Conference Speakers

President of Sierra Leone

Entrepreneur and Industrialist

MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Ghana)

Researcher in Energy Transitions and Resource Governance at the African Leadership Centre, King’s College London

Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development and Director, Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre

Director of the UNDP Sustainable Energy Hub

Co-founder and Executive Director of Eco-Africa Network

Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited

Minister of Education & Chief Innovation Officer

Managing Director for Africa at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Former Chief of Staff to Former President Uhuru Kenyatta

Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and Research Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Chief Medical Officer at Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford

Co-Founder and Creative Director, Kugali Media; Production Designer and
original story, Iwaju

International filmmaker,
Entrepreneur, Co-founder, and outgoing CEO of Kugali Media

South African Attorney and DPhil in Law Candidate at the University of Oxford

President of Ghana

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

Co-founder of Tard Foundation and founder of the Rise Up climate movement

Youngest Female Minister in the History of Sudan

Chairperson of Ghana’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, Member of Parliament for Atiwa East

Executive Chairman GenAl Learning Concepts Ltd Nigeria
Postgraduate Artificial Intelligence candidate at Said Business School

Deputy Country Director & Trade Promotion Lead (Education)
Department for Business and Trade, British High Commission – Accra

Associate in the International Arbitration group at White & Case LLP in London

Founder/CEO Medicaid Cancer Foundation Board Member, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Chairperson, First Ladies
Against Cancer (FLAC)

Senior Lecturer in International Relations with expertise in Climate Resilience and Adaptation

Climate Change Adviser at the Commonwealth Secretariat

Award-winning Musician and Rapper

Marketing Lead at Selfridges

Art Historian & Consultant

Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Vice-Chancellor | University of Oxford

Deputy High Commissioner of South Africa, South African High Commission

Director of the Africa Policy Research Institute

First Female President - Cuttington University

Director of UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development

Ex-Executive Governor of Edo State, Nigeria

Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Former Director of Research at the Office of the President of Ghana

Lawyer & Chartered Arbitrator

Pharmacist and Social Entrepreneur

Former Member of Zimbabwe's Parliament and Centre for Africa Transformation and Youth Leadership

Fashion Editor at Guzangs & Chief Creative Officer at WB Group

Freelance Political Journalist and Producer, BBC London

Creative Director & Designer