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Biographies Official Opening Ceremony AKINWUMI ADESINA Dr Biographies Official Opening Ceremony AKINWUMI ADESINA Dr. Akinwumi Adesina is the 8th elected President of the African Development Bank Group, appointed in 2015. He is a distinguished development economist and agricultural development expert with 25 years of international experience. Adesina served as Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2011 to 2015. He was previously Vice-President (Policy and Partnerships) of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). He was also Associate Director (Food Security) at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, where he worked for a decade (1998-2008) in senior leadership positions, including as Regional Office Director and Representative for Southern Africa. Adesina was Principal Economist and Social Science Research Coordinator for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Principal Economist and Coordinator of the West Africa Rice Economics Task Force at the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) and an Assistant Principal Economist at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). From 2008 to 2010, Adesina was the President of the African Association of Agricultural Economists. Adesina earned a first-class honours Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ife, Nigeria and a PhD in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University in the United States, where he won the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for his research work. He also won the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Social Science Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 1988. ABDALLA HAMDOCK Abdalla Hamdock is the Acting Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Dr. Abdalla Hamdok is a policy analyst and economist with over twenty five years of experience in addressing development challenges in Africa at the national, sub- regional and continent-wide levels. He most recently served as the Director of the Governance and Public Administration Division, UNECA (2009 – 2011). Dr. Hamdock was also the director of NEPAD and Regional Integration Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) 2008 – 2009, and the Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East, International IDEA (2003- 2008). From 2001 to 2003 he served as the Senior Governance Expert/Coordinator of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Dr. Hamdock was also acting Director of the Development Policy Management Division, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Hamdock served as the Principal Policy Economist, African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. During 1995 to 1997, he was Chief Technical Advisor, International Labour Organization/Southern Africa Multidisciplinary Advisory Team (ILO/SAMAT), and UNDP, Harare, Zimbabwe. From 1993 to 1995 he was Principal Consultant, Head of Public Sector Group (PSG) and a member of the Management Committee of Deloitte & Touche Management Consultants, Zimbabwe. From 1981 – 1987, he was a senior official with the government of Sudan 1 (Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning). ABDOULAYE MAR DIEYE Abdoulaye Mar Dieye is Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa by the United Nations Secretary-General since 2013. He was previously Chief of Staff and Director of UNDP’s Executive Office. Until 2009, Mr. Dieye was Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Arab States. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Dieye served as Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) followed by appointments as UN Resident Coordinator, UN Designated Official for Security, Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in the country. Prior to joining the UN System, Mr. Dieye worked with the Government of Senegal, as Chief of the General Planning Division (1976-1982) and Inspector General (1982-1984) in the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation. Mr. Dieye graduated from the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique (ENSAE-CESD) of the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Economiques (INSEE) in France. Round-Table: The way forward to transforming Africa’s agriculture WOLE FAMUREWA Wole Famurewa is the Markets Editor for West Africa at CNBC Africa. He is responsible for supervising the channels editorial content in West Africa. Wole joined CNBC Africa in 2010 as a business news presenter on the channel. He is also the presenter of CNBC Africa’s daily markets review programme Closing Bell West Africa (airs weekdays on CNBC Africa) and the host of Mind Your Own Business, a weekly radio programme that showcases Nigeria’s leading young entrepreneurs. Prior to this, he worked at FSDH Securities, Lead Capital, Afrinvest and PHB Asset Management and was the head of investment research at all these organizations. Wole earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance at the University of Lagos. In 2011, he produced Eye on Nigeria’s Capital Market. His reporting earned him the 2012 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award. In 2014, he was selected as one of 3 judges to select the Citi Journalistic Excellence Award Winner for the year 2014. ERIC MASKIN Eric Maskin is Adams University Professor at Harvard. He received the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory. He also has made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics. He received his A.B. and Ph.D from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985-2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012. 2 High Level Plenary Session 1: Reflections and Perspectives on achieving an inclusive agro- allied industrialization in Africa EVELYN OHANWUSI Evelyn Ohanwusi is the Interim Head, Youth in Agribusiness Office. Evelyn previously worked with the Marketing and Partnership arm of the IYA, which she joined in 2013. She holds a BSc in Quantity and Surveying from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Evelyn joined IYA after her National Youth Service Corp Program at the Facilities Management Services Unit of IITA-Ibadan. H.E. Mr. GODWIN EMEFIELE H.E. Mr. Godwin Emefiele is the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Before he became the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, a position he held since June 2014, Godwin Emefiele served as the Chief Executive Officer and Group Managing Director of Zenith Bank (Nigeria) Plc. Before he ventured into the Banking sector, Godwin Emefiele was a lecturer of Finance and Insurance at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, and University of Port Harcourt, respectively. He also served as Director of ACCION Microfinance Bank Limited and has more than 18 year experience in Banking. Godwin Emefiele studied Banking and Finance at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, and obtained a Bachelors Degree (B.Sc) (2nd Class Upper Division) in June 1984, and in October 1986, he obtained Masters Degree (MBA) in Finance, winning the Best Graduating Student Award. He later engaged in Executive studies at Stanford University, Harvard University (2004) and Wharton School of Business (2005). IGBEKELE AJIBEFUN Igbekele Amos Ajibefun is a Professor of Agricultural economics, former Rector of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic and incumbent Vice chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University. He joined the services of Federal University of Technology, Akure in 1993 as assistant lecturer and was appointed as Professor on October 2009. He is a Member of European Society for Soil Conservation (ESSC), International Association for Agricultural Economists (IAAE), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Network, Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE), Nigerian Economic Society, Nigerian Participatory Rural Appraisal Network (NIPRANET) and Conference of Heads of Polytechnics in Nigeria. FREDERICK MUSIIWA MAKAMURE SHAVA 3 H.E. Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava was elected President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in July 2016. He is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the United Nations in New York. Until his appointment in 2014, he was Ambassador to China since 2007. From 2003 to 2004, Ambassador Shava was a consultant on Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary reform. As an elected official, he was Minister of State for Political Affairs in 1987 and Minister of Labour, Manpower Planning and Development from 1981 to 1986. Mr. Shava holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Philosophy from Royal Holloway College; a Master of Science in nematology from Imperial College; and a Bachelor of Science in biology from University of Zimbabwe. ADA OSAKWE Ada Osakwe is the Chief Executive of Agrolay Ventures, an investment firm dedicated to growing the agricultural and food sector in Africa. From November 2012 to May 2015, Osakwe served as the Senior Investment Adviser to Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Amongst various initiatives, Osakwe led the development and launch of the US $100 million Fund for Agricultural Financing in Nigeria (FAFIN), an innovative private equity fund dedicated to investing in small and medium agribusiness companies in Nigeria. Prior to this role, Ada was a Vice President at Kuramo Capital, a New York-based private equity fund that invests in high-growth opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ada spent
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