World Economic Forum on Africa 2015

  • How can increased women’s economic participation accelerate sustainable development?

Speakers

  • Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
    Undersecretary-General and Executive Director, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN), New York

    1980, BA in Education, University of Lesotho; 2003, MPhil in Educational Planning and Policy, Univer...

  • Graça Machel Graça Machel
    Founder, Foundation for Community Development (FDC), Mozambique

    Renowned international advocate for women and children's rights. Social and political activist for m...

  • Robert W. Collymore Robert W. Collymore
    Chief Executive Officer, Safaricom, Kenya

    With Vodafone, positions including: Purchasing Director, UK business; Director, Global Handset Purch...

  • Claver Gatete Claver Gatete
    Minister of Finance and Economic Planning of Rwanda

    1991, degree and 1993, Master's in Agricultural Economics, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver. 199...

  • Colin Dyer Colin Dyer
    President and Chief Executive Officer, JLL, USA

    BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London; MBA, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. 1978-82...

Moderated by

  • Charlotte Petri Gornitzka Charlotte Petri Gornitzka
    Director-General, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden

    Former consultant in marketing and communications. 1997-2003, Head of Communications, then Under-Sec...

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