeria James G. Allen Partner; Co-Head, Global Strategy Bain & Company Inc. United Kingdom Practice Andrew Alli President and Chief Executive Officer Africa Finance Corporation - Nigeria AFC Eliane Almeida Vice-President, Strategy and Business PepsiCo Inc. USA Development for Sub-Saharan Africa Abdullah Bin Deputy Minister of Research and Ministry of Agriculture of Saudi Saudi Arabia Abdullah A. Alobaid Development Arabia Abdullah Sulaiman Chairman, Agriculture Development Alrubaian Fund, Ministry of Agriculture of Saudi Arabia Korkor Amarteifio Director Institute for Music and Ghana Development Salim Amin Chairman A24 Media/Camerapix Kenya Mohammed Hussein Owner and Chairman Midroc Ethiopia Plc Ethiopia A. Al Amoudi Nahas Gideon Prime Minister of Namibia Angula Nahas Gideon Prime Minister of Namibia Angula Folake Ani-Mumuney Head, Marketing and Corporate First Bank of Nigeria Plc Nigeria Communications Kofi Annan Chairman Kofi Annan Foundation Switzerland Kofi Annan Chairman Africa Progress Panel (APP) Switzerland Patricia Anoma Cisse Managing Partner Africa Investment and Senegal Business Advisers (AfIBA) Akudo Anyanwu Founder and Chief Executive Officer Friends of the Global Fund Nigeria Ikemba Africa Nnanna Anyim Ude Chief Operating Officer The Agon Group Nigeria Yvonne Apea Mo Ibrahim Leadership Fellow African Development Bank Tunisia Mensah (AfDB) Vijay Kumar Arora Managing Director LT Foods Ltd India Christian Asboth Head, TAMECIS Bayer CropScience AG Germany Ade Ashaye Country Manager, West Africa Visa Inc. South Africa Tewodros Ashenafi Chairman and Chief Executive Officer SouthWest Energy (HK) Ltd Ethiopia Olugbenga Ashiru Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria Sebastian Group Head of Financial Institutions and Ecobank South Africa Ashong-Katai International Organizations William Asiko President, Coca-Cola Foundation The Coca-Cola Company South Africa Haile Assegide Executive Director Midroc Ethiopia Plc Ethiopia World Economic Forum on Africa 2/23 Paul Austin Managing Director, Emerging Markets AGCO Corporation Switzerland Joycee Awojoodu Associate, Renewable Energy Research Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Nigeria and Development Commission Seyoum Ayalew Studio Artist, Ethiopian Visual Arts Association, Ethiopia Al Hassane Ba Senior Special Adviser, R20 Regions of Climate Action Ilker Baburoglu Executive Director Mineks International Turkey Jens Stefan Baier Partner and Managing Director The Boston Consulting Group Germany Ginger Baker Managing Director Visa Inc. Rwanda Kris Balderston US Special Representative for Global Partnerships, US Department of State Fahad Bin Minister of Agriculture of Saudi Arabia Abdulrahman Bin Sulaiman Balghunaim Marc Balkin Managing Partner Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa South Africa Kingsley Bangwell Founder Youngstars Foundation Nigeria Dov Bar-Gera Chief Executive Officer 4G Africa AG Switzerland Carlos Barradas Senior Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group Portugal Head of Portugal Lamin G. Barrow Resident Representative African Development Bank Ethiopia (ADB) Blake Bartlett Vice-President, Europe, Middle East and IHS CERA United Kingdom Africa Usama Barwani Director, New Business Development MB Holding Company LLC Oman Mohammed Al Chairman MB Holding Company LLC Oman Barwani Jabula Basopo Country Manager, Southern and East Visa Inc. South Africa Africa David Batt Director, Africa Partnership Forum, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris Teteka Bekele Deputy General Manager Walta Information Center Ethiopia Dawit Bekele Regional Bureau Manager, Africa The Internet Society (ISOC) Switzerland Martin Bekker Research Manager Royal Bafokeng Nation South Africa Amine Belaicha General Manager Numid-Invest International Algeria Teshale Belehu Marketing Manager Walta Information Center Ethiopia Omar Ben Yedder Group Publisher and Managing Director IC Publications United Kingdom Laurent Benarousse Partner and Managing Director, Roland Berger Strategy Morocco Casablanca Office Consultants Robert Berendes Head, Business Development Syngenta International AG Switzerland Sir Tim Berners-Lee Director World Wide Web Foundation USA Ann Bernstein Executive Director Centre for Development and South Africa Enterprise (CDE) Vicent Kizito Beyou Managing Partner Beyuo Jumu & Co Ghana Jean-Louis Billon Executive Chairman Groupe Sifca Côte d'Ivoire Jean-Louis Billon Executive Chairman Ministry of Commerce, Craft Côte d'Ivoire and SME Promotion of Côte d'Ivoire Tendai Laxton Biti Minister of Finance of Zimbabwe Nick Blazquez President, Diageo Africa Diageo Plc United Kingdom Daniel Bloomfield Vice-President, Business Integration and MSD USA Chief of Staff World Economic Forum on Africa 3/23 Stephen Blunden Chief Executive Officer Link Community Development South Africa Wiebe Boer Chief Executive Officer The Tony Elumelu Foundation Nigeria Khalid Bomba Chief Executive Officer The Ethiopian Agricultural Ethiopia Transformation Agency (ATA) Ali Bongo Ondimba President of Gabon Renee Bonorchis Financial Services Reporter Bloomberg News South Africa Seif Borgi Social Entrepreneur, Tunisia Alan Boswell Correspondent Time Magazine Kenya Pierre Olivier Bouée Managing Director, Chief Executive Prudential Plc United Kingdom Officer's Office Mohamed Najib Minister of General Affairs and Boulif Governance of Morocco Abdel Boulmakoul Director, Strategy and Planning, Middle Hewlett-Packard Company Morocco East, Mediterranean and Africa H.R.H. Prince Jaime Special Envoy, Natural Resources, de Bourbon Parme Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands Edmund Boyo Co-Head, Africa Clifford Chance LLP Germany Frank N. Braeken Executive Vice-President, North Africa, Unilever United Arab Emirates Middle East and Central Africa Joseph Brandt President and Chief Executive Officer ContourGlobal USA Vendeline von Business Correspondent The Economist United Kingdom Bredow Børge Brende Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum Douglas Brew Head of External Affairs, Africa Unilever United Kingdom Simon Bromfield Head, Africa Region Channel Sales Adobe Systems South Africa Gordon Brown Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010) and UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010) and UN Special Envoy for Global Education David Brussa Director, Green Coffee Procurement illycaffè SpA Italy Gib J. Bulloch Executive Director, Accenture Accenture United Kingdom Development Partnerships Gaurav Burman Director Dabur International India Elizabeth Buse Group President, Asia-Pacific, Central Visa Inc. Singapore Europe, Middle East and Africa Happy-Girl Buthelezi Principal Country Representative MTN Group Ltd South Africa Davide Cardarelli General Manager Nike Inc. South Africa Gordon Carver Consultant GEMS Education United Kingdom Nigel Chanakira Founder and Director Kingdom
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