Africa Progress Panel Expert Consultation
27 Jan 2012On January 31, 2012, the Panel member convened an expert consultation to try to better define economic turmoil, global power shifts and their impact on Africa's progress.
“Framing key Issues”
The consultation's objectives were to outline the emerging significant global trends affecting Africa’s progress and highlight key messages including challenges and opportunities.
Over the last few years, the world has changed dramatically and geopolitical relationships have shifted fundamentally due to a multitude of interrelated and complex factors. Some of these changes have been gradual, for example, the rise of China and the BRIC countries, deepening economic crisis, and a whole gamut of significant new technologies. Others, such as the ‘Arab Spring’, the emergence of new forms of social protest loosely interconnected across the globe, and the drama of the Eurozone, emerged quickly and unexpectedly, over the last year. As a new order emerges, assumptions about how the world works and how it should be governed are now being questioned.
Given the range of possible issues at hand, the consultation provided a platform for participants to identify critical themes and trends, to be considered for inclusion in the Africa Progress Report. Furthermore, the aim will be to unpack the dynamic elements among the themes identified, short and long-term priorities as well as any conflict between these, and potential development scenarios for Africa.
Participants included:
| Kofi Annan | Chair of the Africa Progress Panel |
| Michel Camdessus | Panel member |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | Panel member |
| Peter Eigen | Panel member |
| Bob Geldof | Panel member |
| Archbishop Ndungane | President, African Monitor |
| Alan Doss |
Senior Political Advisor, Peace and Security Unit, Kofi Annan Foundation |
| Carlos Lopes | Executive Director, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) |
| Changyong Rhee | Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank |
| Elsie Kanza | Director, Head of Africa, WEF |
| Emmanuel Nnadozie | Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Development and NEPAD Division, United Nations Commission for Africa (EAC) |
| Esther Mwaura-Muiru | Founder and coordinator of GROOTS Kenya |
| Festus Mogae | Former President of Botswana |
| Guido Schmidt-Traub | CEO, CDC Climat Asset Management |
| Jamie Drummond | Executive Director, ONE |
| Karuti Kanyinga | Director, South Consulting |
| Kevin Watkins | Senior fellow, Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institution |
| Nathalie Delapalme | Director of Research and Policy, Mo Ibrahim Foundation |
| N’Dri Assié-Lumumba | Professor in the African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University |
| Richard Manning | Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford |
| Shanta Devarajan | Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank |
| Strive Masiyiwa | Founder, Econet |
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