US-Africa Investment Forum: Africa’s Role in Tackling Global Challenges 2022 | Invest Africa | 20 September 2022 | 2 Columbus , 2 Columbus CircleNew York, NY 10019, USA

Global leaders are confronting an era of elevated geopolitical and economic instability defined by deepseated supply chain disruption, rising inflation, energy insecurity and the mounting threat of climate change. As a market of over 1 billion people with some of the most abundant deposits of natural resources in the world, Africa can play a central role in tackling these global challenges. However, without significant efforts increase in investment into strategic sectors such as infrastructure, manufacturing, agriprocessing, mining, energy and capacity building, the opportunity to harness Africa’s strengths will be missed and underperformance in the region will dampen global economic performance, pose mounting security threats and exacerbate social crises.

2022 Speakers

Fatoumata Ba
Founder and Executive Chair, Janngo

Teslim Belo-Osagie
Executive Director, Natural Resources and Renewables, Americas, Standard Chartered Bank

H.E. Nicolas Kazadi
Minister of Finance, Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Samaila Zubairu
CEO, Africa Finance Corporation

Thomas Barry
Chairman, Zephyr Management

Andy Herscowitz
Chief Development Officer, US International Development Finance Corporation

Mohan Vivekanandan
Group Executive: Origination & Coverage, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Chair, SDIP Africa Hub

2022 Partners

HEADLINE PARTNER:
• Standard Chartered

SESSION PARTNERS:
• DBSA
• Forbes
• Ministere Des Finance