Conference & Seminar Commerce
AfCFTA Regional e-Conference & Inaugural Panel
Online on Zoom,
Event language(s)
English
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A partnership between French Chambers in Africa & LEX Africa
Driving Economic Growth in Africa and Building a Continental Market:
Opportunities & Challenges of the AfCFTA
The AfCFTA, the world’s largest free trade area, aims to form a single continent-wide market for goods and services, fostering more trade and investment.
Join us on Wednesday 15th September 2021, as we discuss the creation of the vast AfCFTA regional market and its opportunities to boost inter-African trade, attract foreign direct investment, and accelerate growth.
Through the collaboration of 4 French Chambers in Africa and with the support our partner LEX Africa, a leading regional law firm network, this event will deliver the expertise of 16 high-level speakers across 4 panels to provide you with the relevant knowledge and insight into this strategic agreement.
AGENDA
- INAUGURAL PANEL – 9:00 to 10:30 GMT
Pieter Steyn, Chairman, LEX Africa
Willie Shumba, Senior Customs Expert and Advisor for the African Continental Free Trade Area, African Union Commission
Joseph Atta-Mensah, Principal Policy Adviser at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Alhajj Rashid Kibowa, Director of Trade at the East African Community Secretariat
Yewande Sadiku, CEO of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission
AfCFTA General Secretariat, TBC
REGISTER TO THE INAUGURAL PANEL
- EAST AFRICA PANEL – 11:00 to 12:00 GMT
Nazima Malik, Partner at Kaplan & Stratton (LEX Africa)
John Bosco, Executive Director of the East Africa Business Council
Louis Lafont, Sales Coordinator & Business Developer, East Africa Cluster, CMA CGM
REGISTER TO THE EAST AFRICA PANEL
- SOUTHERN AFRICA PANEL – 12:00 to 13:00 GMT
Sandile Tyini, General Manager: African Multilateral Economic Relations, Department of Trade, Industry and Competition
Phumzile Langeni, Special Envoy on Investment, Republic of South Africa
Rooma Narrainen-Pillay, Trade Division Manager, Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Fidelis Manyuchi, Senior Associate & Tapiwa Chivanga, Associate
Scanlen & Holderness (LEX Africa)
REGISTER TO THE SOUTHERN AFRICA PANEL
- WEST AFRICA PANEL – 13:00 to 14:30 GMT
Nana Dufie Addo, COO Ghana Investment Promotion Center
Susan Barbara Kumapley, Partner, Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah (LEX Africa)
Uchenna Okechukwu, Senior Associate, Giwa-Osagie & Co (LEX Africa)
Francis Adzah, International Business Development Director, Kasapreko
REGISTER TO THE WEST AFRICA PANEL
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
LEX Africa is a legal network of leading law firms in over 25 African countries and is Africa’s largest legal alliance. Each member is an independent law firm whose key specialist focus is on general corporate and commercial law as well as litigation and dispute resolution.
Thank you to their participating firms on this event:
Werksmans Attorneys, South Africa
Kaplan & Stratton Advocates, Kenya
Scanlen & Holderness, Zimbabwe
Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah, Ghana
Giwa-Osagie & Co, Nigeria
Speaker(s)
A COLLABORATION OF REGIONAL PARTNERS
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