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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP

GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE ON COVID-19 RESPONSE STRATEGIES IN

AFRICA

African Development Institute (ADI)

e-Policy Seminar: “Enhancing Resilience in African Economies: Macro-Economic Policy Responses

to COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, 29 April 2020

BIOGRAPHY OF PANEL OF SPEAKERS:

1. Mr. Seth Terkpe Former Minister of Finance, Ghana, ECAD Consultant

Mr. Seth Terkpe is the Executive Director of the PFM Tax Africa Network,

Advisor and Senior Consultant at the African Development Institute of the

AfDB, Chairman of the PEFA Advisory Committee, a member of the

Advisory Committee of the NYU-Gates Foundation and a member of the

Steering Committee of Duke University Centre for Policy Impact in Global

Health. He previously served as both Minister and Deputy Minister of

Finance in the Republic of Ghana. He also worked as a Senior Economist

with the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs department.

2. Prof. S. Ibi Ajayi Professor of Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Prof. S. Ibi Ajayi is a Professor of Economics and Distinguished Service

Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He holds

the B.A. (Hons), and M.A. degrees in Economics from the University of

Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada and a Ph.D. degree in

Economics from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Former

Head of Department of Economics and Dean, Faculty of the Social

Sciences, University of Ibadan and is a Fellow of the Nigerian Economics

Society. He has served as consultants to various international organizations

including the AfDB, UNECA, IMF, WORLD BANK, WHO, AERC, He

has published several books and articles in reputable national and

international journals in Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.

3. Charles O. Boamah Former Senior Vice President, African Development Bank Group

Mr. Charles Boamah is a globally respected executive with over 35 years of

successively challenging leadership experiences in and outside of Africa.

Mr. Boamah is the Former Senior Vice president of the African

Development Bank Group and had previously served the bank in various

capacities as the Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer and Acting First

Vice-President and Director of Finance, and Controller and Director of

Financial Control Department. A people-centered and results-oriented

leader, Boamah led and championed major change initiatives at the Bank,

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including increased decentralization of the Bank’s activities, resource mobilization drives for the

Bank-the Africa Growing Together Fund, a USD 2 billion co-financing facility and USD 3 billion

co-financing facility under the Enhanced Private Sector Assistance Facility for Africa. He led the

task force for the establishment of Africa 50, an innovative vehicle for accelerated infrastructure

delivery in Africa. Before joining the bank, he worked with the PricewaterhouseCoopers (then

Coopers & Lybrand) in Accra and Los Angeles, and as a Governor at the Eastern and Southern

African Trade and Development Bank and as a Director of the African Export-Import Bank.

4. Prof. Cameron Hepburn, Director of the Smith School University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Prof. Cameron Hepburn is a Professor of Environmental Economics

at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Smith School of

Enterprise and the Environment. He also serves as the Director of the

Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for

New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Published

widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across

disciplines including engineering, biology, philosophy, economics,

public policy and law, drawing on degrees in law and engineering

(Melbourne University) and masters and doctorate in economics (Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar).

Co-founder of three successful businesses and provides advice on energy and environmental policy

to government ministers (e.g. China, India, UK and Australia) and international institutions (e.g.

OECD, UN).

5. Mr. Mohamed Boussaid Former Minister of Finance, Morocco, ECAD Consultant

Mr. Mohamed Boussaid was born in 1961 in Fes. He holds a degree of

engineering and an MBA from the International School of Business.

From 1986 to 1992, Boussaid was a consulting engineer in the Banque

Commerciale du Maroc. From 1994 to 1995, he was in charge of the

portfolio of major enterprises directorate at the Banque Marocaine du

Commerce et de l'Industrie. Boussaid also served from 1995 to 1998 as

head of the office of the Minister of Public Works; head of the office of

the Minister of Agriculture, Infrastructure and Environment; Minister of

Public Administration and civil servant; Minister of Tourism and

Governor of Agadir Region and Casablanca Region. He also served as the Ministr of Economy and

Finance in Morocco, this being the last portfolio he held.

6. Mr. Simon Gill Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK Kingdom

Mr. Simon Gill is a Managing Director at ODI and has over thirty years’

experience working in international development and public financial

management across Africa and Asia. Since joining ODI in 2012, his work has

focused on strengthening budget processes in fragile and conflict-affected states

working with finance ministries, principally in sub-Saharan Africa. Before

joining ODI, Simon spent 19 years working in senior roles at the UK

Department for International Development, in public financial management

advisory and technical assistance as well as a series of corporate roles, latterly

as DFID's Acting Head of Finance after having been Head of Programmes in Tanzania.

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7. Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u Executive Director, AERC / Former Governor, Central Bank, Kenya

Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u is the Executive Director of the African Economic

Research Consortium (AERC), a Pan African premier capacity building network

of researchers, educators, students, universities, policy makers and international

resource persons. Currently a Member of the Brookings Africa Growth

Initiative (AGI) Distinguished Advisory Group, a Member of the Advisory

Committee of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, AFI, that coordinates

financial inclusion policies in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and a Senior

Advisor for the UNCDF-based Better Than Cash Alliance. Former Governor of

the Central Bank of Kenya- 2007 to 2015. He has been a member of Global

Advisory Council (GAC) of the World Economic Forum and a Visiting Fellow of Practice at the

Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University.

8. Prof. Akpan Hogan Ekpo, FNES Professor of Economics and Public Policy Department of Economics University of Uyo,

Prof. Akpan Hogan Ekpo is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the

University of Uyo (Federal) and immediate past Director General of the West African

Institute for Financial and Economic Management. Former Vice-chancellor of the

University of Uyo and a Non-Executive Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He

has lectured in several universities in Africa, USA and Nigeria. His areas of interest

include fiscal and monetary policy and development issues relating to Africa. He is

well published. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania, USA.

9. Prof. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong* Harvard University Center for African Studies

Prof. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong is Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of

African and African American Studies, the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of

the Harvard University Centre for African Studies. He is affiliated with the

Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs as Faculty Associate and Board

Member of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute as an Executive and Steering

Committee member. Emmanuel presently sits on numerous Harvard

Committees including Standing Committee on African Studies. Instructed at

the University of Virginia, Charlottesvile and University of Ghana, Legon in

Accra.

10. Dr. Rose Ngugi Executive Director, KIPPRA, Kenya

Dr Rose Ngugi is the Executive Director of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy

Research and Analysis (KIPPRA). She is involved in providing technical

guidance and capacity building on policy and strategy formulation to the

Government of Kenya and other stakeholders, with the overall aim of

contributing to the achievement of national development goals. Before then, she

was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Executive Director, Africa Group 1,

International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. Dr. Ngugi been a member of

Central Bank of Kenya, Monetary Policy Committee and has vast teaching

experience in the University of Nairobi, School of Economics.

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Dr. Ngugi has published widely. Her research interests are in public policy, financial sector, investments,

reforms and institutional issues. She holds a PhD from Business School Birmingham University, UK

specializing in Financial Markets, Masters and bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of

Nairobi, Kenya.

11. Prof. Robert A. Lue

Founding Director of HarvardX, Director of the Derek Bok Teaching and Learning Center at

Harvard University, United States of America

Prof. Robert A. Lue is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the

UNESCO Chair on Life Sciences and Social Innovation at Harvard University.

As the Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for

Teaching and Learning, Lue is responsible for fostering innovative teaching in

Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also the founding faculty director

of HarvardX, Harvard’s university-wide online education initiative that includes

the edX partnership with MIT. He now leads the new LabXchange initiative,

which continues his exploration of innovative online education and new ways to

expand its reach and impact globally.

12. Prof. Ademola Oyejide University of Ibadan, and Chairman, Centre for Trade and Development Initiatives, Nigeria.

Prof. Ademola Oyejide is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the

University of Ibadan, and Chairman, Centre for Trade and Development

Initiatives (CTDi). His public appointments include Chairman, National

Economic Intelligence Committee, The Presidency, Abuja; 2009-2012, and

Vice-Chairman, National Focal Point on Trade Matters, Federal Ministry of

Industry, Trade and Investment, Abuja, 2008. He has researched and

published on a range of trade and development issues, including trade policy

and trade negotiations, with particular focus on Nigeria’s participation in

the WTO, ECOWAS, EU-West African Economic Partnership Agreement

(EPA), and AfCFTA; consulted for various institutions including WB, IFPRI, IMF, AfDB, UNECA,

ECOWAS, WTO, UNCTAD, UNDP, MAN, NANTS.

13. Prof. Ashiwel S. Undieh, MPharm/PhD

Medical Professor, Neuroscience & Pharmacology City University of New York, USA.

Prof. Ashiwel S. Undieh is a Tenured professor of neuroscience and

pharmacology in the School of Medicine, teaching and research training of

medical and graduate students and runs a research laboratory focusing on

fundamental and applied biomedical research. Served as CCNY's Associate

Provost for Research (and graduate studies) and exercised overall

responsibility for research administration and for the STEM graduate

programs. Founding Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at

Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. Dr. Undieh's depth and breadth

of expertise is being deployed to support faculty mentoring, research training of students and

fellows, and institutional advisory and leadership on research enterprise development and

sustainability.

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14. Dr. Thomas Chataghalala Munthali, PhD

Director General, Malawi National Planning Commission (NPC)

Dr. Thomas Chataghalala Munthali is the Director General of the National

Planning Commission of Malawi responsible for the institution's day to day

running and its strategic direction. Former Director of Knowledge and

Learning at the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF); PhD in

Economics from University of Leeds, England. Former Malawi Country

Director for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) providing support to

Zambia too. He is the past President of the Economics Association of Malawi.

He was also a member of the Advisory Council for Strategic Planning that

advised the then African Union Chairman, Prof. Bingu Wa Mutharika.

15. Prof. Thomas Jayne MSU, United States; Special Advisor-President African Development Bank

Prof. Thomas Jayne is a University Foundation Professor of Agricultural,

Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, Fellow of

the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and a Distinguished

Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists. He works in

food marketing and price policies, changes in land use patterns, sustainable

intensification, employment, and rural transformation. Adjunct Professor at

the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute in Lusaka, Zambia, a

board member of the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research

Institutes in Eastern and Southern Africa and was a founding Co-Director

of the Alliance for African Partnership at Michigan State University. Co-

Leader of the CGIAR Policies, Institutions and Markets research program on Economy-wide

Factors Affecting Agricultural Growth and Rural Transformation.

16. Mr. Godfrey Bahiigwa* Director for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission

Mr. Godfrey Bahiigwa is the Director for Rural Economy and Agriculture

at the African Union Commission (AUC). Research interests in

agricultural policy research and analysis, focusing on agricultural prices,

rural taxation, rural poverty, and household food security. Holds a Ph.D.

in Agricultural Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia,

USA. He has 13 years of working in research and development for

agriculture in Africa. He done consultancy work for several organizations

including the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, both in-country and

internationally.

17. Mr. Adama Ekberg Coulibaly Lead Economist, Economic Diversification, UNECA

Mr. Adama Ekberg Coulibaly is Chief of the section in charge of intiatives

working for UNECA, in the ECA Cameroon-based office. He is also Lead

economist to provide to assistance to several economies on the continent in

the areas of formulation and implementation of Industrialization and

Economic Diversification Master Plans (PDIDE). Dr. coulibaly has worked

as officer in charge the works of Food security and sustainable division, the

Regional Integration and Trade Division (RITD), and now the sub regional office of central Africa.

As special Adviser to the African Union Commissioner of Agriculture and rural economy

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transformation and the AU commission for trade and industry, he actively contributed to shaping

the strategic directions of several key agriculture and trade agenda of the African Union (AU)

including the options to consider going forward to build the AU common markets for African

Strategic commodities. An external reviewer for the transformational agenda which shaped the Five

I of the African development Bank. Prior to that, over 20 years, he worked to lead consultancy works

and market outlook studies worldwide working across Europe, Asia, America and Africa developing

data systems, analytical and policy research tools to assess agriculture, food security and trade

policy measures and their impacts on several strategic agricultural commodity sectors and the most

vulnerable operating therein; to generate baseline and outlook numbers of strategic commodities

and food markets for several policy research support and advisory agencies, global knowledge

institutions and development partners such as IHS Global Insights Inc, FAO, USDA, Japan

International Agricultural Council (JIAC), FAO, among others. He also led the work of assessing

the options to establish the African Union Common Market for Agricultural Products (AUCMAP)

and a common agricultural policy framework with recommendations for consideration to the

African Ministers of Trade in Kigali (2010, 2012).

His insights have continuously helped shape the AU commodities Strategy including the AUCMAP

construction process to adopt via carefully crafted step-wise and continent wide free trade area

building scenarios and related regional value chain linkages and clusters development and required

private sector support arrangements now under consideration. Dr. coulibaly has constantly drawn

deep in his accumulated reservoir of wisdom to advise world leaders on direction to take on arising

burning interlocking issues of high geostrategic, geo economic and geopolitical value to affect

global peace and security and the balance of strategic resources (food, land, water, energy, etc) to

shape the stability of these going into the future. He holds degrees in agricultural economics,

international trade and business administration including a PhD from the University of Missouri-

Columbia (USA) and the Executive Business degree of Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris

(HEC).

18. Prof. Camilla Toulmin Senior Associate, International Institute for Environment and Dev.'t (IIED) / INET

Oxford University, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), UK

Prof. Camilla Toulmin is an economist with expertise on dryland Africa.

Her work has combined field research, policy analysis and advocacy. Her

interests include building alliances with those on the frontline of

sustainable development and land rights in Africa. For 12 years, she

directed the International Institute for Environment and Development. Her

current work focuses on climate change, property rights, global

governance and natural resources. Her latest book was published January

2020: Land, Investment and Migration – Thirty-five years of village life in

Mali. OUP. Camilla has a BA in Economics from Cambridge University,

an MSc in Development Economics (SOAS) and a DPhil in Economics from

University of Oxford.

19. Professor Landry Signé* Fellow Africa Growth Initiative (AGI), Global Economy and Development, The Brookings

Institution, Washington DC

Professor Landry Signé is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development

Program and the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Formally, a

David M. Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings. His career and research span the areas

of global political economy, global governance and sustainable development, global

business and emerging markets, strategic management and leadership, fragility,

state capacity and policy implementation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and

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Globalization 4.0, and the political economy of Africa and developing countries. Signé earned his

Ph.D. from the University of Montreal and postdoctoral studies at Stanford University. He has also

completed executive business and leadership programs at the University of Oxford Saïd School of

Business and Harvard Kennedy School.

20. Dr. Folarin Gbadebo-Smith Director General of Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Nigeria

Dr. Folarin Gbadebo-Smith currently serves as the Director General at

Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Chief

Executive Officer of the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives (CPPA).

He also has worked for Government as Local Government Chairman in

Lagos State and practiced Clinical Health as a prosthodontist/dental

oncologist.

21. Dr Yohannes Ayalew, PhD* DDG, Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Studies Sector

Policy Studies Institute Ethiopia

Dr Yohannes Ayalew is the Deputy Director General and Head of

Macroeconomic and Finical Policy Studies Cluster, at the Policy

Studies Institute in Ethiopia. Between June and November 2018, he

served as Executive Director of the Ethiopian Economic Policy and

Research Institute. Dr. Ayalew also served as the Vice Governor and

Chief Economist of the National Bank of Ethiopia, a position he held

for about eight-and-half years between December 2009 and May

2018. Dr. Ayalew has 29 years of cumulative experience in the areas

of finance, macroeconomic policy and economic growth. Dr.

Ayalew is well published and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex, United

Kingdom.

22. Prof. Wisdom Akpalu*, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Ghana

Prof. Wisdom Akpalu is a Research Fellow at the Ghana Institute

of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Ghana. He

holds a PhD degree in Economics from the Gothenburg University,

Sweden. He has worked as Associate Professor of Economics at the

State University of New York, Farmingdale, New York. His

research interests are Development economics, Modeling

microeconomic behavior, empirical econometric analysis, optimal

extraction of natural resources, and economics of climate change.

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23. Dr. Elias T. Ayuk Senior Strategic Advisor and Sub-Regional Director, The SDGCA

Dr. Elias T. Ayuk Research focuses on poverty analysis, institutional

capacity building and the social, economic and policy dimensions of

natural resource management. Ayuk has edited/co-edited six books:

The Policy Paradox in Africa: Strengthening the Links between

Economic Research and Policymaking; Wealth through Integration:

Regional Integration and Poverty Reduction Strategies in West

Africa; La Microfinance en Afrique centrale: Le Défi des Exclus;

Réglementation et Supervision des Institutions de Microfinance en

Afrique centrale; Promoting green economy: implications for natural

resources development, food security and poverty reduction in

Africa; and New Frontiers in Natural Resources Management in Africa. He has also published

extensively in internationally refereed journals. PhD in Agricultural Economics

24. Dr. Aloysius Ordu Former Vice President, African Development Bank Group

Dr. Aloysius Uche Ordu brings over three decades of experience in

international development and the private sector. He is currently

Managing Partner, Omapu Associates LLC, a boutique advisory

services and fund-raising firm. He was previously Vice President at

the African Development Bank. In that capacity, he played active

roles in the Senior Management team in resource mobilization,

decentralization to regional and country offices across the continent,

and participation in the Committees of the Board of Executive

Directors. Aloysius worked at the World Bank for over 22 years and

served in various leadership and managerial capacities, including

Director of Operations Policy and Quality; Operations Director for

Latin America and the Caribbean Region; Country Manager (Philippines); Manager,

Development Effectiveness in the Middle East & North Africa Region; Manager, Young

Professionals Program—the World Bank Group’s source of talents; and Task Manager for

investment projects in diverse sectors. Aloysius won the ‘Award of Excellence’ from President

Jim Wolfensohn and the ‘Good Practice Award’ from the Independent Evaluation Group. Prior

to joining the World Bank Group, Aloysius worked at the Midland Bank Group and at The

Economist Intelligence Unit, London, UK. Aloysius is currently a Member of the Board of

Directors of the Partnership for Transparency Fund, and until recently he was a Board

Member, Stellenbosch University Business School (South Africa). Aloysius holds a PhD in

Economics (Sussex).

25. Dr. Melissa Leach Director of the Institute of Development and Studies, Sussex University, United

Kingdom

Dr. Melissa Leach is the Director of the Institute of Development

Studies (IDS). She was also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the

ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways

to Sustainability) Centre. she was vice-chair of the Science

Committee of Future Earth 2012 – 2017, lead author of the 2016

World Social Science Report 2016 on Challenging Inequalities and

the UN Women’s World Survey on the Role of Women in Economic

Development 2014. She is a member of the Strategic Coherence of

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ODA Research (SCOR) Board and the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food

Systems (IPES-Food. She was also lead social scientist in the UK/WHO responses to the 2014-

16 Ebola outbreak and co-led the award-winning Ebola Response Anthropology Platform.

26. Sheila Jagannathan* Head, Open Learning Campus, World Bank, Washington DC, USA

Sheila Jagannathan is Lead Learning Specialist and Program Manager

of the Open Learning Campus (OLC) of the Development Economics

Knowledge Management Practice of the World Bank. She serves on

the advisory board and planning committees of several professional

associations such as e-Learning Africa, the International Conference

on e-Learning (ICEL) and the Association of Advancement of

Computer Education (AACE).

27. Dr. Holger A. Kray* Practice Manager Agriculture & Food Security, The World Bank

Dr. Holger A. Kray is currently the Practice Manager, Agriculture &

Food Security in the World Bank’s Africa Sustainable Development

Group. He is also former Head of the Agriculture Policy Unit, Lead

Agriculture Economist, Lead Operations Officer and Senior Sector

Economist within the same institution. Prior to join the World Bank, he

operated as a Rural Policy and Strategy Consultant working with the

World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

(FAO), European Commission (EC) and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)and

also served as Senior Consultant for the KPMG Consulting/BearingPoint.

28. Professor Sami Ben Naceur* Deputy Division Chief, African Division, IMF Institute for Capacity Development

Mr. Sami Ben Naceur is currently acting division chief of the IMF’s

African Division at the Institute for Capacity Development. Sami was

previously the Chief of the IMF’s Internal Economic Training Unit where

he managed the training of IMF economists from 2017-2019. From 2015-

2017, Sami was the Deputy Director of the IMF-Middle East Center for

Economics and Finance in Kuwait where he managed the training

activities of the IMF, World Bank, OECD and WTO in the Arab region.

Sami also worked for two years as a Senior Economist in the Middle East and Central Asia

Department of the IMF, where he led chapters of the IMF flagship reports the World Economic

Outlook (WEO) and the MCD Regional Economic Outlook (REO), and participated in ART

IV missions in several countries in the region such as Algeria, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia.

Sami also worked at the IMF Institute as a Senior Economic where he led research projects

and trained government officials on Macroeconomics and Financial issues. Before joining the

IMF, Sami was assistant professor and chair of the Management Science Department at the

Faculty of Economics and Business (Free University of Tunis) from 1993-2004, Assistant

Professor of Finance at IHEC Carthage from 2004-2009, Associate Professor at ESSEC Tunis

(2009-2017) and Full Professor at the University of Tunis (2018-). Sami has in the same period

an expert in banking and finance with the European Commission (EC), the African

Development Bank (AfDB), the IMF and several consulting firms in Tunisia, Europe and in

the MENA region and published research papers in top academic journals with more than 4300

citations https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samy_Ben_Naceur). Sami holds with great

honors a diploma of “Grandes Ecoles” from INSEEC School of Business and Economics

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(France), an MSc. in Management Science from the University of Tunis, and a PhD in Finance

from Paris Sorbonne University.

29. Mr. Abdoul Aziz Wane Director AFRITAC Southern Africa, IMF

Mr. Abdoul Aziz Wane is the director of the IMF’s Africa Training

Institute and AFRITAC South both located in Mauritius. Abdoul Aziz

holds a master’s degree in econometrics and finance from the University

of Toulouse, France and a doctorate from the University of Dakar,

Senegal. Prior to joining the IMF Abdoul Aziz was a senior lecturer in the

University of Dakar. At the IMF he has worked in the African department

where he held several mission chief and resident representative positions.

He also worked in the Fiscal Affairs department and in the Strategy and Policy Review

department.

30. Professor Augustin K. FOSU University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Professor Augustin Kwasi FOSU is Professor, ISSER, University of

Ghana; Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa;

and CSAE Research Associate, University of Oxford. Previously, he was

Deputy Director, UN University-WIDER, Finland; Senior Policy

Advisor/Chief Economist, UNECA, Ethiopia; and Director of Research,

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya. He holds a

PhD in economics from North western University, USA. He is the editor-

in-chief, Journal of African Trade and a managing editor, Journal of

African Economies. He has also served on editorial boards of many

journals, including: Journal of Development Studies, Oxford Development Studies, World

Bank Economic Review, and World Development. He has published widely and is usually

ranked among ‘top economists/authors’ in Africa and globally: e.g., Africa; global.

31. Mohammed Tawfik Mouline Director General, Institut Royal des Etudes Stratégiques (IRES), Morocco

Mr Mouline currently serves as the Director General of the Royal

Institute for Strategic Studies a strategic policy advisory institution

to the King of Morocco. He previously served in the Royal Cabinet

in Charge of Mission on Strategic Studies and Future Oriented

Thoughts, Director of Studies and Financial Forecasts at the

Ministry of Economy and Finances (Morocco) in charge of

contributing to the modernization of the Ministry of Finances’

anticipatory culture and conception of the Ministry’s Strategic

Action Plan. With the ONA Group, he was Director of Studies and

Development till 1989, Director General of Financial Sector and of

the holding “Financière Diwan" from 1990 to 1995, Director General of Telecommunication

and Information System Pole.

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32. Titus A. Kuuyuor, PhD* Senior Resilience Advisor, UNDP, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dr. Titus Kuuyour is currently the Senior Resilience Advisor at the United

Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He also served as Chief Technical

Advisor Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in

Mozambique.

33. Dr. Arjan de Haan Director | Directeur Inclusive Economies | Economies inclusives,

International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada

Dr. Arjan de Haan has 20 years’ experience research and practice in

international development and public policy. Combine program

management in research and development practice, with academic

career with authored and edited books, and peer-reviewed articles,

quoted for work on migration and on social exclusion. Currently

leading IDRC program supporting inclusive growth. Focus: initiative

women's economic empowerment with DFID and Hewlett

Foundation which analyses whether empowerment is 'smart

economics'; innovative solutions to youth unemployment (with

Mastercard Foundation); research on how private investment can be

leveraged for public good.

34. Mr. Bakary Traoré* Economiste chez OCDE (OECD Development Centre)

Mr. Bakary Traoré has more than 10-years of experience in carrying out

policy analysis and engaging directly with Africa's policymakers at the

continental, regional and national levels. Great ability to work in a

multicultural context and tight timeframe. In-depth background in

Development economics, Macroeconomics (International trade and

competitiveness analysis), Microeconomics and applied Econometrics,

with a strong technical expertise in advanced programming tools

(STATA, SAS, VBA). Teaching experience at the University, and a

good network among academics and development experts.

35. Dr. Khaled SHERIF, Vice President, RDVP, African Development Bank

Dr. Khaled Sherif is the Vice-President for Regional Development,

Integration and Business Delivery at the African Development Bank

Group (AfDB). He oversees the Bank’s sovereign operations via five

regional hubs – North, South, East, West, and Central – 32 country

offices and five liaison offices. In this capacity, Dr. Sherif also guides

the Bank’s regional integration agenda, notably the support to the

African Continental Free Trade Area, and its engagement in the

continent’s fragile situations. Prior to joining the African Development

Bank, Dr. Sherif was the World Bank’s Chief Financial/Administrative

Officer for the Africa Region, helped to create the Regional Integration

Department in Africa for the World Bank. Holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy

and Management from Boston University in 1986.

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36. Dr. Charles Leyeka LUFUMPA Acting Vice President, Economics, Governance and Knowledge Management African

Development Bank Group

Dr. Charles Leyeka Lufumpa currently serves as the Acting Vice

President and Chief Economist for Economic Governance and

Knowledge and the Director of Statistics at the African Development

Bank Group. Before joining the Bank, Dr. Lufumpa worked on

agricultural policy and planning issues with Zambia’s Ministry of

Agriculture and Water Development in Lusaka, Zambia. He also

served as a visiting researcher in the 1980s in the Department of

Economics at Iowa State University, USA, on a staff exchange

program with the Zambian Government. His key research interests

are in the areas of statistics, poverty, infrastructure, agriculture and

environmental economic issues in Africa. His most recent books are: (i) “The Emerging

Middle Class in Africa” with Professor Mthuli Ncube (eds), Routledge, 2014 and

“Infrastructure in Africa: Lessons for Future Development” with Professor Mthuli Ncube

(eds), Bristol Policy Press, 2017. He obtained his B.A. degree in Economics & Statistics from

the University of Zambia (1983), his M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Economics (1989) and

Ph.D. in Forest Resource Economics & Statistics (1991) from Iowa State University, USA.

37. Dr Hanan MORSY Director ECMR, African Development Bank Group

Dr Hanan Morsy is the Director of the Macroeconomic Policy,

Forecasting and Research Department at the African Development

Bank, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. She is a renowned macroeconomics and

public policy expert with vast experience in international financial

institutions and the private sector. She has published extensively on

wide range of economic and development issues and led a number of

major flagship publications. Dr. Morsy worked previously as the Lead

Economist for the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Region at The

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London between 2012 and 2017. Prior

to joining The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, she worked at the

International Monetary Fund between 2003 and 2012 in various capacities across different

departments including, Fiscal Affairs, Middle East and Central Asia, European, and Monetary

and Capital Markets as well as Advisor to Executive Director. Dr. Morsy is a Visiting Scholar

at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a member of Aberdeen Economic Policy Panel,

a Board member, Partnership for Economic Policy, and a Board of Trustee Member at the

London Middle East Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the George Washington

University, USA, a Master’s degree in Economics from University of California, Davis, USA,

and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Computer Science from the American University

in Cairo, Egypt

38. Dr. Emmanuel PINTO MOREIRA Director Country Economists Department, African Development Bank Group

Dr. Pinto Moreira, a citizen of Benin, is a results-driven and innovative

economist fully committed to policy oriented and analytical works. He has

about 20 years of experience in macro-fiscal, growth, poverty, economic

governance, trade, competitiveness and financial sector related works, in

middle-income and low-income countries of Middle-East and North Africa,

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East-Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan African Regions. Before joining

AFDB, Dr. Pinto Moreira was the Regional Lead Economist for the Middle East North Africa

(MENA) Region at the World Bank Group. In this role, Dr. Pinto Moreira was responsible for

leading the policy dialogue with the authorities of Maghreb countries on designing Vision

documents and providing policy advice on key economic issues facing these countries. He also

led the preparation of the Macro-Poverty Outlook (MPO) for 18 countries and Macro-

Financial Review (MFR) for MENA Region and manages the knowledge agenda in the MENA

region. As a leader for the Macroeconomic and Fiscal Management (MFM) Global Practice

team, Dr. Pinto Moreira was also responsible for delivering solutions and results to client

countries. He was responsible for the design of Macroeconomic and Fiscal Management

(MFM) Global Practice (GP) work program, ensuring that MFM products are having

development impact in the client countries. Other positions held at the World Bank Group

include Lead Economist and Program Leader for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the

Republic of Congo; Senior Economist (PREM, Latin America and Caribbean Region); Senior

Country Economist (Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, AFRICA Region);

Economist at the World Bank Institute and as well as the Africa Region, Macroeconomics

Team.

Dr. Pinto Moreira worked at the International Monetary Fund as Senior Economist in the

Middle East and Central Asia Department in charge of fiscal issues, and Senior Advisor to the

Executive Director for the 24 Francophone African Countries. Before joining the IMF and the

World Bank at the Heaqaurters in Washington DC, Dr Pinto Moreira was Professor of

Economics in France. Dr. Pinto Moreira has authored many research papers and publications.

He recently published a book “Morocco’s Growth and Employment Prospects: Public Policies

to Avoid the Middle-Income Trap” Policy Center for the New South February 2020. Other

research papers and publications include (among others), Gender Gaps in the Labor Market

and Economic Growth. Analytical Framework and Application to Morocco”. World Bank

Policy Research Working Paper 8661. December 2018; and Managing (Fiscally) Resource

Price Volatility: Exploring Policy Options for the Democratic Republic of Congo”. This paper

was published in a book “Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa

BRICS’ versus OECD’s Impact. Palgrave McMillan, March 2017. Dr. Pinto Moreira holds a

Ph.D. in Macroeconomics and MS. in Macroeconomics both attained at the University of

Lorraine (France).

39. Prof. Kevin Chika URAMA, FAAS

Senior Director, ADI. African Development Bank Group

Kevin Chika URAMA, FAAS is currently the Senior Director of the

African Development Institute at the African Development Bank

Group, responsible for shaping and leading the bank-wide capacity

development in the Regional Member Countries (RMCs) to accelerate

delivery of the High 5 priorities of the Bank, the SDGs and Agenda

2063. He is also an elected Fellow of the African Academy of

Sciences (AAS); an Extra-Ordinary Professor in the School of Public

Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; an Adjunct

Professor at the Sir Walter Murdoch School of Public Policy and

International Affairs, Murdoch University, Western Australia; an Expert Partner of the Africa

Progress Group Chaired by Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and was Visiting Professor

at the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, University College

London. Prior to his appointment as Senior Director of the African Development Institute, he

was Senior Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank Group on Inclusive and

Green Growth – Strategy, Policy Development and Implementation. Kevin has held various

executive leadership positions in the academia, international organizations, the private sector,

and is currently in a multilateral development bank. Prior to joining the African Development

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Bank, he was the inaugural Managing Director of the Quantum Global Research Lab

established in Zug, Switzerland; former Executive Director of the African Technology Policy

Studies Network (ATPS) established in Nairobi Kenya; Director of Research and Training of

the ATPS; Senior Research Fellow at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute established

in Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Deputy Chairman of the OMFIF Economists Network, and

inaugural President of the African Society for Ecological Economics.

Kevin holds a Ph.D. in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

He won the 2002-2003 James Claydon Prize for the most outstanding Ph.D. thesis in

economics or related fields at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He was named

the Technology Executive of the Year by the Africa Technology Awards in 2012. He has

published in various media and has served on / contributed to many international and inter-

governmental scientific panels/reports including the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate

Change (IPCC); Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP); the International Resource Panel (IRP);

the OECD Green Growth and Poverty Reduction Task Team; the UNESCO Governing Board

of the International Research and Training Centre for Science and Technology Strategy

(CISTRAT), Beijing, China; and the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) Advisory

Committee; the High-Level Panel on Global Assessment of Resources for implementing the

Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020; among others. He serves on various boards and

global research committees to deliver inclusive green growth and sustainable development.

The e-Seminar Technical Committee, African Development Bank Group

40. Mr. Fred Kabanda

Manager, African Natural Resources Centre, African Development Bank Group

Mr. Fred Kabanda is the Manager, responsible for Extractive Resources

at the African Natural Resources Centre of the African Development

Bank; advising regional member countries on how to maximize benefits

from oil, gas and mining sectors. Former Assistant Commissioner in

Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. He has worked

with extractive sectors for over 27 years dealing with policy setting,

formulation of laws, regulation of operations and general natural

resources management aspects.

41. Mr. Nkoanyane Sebutsoe

Senior Capacity Development Officer, African Development Bank Group

Mr. Nkoanyane Sebutsoe is a Senior Capacity Development Officer,

Policy Management Division of the African Development Institute.

As part of the AfDB’s Young Professionals program, he worked in

Capital Market and Financial Operations Division, the Energy and

Climate Change Department to work with the Sustainable Energy

Fund for Africa (SEFA) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

as well as the Environmental and Social Analysis team, the Office of

the Special Envoy on Gender, among others he contributed immensely

to the development of the Bank’s Gender Strategy. Prior to joining the Bank, Sebutsoe worked

as a Capital Market Specialist at the Central Bank of Lesotho in their Capital Market

Development Division and also held part-time lectureship positions at the National University

of Lesotho teaching undergraduate Monetary Economics, Research Methods and

Development Economics

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42. Dr Kwadwo Agyei Nyantakyi, ADI

Consultant, African Development Bank Group

Dr Kwadwo Agyei Nyantakyi is a consultant with the African

Development Bank group at ADI. From 2007 to 2019 was a lecturer at

the Business School of Ghana Institute of Management and Public

Administration (GIMPA). PhD in Statistics and Economics (University

of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka). His academic specializations include

Mathematical Statistics, Financial Econometrics Modelling,

Econometrics Modelling, and Economics & Financial Mathematics

with vested research interests in Time series Modelling, Quantile

Regression Analysis, Mathematical Statistics, Econometric Modelling,

Quantitative Policy Analyses and International Trade

43. Dr. Eric Ogunleye

Advisor to the Vice President and Chief Economist of the African Development Bank

Dr. Eric Ogunleye is the Advisor to the Vice President and Chief

Economist of the African Development Bank. Has over 15 years of

progressively responsible, practical and demonstrable hands-on

experience as macroeconomist, development economist, M&E specialist,

public governance and regulatory reform expert, policy advisor and

project director and manager with work experiences straddling all

research and policy advisory divides: international development; private

sector; government; non-governmental institutions; and academic.

Former Special Assistant (International Trade and Finance) to the President of Nigeria, Special

Adviser to the Chief Economic Adviser to the President of Nigeria and more recently as

Technical Adviser (Policy and Planning) to the Honorable Minister of Budget and National

Planning. He was a core member of the team that crafted the Nigeria’s Economic Recovery

and Growth Plan. Earlier, he had stints in key institutions: UNCTAD, UNU-WIDER, World

Trade Organization, and African Center for Economic Transformation. Eric holds Ph.D. from

University of Ibadan through the prestigious AERC collaborative PhD. Program

44. Mr. Ezekiel Chidi ODIOGO

Head Private Sector Operations, Africa Investment Forum

Mr. Ezekiel Chidi ODIOGO is the Head of Private Sector Investment

Operations at the Africa Investment Forum (AIF). Global investment

banker, thinker, cross-industry expert, and leader - spanning multiple

sectors (Energy, Technology Media Telecoms (TMT), Financial

Services, and SME Development). Mr. Odiogo is passionate and

deliberate about changing the narrative of Africa’s investment

landscape. He also led the AfDB’s Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

transaction advisory and investment operations to both the public

and private sector. Previously the Investment & TMT Lead at the

Islamic Development Bank (IDB), and as Business Development

Manager at the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the

Private Sector (ICD). Mr. Odiogo held key positions in various blue-chip multinationals such

as Shell International, nPower Business Energy, UK, and Santander Bank, UK. Mr. Odiogo is

a Sloan Fellow and earned an MBA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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45. Dr Chuku Chuku

OIC-Macroeconomic Policy, Debt Sustainability and Forecasting Division AfDB

Dr Chuku Chuku is the Officer-in-Charge for the

Macroeconomic Policy, Debt Sustainability and Forecasting

Division of the African Development Bank, responsible for the

preparation of Bank’s knowledge products such as the African

Economic Outlook under the guidance of the Director. A

Lecturer (on leave of public service) at the Department of

Economics, University of Uyo, Nigeria. Previously, a Visiting

Scholar at the International Monetary Fund, consulted for IDRC,

UNU-WIDER, Africa Economic Research Consortium; UNEP, SIDA, WAIFEM, before

joining the Bank as a Chief Research Economist. Chuku holds a PhD in Economics from the

University of Manchester, U.K. He is also a Lecturer (on leave of public service) at the

Department of Economics, University of Uyo, Nigeria.

46. Ms. Atsuko Toda

Director, Agricultural Finance and Rural, African Development Bank Group

Ms. Atsuko Toda is the Director of the Agricultural Finance and

Rural Infrastructure Development Department, AfDB. She joined

the Africa Development Bank from the International Fund for

Agricultural Development (IFAD), where she has worked for

close to twenty years on rural development and financing in Asia

and Africa. Ms. Toda has held several positions in different

countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Laos and Vietnam. She

was the Country Director for Nigeria for IFAD, where she has worked since 2012, promoting

strong partnerships with Government and other development partners, managing a portfolio

of investments in rural development, accelerating the access of farmers to new technologies,

finance and markets. Holds a Masters’ Degree in Public Administration, with specialization in

rural finance, from the International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.

47. Tapera Jeffrey MUZIRA

Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy, African Development Bank Group

Tapera Jeffrey is a the Coordinator – Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy

African Development Bank Group responsible for bank-wide Jobs for

Youth in Africa Strategy to equip 50 million young people and creating

25 million jobs through integration, innovation and investments by 2025.

Tapera is a mathematics, business and marketing graduate from

universities in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Switzerland

48. Girma Earo Kumbi

Principal evaluation officer, IDEV, African Development Bank Group

Girma Earo Kumbi is a principal evaluation officer in the

Independent Development Evaluation function of the African

Development Bank. He holds MSc in Economics and Policy from

Wageningen University (The Netherlands); Master degree in

International Development Economics from Namur University

(Belgium); and a BSC in Agricultural Economics from Alemaya

University (Ethiopia). Girma has over 19 years of experiences in

development work and evaluation. In particular, he spent the last 10 years in independent

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evaluation of development programs, polices and projects in the African Development Bank.

Previous he worked for the World Bank and Government of Ethiopia. He has experiences in

project monitoring and evaluation, fiscal decentralization, development strategy analysis,

fiscal policy, national income accounting, donor coordination and public finance.

49. Ben Paul Mungyereza

Manager Statistical Capacity Building

Ben Paul Mungyereza is currently the Manager Statistical Capacity

Building under the AfDB Statistics Department. Before, he worked for

the Uganda Bureau of Statistics for 16 years where he served as its

Executive Director for the last 6 years. Before then, he lectured at

Makerere University School of Statistics in Uganda for 12 years and also

worked as a young professional at the Uganda Economic Policy Research

Centre. Mungyereza holds a Masters degree in development economics

from University of Oxford, UK, a Masters degree in Development

Planning from the African Institute for Economic.

50. Dr Njeri Wabĩri

Consultant, ADI African Development Bank Group.

Dr, Njeri Wabĩri is a Consultant with African Development Institute,

Africa Development bank Group working on Public Service delivery

Index (PSDI)- a composite systemic measure of change in public

service delivery across all sectors in Regional member countries

(RMCs) in Africa, in line with the High 5 priorities of the Bank, the

SDGs and Africa Agenda 2063, and the Capacity development

effectiveness Index (CDEI) to measure and track the capacity

development effectives of investments policies, programs and projects

across in RMCs A former Chief research manager with the Human

sciences Research Council, South Africa and specialist Analysis with the Financial and Fiscal

commission of South Africa. Dr. Wabiri holds a PhD in Statistics, and MBA on Leadership

and managing complex systems.

*Confirmed speakers who could not speak during seminar due to technical and/or other challenges

and/or prior commitments.