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NYSE Euronext and Africa investor (Ai) will host the second annual Ai Index Series Summit on Monday September 21. The conference, which aims to highlight Africa as an investment destination, is part of a major international event linking African and US capital markets. Mr. Donald Kaberuka, the seventh elected African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President will serve as the keynote speaker. A press conference will complete the day’s events followed by a cocktail reception and dinner at the NYSE to award 2009 Ai Index Series awards winners. The Ai Index Series awards recognize and reward the best performing leaders from Africa 's capital market community. The Ai Index Series awards are the foremost African awards that recognize stock markets, listed companies, fund managers, stockbrokers and analysts who follow African equities.
About the speaker:
Mr. Kaberuka was educated in Tanzania and the United Kingdom where he obtained his M Phil (Econ) and a PhD in Economics from Glasgow University in Scotland.
Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Kaberuka served as Rwanda's finance and economic planning minister from 1997 to 2005, and has been widely acknowledged as the country’s principal architect of its successful post-war reconstruction and economic reform program, including the independence of the country’s central banks. As the country’s finance and economic planning minister, the AfDB President served as Rwanda ’s governor at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank.
Additional Participants:
- H.E. Raila Amollo Odinga, Prime Minister , Kenya
- Jean-Louis Ekra, President, African Export-Import Bank
- Lawrence Spinelli, CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
- Stefan Jekel, Managing Director-Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), NYSE Euronext
- Prof. Wiseman Nkuhlu, Board Member, AngloGold Ashanti
- Anthony Moro, Head of Emerging Markets, The Bank of New York Mellon
- Stephen Olabisi Onasanya Group MD and CEO First Bank of Nigeria
- James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank, Kenya
- Nicolas Clavel, Chief Investment Officer, Scipion Capital LLP
- Nick Blazquez, Managing Director, Diageo Africa
- Jonathan Auerbach, Managing Director, Auerbach Grayson & Co
- Bruce J Wrobel, CEO, Sithe Global Power
- Steve Suzzan, Partner, Fulbright Jaworski LLP
- Mohamed Ouanaya, CEO, CGI, Morocco
- Karim Hajji, CEO, Casablanca Stock Exchange
- Sunil Benihmadhu, CEO, Mauritius Stock Exchange
- Maged Shawky Sourial, Chairman, Egyptian Stock Exchange
- Dr. Ndi Okereke–Onyiuke, CEO, Nigerian Stock Exchange
- Ekow Afedzie, CEO, Ghana Stock Exchange and the Director General of the Sierra Leone Stock Exchange
Sponsors:
The Awards are sponsored by the African Development Bank, CNN, Thomson Reuters, NYSE Euronext and are supported by the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) and the NEPAD Business Group.
About Africa Investor
Africa investor is a specialist investment communications firm advising governments, international organizations and businesses on communication strategies for capital market and foreign direct investments in Africa . Africa investor publishes africa-investor, the leading international news stand magazine for Africa's investment decision makers; maintains the Ai 40 Investors' Index, hosts the prestigious annual Africa investor Awards and the annual Ai Projects Summit for infrastructure investors and developers.
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