GTR Africa Trade & Export Finance Week 2018 | Global Trade Review | 1 March 2018 | Cape Town International Convention Centre, Convention Square, 1 Lower Long Street, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa

Advance your knowledge, create new business opportunities and gain a competitive edge at the market’s premier pan-African trade and export finance gathering.

For well over a decade, GTR Africa Trade & Export Finance Week has been a crucial networking and discussion forum for Africa’s corporates, financiers, trade specialists, ECAs and service providers. This two-day conference, taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on March 1-2, will provide extensive opportunities to create new business, as well as a truly customisable delegate experience.

This event will cover all aspects of trade, export, commodity and infrastructure finance, exploring innovative funding solutions available to African corporates, identifying key African trade hotspots and project opportunities, providing insight into credit and political risks and much more.

Who will you meet?
• Local and international banks
• Multinationals and SMEs
• Independent financiers
• Commodity brokers and traders
• Insurers and risk managers
• Lawyers and consultants
• Fintech providers
• ECAs & multilaterals

2018 Speakers

Michelle Knowles
Head of Trade Finance Product, Absa

Benji Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO, Aerobotics

Rene Awambeng
Director, Client Relations, Afreximbank

Nicholas Piquito
Chief Executive Officer, African Alliance Alternative Solutions

Ilze Gouws
Project Leader, African Financial & Economic Data (AFED)

Jean Craven
Director, Barak Fund Management

Meagan Fallone
Chief Executive Officer, Barefoot College International

Oliver Wright
Director, BPL Global

Sam Evans
Assistant Director, BPL Global

Zhang Xun
Representative, South Africa, China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation

Stewart Makura
Supply Chain Finance Head & Trade Commodity Finance, Sub-Saharan Africa, Citi

Robert Parson
Partner, Clyde & Co.

Duarte Pedreira
Head of Trade Finance, Crown Agents Bank

Michael Fischer
Director, Regional Office, Southern Africa, DEG

Emma Wade-Smith
UK Trade Commissioner for Africa, Department for International Trade

Boris Jaquet
Regional Head, Distribution & Trading, EMEA, Deutsche Bank

Simon Sayer
Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance, EMEA, Deutsche Bank

Tasneem Krueger-Vally
Director, Structured Commodity Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank

Vernon Darko
President & CEO, EquipXP

Portia Gumbo-Dube
Head of Business Development, Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC)

Dr Robert Besseling
Executive Director, EXX Africa

James Matcher
Partner, Director, Advisory Services, EY South Africa

Willem de Boer
Head of Regional Representative Office, Southern Africa, FMO

Gabriel Buck
Managing Director, GKB Ventures

Shannon Manders
Editorial Director, Global Trade Review (GTR)

Dup Haarhoff
Head of Agricultural Services, GWK

Lodewyk Meyer
Partner, Hogan Lovells

Faridah Saad
Centre Director, Johannesburg, International Enterprise Singapore

Sean Edwards
Head of Legal, Sumitomo Mitsui Corporation Europe

Rt. Hon. Mark Simmonds
Former UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister for Africa; Chairman of the Advisory Board, Invest Africa

Raphael Karuaihe
Head of Commodities, Capital Markets, Johannesburg Stock Exchange

Antois van der Westhuizen
Managing Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, John Deere

Huw Owen
Head of London Markets, Global Financial Risks, Liberty Specialty Markets

Julian Macey-Dare
Managing Director, Political Risks & Structured Credit, Marsh

Marc Harel
Head of Institutional Banking, MCB

Suzana Moreira
Chief Executive Officer, Mowoza

Julian Hitchcock
Group Treasurer, Nampak

Zhann Meyer
Head, Agricultural Commodities, Nedbank

Michael Creighton
Head of Export Credit Finance, Nedbank CIB

Cobus de Hart
Chief Economist, West & North Africa, NKC Economics

Jacques Nel
Chief Economist, East & Southern Africa, NKC Economics

Bharat Gupta
Regional Head, Trade & Structured Finance, Asia, Middle East & Africa, Olam International

Carosin Buitendag
Group Treasurer, Omnia

Rupert Cutler
Director, Political Risk & Trade Credit, Price Forbes & Partners

Vito Martielli
Senior Analyst, Grains & Oilseeds, Food & Agribusiness Research & Advisory, Rabobank

Linda Sadler
Transactor, Trade & Working Capital, Africa, Rand Merchant Bank

Minos Gerakaris
Head of Trade Finance, Rand Merchant Bank

Dave Chalila
Head of Africa, Sace

Jansen Harper
Director, CreditInnovation, Santam

Nick Piper
Director, Signal Risk

Ronak Gopaldas
Director, Signal Risk

Ryan Cummings
Director, Signal Risk

Goolam Ballim
Chief Economist, Standard Bank

Vinod Madhavan
Head of Trade, Standard Bank Group

Faruq Muhammad
Managing Director, Structured Export Finance, Standard Chartered Bank

Onyebuchi Memeh
Head of Trade South Africa & Southern Africa, Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered Bank

Viplav Rathore
Regional Head of Cash Management Product, Transaction Banking Africa & Middle East, Standard Chartered Bank

Simon Cook
Partner, Sullivan & Worcester UK

Fatima Bilal
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women, Empowerment, Youth, Children & Labour, Government of Zanzibar, Tanzania

Johan Krynauw
Programme Manager, The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI)

Tim Harris
Chief Executive Officer, Wesgro

Michael Dean
Managing Director, Head of Trade & Specialty Finance, White Oak Trade & Specialty Finance

Amy Clarke
Senior Underwriter, Credit & Political Risk, Zurich

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• Deutsche Bank
• Nedbank
• Standard Chartered

PLATINUM & METWORKING BREAK:
• Standard Bank

GOLD:
• BPL Global
• Crown Agents Bank
• Rand Merchant Bank

HOST AGENCY PARTNER:
• ERIC

EVENING RECEPTION:
• BARAK

MORNING REGISTRATION:
• MCB

SILVER:
• China Systems
• Clyde&Co
• cba
• Hogan Lovells
• Itfc
• Liberty
• Marsh
• NIC Bank
• Rabobank
• Sullivan Worcester
• SMBC
• Wilben