PAST SPEAKERS
Top Notch Past Speakers
Past Keynote Speakers

Mr Umana Okon Umana
MD and CEO, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) Nigeria

H.E.M. Ali Bunow Korane
Governor of Garissa, Republic of Kenya

Raj Kumar
Founding President, Devex - United States

Hon Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah
former Ghana Minister for Trade & Industry, and former Ambassador Ghana to the USA

Andrew Herscowitz
Chief Development Officer (CDO) at U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

H.E Atiku Abubakar
former Vice President of Nigeria

Mr. Coutinho Nobre Miguel
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Banco Sol – Angola

Hon Dr Okechukwu Enelamah
Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment – Nigeria

Dr. Ricardo Daniel Veigas de Abreu
Secretary of Economic Affairs of the President of Republic of – Angola

Ms Lerato Mataboge
Deputy Director General, Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA) at the Department of Trade and Industry – South Africa

H.E. Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao
African Union Ambassador to the – United States

Mr. Paul Maseli
Director, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) – New York, United States

Mr. Robert Skinner
Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations, ILO Office for the – United States

Mr. Kevin Cassidy
Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations, ILO Office for the – United States

Alexander Gazis
Acting Deputy Director for Economic Affairs and Sr. Trade and Investment Officer, Office of Economic and Regional Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs

Hon Senator Ike Ekwerenmadu
Deputy, Senate President of –Nigeria

Hon Ambassador John Campbell
former US ambassador to Nigeria –United States

Hon Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah
former Minister for Trade & Industry, and former Amb Ghana

H.E. Fatoumata Tambajan
Vice President of–Gambia

Hon Kwaku Ofori Asiamah
Minister of Transport –Ghana

Thione Niang
Cofounder, Akon Lighting Africa, and President of Give1 Projects – Senegal

Amy C. Novak, Ed.D.
President, Dakota Wesleyan University –South Dakota, United States

Adalberto Netto
CEO of APD Invest Paraná, Government of Parana –Brazil

Maria Goravanchi
Director, Overseas Private Investment Corporation –United States

Pablo Martín Carbajal
Deputy head for African Affairs & CEO, Proexca , Canary-Islands

Hon Dr. Kalu I. Kalu
three-time Finance Minister of–Nigeria

Hon. Terence Mukupe
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Development

Hon Ibrahim Awaal Mohammed
Minister for Business Development–Ghana

Hon Dr Mohammed Doumbouya
Minister of Budget, Republic of– Guinea

Hon Mr Pieter van Welzen
Honorary Consul, Consulate of Sao Tome e Principe in

Mr Umana Okon Umana
MD and CEO, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA)

H.E.Clyde Rivers Ph.D. Hon Ambassador
Republic of Burundi & Advisor

H.E. Adonia Ayebare
Uganda’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the– United Nations

H.E Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo
Executive Governor of Gombe State– Nigeria

H.E Barr. Nyesom Wike
CON, Executive Governor of Rivers State– Nigeria

Dr. Belachew Mekuria
Industrial Park Division Deputy Commissioner, Ethiopian

Yoofi Grant
The Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre– Ghana

Professor John O. Ifediora
American University, and Director of the Council on African Security

Hon Jordan Garcia
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Guinea Conakry for the State of – California

H.E Donald Duke
former Governor of Cross River State–Nigeria

Mr. Antonio Segunda Amões
Chairman of Group ASAS – Angola

Chris Kirubi
Director, Centum Investment – Kenya

Walid Loukil
Owner, Loukil Group – Tunisia

Andrew Darfoor CMA, MBA,
Group CEO, Alexander Forbes Group Holdings – South Africa

Xoliswa Daku
Founder & CEO, Daku Group of Companies – South Africa

Meir Moalem
Group CEO, Alexander Forbes Group Holdings – South Africa