Agenda #AfricaForum

8.00 – 9.15 Registration and welcome coffee 9.15 – 10.00 Opening Session Welcome Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and addresses Development (OECD) Victor Harison, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union Commission (AUC)

Keynote Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President, Republic of Speech

Master of Bathylle Missika, Head of Division, Networks, Partnerships and Gender, OECD Ceremony Development Centre

10.00 – 10.30 ’s Development Dynamics Interviewer Mónica Aspe, Chair of OECD Development Center’s Governing Board and Ambassador of Mexico to the OECD

Panel Victor Harison, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union Commission discussion (AUC) Stefano Manservisi, Director General, International Co-operation and Development, European Commission Mario Pezzini, Director, OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development

Key Stefan Oswald, Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, German Federal Ministry of discussant Development and Economic Co-operation (BMZ)

10.30 – 12.00 The Promise of Regional Integration Moderator Abdelmalek Alaoui, President, La Tribune Afrique

Panellists Othman El Ferdaous, Secretary of State in Charge of Investment, Ministry of Industry, Investment, Trade and the Digital Economy, Kingdom of Morocco Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Amel Karboul, CEO, The Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East Bonaventure Adjavor, Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Head, Embassy of the Republic of Ghana to France Dorothy Ng’ambi Tembo, Deputy Executive Director, International Trade Centre (ITC) Samba Bathily, Founder and CEO, Solektra International ADS Group and Advisor, AfroChampions Executive Committee

Pundits Jean-Paul Moatti, President and Director General, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) Marie Chantal Uwitonze, Founder and President, African Diaspora Network Europe (ADNE) Ammin Youssouf, Co-Founder, AfroBytes Q&A

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12.00 –14.00 Luncheon [Café Expresso]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT [Atrium] 12.10 - 12.30 “When Regional Agendas meet National Interests” by the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) 12.40 - 13.00 “A window into Africa’s Development Statistics” by the Africa Unit, OECD Development Centre 13.10 - 13.30 “How can the Private Sector Drive Further Economic Integration in Africa? “ by AfroChampions Initiative 13.40 - 14.00 “Africapolis: Data for Africa’s Urban Future” by the OECD Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC)

13.00 - 14.00 APARTÉ [Bookshop]

“Africa’s Critical Choices – A call for Pan-African roadmap” by Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, CEO, NEPAD in conversation with Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Senior Communications Manager, OECD Development Cluster

12.00-14.00 WORKING LUNCH [By invitation only] “Bridging Knowledge and Technology Gaps for Regional Development in Africa” joint MASHAV and OECD Development Centre event on the occasion of MASHAV’s 60th anniversary (in English) Moderator Arthur Minsat, Head, Europe, Middle East and Africa Unit, OECD Development Centre Panellists Mario Pezzini, Director, OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development Gil Haskel, Deputy Director General, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Head, MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Co-operation Hava Karrie, Director, MASHAV Carmel Training Centre (MCTC), Haifa Key discussant Thierry Zomahoun, President and CEO, African Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Next Einstein Forum

14.00 – 15.30 Africa and Migration: Deconstructing Biases Moderator Ousmane Ndiaye, Editor-in-Chief Africa, TV5 Monde Africa Panel Malusi Gigaba, Minister, Ministry of Home Affairs, Republic of discussion Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Emmanuel Hategeka, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer, Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Mamadou Diallo, Deputy Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Sabine Müller, Director General, Africa Department, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Bernardo Mariano Junior, Senior Regional Adviser for Sub-Saharan Africa, International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

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Pundits Faten Aggad-Clerx, Consultant and Associate, Maendeleo Group Yvonne Mburu, Founder and CEO, Nexakili, Member of the French Presidential Council for Africa and Next Einstein Forum Fellow Q&A

15.30 – 15.45 Coffee 15.45 – 16.45 African Humanities Moderator Hannane Ferdjani, Journalist, Africanews

Panellists Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics, Gaston Berger University, Achille Mbembe, Professor of History and Politics, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa François Héran, Professor, Collège de France (Migrations & Societies) and Research Associate, Institut National d’Études Démographiques Q&A

16.45 – 18.00 Engineering Unity Moderator Isabelle Ramdoo, Senior Associate and Development Economist, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Keynote Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President, Economic Community of West African States speaker (ECOWAS)

Panellists Jérémie Pellet, Deputy CEO, Agence française de développement (AFD) Rene N’Guettia Kouassi, Director of the Department of Economic Affairs, AUC Laurent Bossard, Director, Sahel and West Africa Club, OECD (SWAC)

Concluding Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and remarks Patron, AfroChampions Initiative Mario Pezzini, Director, OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development

18.00 – 20.00 Networking Cocktail [Salon du Parc] 18.10 – 18.20 Presentation “Uber and the Future of Work in Africa" Cezanne Maherali, Head of Policy, UBER East Africa

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