Day 3 – Presidencial Dialogues

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Day 3 – Presidencial Dialogues

January 28, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

SATURDAY, 28 JANUARY 2023

9:00am – 10.00am

Arrivals and Coffee

10:00am – 10:30am

Official Opening Ceremony

MCs: Prince Moses Ofori-Atta and Anita Erskine

  • Welcome Remarks: Summit Convener/Executive Chairman, APN
  • Introductory Remarks: Secretary–General, AfCFTA
  • Message from the African Union Commission
  • Opening Remarks: President of the Republic of Ghana

10:30am – 10:35am

Video Presentation (Recap video Day 1 & Day 2)

10:35am – 11:15pm

Addresses

  • Addressing the challenges of moving goods and people across Africa (10 minutes)Mesfin Tasew, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Airlines Group
  • Financing Intra-African TradeHon. Ken Ofori- Atta – Minister for Finance
  • Mobilising financing and investment at scale to drive intra- African trade (10 minutes)Jules Ngamkam Group CEO, Africa Guarantee Fund
  • Leveraging Agriculture and Industry to accelerate economic and inclusive growth and to promote intra-African Trade (10 minutes)Kate Epse Kanyi-Tometi Fotso – CEO Telcar Cocoa
  • The role of telecommunication in deepening intra–African trade, Challenges and Opportunity (10 minutes)Mr Ralph Tendai Tendai Mupita – MTN Group President and CEO

11:15am – 12:15pm

Interactive Forum 1

Putting Business at the heart of heart of the implementation of the AfCFTA – Addressing Blockages and Incentivising Action.

Moderator: Joy

Lead Business Contributors

  • Addressing Infrastructure, Food and Energy DeficitsRonnie Ntuli– Chairman, Thelo DB (PY)Sir. David Adjaye – Founder & Principal, Adjaye Associates
  • Facilitating Free Movement of People Across BordersDr. Humphrey Ayim–Darke – President, Ghana Association of Industries
  • Guaranteeing Security to deepen Intra-African TradeDr. Catherine Chinedum Aniagolu-Okoye – Regional Director for West Africa, Ford Foundation

Reflections by H.E Wamkele Mene, Secretary General, AfCFTA Secretariat

12:15pm – 1:15pm

LUNCH

1:15pm – 2:15pm

Interactive Forum II

Putting Business at the heart of heart of the implementation of the AfCFTA– Addressing Blockages and Incentivising Action.

Moderator: Joy

Lead Business Contributors

  • Addressing Legal, Institutional and Policy ConstraintsOghogho Akpata – Managing Partner, Templars
  • Inspiring the youth through InnovationDr. Uzodinma Iweala
  • Facilitating FDI and Direct Diaspora InvestmentChristal Jackson – Chair, Africa America Institute

Reflections by H.E. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of the Republic of Ghana

2:15pm – 2:30pm

Group Photograph

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Presentation of Outcome Document – Business and Policy Leaders Dialogue

Hon. Yves Fernand Mamfounbi – Chair of the AfCFTA

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Making it happen: The time in now or never – Moving from ambition to action

Moderator: Anita Erskine

Fireside Chat:

  • Mr Ralph Tendai Tendai Mupita – MTN Group President and CEO
  • Mesfin Tasew, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Airlines Group
  • Christal Jackson – Chair, Africa America Institute

3:30pm – 3:45pm

Presentation of the Action Compact

H.E. Issoufou Mahamadou, Former President of Niger

3:45pm – 4:15pm

Keynote remarks:

Alhaji Aliko Dangote, GCON – CEO Dangote Group

Closing remarks:

H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana

4:30pm

Dinner and Awards

Peduase Presidential Lodge – Peduase, Akuapem, Ghana.

Details

Date:
January 28, 2023
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Africa Prosperity Network (APN) is a private not-for-profit organization that has been established with a vision to promote Africa beyond aid.

The objective is to create platforms for holding dialogues that will reshape the thinking of African
leaders while guiding them into taking bold steps that speak to accelerated prosperity across the
continent. In this regard, trade, commerce, the structure of our national economies, political conduct, and our culture matter.
Our approach is to mobilise African leaders, both in politics and business, and help build partnerships that will reshape the principles and policies required to ensure that we place the people of Africa first.
Therefore, it is of the essence that we work towards the upliftment of the continent's standard of living, by creating an Africa conversation by Africans and for Africa in the context of the challenges and opportunities peculiar to the continent.