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PROFESSOR Mthuli Ncube, a distinguished Bulawayo-born financial economics guru, has been chosen to address the 2015 African Economic Forum (AEF) this coming weekend in New York City.
The conference is an annual event for students and professionals, organised by graduate students at Columbia University’s schools of business, law and international and public affairs.
This year’s discussion is framed around the required strategies governments and business must implement to continue to drive the sustained economic growth of the African continent under the theme, “Build Africa: Beyond Potential”.
The largest Africa-focused event to be held at the university is expected to attract more than 500 guests composed of African and non-African executives, scholars, activists, policy makers, and politicians with an interest in Africa.
“We look forward to continuing the complex dialogue between the public and private sectors, in the context of the evolving socio-economic and cultural outlook for African and the broader global landscape,” said Prof Mamdou Diouf, Director of Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies, quoted in the African Business Central website yesterday.
“The speakers are thought-leaders within their respective fields and are well-placed to address pertinent topics such as the implications of Africa’s continued economic growth, the outlook for the next century, and whether African societies are vigorous and purposeful enough to take advantage of their huge share of global resources.”
The African Development Bank (AfDB) chief economist, Prof Ncube, would share the stage with Aeneas Chuma, the assistant director-general and regional director for Africa at the International Labour Organisation, Amadou Daffe, East African Tech entrepreneur and founder of Coders4Africa, Tavaziva Madzinga, regional chief executive officer for Old Mutual Africa, South and East Africa and Zuriel Oduwole, the youngest political documentary filmmaker at 12 years.
Prof Ncube also heads the Board of the African Research Consortium, a network that develops economists in Africa.
He also chairs the Global Agenda Council on poverty and economic development at the World Economic Forum and is governor of the African Capacity Building Foundation.
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