Emerging Africa and the Global Business Revolution: Bridging the Gap between Wealth and Destitution

Speakers:

Abdeslam Taadi Abdeslam Taadi is Director in charge of Trade and Investment Promotion at Attijariwafa bank, the largest financial and banking group in Morocco, ranked 6th in Africa. Heo holds a Masters in Business Administration from ISCAE (Morocco) and a Masters Degree in British and American Civilizations (Montpellier - France). He has more than 20 years of experience in the banking sector; focused on International Business Development for Corporates and SMEs (Trade Finance and Investments). Lately, he has been involved in the development of investment and trade flows between the 10 subsidiaries and representative offices that Attijariwafa bank group holds in the African continent. He also collaborates closely with the teams of their partner and shareholder Grupo Santander to the development of economic relations between Spain, Morocco and all the countries where the 2 groups are operating.

Abdul B. Kamara Abdul B. Kamara is a published researcher and Manager of the Research Division of the African Development Bank (ADB). As research manager, Kamara is part of a team that is entrusted with identifying strategic priorities for Bank-led research on African economic and social development, and takes responsibility for supervising senior research professionals and publishing the Bank’s key flagship publications. Before becoming research manager in 2007, Kamara served as a senior agricultural economist in the Bank’s Operations Department, where he managed the Bank’s entire agricultural investment portfolio in The Gambia during 2004-2006. His resent work at the Bank has focused on research and policy analysis in the context of the global financial and economic crisis, which guide the Bank’s policy and operational responses and informs policy processes in Africa. Before joining the Bank, he served as a Research Scientist at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI/South Africa and Ghana), and a Research Associate of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI/Washington, DC) and the International Livestock research Institute (ILRI/Addis Ababa) and worked extensively on water policy and agricultural development issues in Southern, Eastern and West Africa. He also taught applied production economics at the University of Göttingen in Germany, and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development from the same University. In recognition of his research work at ILRI/IFPRI, Kamara was awarded with Germany’s prestigious Josef G. Knoll Science Award 2002, making him the 1st Sierra Leonean (and 4th African) Laureate of this distinctive honour; and in 2006 he received the ADB’s Sector Operations Vice Presidency Merit Award for contributions to the Bank’s Agricultural Sector Operations in Africa for that year. His research interests include agricultural transformation and productivity growth in Africa; food security, market access and economic growth; and recently financial sector development in Africa. Kamara has authored books, book chapters and several articles in reputed journals.

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Alfredo Pastor

Alfredo Pastor earned his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Pastor holds the Banc Sabadell Chair in the Department of Economics at IESE Business School.

His areas of specialization include the European Union, Spanish economic policy, the role of the state in a market economy and the Chinese economy.

After earning a degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona (1968) and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972), Alfredo Pastor began his career as a professor of economic theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1973. He spent a year teaching at Boston University in 1980.

From 1981 to 1983 he served as a Country Economist at the World Bank and from 1983 to 1985 he held senior posts at the National Institute of Industry, first as Director of Planning and then as Director General.

Following his spell at the NII, he was the Head of Enher for five years. Two years later, he became Director of the Family Business Institute, a post he left to work as Spain’s Secretary of State for the Economy until 1995.

He joined IESE, first as a part-time professor and then as a full professor in 1997. In 2001, he was appointed Dean of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai.

Since 1990, Professor Pastor has combined his teaching and policy oriented work with business and institutional activities centered on management. He has been a board member at Bank of Spain, Círculo de Economía, Scania Hispania, Sol Melia, Miquel y Costas, Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, Copisca and Abertis Telecom.

Alicia Garcia-Herrero Alicia García Herrero is Chief Economist for Emerging Markets at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). Currently, she is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Emerging Markets at IESE Business School, Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research. Prior to joining BBVA, she was part of the Asian Research Program of the Bank for International Settlements in Hong Kong. From 2001 until 2006, she was Head of the International Economics Division of the Bank of Spain. She was also Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University and at Universidad Carlos III. From 1998 to 2001, she was a member of the Counsel to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. From 1997 to 1998, she was Head of Emerging Economies at the Research Department at Banco Santander, as well as Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma. From 1994 to 1997, she worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. Alicia García Herrero holds a PhD in Economics from George Washington University. Many of her papers have been published in refereed journals and books. She has also been a research fellow at the Bank of Japan and the Bank of Finland.

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Arantxa Aramburu-Hamel Arantxa Aramburu-Hamel is a consultant specialised in private sector support, investment promotion and business partnerships in Sub- Saharan Africa and the Caribbean region. Arantxa has a specific expertise in the ICT sector for those areas, having worked for different European Union programmes (PRO€INVEST, Centre for the Development of Enterprise, ACP Business Climate project). In Africa she has worked in projects in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Uganda, as well as in regional projects for West Africa, Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean. Prior to this activity, Arantxa worked as an administrator at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, at the Territorial Development Service, after an experience as a commercial lawyer in Spain. Arantxa graduated in Law in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has a Master degree in International Law form the University of London (King’s College London).

Cheikh Fall Cheikh Fall is advisor of Sones (Societé Nationale des Eaux du Senegal -The Senegal Water Company) where he was recently General Director. The main objective of the SONES (Societé Nationale des Eaux du Senegal -The Senegal Water Company) is to run the hydraulic heritage of the country in the urban and semi-urban area. Its field of activities are: To planify, analyse, manage the working activity, fund rising for the public infrastructure and works necessary for the extraction, production, transport and distribution of the drinkable water and to control its quality.

Dario Otero Darío Otero is currently Deputy Director for Economic Bilateral Relations with Developing Countries, since January 2010, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain. Previously he was Deputy Director for bilateral relations with the EU and OECD Countries. He is a career diplomat and has served in the Spanish Foreign Service since 2000. He has been on post in the Czech Republic (2000-2004), India (2004-2006) and Senegal, as Deputy Head of Mission (2006-2009).

Dennis Aluanga Dennis Aluanga is Chief Operating Officer for Industrial Promotion Services in East Africa. He has vast experience in industry, business, and media in East Africa and a particular interest in addressing development challenges through sustainable commercial enterprise. He joined the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) in 1991. AKFED is an international development institution dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and building economically sound enterprises in the developing world, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It also encourages and expands private enterprise in these regions. Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) is the manufacturing and infrastructure agency of AKFED. The activities of IPS in East Africa comprise 17 project companies spread across infrastructure, food and agroprocessing, specialized textiles, pharmaceuticals, leather, and packaging sectors. Its involvement in the companies includes project development, venture capital, technical assistance, and management support. IPS works with governments, international corporations, and international financial institutions to create solutions to pressing development needs. Aluanga is a member of the advisory board of the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness at Strathmore Business School in Nairobi and a member of the board of Nation Media Group Limited and of Property Development and Management Limited.

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Eric Ogunleye Eric Ogunleye is an economist with strong background in macroeconomics, econometrics, international trade and finance, health economics and economic research. Eric holds a Ph. D and M. Sc in Economics from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and a B.Sc in economics, (Suma cum Laude) from the University of Calabar. As a PhD student at the University of Ibadan, Eric was a recipient of the prestigious African Economic Research Consortium’s scholarship for the Collaborative PhD programme in Economics for sub-Saharan Africa. Eric was in the University of Cambridge in 2008 to attend the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics with funding from the Ford foundation. He was a Ph. D research intern at the United Nations University and the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland where he worked on exchange rate volatility and foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa. Ogunleye has work experiences at the WTO and UNCTAD. At UNCTAD he worked with the team that prepared the UNCTAD’s flagship publication, World Investment Directory for Africa. He has published a number of articles in reputable Economic and Business Journals in addition to active participation in international research conferences. He has an ongoing research project on Health Outcomes and Economic Growth in Selected sub-Sahara African Countries: Production Function Approach which is being funded by the African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya.

Forrest Metz Forrest Metz is the Founder and Managing Director of Dev Equity L.L.C., a firm that is promoting a new investment approach to provide long-term equity capital to socially responsible, commercially viable businesses in low-income countries. Forrest has worked on a variety of international business and development projects over the past decade, with an emphasis on economic development and private investment. Previously, he served as an investment development manager for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a bilateral development finance institution engaged in private sector financing in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe. His responsibilities included sourcing, analyzing and underwriting emerging market finance transactions. He has also advised leading private, public and non-governmental organizations supporting enterprise and sustainable economic development initiatives in Africa, Latin America and the South Pacific. Forrest has successfully completed his Ph.D. in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he has been researching the role of finance, small and medium sized enterprises and economic development in low income and post-conflict countries. He holds an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. in Finance and International Business from Georgetown University.

George Njenga George Njenga is the former dean and founder of Strathmore Business School in Kenya. He has also served as the director of Strathmore School of Accountancy. He has over 15 years teaching experience at the Graduate and Post graduate level. George also serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Managment Education Research Consortium (MERC). He is a Founder Director of Pacis Insurance Company in Kenya and a Founding Director of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). Over the years George has also worked as a senior auditor with Ernst and Young and held several positions as a Finance and Administration manager. Today is part of the Harvard Virtuous Leadership Institute Board Members.

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Giulio Federico Giulio Federico is a Policy Research Fellow at the Public-Private Sector Research Center of IESE Business School, and a Senior Consultant of Charles River Associates, an economic consultancy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised on contract theory with a specific application to the conditionality of aid and lending to emerging markets. His current work focuses on the application of economic techniques to competition policy and regulation. He has advised several companies in South Africa on competition issues, and has appeared as an economic expert before the South African Competition Tribunal. He also worked for 2 years in Uganda as an economic adviser to the Ministry of Finance, working on public expenditure issues with a specific responsibility for the development of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF).

Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte On the tail of his initial training in Corporate Management, HB Solignac-Lecomte spent several months in the suburban areas of Yaoundé and Dakar, which prompted him to turn to development economics. His PhD from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) brought him back to Africa to study the combination of factors of production in small firms. In 1992, HBSL became a research assistant at the OECD Development Centre, working on institutions, the informal sector, China’s integration in the world economy, financial intermediation and EU trade policies. Later, as a joint appointment of the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM, Maastricht) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI, London), he focused his research on the trade policies of developing countries and related capacity building, as well as on development co-operation between Europe and Africa. In particular, he monitored the renegotiation of the trade agreements between Europe and the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific countries over 1997-2000. He returned to the Development Centre in 2001 and worked with Management to set up a team responsible for the impact of research through networks, policy dialogue and an Innovation Lab. Today he works as Head of Unit, Operations Effectiveness in OECD Development Centre.

Humphrey Ayim-Darke Mr. Ayim-Darke is the General Director of the AGI (www.agighana.org), Association of Ghana Industries that promotes industrial policies, publishes economical information and promotes the internationalisation of the companies of the country. He knows first hand the needs of the industrial companies of Ghana and thus can advise Spanish companies to identify business and commercial opportunities.

Joan Masferrer Llabinés Founder and General Manager of COMPASS OF THE WORLD S.L. a company specialized in FMCG product distribution in West and North Africa. COMPASS OF THE WORLD S.L. has also a Consulting Division to implant companies and projects in West Africa. Since 1993, Mr Masferrer has been linked to business in West Africa as a marketing and export expert. In 1994 he became Sales & Marketing Area Manager of Mediterranean, Middle East & Africa regions for Joyco Group (Agrolimen) and four years later Export Managing Director. In 2006 he became West Africa Regional General Manager for Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company. He attended in 2001 to General Management Program of IESE Business School and holds a Master in Marketing and Foreign Trade by CEDEIN (Barcelona Chamber of Commerce & Industry and University Pompeu Fabra).

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Joaquim Alberto Chissano As a young man, Joaquim Alberto Chissano was already politically active in his native Mozambique, at the time, a Portuguese colony. When he went to Portugal to study medicine in 1961, he was forced to flee because of his affiliations and sought refuge in France. In 1962, he traveled to Tanzania and became a founding member of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Chissano played a fundamental role in the 1974 negotiations on the independence of Mozambique, between FRELIMO and the Portuguese Government, taking office as prime minister of the transitional government. When Mozambique became independent on 25 June 1975, Chissano was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. With the tragic death of President Samora Machel in 1986, Chissano was elected as his successor. He led positive socio-economic reforms, culminating with the adoption of the 1990 constitution that led Mozambique to the multi-party system and to an open market. Chissano also led successful negotiations with former rebels, ending 16 years of a destabilizing war in 1992. In 1994, he won the first multiparty elections in the history of his country, and was re-elected in 1999. Despite being permitted to do so by the constitution, he voluntarily decided not to stand in the 2004 presidential elections. Among the many high positions Chissano subsequently held, he was Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community and Chairperson of the African Union. After retiring from office, he was appointed Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2005 Summit to Review the Implementation of the Millennium Declaration, as well as Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Guinea-Bissau, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. He has received the highest awards from many countries and has received several prizes, including the inaugural Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership in 2007. Currently, he is the Chairperson of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation and of the Africa Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government.

John Adeyemi Adeleke Mr. Adeleke has undertaken consultancy work for a handful of institutions and companies, producing economic and business reports on Nigeria. Some of his clients have been The Economist Intelligence Unit, Regent Street, Energyday, Public Ledger, The European Union and several Embassies. He also produced the Nigeria survey reports for the “Emerging Markets Investor” publication (in September 1998 and September 1999) of Risk Waters Publications Ltd., for their IMF-World Bank Summit. Other business reports are produced for multi-lateral organizations, multi-national corporations, media organizations and risk advisory clients in London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Washington D.C. Most recent clients were, Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd of South Africa (establishing a supermarket business and distribution centers including fresh fruit and vegetable processing, ripening and packaging units), Export Management Network S.r.l of Milan, Italy (for small-scale farming and agro-industrial projects), and Zambeef Products Plc of Zambia (for feed-lotting, meat processing & packaging.

John Luiz John Luiz is a Professor at the Wits Business School, skilled in Economics, International Business and the Environment of Business. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999 and again in 2006 and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University in 2006. Besides the Ph.D. in Economics, John has completed various other academic courses including the Cambridge Advanced Programme on Development Economics at Cambridge University and Strategic Management at the Harvard Business School.

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Dr. Luiz works as a consultant and has undertaken research for the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Industrial Development Corporation, the Department of Trade and Industry, the United States Agency for International Development, the Johannesburg Development Agency and the Centre for Development and Enterprise amongst others. He is active in management training and executive education at several leading multinational and South African corporations and public entities. He has published dozens of articles in local and international journals. He is the co-author and editor of several books published by Macmillan, Pearson and Oxford University Press and Associate Editor of the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences.

John Sutton John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. A graduate of University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin, he taught at the University of Sheffield before joining LSE in 1977. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo University, a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and a Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. He has written widely in the areas of microeconomic theory and Industrial Organization. His books include Sunk Costs and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1981), Technology and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1998), and Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know? (MIT and Leuven University Press, 2000).He has been a consultant for the World Bank since 2000, and served on the Advisory Committee on Access to the Japanese Market (Tokyo) from 1995 to 2002. He served as a member of the Group of Economic Advisors to the President of the European Union from 2001-2004, and of the Enterprise Strategy Group (Ireland), which reported in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and of the British Academy, and was President of the Royal Economic Society from 2004 to 2007.

Lluis Renart Lluis Renart is assistant professor in the Marketing Department. His areas of specialization include export and multinational marketing, export consortia, multinational marketing alliances and Internet marketing. He holds a Ph.D. in Management, IESE, University of Navarra, a Master of Business Administration, University of Chicago and a Bachelor in Management Science, ESADE-UPC.

Louis Bedoucha Louis Bedoucha is a Senior Business Development Officer for MIGA located in Paris. MIGA is a member of the World Bank Group and their mission is to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing countries to help support economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve people's lives. Prior to joining MIGA in 2008, he worked for the French Ministry of Finance including Cabinet of the Ministry for over for 10 years. He has occupied various positions in the Finance Department in the Prevision, Budget and macroeconomic policy including Stability Pact. He joined the Banking sector where he held various positions in Capital Markets, Merger and Acquisition at Societe Generale, BNP Paribas Groups and Natixis. In 2000, Air France hired Mr. Bedoucha to be the head of Investment Strategy of the Group, in this position; he was instrumental in the merger between KLM and Air France. In 2006, joined Lazard Paris where he was in charge of emerging economies.

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Marcos Eduardo Gilligan Born in Cordoba, Argentina. He holds a BA in Food Technology from Universidad Católica Argentina and also a BA in International Trade from Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. After graduation, he started his professional career in the Argentine food business, becoming Regional Export Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at MOLINOS RIO DE LA PLATA S.A. an Argentine group which is a major producer of edible oils, food and Bio-diesel. In this role he was responsible for developing new export markets for food and wine. He also supervised the participation of the company in Government funded tenders of Angola, Mozambique, Botswana, Libya and Iraq as well as in tenders from International Organizations such as UN's World Food Programme and UNRWA. Today he acts as Regional Export Manager for Southern Africa at GRUPO LECHE PASCUAL S.A.U., a major Spanish dairy group that offers a wide range of milk and dairy products, desserts, beverages and water. He is responsible for formulating and implementing the business plan and marketing strategy for the region. Spanish is his mother tongue, he is fluent in English and speaks also French and Portuguese.

Mario Esteban Mario Esteban is a PhD Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies and Member of the Centre for East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). He coordinates the Asia-Pacific section of the Observatory of Spain’s Foreign Policy at the Alternatives Foundation. He graduated with a degree in Humanities from the Carlos III University (Madrid), earned a MSc in Chinese Politics at SOAS (London University), and a PhD in Political Science (UAM, 2004). He has conducted several research stays at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) and at the National Chengchi University (Taipei). His research and teaching has focused on the international relations of East Asia and both China and Taiwan political system. Professor Esteban has written many articles on these issues.

Miguel Cantillo Miguel Cantillo is Associate Professor of Financial Management at IESE Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Stanford University and a B.S. in Economics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Management Science of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His areas of interest are corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, financial history and antitrust analysis.

Morten Jerven Is Assistant Professor in School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. He Holds a Ph.D. in Economics by London School of Economics. Currently, he is working on linking the work on post-colonial economic development with the economic history of colonial Africa. He is also doing work on the comparative economic history of developing countries reconsidering the larger narratives of the historical roots of poverty. His main research projects are focusing on the African growth data where the two related aims are to assess its quality and to construct a reliable basis to evaluate and interpret long term economic change in African economies.

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Mory Soumahoro

Mr Soumahoro is a banker with over ten years of experience in the structuring, negotiating and executing capital markets transactions (debt, equity, asset-backed securities, etc) for both public and private sector clients.

During his career he has participated in various debt/equity transactions and achieved results on numerous fund raising activities for the State of Cote d’Ivoire, through the issuing of Debt Securities, with a total of 340 billions of CFA francs (about USD 755 million) raised between 2001 and 2007.

Mory Soumahoro holds a Master Degree in Economics from the University of North Florida and he is a Certified Fund Specialist (CFS). He is presently a co-founder and Managing Director of CITY FINANCES (www.cityfinances-ci.com), a licensed Asset Management firm based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (West Africa). He’s also serves as an Associate Director at Africa Consulting Services (ACS), a Financial Advisory company with business focus in the sub-Saharan Africa zone.

Mwangi S. Kimenyi Mwangi S. Kimenyi, founding executive director of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, is Senior Fellow at Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution. The AGI is part of the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. Its focus is on Africa’s development challenges and aims to draw more heavily on knowledge and analysis of Africa researchers. Kimenyi currently serves as associate professor of economics at the University of Connecticut and also as a research associate with the University of Oxford. Under the leadership of Kimenyi, the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) was established in 1999 to provide research and policy analysis and to provide guidance to the Kenyan government and private sector. In 2004, KIPPRA was recognized as a leading policy institute in Africa. Kimenyi studied at the University of Nairobi, received M.A. degrees in both economics and international affairs from Ohio University, and he received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. He has published numerous academic and policy articles as well as several books, including Devolution and Development: Governance Prospects in Decentralizing States (Ashgate, 2004); Restarting and Sustaining Economic Growth in Africa: The Case of Kenya (Ashgate, 2003); Ethnicity and Governance in the Third World (Ashgate, 2001); Institutions and Collective Choice in Developing Countries (Ashgate, 1998); and Economics of Poverty, Discrimination, and Public Policy (South-Western College, 1995). He is also a recipient of many honors and awards for excellence in research and teaching.

Oscar Lopez Oscar Lopez is Director and President of ARESA BOAT’S SL and DRASSANES D’ARENYS DE MAand President and spokesman of LAMINATS DE CATALUNYA (LAMICAT). He studied IndustriEngineering and holds a Master in Management. With 35 years old he became GenerManager and Chief executive of Astilleros Reunidos S.A. (ARESA). With his new position, thcompany started a long and important international expansion policy to France, Italy, Portugand Greece and also North Africa, Near East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Today, ARESA expormore than 80% of its production to more than 20 countries, mostly European and Africacountries. One of the latest agreements was reached with the Angolan Government to produc210 fishing and coastguard vessels. The last plan he set up is Laminats de Catalunya (LAMICATan industrial society dedicated to produce compound materials.

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Paddy Miller Paddy Miller is Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE. His interests lie in the area of leadership and the management of change and recently have focused on the specific issues of leading change in multinational organizations. Dr. Miller's particular approach to these areas has been to take a longitudinal perspective to organizational change, sometimes over a period of as long as a decade. In line with these views, he has become extensively involved in management development issues in many organizations during the transition to globalization. Among the companies and organizations that have used his services are IBM Germany, Henkel Germany, Lufthansa Germany, Volkswagen Germany, Caterpillar Spain, the United Nations FAO. Apart from addressing management groups, he has worked with CEOs and their management teams in Europe, Africa, and North and South America. He is a sought-after speaker on executive programs in the US and Europe - teaching on international programs offered by the business schools of Harvard, Michigan, Cape Town and the University of Virginia. Dr. Miller has written and contributed to several books and articles that have appeared in publications ranging from the Financial Times to the Journal of Management Education.

Paula Alayo As an Investment Officer at the IFC Paris office, Paula is responsible for business development for Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece. In these countries, she identifies local companies investing in emerging markets and helps structure the financial package to support their projects. She covers a variety of sectors including financial institutions, infrastructure, manufacturing and real estate. Paula joined the IFC in 1998. Prior to joining the Paris team, she was based in Washington DC. There she worked in the Capital Markets Division of the Latin America & Caribbean Department, and with the Banking Specialist Group of the Global Financial Markets Department. Since joining the IFC, she has participated in a variety of transactions in Latin America, Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and China. Before joining the IFC Paris team, she briefly worked in the Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch in New York. She has a B.S. in Finance and International Business from Georgetown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Romeu Rodrigues Romeu Rodrigues, 58, is CEO of CETA Construction, a Mozambican construction company. CETA is the biggest employer in Mozambique with more than 3,000 employees and an annual turnover of 60 million USD. CETA had started a new venture in agribusiness, in order to use Mozambique’s huge potential. Since mid 2000 Romeu has been involved Hiv-Aids awareness activities, founder and co- Chairman of Mozambican Business Coalition against Aids, between 2004 to 2007 acted as Chairman of local council for “The Global Fund” for Hiv-Aids, Malaria and TB. From 1997 to 1999 was Chairman of Contractor’s Association. In 1999-2001 was the Vice-President of Mozambican-USA Chamber of Commerce, and in 2007-09 was the President of Mozambican-Brazil Chamber of Commerce. Early 2009 was appointed as President of Fiscal Council on Bank FNB Mozambique. Other areas of interest are: Corporate Governance and Leadership. CETA is a partner in ALI-African Leadership Initiative in Mozambique, a project started in 2002 with TechnoServe and The Aspen Institute. Romeu, was born in Beira-Mozambique, has a degree in Civil Engineering from Maputo University – Mozambique.

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Sandra Sequeira Sandra Sequeira is a Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics and a visiting scholar at Development Research Institute at New York University. She received a BA in Economics from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, an MA in International Law from the Fletcher School and a PhD in Public Policy with a concentration in Development Economics from Harvard University. She is conducting research on the consumer and producer sides of the fair trade industry; the role of infrastructure in development and growth; discrimination in markets, corruption and entrepreneurial networks in Africa. She has conducted field research in India, Peru, Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa and has worked with the World Bank, the IFC, the UN, and the governments of South Africa and Mozambique.

Sanjay Peters Sanjay Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at IESE Business School. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK. In addition to having taught economics at the graduate level at Cambridge University, he has also worked as an economic advisor to the Foreign Office of the UK Government, consultant to the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program. He serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals and as an economic advisor to a number of leading multinational companies. Currently, Professor Peters is Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at IESE Business School and Visiting Professor at the Asia Research Center at Copenhagen Business School (2008-2011). Prior to joining IESE, he served at ESADE Business School in Barcelona as Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Director of the China Executive Leadership Program and Academic Director of the Executive MBA Program at the Indian School of Business.. His main area of specialization, and hence the main focus of his publications in academic journals and books, is on assessing business opportunities and risks in emerging markets in Asia (primarily in India and China). He also carries out research work on the incentives for promoting growth and competitiveness within firms, entrepreneurship, the determinants of macroeconomic growth, international economics, managerial economics, Neo-Coasian theories of the firm, and the impact of investments in human capital and institutional changes on economic growth. His main areas of interest include: international economics, emerging markets, macroeconomics and international business.

Sonja Sebotsa Sebotsa is the founder and Principal Partner of investment, advisory and financing firm Identity Partners. She started her career in investment banking in 1997 after completing her studies in the fields of law, economics and management. Her transacting, corporate finance and advisory experience has spanned South Africa, broader Africa and internationally covering Mergers & Acquisitions, privatizations, Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) and capital raisings. She was previously Executive Director of Women’s Development Bank Investment Holdings (2002 to 2007) and prior to that a Vice President of Deutsche Bank, South Africa (1997 to 2002). She is currently a Non-Executive Director on the following boards of JSE listed companies: RMB Holdings, Anglo Platinum, Discovery Holdings, Mr Price Group as well as Nestlé South Africa. She was previously a Trustee of the National Empowerment Fund and a member of the Presidential Working Group on BEE . Sonja has been awarded and recognized by the Black Management Forum and Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals. She holds a LLB (Hons) London School of Economics, UK and a MA in Economic Policy Management, McGill University, Canada.

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Yang Jiang Yang Jiang is Assistant Professor at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. Dr. Jiang earned a BA in International Politics from the University of International Relations in China in 2001, a MS in Political Science from the National University of Singapore in 2004, and a PhD in International Political Economy from the Australian National University in 2008.

Previous to joining the Asia Research Center, Ms. Jiang served as Visiting Fellow in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at Beijing University, as well as Research Assistant at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore.

She is a referee for the European Journal of International Relations and The China Journal.

Her research interests include international political economy, foreign economic policymaking, regionalism, China and Asia. Apart from book chapters, she has published in the Journal of Contemporary China and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. She is currently studying China’s overseas investment, and her future research plans include China-EU relations and the trade of Chinese or East Asian art amongst other topics.

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