African Economic Conference 2013 Regional Integration in Africa Montecasino Entertainment Complex, Johannesburg, 28 – 30 October 2013

Participants Bios

SANUSI IMRAN ABDULLAHI

Sanusi is the Executive Secretary of the Lake Chad Basin Commission. After graduating with a (B.Eng.) Civil Engineering Degree from the Ahmadu Bello University of Zaria, Nigeria, in 1982, he worked for six years with Diyam Consultants, a Civil/Water Resources Engineering Consulting Company. He obtained a Master of Science (M.Sc.) Degree in Tropical Public Health Engineering from the University of Leeds, England, in 1990. On completion of this programme, Sanusi joined the Hadejia-Jama’are River Basin Development Authority (HJRBDA) – a Nigerian Federal Government Water Resources Development Agency and rose through the ranks from Senior Engineer to the position of Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer in 2005. During this period, he participated in the implementation of a number of laudable water resources, erosion control, irrigation and related Civil Engineering projects from conception to completion.

Sanusi has also been the Managing Director/CEO of HJRBDA. He served as well as the Head of the Anti- Corruption Unit of the HadejiaJama’are River Basin Development Authority (January 2000 to July 2005). He was registered to practice Civil Engineering by the Council for The Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). He was also elected as a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.

VIVIENNE YEDA APOPO

With a background in international law, finance, and banking, Vivienne Yeda is the current Director- General of the East African Development Bank.

MINA BALIAMOUNE

Dr. Mina Baliamoune is Associate Professor of Economics in the Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida (UNF). She holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University. In spring 2007, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Economic Development, Boston University. Her recent research is mainly on the effects of policy and institutional reforms in Africa.

She has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Her recent peer- reviewed journal publications are in Applied Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Business Economics. In addition, she has co-edited (with Sylvain Boko and Sitawa Kimuna) a book titled ‘Women in African Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Liberalization in the 21st Century’, published by Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press, New Jersey (2005).

Dr. Baliamoune taught courses, delivered keynote papers, presented papers, participated in workshops, and/or served as Research Fellow in over 20 foreign countries. She currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences; Information Technology for Development; and the Journal of African Development. She is also on the Editorial Board of Feminist Economics and the Board of Directors of the Eastern Economic Association. She has served as Vice-President of the African Finance and Economics Association for 3 years (2005- 2007).

LYNETTE CHEN

Lynette is an African development expert, having actively contributed to initiatives such as the BEE Charter and the Presidential International Advisory Council on ICT in South Africa. She was formerly a senior government and public affairs manager at Hewlett Packard (HP), being exposed to African and international business while implementing progressive policies in line with BEE principles. From 2004 to 2006, Lynette served as a Director and Chairperson of the NEPAD Business Foundation’s ICT Sector working group. In 2006 she was seconded by HP to serve as the CEO of the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) and was appointed full time in 2007. Lynette also serves on the Board of Directors of FANRPAN, a continental organization focusing on impacting policies in the agriculture sector. She also previously served as Vice-Chair of Enablis, an entrepreneurship development programme that emanated from the United Nations G8 Dot Force task team in 2001. Lynette holds qualifications in Communications and Public Relations, and has also completed the African Leadership Programme from Wits Business School in South Africa.

FANTU CHERU

Fantu Cheru is a Distinguished Research Associate at the North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada, and Emeritus Professor of African and Development Studies at American University in Washington, DC. Previously, Cheru served as a member of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Panel on Mobilizing International Support for the New Partnership for African Development (2005-2007) as well as Convener of the Global Economic Agenda Track of the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy, a joint initiative of the Governments of Finland and Tanzania. Cheru also served as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt and Structural Adjustment for the UN Commission for Human Rights in Geneva from 1998-2001. In addition, Cheru has served both as an advisor and consultant to a number of governments and donor institutions including the UN Economic Commission for Africa, UNDP, UN-Habitat, SIDA, DANIDA, NORAD, among others.

His current research is on ‘Migration, Diaspora and Development’ and on the growing involvement of China, India and other emerging giants in Africa’s development. Among Cheru’s publications: Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa: The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments (2013). He currently serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals.

NKOSAZANA CLARICE DLAMINI-ZUMA

Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist. She was South Africa's Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Nelson Mandela, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 17 June 1999 to 10 May 2009, under presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Molanthe. She was moved to the position of Minister of Home Affairs in the Cabinet of President Jacob Zuma in 2009, a capacity in which she served until her resignation in 2012. On 15 July 2012, Dlamini- Zuma was elected by the African Union Commission as its chairperson, making her the first woman to lead the organisation. PAULINA MBALA ELAGO

Paulina Mbala Elago is the Country Director for TradeMark East Africa, TMEA, in Tanzania where she manages a multi-year, multi-donor funded programme to increase trade and promote regional integration in East Africa. She is a Trade Economist with over 20 years’ experience in international trade, trade negotiations, and trade capacity building and regional integration issues. Prior to joining TMEA, she was the Deputy Chief of Party at the USAID Southern Africa Trade Competitiveness Hub in Gaborone, Botswana, where she also served as Trade Policy adviser, working with regional economic organizations, private sector and national governments to support regional integration and trade capacity building in Southern Africa. Previously, she worked as Economic Adviser at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London where she advised various Commonwealth developing governments and regional economic communities across Africa, Caribbean and Pacific on international trade and regional integration matters including EPA and WTO negotiations. Before that, she was the Director for International Trade and Chief Trade Negotiator at the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Namibia, where she was responsible for trade policy, external trade relations, regional integration and export promotion. She holds an MSc in International Trade and Finance from the University of Lancaster in the UK.

IMED DRINE

Imed Drine is Senior Economist at the Islamic Development Bank and holds a PhD in economics from Sorbonne University. He previously served as Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, associate professor of economics and Head of Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sousse in Tunisia. Imed is a Macroeconomist and Econometrician and his research covers a broad range of issues, including exchange rate, unemployment, technology transfer, growth and climate change, with a regional specialization in IDB member countries. His research has been published in numerous academic journals and policy briefs.

PRAVIN JAMNADAS GORDHAN

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan is a South African politician, serving as Minister of Finance since May 2009. He was previously the Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service from 1999 to 2009. From 1991 and 1994, he chaired the Convention for a Democratic South Africa. He was also co-chairman of the Transitional Executive Council, which oversaw the transition to the first democratically elected government. As a member of parliament from 1994 to 1998, Gordhan chaired the parliamentary committee that focused on the implementation of the new Constitution and the transformation of local government in the post-apartheid. Gordhan was re-elected for the fourth time as Council Chairman of the World Customs Organization in 2004. On 10 May 2009, President Jacob Zuma appointed Gordhan as Minister of Finance, succeeding Trevor Manuel.

PATRICK GUILLAUMONT

Patrick Guillaumont, President of the Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), is Professor emeritus at the Université d'Auvergne, member of CERDI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International) and Director of the Revue d'Economie du Développement. Guillaumont is a member of the Committee of Development Policy at the United Nations (CDP) where he has chaired from 1987 various expert groups on the identification criteria of the LDCs (Least Developed countries). He is also a member of the European Development Network (EUDN) and Fellow of the Center for Studies on African Economies (CSAE, Oxford University). Guillaumont has been a member of many advisory international committees and has worked for various international institutions and foreign governments. He has been given in 1992 the “Prix El Fasi de la recherche francophone”. He has published many books and nearly 200 papers, mainly on development, in a wide set of economic journals. His recent work is mainly about development assistance, economic vulnerability and the Least Developed Countries (with a new book Caught in a Trap, Identifying the least developed countries, 2009).

ABDALLA HAMDOK

Dr. Abdalla Hamdok is the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. Prior to this, he was Director, Governance and Public Administration Division, UNECA (2009 – 2011). Director, NEPAD and Regional Integration Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) 2008 – 2009 and served as Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East, International IDEA (2003- 2008). From 2001 to 2003 he worked as a Senior Governance Expert/Coordinator of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) of the Africa Governance Project and as Acting Director of the ECA Development Policy Management Division. From 1997 to 2001 he worked as Principal Policy Economist, Central Operation Department, 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 served as a senior official with the government of Sudan (Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning). Abdalla Hamdok holds a PhD and MA (Econ) in Economics from the School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, UK and a BSc. (Honours) from the University of Khartoum, Sudan and has authored many publications on African development challenges.

TETTEH HORMEKU

Tetteh Hormeku is the Head of Programmes at the Third World Network-Africa. He holds an LLM in International Economic Law and h