Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the 5th Annual Oxford Africa Business Conference due to take place at the Business school, University of Oxford.
Kagame is among leading businessmen and women, community leaders, academics, industry leaders and MBA students from all around the world taking part in the conference entitled Leading from the Frontier, which is scheduled to take place on May 18th this year.
The Rwanda High Commissioner to the UK, Williams Nkurunziza, visited Oxford 1st May to prepare for President PaulKagame‘s keynote at the Conference, according to the conference facebook page.
During the event, delegates from around the world will meet at Oxford University next month to discuss what is driving the phenomenal growth in Africa, one of the world’s continents struggling to get out of poverty.
The conference will consider what exactly the opportunities are and what is driving Africa’s current growth story which has been well publicised, a story that has specific examples in Rwanda and how the country has positively improved lives of its citizens.
According to the World Bank, the predictions are: “the continent’s combined economies will grow at an average rate of over five percent, which is more than the global average, and the rate of return on foreign investment is greater than in any other developing region”.
The student-led conference will discuss the rapidly increasing levels of intra-African trade, and discuss a range of topics from the tech revolution to frontier investing and the role private equity is playing in unlocking value on the continent.
The Oxford Business Network for Africa is a student led group created to organise and channel the substantial interest in business in Africa among Oxford students, alumni and faculty. The group is run by current MBA students at Said Business School, University of Oxford.
Organisers of the event have listed other speakers as Tewolde GebreMariam, Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airways; Mthuli Ncube, Vice President of the African Development Bank; Dr Julie Taylor, Google Africa’s Head of Communications and Abdirashid Buale, CEO of Dahabshiil