This panel is being organized in collaboration with Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and seeks to address the major challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in trade and investment between Africa and China as they relate to issues of sustainability, economic growth and development and consumer protection. With most of the major economies trying to recover from the global economic crisis, new questions arise as to the future of trade and investment in the continent, particularly by China, who is now one of Africa’s foremost trading partners. What are the implications of this fragile environment for the economies of African countries? How can a mutually beneficial environment for trade and investment both for local African businesses and foreign ones be ensured going forward? Lastly, who will look out for the interest of the African consumer? This diverse panel of industry leaders will discuss these challenges and help alleviate some of these burning questions.
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Panel Moderator DR. HARRY BROADMAN Senior Vice President, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC & Chief Economist, Albright Capital Management LLC Dr. Harry Broadman is Senior Vice President of Albright Stonebridge Group LLC, a global consultancy, and Chief Economist of Albright Capital Management LLC, an emerging markets investment advisory firm. For more than 28 years Dr. Broadman has held senior positions in the private sector, government, international financial institutions, think tanks and academia. He has worked in a wide array of emerging markets, including China, Russia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Thailand and Vietnam. Immediately prior to his current positions, Dr. Broadman served as a senior official of the World Bank. Earlier he was Assistant United States Trade Representative; Chief of Staff of the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers; Chief Economist of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs; on the faculties of Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities; Assistant Director at Resources for the Future, Inc.; Fellow at the Brookings Institution; and a Consultant at the Rand Corporation. Dr. Broadman received an A.B. in economics and history, magna cum laude, from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; he received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee. He also serves as a Nonresident Fellow in the Africa Studies Program at SAIS at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Broadman has authored numerous articles published in professional economics journals and several books, the most recent being Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier (2007). |
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JIAN-YE WANG Chief Economist, China Export-Import Bank Dr. Jian-Ye Wang is Chief Economist of the Export-Import Bank of China. He was educated at Peking University, pursued graduate study at Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar and received his Ph.D. in economics there in 1989. Dr. Wang worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1989-2008. While in the IMF, he led IMF policy surveillance and lending missions to countries in various parts of the world including Africa and Asia. He represented the IMF in the Republic of Georgia (1994-96), various international forums including the Steering Committee of Debt Relief International, UNTADC Debt Management Advisory Committee, the Paris Club, OECD, WTO, Bern Union, and Asian Export-Import Banks. He was an adjunct professor at Tbilisi Business Academy (1994-96) and gave lectures at Peking University (2003, 2005) and Japan Center for International Finance (2002-03). |
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REMI BELLO Founder & Head of Research, B&M Consulting Mr. Remi Bello is a Nigerian-American political, economic, security, and social risk consultant focused exclusively on Africa. The first political risk consultancy focused exclusively on Africa, B&M Consulting helps investors manage the risk of doing business in Africa by closely monitoring and analyzing political, economic and security trends across the continent and forecasting their impact on a clients’ bottom line. Mr. Bello’s expert analysis and commentary is increasingly sought on the opportunities and challenges (i.e. risks) of China’s burgeoning investments in Africa, and he advises clients that work regularly with Chinese investors operating in Africa. Prior to B&M, Mr. Bello worked in political and economic risk research for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and eStandards Forum in New York City focusing on Africa. He has also worked for Congressman Dick Gephardt and for Ret. General Wesley K. Clark. Mr. Bello holds a BSC in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in International Economic Policy (with a focus on Africa) from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). |
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ABIODUN (ABI) ADISA Founder, Oridun Capital Abi Adisa is the founder and President of Oridun Capital Management, an African alternative asset manager, investing primarily in public securities and private equity investments across West Africa. Abi’s career spans both the US and West Africa. Before founding Oridun, Abi was a Staff Associate in Sprint Nextel’s Executive Leadership Program, as well as a principal and founder of Cignal Ventures, a US middle market private equity firm. Abi has also worked in venture capital and technology roles at Spinnaker Ventures, Comcast, Excite@Home, and Allied Technologies Group. Abi currently sits on the board of portfolio company, CES Africa. He obtained a BSc in Electrical Engineering from OAU University, Nigeria and an MBA from the Wharton Business School. Abi Adisa is an alumnus of the Africa Venture Capital Fellows (AVCF) program, an initiative of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow (GLT) program |
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DR. TOM DORSEY Chief of the Strategy, Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund Tom Dorsey is currently an Advisor in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, where he reviews the IMF’s work on 28 African, Asian, and European member countries. Prior to this, he was the chief of the IMF’s trade division and deputy chief of the Low-Income Countries Division both also in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy and Review Department. He has worked at the IMF for over sixteen years including on the mission teams for China and South Africa, and he has led missions to Botswana. Before joining the IMF, he was an economist at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for nine years where he worked on a variety of international trade, finance, and development issues. He is a U.S. national and earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. all in economics and all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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