The high-level session focuses on highlighting the importance of resilient, climate-smart infrastructure and explores transformative financing models to close Africa’s infrastructure investment gap. The issue of regional integration will be emphasized as the critical driver for cross-border collaboration and trade facilitation.
Moderator: Amine Idriss Adoum, Director of Economy, Infrastructure, Industrialization, Trade, and Regional Integration, AUDA-NEPAD
Speakers:
- Chaltu Sani Ibrahim, Minister of Urban and Infrastructure Development, Ethiopia
- E. Chris Baryomunsi, Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Uganda,
- E. Alamine Ousman Mey Minister of Economy and Regional Integration, Cameroon –H.E.
- Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission,
- Hanan Morsy, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECA
- E. Jens Hanefeld, German Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Africa Union
- Solomon Quaynor, Vice-President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialization, African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
- Mrs. Kanayo Awani, Executive Vice-President, Intra-African Trade Bank, AfreximBank,.
Online Link
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YiHhveeARZy__6g3zUZbnw