The chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, will today, Monday May 25, 2020, moderate a high level leadership panel to discuss Africa’s economic recovery post COVID-19 in the 2020 edition of UBA’s Africa Day Conversations.
Elumelu would be joined by decision makers from around the world including the Presidents of Senegal, Macky Sall and Liberia, George Weah as well as United States Senator Chris Coons.
The African Presidents and global leaders will be joined on the panel by other global leaders including the president & chairman of the board of directors of the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank), Professor Benedict Okey Oramah; president, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer and president and founder, Africa CEO Forum, Amir Ben Yahmed.
With over 60 per cent of Africans living below the poverty line, the pandemic poses an existential threat to Africa’s economic growth and this session will define the lessons learned and the roadmap to economic growth and sustainability.
The leaders will be speaking on the theme ‘UBA Africa Day Conversations 2020: Growth, Jobs, and Sustainable Development Amidst a Global Pandemic,’ This will be the second edition of the symposium organised annually by UBA, in celebration of Africa Day.
The open event which will be held virtually starting at 3pm WAT is part of activities to mark the Africa Day which is celebrated worldwide on May 25th, to showcase the diversity and beauty of Africa and its people. The United Bank for Africa, with its pan-African footprint spanning 20 African countries, New York, Paris, and London, continues to lead the conversation and focus on the development, growth, and unity of the continent.