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Dr. Stephen Karingi
Director, Regional Integration & Trade Division of UNECADr. Stephen Karingi is currently the Director, Regional Integration and Trade Division of the Economic Commission for Africa. Before joining the United Nations, Dr. Karingi was a Senior Analyst and the Head of Macroeconomics Division in the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA). Before KIPPRA he served as a Lecturer of Economics at Egerton University.
Dr. Karingi was a recipient of the then Zolt-Gilburne Visiting Fellowship of the International Tax Programme of the Harvard Law School in 2001 and the winner of the 2013 Alan A. Powell Award in recognition of his contribution to Global Economic Analysis issues from an African perspective. Dr. Karingi served as a member of the High-Level Board of Experts on the Future of Global Trade Governance. He is presently serving in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Trade and Industrial Development Advisory Council; and also, a member of the High-Level Group on Trade in the context of EU-Africa relations. He is in the Editorial Board of the Journal of African Trade.
Hon. Jeannine Mabunda Lioko Mudiayi
Member of Parliament at Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Honourable Jeanine Mabunda Lioko Mudiayi is currently a Member of Parliament for Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). She was the first woman elected President of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), serving in that role from April 2019 to December 2020. She previously served as the Special Representative to Combat Sexual Violence and Child Soldier Recruitment, from 2014 to 2018. She has also served as Minister of Portfolio & Public Enterprises, and Executive Director of the Fonds de Promotion de l’Industrie (FPI), a public development bank in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Gwen Mwaba
Director and Global Head | Trade Finance of AfreximbankGwen Mwaba joined Afreximbank in May 2015. In her role as Director & Global Head, Trade Finance, she heads the Trade Finance business for Afreximbank and leads a team executing transactions in all Afreximbank member states across Africa.
Her expertise cuts across Receivables Financing, Pre-export and Pre-payment financing, Structured Trade and Commodity Financing and lending to Financial Institutions and Sovereigns.
Gwen has 23 years of banking experience in Oil & Gas, Telecoms, Hospitality, Mining and agri-business.
Before joining Afreximbank, she worked for Standard Bank Plc in London.
Rhulani Nhlaniki
Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa and Country Manager for South Africa at Pfizer incRhulani Nhlaniki is the Cluster Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa and Country Manager for South Africa at Pfizer with an experience tenure of over 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry.
He joined Pfizer in 2016 and previously assumed the role of Innovative Health Cluster Lead for the Sub-Saharan Africa. Rhulani is currently the President of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (IPASA), Vice-Chairperson of the Pharmaceutical Task Group (PTG) of South Africa, Vice-Chairperson & Board member of the US - South Africa Business Council.
He is qualified as a pharmacist from the University of Western Cape and holds an MBA from North West University, South Africa.
Prof. Landry Signe
enior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program and the Africa Growth Initiative at The Brookings InstitutionLandry Signé is a world-renowned professor and leading practitioner who has won over seventy prestigious awards and distinctions globally for his academic, policy, business, and leadership accomplishments, and has received the fastest reported tenure and promotion to the highest rank of professor in the history of the U.S. universities in his discipline. He is Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program and the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Managing Director and Professor at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Centre for African Studies, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance, and the World Economic Forum’s Regional Action Group for Africa, among others. He is also chairman of the Global Network for Africa’s Prosperity, senior adviser to top global leaders (presidential, ministerial, and C-suite levels), and author of numerous books, including Unlocking Africa's Business Potential, (Brooking Institution Press), Innovating Development Strategies in Africa: The Role of International, Regional and National Actors, (Cambridge University Press), African Development, African Transformation: How Institutions Shape Development Strategy ,(Cambridge University Press)
