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15th Annual Wharton
What: The Wharton Africa Business Conference: AFRICA RISING: The New Dawn of Trade and Investment (MBA student-organized event)
When: Friday,
Nov. 9th, 2007 and Saturday Nov. 10th 2007.
Where: The
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
and the Hilton Inn at Penn
Who: Scheduled speakers and panelists from
Keynote
Speakers:
·
Mandé Sidibé – Chairman,
Ecobank
·
Yibrah Tesfazghi – President & Corporate Regional Executive
for
·
Akere Muna – Vice-Chair Transparency International and
Member of the African Union Audit Commission
Scheduled Panels:
The Revival of Trade and Private Investment
(5 panels)
·
Can Trade Blocs lead to the Emergence of competitive
African economies in Finished Goods Manufacturing?
·
Entrepreneurship – Success stories in African Entrepreneurship
·
Capital Markets – Expanding Investors’ Appetite for African
Stocks and Bonds
·
Venture Capital and Private Equity – Promoting the Development
of the Small and Medium
·
Competing Globally in Services and
Infrastructure by Adapting Proven Technologies
New Era of Public Sector Investment (5
panels)
·
McKinsey Case Study :
·
Raw Materials – Managing the Scramble for
·
Infrastructure Development
and
·
Investing in the Security and the
Defense of Africa – New Initiatives, Opportunities and Challenges (USAFRICOM,
AU, UN, Mediterranean
·
Climate Change: the Imperative of
an Environment Friendly Industrialization in
Innovative Initiatives that are changing
the Face of
·
New Partners for
·
International Organizations and
·
Africa’s fast growing film industry
– Nollywood (
·
Business Ethics – Empirical Approach to Promoting Best Practices
·
OTF Group Case Study –
Why:
The rhetoric of ethnic conflicts, AIDS, and poverty in
The Wharton Africa Business Forum is designed to educate participants
about investment, trade and development on the African continent. It will touch
upon a broad spectrum of economic issues as well as issues relating to climate
change, transparency and security. Over 500 prominent dignitaries, investors,
entrepreneurs, academics, students and other professionals attended this conference
last year.
Media note: Journalists are invited to
attend the event, but pre-registration is required. To register and/or to speak
to a panelist or keynote speaker in advance or during the Conference, please contact
Victor Abiola, vabiola@wharton.upenn.edu, 202-460-5055, or
Hamet Aguemon hamet@wharton.upenn.edu, 267-325-0335.
Media Contacts:
Victor
Abiola, Director of Communications (MBA student)
Hamet
Aguemon, Media & Public Relations Director (MBA student)
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