29 September 2011Sandton Convention CentreJohannesburg, South Africa

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Proactive leadership as a catalyst for inspiring growth, reputation and

competitiveness in Africa.

Welcome

Welcome to the 2nd Brand Africa FORUMTM 2011.

Africa is rising - and awakening greater interest in the continent around the globe.

We are delighted and humbled that you and many decision makers, influencers and supporters who are passionate about

the future of Africa, have agreed to be part of the FORUM as speakers, panellists, delegates and sponsors.

The agenda for Brand Africa FORUMTM 2011 reflects the depth of African leadership and supporters of the African agenda,

and a commitment to unlock the opportunities and showcase African excellence, and inspire its growth, reputation and

competitiveness.

The FORUM is focused on engaging African stakeholders and supporters, including the youth, who are the future of Africa,

business, CSO’s, media and government and its agencies on issues and opportunities that will inspire change and influence

perceptions and competitiveness of brand Africa.

At Brand Africa FORUMTM, Africa is not on the agenda. Africa is the agenda.

One of the primary drivers of Africa’s growth lies in stimulating and growing thriving African and global businesses and

brands in Africa. Thus the inaugural Brand Africa 100, developed by Brand Leadership in partnership with TNS, the world’s

most respected consumer knowledge and information company and Brand Finance plc, the world’s leading brand valuation

company, is a recognition of those innovators – the businesses and brands – who are helping to create a positive reputation

for Africa.

The partnership between Brand Leadership Academy, organisers of the Brand Africa FORUMTM and Brand South Africa,

is founded on the mutual passion and commitment to proactively create a better Africa and opportunities for Africans to

collectively pursue an agenda that moves the continent forward.

We trust you get out of the FORUM the insights, energy and inspiration to build a better African brand.

Thank you for attending the FORUM. We look forward to seeing you at the next.

Sincerely,

Miller Matola

Chief Executive Officer,

Brand South Africa

Thebe Ikalafeng

Founder & Chairman

Brand Africa

08:00 - 08:30 Accreditation

08:30 - 08:45 Opening Address: Anitha Soni, Chairman of Brand South Africa Governance & Sustainability08:45 - 09:15 Keynote: The Role of the Nation Brand in Economic Development Dr. Arthur Mutambara, Deputy Prime Minister: Republic of Zimbabwe

09:15- 10:45 Panel chair: Dr. Jackie Chimhanzi , Consulting – Africa Leader, Deloitte

• Dr. Namanga Ngongi, President, AGRA (Kenya) • Geoffrey Qhena, CEO - IDC (South Africa) • Dr. Joseph S. Annan, Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry (Ghana) • Prof. Keith Dinnie, author “Nation Branding” (Japan) • Miller Matola, CEO Brand South Africa (South Africa) • Prof. Richard Mkandawire, Head of Resource Mobilisation, Partnerships and Communications: NEPAD Agency

10:45 - 11:00 Refreshment Break Business11:00 – 11:30 Keynote: How the West Was Lost: Lessons for Africa Dr. Dambisa Moyo, Author: “Dead Aid” & “How the West Was Lost”

11:30 - 13:00 Panel chair: Prof. Nick Binedell, Founding Director - GIBS

• Dr. Dambisa Moyo, Author: “Dead Aid” & “How the West Was Lost” • Dr. Reuel Khoza Chairman - Nedbank (South Africa) • Rakesh Wahi, Vice Chairman & Co –Founder - CNBC Africa and Forbes Africa (Dubai) • David Haigh, Founder & CEO - Brand Finance (UK) • Tawanda Nyambirai, Chairman – Econet and TN Group (Zimbabwe) • Amadou Mahtar Ba, CEO - Africa Media Initiative (Kenya) • Nigel Hollis, author “The Global Brand”

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Youth Vision for Africa14:00 – 14:15 Keynote: Africa 2.0: Kenya Report Malik Fal, Managing Director - Endeavour

14:15 – 15:30 Panel chair: Cedric Ntumba, Deal Executive, Capitalworks Investment Partners

• Gertrude Kitongo (Kenya)– Brightest Young Minds • Ralph Baumgarten (South Africa) – Brightest Young Minds • Zamatungwa Khumalo (South Africa) - One Young World • Erik de Ridder (South Africa) - One Young World • Francis Ekii (Uganda) -African Leadership Academy • Linda Rebeiz (Senegal) -African Leadership Academy

BRICS15:30 – 16:00 Keynote: Africa Rising Dr. Vijay Mahajan, Author, “Africa Rising”

16:00 – 17:30 Panel chair: Abdullah Verachia, Director – Frontier Advisory

• Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman - HCL (India) • Dr. Vijay Mahajan, Author, “Africa Rising” • Dr. MG Vaidyan, Regional Head (Africa) & CEO - State Bank of India, South Africa • James Mwangi, Global Managing Partner – Dalberg • Christine Jiang, Director – SEA Region Business Development Department - Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd

Agenda

Brand 100TM Awards

17h30 – 17h40 Welcome

Thebe Ikalafeng, Founder & Chairman, Brand Africa

17h40 – 18h00 Methodology

Kim MacIlwane, CEO Africa Middle East, TNS Research Surveys

David Haigh, Founder & CEO, Brand Finance plc

18h00 – 18h25 Results

Most Valued Brands by Sector - Food - Beverages - Electronics - Telecoms - Automotive - Apparel - Banks - Oil and Gas - Retail - Personal Care Most Valued Non-African Brand Most Valued African Brand Grand Prix Award (Most Valued Brand in Africa)

18h25 – 18h30 Closing Remarks

Thebe Ikalafeng, Founder & Chairman, Brand Africa

18h30 Cocktails

The Brand Africa FORUMTM

The potential for an economic boom in Africa is awakening greater interest in the continent both internally and around the globe; this is reflected in total foreign capital flows into Africa which rose from $15 billion in 2000 to

a high of $87 billion in 2007. During the recent global financial crisis Africa’s collective economy resiliently outpaced that of developed nations, growing at an estimated 5%. However, while Africa’s GDP - estimated to be $2 trillion - is almost the size of leading BRIC nations Brazil and Russia it is worth only 4% of global GDP. What is holding individual African nations and the continent as a whole from leveraging off this positive sentiment and encouraging statistics?

In part, Africa’s battle against poverty and the continent’s aid-based development history - fuelled by over $1 trillion in the course of the last 50 years – is an ongoing issue for debate and concern. At the Brand Africa FORUMTM 2010, global economist and author of Dead Aid and How The West was Lost, Dr Dambisa Moyo warned that it is aid which continues to blight Africa.

In recent years the mind-shift from aid to growth has been significant among African leaders. In fact, the World Bank estimates that for Africa to put a meaningful dent in its poverty statistics the continent will have to achieve annual growth rates of at least 7%; a similar growth rate to that experienced by the BRIC nation’s rapid development. Since 2000, China’s economy has grown annually by 10.5%, Russia’s by 7.1% and India’s at 7.1%.

With growth as the end goal, the key to Africa’s development lies in developing and nurturing African businesses, brands

and institutions inspired by the continent’s entrepreneurial spirit, burgeoning urbanisation levels, rising investment levels, increasing political stability and regional co-operation.

While much has been written in the global press about multinational, Fortune 500 South African companies such as SABMiller, Old Mutual and Anglo American, less is recorded about the likes of Oando PLC, Nigeria’s largest indigenous energy group; Kenya’s CFC Bank or the country’s East African Portland Cement Company; Angola’s national diamond company

Endiama; or even Sudan’s Kenana Sugar Company. A 2010 tally by African Investor Relations revealed

that there were 1 652 listed companies across 21 bourses in Africa. Of that number, South

Africa’s MTN Group is the only African brand to be included in the BrandFinance Global 500™.

Nevertheless, South Africa’s recent elevation to a full BRIC member – now BRICS – bloc shows the significance of the continent’s 900-million consumers

and burgeoning consumer spending figures, estimated to double by 2020 to

some $1.4 trillion.

How Africa will harness the continental opportunities the BRIC invitation presents

requires proactive, and inspired leadership.

In recent months, Africa’s leadership in ECOWAS, SADC and the African Union has shown a willingness to tackle African problems with Africa-centric solutions. Furthermore, the challenges in North Africa, Ivory Coast, Sudan and Zimbabwe have deepened the call for proactive and visionary leadership on the continent.

The Brand Africa FORUMTM 2011 will focus on key questions which are catalytic to Africa’s growth, reputation and competitiveness:

• How can South Africa leverage its membership to BRIC to raise Africa’s voice and influence African economic investment and growth beyond 7%?

• What market-driven interventions and policies can African nations learn from other BRIC nations to transform Africa’s economy?

• How can savvy global African business and brands inspire and empower other African brands to grow beyond financial services, FMCG and telecommunications?

• Are many African businesses looking to African expansion ahead of global development? If so, what are the implications of looking inward rather than internationally?

• What type of leadership is be required to build an enabling environment and systems to inspire growth, investment and innovation in Africa?

Proactive leadership as a catalyst for inspiring growth, reputation and competitiveness in Africa.

Thebe Ikalafeng,Founder and Chairman – Brand Africa and CEO – Brand Leadership

Thebe Ikalafeng is arguably one of Africa’s foremost brand authorities. He has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Thinkers in Marketing in an Ipsos survey among business decision makers in Southern Africa. He is founder of the award winning Brand

Leadership Group, Brand Leadership Academy, Brand Africa™ and Public Sector Excellence™ initiatives. He has been recognised with the award Asia Brand Congress “Global Brand Leadership” award and the Marquette University/American Marketing Association “Award for Marketing Excellence”. Ikalafeng’s distinguished career is highlighted by his leadership of NIKE Africa to over 75 local and global awards, including the <10 Cannes Lions and the Institute of Marketing Management’s “Marketing Company of the Year” Roll of Honour and leading Brand Leadership to the Fin Week “Marketing Services Agency of the Year, 2008” and the 2011 REBRAND 100 Global Award for Effective Brand Transformations. He has served on leading corporate boards and all notable industry bodies. Ikalafeng holds a BSc (Business Administration) and MBA degrees from Marquette University in the USA, completed executive leadership education in Finance at Wits Business School and Harvard Business School and is a Chartered Marketer (SA). He advices, teaches and speaks globally in commercial, political, nation and personal branding and related matters.

J. Meyer Kahn,Chairman – SABMiller plc

Meyer Kahn joined the group in 1966 and occupied executive positions in a number of the group’s former retail interests before being appointed to the board of The South African Breweries Limited in1981. He was appointed Group managing director in 1983 and executive chairman in 1990. In 1997, he was seconded full-

time to the South African Police Service as its chief executive, serving for two and a half years. He was appointed chairman of South African Breweries plc upon its listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1999.

Among other awards, he holds an honorary doctorate in commerce from the University of Pretoria and was awarded The South African Police Star for Outstanding Service (SOE) in 2000.

Sir Sam Jonah,Chairman – Jonah Capital

Jonah Capital’s founder and chairman, Sir Sam Jonah, is one of Africa’s most prominent businessmen with an internationally recognised profile and an illustrious career. As managing director, he supervised the underperforming Ashanti’s transformation into a mining multinational and its subsequent merger with

AngloGold. He was appointed president of the new AngloGold Ashanti giant, now the world’s leading gold producer.

He has been director of three major mining houses, chaired the boards of six others, and served on the boards of several local and international institutions. As well as his directorships, Sir Sam is a member of the Advisory Board of the London Business School and is currently the chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the non-executive director of Vodafone Plc and The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited.

Sir Sam’s experience, reputation, and extensive network of business and political contacts allow Jonah Capital to gain unparalleled access to investment opportunities in Africa.

Dr Reuel Khoza,Chairman – Nedbank, Aka Capital andNepad Business Foundation

Reuel was appointed the non-executive chairman of the group in May 2006. He is also chairman of Aka Capital, a non-executive director of Nampak Limited, Protea Group Limited and Old Mutualplc. He is president of the Institute of Directors and in

this capacity served on the King II and King III Committees on corporate governance. He is a founding director of the Black Management Forum and the former chairman of Eskom Holdings. Reuel is also the chancellor of the University of Limpopo

Brand Africa Advisory Council 2011

The Brand Africa Advisory Council is comprised of a diverse group of the foremost African and global thought leaders, influencers and decision makers across the public and private sector and civil society who are passionate about improving the stature of Africa in Africa and the world. The ad hoc Council gives strategic direction and helps shape the vision, relevance and sustainability of the Brand Africa agenda for creating a better Africa.

Brand AfricaAdvisory Council 2011

Professor Nick Binedell,Founder and Director – Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)

Nick Binedell is the founding director and Sasol Chair of Strategic Management of the Gordon Institute of Business Science, a business school situated in Illovo, Johannesburg and established in January 2000, by the University of Pretoria.

After an initial career in the industry in the mining and manufacturing sectors in sales and general management in the Barlow Rand Group, Nick has focused his career for the past 20 years in the area of business education.

His academic qualifications include a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, an MBA from the University of Cape Town and a BCom. degree from Rhodes University.

In 1998 he was invited to establish a new business school focused on meeting the individual and corporate needs of business in South Africa. The school has rapidly established itself as a leading business school in South Africa with a strong focus on partnering with leading South African corporates and providing a high level of local and international business education. It was recently ranked as one of the top 40 global executive education providers by the London Financial Times. Nick is a determined traveller and explorer. His earlier years included extensive travel and by the time he was ten he had lived in.

Zimbabwe, Germany, Yemen, Kenya, South Africa and Britain. He has spent five years in the United States and in the past three years has traveled to Sydney, Shanghai, Dubai, Prague, Budapest, Lagos as well as European and American cities.His area of expertise is in the field of business strategy formulation and his academic and consulting work, although predominantly in South Africa, includes work in the United States, Europe and Australia.

Amadou Mahtar Ba,CEO – African Media Initiative

The African Media Initiative (AMI), is an unprecedented pan-African effort aimed at providing the continent’s media owners and practitioners with the tools they need to play an effective role in their societies. AMI aims to strengthen the media sector in Africa to ensure the accountability of governments and other

institutions and to promote social development and economic growth.

Mr Ba is also a co-founder and chairman of AllAfrica Global Media, Inc, owner and operator of http://allafrica.com – an international multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest distributor of African news and information worldwide. Prior to starting AllAfrica, Mr Ba served from 1996 to 2000 as director of communications and marketing for BICIS Bank, a subsidiary of the French banking group BNP Paribas. From 1993 to 1996, Mr Ba helped lead the successful restructuring and privatisation of the Panafrican News Agency (PANA).

Mr Ba is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council for the Future of Journalism, advisory board member of the Reporting Developing Network Africa, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Knight International Journalism Fellowship administered by the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ), as well as a member of the Africa Policy Advisory Board of ONE.

Mr Ba was educated in Senegal, France and Spain and is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Fulani and Wolof. He holds a Masters degree from the Ecole Française des Professionnels de la Communication in Paris and from the Paris 7 University (Jussieu).

Geoff Rothschild,CA (SA), Chartered Marketer (SA)Director: Government & International Affairs, JSE

An immediate past chairman of the JSE and a member of the board from 1991—2008, Geoff currently holds the position of director: Government and International Affairs promoting the JSE. After qualifying as a chartered accountant he spent

30 years in the stockbroking industry with Sasfin Frankel Pollak Securities. Initially he was in charge of administration, followed by the positions of financial director, joint managing director and finally marketing director.

Brand Africa Advisory Council Geoff focuses on African Stock Exchanges, has chaired the Committee of SADC (Southern African Developing Countries)Stock Exchanges (CoSSE) since 2004 and is deputy president of the African Stock Exchange Association (ASEA). He is a director of the NEPAD Business Foundation and is on their Operating & Audit Committees. He is a council member of the National Advisory Council for Innovation (NACI), which advises the Minister of Science and Technology, and an honorary fellow of the Da Vinci Institute of Technology. He also assists with various charitable organisations: NOAH (Nurturing Orphans of Aids for Humanity, CHOC (Childhood Cancer Foundation), Education Africa, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital, and the Football Foundation of SA.

Anitha Soni was appointed by the President of South Africa to the board of Brand South Africa. Anitha is a development strategist and entrepreneur. She is Chairman of the Board of Brand South Africa, MD of Utembezi Investment Holdings, founder of ASA Tourism Services Group and Salt Cave Africa. She has held executive management positions in the hotel and tourism sector in South Africa and the United States. She lectured at the Durban University of Technology, trained many of today’s leaders in the South African tourism industry, was co-author of South Africa’s first Tourism White Paper, and, subsequently led the strategic development of many of South Africa’s key Tourism strategies and institutions since 1994.

She served as a Special Advisor on tourism to the then Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Minister Valli Moosa, and subsequently acted in the capacity of Deputy Director-General in this department. In this position she developed the first Tourism Branch within the National Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.

Her role in tourism included contributing to interim structures in the early 1990’s which informed how Provincial legislation and structures would drive economic development in a democratic South Africa. These included the restructuring of the old SATOUR to the SA Tourism of today, the Kwazulu-Natal Tourism Authority and Tourism Grading. She was also appointed by the Minister of Tourism, Minister van Schalkwyk to be part of the team that developed the Black Economic Empowerment Charter and scorecard for the transformation of the Tourism industry in SA

and subsequently, as Deputy Chair of the Tourism BEE Council. Recently Minister van Schalkwyk appointed Anitha Soni to be part of the Expert Panel to develop the new Tourism Strategy for the country.

On a pan-African level Anitha initiated the Tourism Cluster initiative through the OECD. She was part of the Tourism Intelligence International team who developed the HRD strategy for Tourism in Mozambique through the Commonwealth Secretariat, and was part of the European Union consulting team developing the framework for the introduction of a UniVisa system for the SADC region.

In addition to her contribution to the development of the macro-economic environment in South Africa, Anitha manages a number of strategic investments and businesses.

In recognition for this, Anitha was awarded Women of the Year - twice - in 1995 by the Foundation for Business Excellence, and the much-coveted and prestigious “2002 Business Women of the Year BBQ Award”, for her exceptional achievement in the field of Business and contribution to Pan-African regional integration in post-apartheid South Africa.

The Black Business Executive Circle (BBEC) has identified Anitha Soni as a Black leader who has taken on significant challenges and succeeded over the last year, 2011 to this this milestone, both in Anitha’s personal capacity, and contribution she had made to the broader transformation agenda of our country contribution.

Anitha SoniChairman of Brand South Africa

Opening Address

Prof. Arthur G. O. Mutambara is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe, where his key functions include assisting the Prime Minister in policy formulation by the Cabinet of Zimbabwe and supervision of policy implementation by the Council of Ministers. He also specifically supervises the Ministries which fall under the Infrastructure Cluster; (1) Energy and Power Development; (2) Information Communication Technologies; (3) Water Resources and Development; (4)Transport and Infrastructure; (5) Public Works; Mining and Mineral Development; (7) Public Service; (8) Higher and Tertiary Education. This means all the key ministries heavily involved with all types of Engineering are under his direction. Furthermore, DPM Mutambara is in charge of three key efforts of the Inclusive Government; Development a Shared National Vision; Crafting a New Brand Zimbabwe; and Development of a National Infrastructure Master Plan. Dr. Mutambara is a Fellow of the Zimbabwe Institute of Engineers (ZIE), Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences (ZAS) and the UK based, Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is also a Senior Member of the US based, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). He is registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) in the UK and Professional Engineer PrEng in Zimbabwe. He is a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader (YGL).

Professor Mutambara became DPM on the 11th of February 2009 after opposing President Mugabe and his Party, ZANU-PF, for 22 years. Before assuming the leadership of one the MDC (former opposition party) formation, Prof Mutambara was CEO of a consulting firm; Africa Technology and Business Institute (ATBI), South Africa; and before that he was Director Electronic Payments at the global bank Standard Bank at its headquarters in Johannesburg SA.

Prior to going back to Africa, Mutambara spent seven years in the USA and four years in the United Kingdom. He was a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc, a knowledge-based global consulting firm. He joined the organization’s Chicago office as an Associate in January 2001 to 2003. His work involved advising and assisting senior managers and business leaders of top USA companies (Fortune 100) in different industry sectors which include, High Technology, Telecommunications, Automotive Assembly, Electrical Power/Natural Gas, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Food Chains, Financial Institutions, and Pharmaceutical and Medical Products.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Dr. Mutambara was an Associate Professor in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), from May 1999 to December 2001. He taught both graduate and undergraduate classes, and carried out research in the areas of Decentralized Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics.

He has authored fifty eight referred journal papers in the areas of Decentralized Estimation, Distributed Control, Sensor Fusion, Modular Robotics, and Mechatronics. In addition, Dr. Mutambara has written three Electrical Engineering books that are widely used in Engineering Graduate Schools in the US, Europe and Japan for both teaching and research purposes:

“Decentralized Estimation and Control for Multisensor Systems”, (Feb. 1998) “Design and Analysis of Control Systems”, (June 1999)“Mechatronics and Robotics: Design and Applications”, (December 2001)

Prof. Arthur MutambaraDeputy Prime Minister: The Republic of Zimbabwe

The Role of the Nation Brand in Economic Development

Panel: Governance & Sustainability

Dr. Jacqueline Chimhanzi,Africa Lead: Deloitte Consulting

Dr Jacqueline Chimhanzi is the Africa Lead for Deloitte Consulting South Africa. In this role, she has the mandate to work with other Deloitte regional practices in developing markets and assisting clients access opportunities across

the continent in sectors such as Mining, Oil & Gas, Power, TMT, Financial Services, Healthcare and Infrastructure. Prior to this, she was a Manager in the Strategy Division and led project teams on diverse client engagements in sectors such as Oil & Gas, Power, Steel, Banking, Mining, Brewery and Agriculture.

Jackie is passionate about Africa and is convinced that Africa’s development can only be fostered and sustained by involving more young people and women. She is a Fellow of the ArchBishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Programme run by the African Leadership Institute (AfLI) at Oxford University. This competitive Pan-African programme seeks to develop the next generation of leaders on the continent. On completion, she joined the AfLI board and is committed to the Institute’s vision of developing a critical mass of young African leaders. She is also a Champion of Africa 2.0 – a network of young Africans crafting Vision Africa 2020. Also, she is a founding member of New Faces New Voices – a network under the leadership and patronage of Mrs Graca Machel. The network advocates for African women’s greater financial access and innovative investments in African women so that they are empowered to meaningful contribute to the sustainable development of the continent.She holds a BSc (Hons), MBA (with Distinction) and a PhD (Strategic Marketing) - all from Cardiff Business School, University of Wales. Prior to joining Deloitte Consulting, she worked at Added Value, a WPP subsidiary as Director: Brand Development. She was also Researcher/Lecturer in Strategic Marketing in the UK at the University of Wales. She has authored and co-authored papers in peer reviewed academic journals such as “Journal of Business Research” [US], “European Journal of Marketing”, Journal of Marketing Management [UK] and has presented her work at various international fora.

Dr. Namanga Ngongi,President: AGRA

Dr Ngongi has extensive experience in agricultural development, peace and security issues. He began his career alongside farmers in his native Cameroon, where he worked as an agricultural extension officer for the Ministry of Agriculture, helping

farmers to improve yields and to diversify and market their crops. In 1980, Dr Ngongi was attached to the Cameroon Embassy in Rome. He joined the World Food Programme in 1984, becoming Deputy Executive Director in 1994. Dr Ngongi held that position until his appointment as Undersecretary-General and Special Representative and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2001. Since his retirement from the UN in 2003, Dr Ngongi has undertaken several high-level missions, including a study on food reserve systems in Africa and coordination of an international conference on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration in Sierra Leone. Born in 1945 in Buea, Cameroon, Dr Ngongi obtained his PhD in Agronomy from Cornell in 1976.

Geoffrey Qhena,CEO: IDC of SA Limited

Geoffrey Mvuleni Qhena is the CEO of the Industrial Development Corporation of SA Limited (IDC), the leading development finance institution in South Africa. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession having qualified in 1993. He also holds a certificate

in Advanced Tax Certificate from the University of South Africa.

He lectured at the University of Johannesburg (former Vista University) and was a Senior Manager in the restructuring department of Transnet before being appointed at the IDC as the Chief Financial Officer in 2003.

Mr Qhena is the chairman of Foskor, one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate and phosphoric acid. He also serves on the board of Acerinox, a leading worldwide player in stainless steel manufacturing office in Madrid, Spain.

Dr. Joseph Annan,Deputy Minister: Trade and Industry (Ghana)

Hon. Dr. Joseph Samuel Annan (MP for K.E.E.A) is Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry and brings with him considerable international and local experience from a wide range of sectors.

As Deputy Minister of Education (2009-2010), Dr. J.S. Annan was responsible for the Sector’s tertiary policy and strategy development. His responsibilities included oversight for Universities, Polytechnics, Technical and Vocational Education and Training, ICT and Education and International Partnerships and collaboration.

Panel: Governance & Sustainability

Dr. J.S. Annan is the Member of parliament for Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abrem Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana and was previously Senior Adviser at the Bureau of Development Policy of the United Nations Development Programme in New York. He has over thirty (30) years experience in the fields of health, economics, development and management where he worked as a clinician, planner and policy analyst. As a specialist in Strategic Planning and Management, as well as coordination of national HIV/AIDS and development responses, he worked with the UN, bilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations and governments to implement extensive programmes.

Hon. Dr. J.S. Annan has over the past 15 - 20 years been engaged in the areas of governance, policy, planning and health economics including financing, fund management and health insurance. Until recently he lectured and conducted seminars to build capacity of international development consultants. He is a Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of London and obtained a Maters in Health Economics, planning and financing from the London School of Economics. His passions include flying of light aircraft, politics, gardening and music.

Dr Keith Dinnie,Director: Centre for Nation Branding

Keith Dinnie is Founder and Director of the Centre for Nation Branding. Previously Associate Professor of Business at Temple University Japan in Tokyo, he now works at Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. He is the

author of the world’s first academic textbook on nation branding, Nation Branding – Concepts, Issues, Practice, published 2008 by Butterworth-Heinemann. Dr Keith Dinnie is also the Editor of a major new book, City Branding – Theory and Cases, published in December 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan. Furthermore, he has held the post of Academic Editor of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy.

Dr Keith Dinnie has delivered seminars, conference speeches, presentations and lectures in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Iceland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, China, Korea, Malaysia and Japan. His research interests focus on the application of strategic brand management techniques by national governments within the domains of export promotion, inward investment attraction, tourism promotion, and public diplomacy. His research covers the branding of cities and regions as well as nations.

He has published in various international journals including Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Journal of Current Japanese Affairs, Russian Journal of Communication, and International Marketing Review. His research and consultancy work includes

projects conducted on behalf of market-leading consultancies Landor Associates and Burson-Marsteller, as well as innovative research conducted into the field of place branding amongst senior decision-makers and brand consultants on a worldwide basis. He is the founder of Brand Horizons consultancy and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Nation Branding

Miller Matola,CEO: Brand South Africa

Miller Matola joined Brand South Africa as Chief Executive Officer on 1 April 2010, bringing with him dynamic strategic and operational skills. Matola began his career in education, and went on to project management which fuelled his interest in tourism. He joined South African Tourism in 1996 where he developed

frameworks for hospitality service areas; he also led its Business Tourism Unit and later the Americas portfolio.

Matola later became CEO of KwaZulu-Natal Tourism, and then took over the reins at the International Convention Centre Durban in 2006. He holds MA and MBA degrees and has completed the Wits Business School management advancement programme. He is currently completing a postgraduate Diploma in Company Direction.

Prof. Richard Mkandawire,Head of Resource Mobilisation, Partnerships and Communications: NEPAD Agency

Prof. Richard Mkandawire is a socio-economist and a rural development expert. He is currently Head of Resource Mobilisation, Partnerships and Communications at the NEPAD

Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency). Before taking on this position, he was the Head of the NEPAD Agriculture Programme and the principal architect of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) which is an African conceived, owned and driven agriculture development initiative endorsed by the African Heads of State and Government in 2003.

Prof. Mkandawire has received the following awards for his work in spearheading the CAADP agenda: awarded an ‘Honorary Doctorate’ in 2009 (DSc Honoris Causa University of KwaZulu-Natal) for spearheading the CAADP agenda and rallying continental and global support towards agriculture in Africa and the ‘Drivers of Change’ award in 2008 for leadership in advocating and convincing

African leaders and the international community that Africa can muster the ability and political will to overcome hunger and poverty through CAADP .

He is a graduate of the University of Malawi (Bachelor of Social Science), University of Missouri, Columbia USA (MA and Msc.), and the University of East Anglia, UK (PhD). Prof. Mkandawire has previously taught in the Universities of Malawi, Zambia, and in South Africa.

Between 1992 and 1999 Prof. Mkandawire worked with the Commonwealth Secretariat as the Commonwealth Youth Programme Regional Director for Africa. He has extensive experience in development initiatives in Southern Africa spanning a period of over two decades. He has researched and published extensively in the following areas: Agriculture and Food Policies in Southern Africa, Artisanal Fisheries Development, Land Tenure Systems and Agrarian Development, Gender and Development and the Youth and Reproductive Health among other areas.

How the West Was Lost: Lessons for Africa

Dr. Dambisa MoyoAuthor: “Dead Aid” & “How the West Was Lost”

Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who comments on the macroeconomy and global affairs.

Ms. Moyo serves on the boards of Barclays Bank, the financial services group, SABMiller, the global brewer, and Lundin Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration concern. She was an economist at Goldman Sachs where she worked for nearly a decade, and was a consultant to the World Bank in Washington D.C..

She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa. Her forthcoming book is entitled How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead is scheduled for publication in January 2011.

In 2009 Ms. Moyo was named by Time Magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World”, and was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. Her writing regularly appears in economic and finance-related publications such as the Financial Times, the Economist Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.

She completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters degree from Harvard University. She completed an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and an MBA in Finance at the American University in Washington D.C..

Panel: Business

Prof. Nick Binedell,Director: Gordon Institute of Business Science

Nick Binedell is the Director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). In 1998 he was invited to establish a new business school focused on meeting the individual and corporate needs of business in South Africa. The Gordon

Institute of Business Science was opened in January 2000.

Nick’s academic qualifications include a PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, an MBA from the University of Cape Town. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His area of expertise is in the field of business strategy formulation and his academic and consulting work, although dominantly in South Africa, includes work in the United States, Europe and Australia.

Nick is a past President of the South African Business School Association (2 terms) and was the first Chairman of the African Association of Business Schools (2005 and 2006).

Dr. Reuel Khoza,Chairman: Aka Capital (Pty) Limited & Nedbank Group Ltd

Dr. Reuel Jethro Khoza is Chairman of Aka Capital (Pty) Limited, Nedbank Group Ltd and a Director of several companies in which Aka Capital (Pty) Ltd has invested, including Nampak Ltd. and Old Mutual plc. He is co-author of

The Power of Governance, and author of Let Africa Lead and the upcoming Attuned Leadership.

As Chairman of the Nepad Business Foundation he initiated the establishment of the African Leadership Development Programme jointly run by the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and the Nepad Business Foundation (NBF).

He is currently Fellow and President of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa, and a visiting Professor at Rhodes Investec Business School, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Professor Extraordinaire Emeritus of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town and Chancellor at the University of Limpopo.

Dr. Khoza has a BA Honours (Psychology), University of the North (now University of Limpopo), MA Marketing Management, University of Lancaster, UK, (Business) Engineering Doctorate, University of Warwick, UK, was awarded a Doctorate of Laws honoris causa, Rhodes University and completed the Programme

for Management Development at Harvard Business School and International Programme for Board Members (IPBM), IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Rakesh Wahi,Chairman: CMA Investment Holdings

Rakesh Wahi is Chairman of CMA Investment Holdings that has representation through its portfolio companies in over 20 countries. He is an entrepreneur with an appetite for early stage investments in emerging markets. He has

been involved with investments in most emerging markets across the CIS, Asia and Africa.

Mr. Wahi is the Co-Founder of - CNBC Africa, Forbes Africa, ABN Productions, ABN Newswire Services, Murdoch University Dubai, Ananya Farms and Tech One Global. He closely oversees the management and operations of all these ventures. His core focus is on long term corporate development through building strong management teams.

Mr. Wahi has been involved with the financing and development of several media, telecommunications, IT and education initiatives in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa over the last 22 years. Mr. Wahi has recently founded the ABN Education Trust to finance the education of children from previously disadvantaged families in South Africa.

Mr. Wahi was educated at the Doon School in India and later earned a Bachelor of Science degree (1979) and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering (1986) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Mr. Wahi is a Member of the Institute of Engineers, Calcutta, India.

David Haigh,Chief Executive: Brand Finance plc

David is the CEO and founder of Brand Finance plc, the leading independent brand valuation consultancy. David qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in London. He has worked in the area of branded business, brand and

intangible asset valuation since 1991 and since January 1995 has specialized entirely in this area. David has represented the British Standards institute on the International Standards Committee working party on the standardisation of brand valuation methods and practices, whose standard (ISO10668) was published in early 2010.

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David has written many articles for the marketing and financial press on branded businesses and brand valuation and is the author of numerous publications. He also lectures on the subject of branded business, brand and intangible asset valuation at many of the leading business schools around the world.

Tawanda Nyambirai,Chairman: Econet and TN Group, Zimbabwe

Tawanda holds a Bachelor of Laws Honours Degree from the University of Zimbabwe and a certificate in International Conflict Resolution Studies from the University of Uppsala Sweden and is a registered Legal Practitioner,

having practised as a partner of Kantor and Immerman Legal Practitioners until March 1998. He is also a registered Estate Administrator.

Tawanda is a Partner of Mtetwa & Nyambirai Legal Practitioners. He is the Chairman of Econet Wireless Holdings Zimbabwe. In 2001, he founded TN Financial Holdings Limited, a financial Services Group that now includes TN Asset Management, TN Financial Services, TN Medical Benefit Funds and TN Bank Limited, a registered Commercial Bank. Tawanda led the reverse takeover of Tedco Limited, a company listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange since 1973 and which is the leading furniture manufacturer and retailer in Zimbabwe that has a country wide distribution network. The result of the transaction was a reverse listing under TN Holdings Limited on 4 January 2010.

Tawanda is the Group Chief Executive Officer of TN Holdings Limited. The group has a unique banking model that leverages on the furniture business.

Tawanda has won awards for outstanding achievement at personal level as well as for TN Holdings Limited. These include the “Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (“ZNCC”) Businessman of the year award for Harare for 2010”, the “ZNCC Businessman of the Year National Award for 2010”. Under his guidance, TN Holdings Limited also got “The Platinum Technology Award for Quality & Best Trade Name”, an international award conferred on TN Holdings Limited in Geneva in December 2010 in absentia. TN Holdings also won the award for the best display in the Commercial Sector of Zimbabwe at the Centennial Zimbabwe Agricultural show held in August 2010.

This July, TN Holdings Ltd received the ‘Majestic Five Continents Award for Quality and Excellence’ from the ‘OMAC’ Other Ways Management Association Club – Paris. This international Award has been created in Europe to reward firms all over the world

who have distinguished themselves in the field of Quality and Excellence.Under his guidance, TN Holdings Ltd was recently awarded the Bronze Award at the ‘ZITF’ Zimbabwe International Trade Fair; where over a 100 companies participated in showcasing their products to local and international delegates.

Amadou Mahtar Ba,CEO: Africa Media Initiative

Amadou Mahtar Ba is the Chief Executive of the African Media Initiative (AMI), an unprecedented pan-African effort aimed at providing the continent’s media owners and practitioners with the tools they need to play an effective role in their societies. AMI aims to strengthen the media sector

in Africa to ensure the accountability of governments and other institutions and to promote social development and economic growth.

Mr. Ba is also a co-founder and Chairman of AllAfrica Global Media, Inc – owner and operator of allafrica.com - an international multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest distributor of African news and information worldwide. Prior to starting AllAfrica, Mr. Ba served from 1996 to 2000 as Director of Communications and Marketing for BICIS Bank, a subsidiary of the French banking group BNP Paribas. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Ba helped lead the successful restructuring and privatization of the Panafrican News Agency (PANA).

Mr. Ba is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council for the Future of journalism, advisory board member of the Reporting Developing Network Africa, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Knight International Journalism Fellowship administered by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) as well as a member of the Africa Policy Advisory Board of ONE.

Mr. Ba has been selected in 2011 as one of the 100 most influential Africans by New African Magazine. He is also listed among the 500 top Africans of the Africa24 Magazine published in March, 2011.

Mr. Ba was educated in Senegal, France and Spain and is fluent in French, English, Spanish, Fulani and Wolof. He holds a Masters degree from the Ecole Française des Professionnels de la Communication in Paris and from the Paris 7 University (Jussieu).

Nigel Hollis,Executive Vice President and Chief Global Analyst: Millward Brown

In his current role, Nigel works with Millward Brown’s global account teams to address client needs and shape the company’s viewpoint on all things related to marketing and market research.

Nigel brings 30 years of research experience to bear on his understanding of how marketing communications can build and maintain brands. After a four-year stint with Cadbury Schweppes in the UK, Nigel joined Millward Brown, a member of the WPP family of companies, a world leader in providing advertising

and marketing services. At Millward Brown, Nigel has worked with clients in many different industries and countries, and has been instrumental in developing some of Millward Brown’s most successful research solutions.

A four-time winner of WPP’s Atticus Award (for original published thinking in marketing services), Nigel has had his insights published in a wide selection of journals and books.

Nigel’s book The Global Brand takes a close look at the challenges facing marketers and global brands today and identifies the best practices to help aspiring global brands achieve success on the world stage.

Nigel’s interests outside work include: photography, sea kayaking, hiking, skiing, travel, science fiction, wine, cooking and eating good food.

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Malik FalManaging Director: Endeavour

Malik Fal is MD of the South African operations of Endeavor; a New-York based NGO dedicated to the promotion of high-impact entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Endeavor finds and supports local entrepreneurs who have an innovative and highly scalable product or service with a series of support interventions that range from consulting projects to mentoring, strategic introductions and advisory boards. It also carries out advocacy and media initiatives to bring entrepreneurship at the forefront of local policy and development agendas.

Malik Fal is Microsoft’s Business Marketing & Operations (BMO) Group lead for Africa, based in Johannesburg to cover 49 African countries. The BMO function at Microsoft is often described as a COO position, combining business planning, strategy, and marketing. At Microsoft Malik is responsible for the formulation and execution of Microsoft’s strategy in Africa’s vast geography. This role covers a vast array of core business and special project activities including Microsoft’s Corporate Citizenship investments in Africa (with programs like “Partners in Learning,” “Microsoft IT Academies,” and the “Student-to-Business” youth empowerment program), all partner and customer Marketing activities, and all internal research, business planning, and strategy processes.

Before Microsoft Malik was with the Monitor spin-off called OTF Group consultancy as Vice President, Africa region. OTF group was previously part of the Monitor Group, functioning as Monitor’s Country Competitiveness (MCC) practice.

After completing five years of business studies, Malik worked for six years for Pepsi-Cola International, across eastern and southern Africa. He then attended Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he received a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA-2).

At Monitor Company Malik got a chance to see some of today’s most innovative ideas about development, working on Competitiveness programs for countries in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. He has also led consulting engagements with the World Bank, one of MCC’s, and now OTF’s, long term clients.

Malik’s most recent responsibilities included the management of full-fledged competitiveness engagements for the Office of the President of Rwanda, OTF’s various business development initiatives across Africa, teaching engagements with Harvard Business School’s pilot executive course for Africa entitled “Making Markets Work” with professor Debra Spar, and on-going engagements with OTF’s long-term development institutional clients such as the World Bank, DFID, or USAID.

Malik Fal is co-author of “In the River They Swim – Essays from around the world on Enterprise-based solutions to poverty” (Templeton Press; 2009)

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Cedric Ntumba,Deal Executive at Capitalworks Investment Partners

Cedric is a private equity Deal Executive at Capitalworks Investment Partners, an independent alternative asset management firm in South Africa that provides investment access and specialist solutions to its clients, locally and

abroad, across a wide range of industries and investment themes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Capitalworks was recently recognised by the international DealMakers publication as the South African Alternative Asset Management Firm of the Year 2011. He is also the Chairman of the Board of The South African Ballet Theatre, Africa’s largest professional ballet company. He sat on the Board of Directors of the Railway Safety Regulator, a department of Transport agency, where he was a member of its audit committee and chaired its finance and procurement committee. The South African Parliament recently extended his term of office for a further 3 years on this Board. He recently chaired the Audit Committee of the Energy Sector Education and Training Authority and was a member of the Audit Committee of the Gauteng Provincial Treasury. Gauteng is South Africa’s economic hub with Johannesburg and Pretoria being key cities of this province. He is an alumnus of Deloitte and Touche Southern Africa where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and formed part of both its financial services and graduate recruitment teams. Cedric is also a member of the globally acclaimed TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)’s Johannesburg Chapter and, by invitation only, the African Leadership Network. He is an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow, a leadership Fellowship developed and managed by the African Leadership Institute and the University of Oxford, UK (Green Templeton). Fellows are selected once they have demonstrated their promising abilities to lead the African continent into a more prosperous future in the next 20 years. Cedric relaxes by reading, gardening and developing his photographic skills. He is married and father to a wonderful little girl. He also has a strong passion for the development of African leaders and is involved in numerous initiatives aimed at advancing this. In partnership with his wife, a serial entrepreneur, they own The Little Ashford Group, a chain of private pre-primary schools/crèches and children-focused services in South Africa, amongst other initiatives.

Born in Kinshasa, DRC, he was educated in the DRC, Belgium and South Africa. He holds degrees and executive education qualifications in Finance and Accountancy from the Universities of Johannesburg and Oxford.

Gertrude Kitongo,Brightest Young Minds

Gertrude Kitongo, Bright Young Minds, will be speaking on the “Youth Vision for Africa” Youth Panel. Amidst her numerous achievements, the latest of which are the Cambridge University Press Extra Mile Award (student) on July 8th 2011 in Management Today

magazine and a selection by Campus Lodge magazine as Africa’s young mover and shaker for 2011, she maintains a vision for Africa’s future and represents the beacon of hope from African youth of today. From 2007-2009, Gertrude was kept busy with several programmes and initiatives. She started the campus magazine 2007 as a Marketing and communication tool for CIDA City Campus. She facilitated the Young Women and Men life skills program to the CIDA foundation Campus from 2008 – 2009. In 2008, she won best impromptu speaker Toast Masters Regional competition. She scored 2nd place in the EVOKE World Bank Social Entrepreneurship game and worked for them as head facilitator for the new intake. She has been nominated and voted as the first female vice president of the Black Management Forum Student Chapter at CIDA CITY CAMPUS. 2008 – 2009. Her 2010 achievements include being selected as one of the 24 CHOSEN Protégée for the MTN CEO Council. From October 29th to November 1st, she represented CIDA City campus as an exchange student at Bournemouth University in England. She provided her expertise towards the HUM magazine, an online magazine about human experiences and hope and starting the Campus Ambassadors campaign to assist charity and motivate young girls. The turning point in her life came when she was selected as a one of the 100 Bright Young Mind Delegate for 2010. She was also selected to represent the campus in the first Elders and the youth meeting in Newtown on the 28th of May and to represent the youth in Africa and speak on a panel with the Elders at the Global World Economic forum in Cape town on the 28th – 29th of June. In early July 2010, she mentored a group of 11th graders in the ENKE leadership forum at the African Leadership Academy.

Ralph Baumgarten,Brightest Young Minds

Ralph is a passionate bridge builder and difference maker in society. He is currently in his final year of both his BAccounting and LLB studies at the University of Stellenbosch. Ralph has served as the Chief Passion

Officer (CEO) of Brightest Young Minds (BYM) since 2009. BYM is a youth driven non-profit organisation that identifies, inspire and equips young passionate African leaders to be positive change agents in society.

Zamantungwa Khumalo,One Young World

As a young African woman, Zamantungwa has a number of accolades that she prides herself in. Many of these are closely related to her passion for debate, public speaking, leadership and entrepreneurship, as well as

her drive to make a difference, no matter how small. In 2008, she was the Chairperson of the Central First Years Committee (CFC) at the University of Johannesburg. In addition, she was the Chairlady of Kruinsig Ladies Residence First Year Committee. To acknowledge her debating and public speaking skills, the University of Johannesburg awarded her the Best Speaker Award for 2008 at the Arts and Culture Awards. This came after the Metropolitan Raucall Debating Team was selected to represent South Africa at the United Nations Association of the United States of America Model United Nations (UNA USA – MUN) in New York. Her team was awarded an honorary mention at the awards ceremony. She was also awarded the award of Best Entrepreneur at the Entrepreneurship Day at her high school, Metropolitan Raucall, at the age of 15. Another of her interests is music. She has been a member of the Raucall choir for four years and an executive member for two consecutive years. Zamantungwa is part of the Organising Committee of the Inaugural Golden Key Thinkers Symposium. In addition, she anchors a current affairs talk show on Voice of Wits FM, tutors students in Model United Nations to debate at the South African Institute of International Affairs and volunteers for the Student Development and Leadership Unit as an FYE (First Year Experience) Ambassador.

Zamantungwa is currently reading for her Bachelor of Arts degree, with a triple major in International Relations, Political Studies and Law. She also runs a fashion business with clients in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Botswana and Canada. Zamantungwa represented South Africa at the One Young World Summit in Zurich, Switzerland in September.

Erik de Ridder,One Young World

Erik was born on the 20th of April 1989. He grew up in Pretoria and Johannesburg and is currently studying at the University of Cape Town towards a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

As well as pursuing his degree he is concurrently working towards a second major in economics. Privately, Erik studies as much politics and philosophy as he has time for, in recognition of the value-add potential of such pursuits on the continent. Erik has a passion for the people of Africa and aims to strive in all his activities, now and in future, to serve them in one capacity or another. He firmly believes it is his responsibility to do so.

Francis Ekii,African Leadership Academy

Francis Ekii loves to sing, and in particular, singing to African traditional music. With his commitment to spreading social entrepreneurship education, he recently (in July) set out to found the Young Entrepreneurs Challenge –

Uganda, an initiative that aims to promote social entrepreneurship through idea competitions, entrepreneurial workshops and inspirational talks from high-impact social entrepreneurs. The first challenge and workshop of the initiative, was a successful pilot with over 150 young people.

When Francis was in primary school, most students at the school lived in a low income community. Most of them were at a higher risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS, of teenage pregnancies and of being exposed to drugs due to the proclivity of men in the community taking advantage of young girls’ inability to afford basic education and personal needs like books, pens, sanitary towels and pocket money. It was a serious social problem that needed to be addressed. On this basis, Francis took the initiative and spoke to his then head teacher and together they started the AIDS Awareness and Life-Skills Club and, subsequently,

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a Vocational Skills Club that taught the students how to make baskets, mats, and handbags. These goods were sold to get money to meet the basic needs of the teenagers. These initiatives had a significant impact on vulnerable children.

Later, Francis was also part founder of The Special Needs Volunteers; a non-profit that sought to support children with disabilities. Its biggest project was a fundraiser for the construction of a toilet facility for Uganda School of the Deaf. In addition to this venture, he was a co-host of a teen television programme called Teen Talk, for six years. The programme was an educational youth show that focused on teenagers and the social issues which affect them, such as HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, teenage pregnancies.

Post joining the African Leadership Academy, he has been involved in a number of initiatives. He is currently a member of East African Social Enterprise Network (EASEN). He also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Footprints Limited, a student run business that promotes the ALA brand by producing ALA-branded merchandise and souvenirs.

Linda Rebeiz,African Leadership Academy

Linda Rebeiz, a 17-year old of Lebanese and Senegalese decent, has mostly lived in Senegal with her mother and three siblings, since the divorce of her parents. Following her primary school education, she was selected to attend

Mariama Ba Boarding School, an elite Senegalese girls’ school, through her achievement of scoring in the top five in the national examination.

Linda discovered fairly early on in her intellectual development that her interests lay in visual arts and drama, philosophy and religion and most importantly education. In her own words, “the fulfillment that teaching brings me is unequalled by any of my other experiences. Teaching for me is thus more than a passion; it is a way of life”.

Prior to being part of the African Leadership Academy, Linda used to teach basic literacy skills to the helpers in her home. Through her instruction, they were able to send text messages, make calls or count their change. When she then arrived at ALA, the propensity to educate grew more and more. By the end of the academic year, she had all the tools to design her own educational project, called “Gindi” a word that means “enlighten” in Wolof. It was designed to teach entrepreneurship to young people in the countryside of Senegal. After a week of intensive entrepreneurship lessons, the inaugural group of Gindi was able to pitch its own solution to the floods in their town. The community service project has become an ongoing one and will be held every summer in different parts of Senegal.

Dr. Vijay MahajanAuthor, “Africa Rising”

Vijay Mahajan holds the John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He has received numerous lifetime achievement awards including the American Marketing Association (AMA) Charles Coolidge Parlin Award for visionary leadership in scientific marketing. The AMA also instituted the Vijay Mahajan Award in 2000 for career contributions to marketing strategy. In 2006, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) for his contributions to management research.

He served as the Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad from 2002-2004. Mahajan is author or editor of ten books including his recent book Africa Rising published by the Wharton School Publishing in 2009. His last book on market opportunities in developing countries (also published by The Wharton School Publishing) , The 86 % Solution ,received the 2007 “Book-of-Year” Award (Berry-AMA) from the American Marketing Association. He is one of the world’s most widely cited researchers in business and economics and has been invited by

more than 100 universities and research institutions worldwide for research presentations. He edited the Journal of Marketing Research, and has consulted with Fortune 500 companies and delivered executive development programs worldwide.

Vijay is also author of Africa Rising. In Africa Rising, Vijay reveals this remarkable marketplace in all its richness and complexity, and helps companies understand the massive opportunity it presents. He tells the stories that western executives and managers rarely hear: stories of African entrepreneurs, executives, and enterprises that are identifying powerful market opportunities and capitalizing on them. He teaches the lessons that Africa’s successful and failing ventures have learned about succeeding on the continent...he uncovers what may be your largest untapped growth opportunity.

Mahajan received B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, his M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D in Management from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Abdullah Verachia,Director, Frontier Advisory

Abdullah Hassen Verachia is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and holds qualifications from some of South Africa’s leading academic institutions.

Having presented in over 50 cities globally Abdullah Verachia has been recognised

as a leading strategist and thought leader on Frontier and Emerging Markets. His speeches, public presentations and lectures have been described as ‘incredibly powerful, eye opening and mindblowing’. He has presented around the world to leading listed firms, international organisations and governments including in Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Munich, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, London and New York. He has been asked to present at some of the world’s leading institutions including the School of Public and International Affairs at Colombia University in New York, the Said Business School at Oxford University, the OECD in Paris and Casa Asia in Madrid amongst others.

Abdullah previously practised at the second oldest and one of the most established law firms in South Africa. In this position he advised a number of clients on corporate, civil and criminal law matters and also gained extensive experience in commercial and civil litigation. Abdullah serves as a partner and co-founder at Frontier Advisory and also currently heads up the Asia Frontier Advisory Division within the company.

Abdullah has headed up research, strategy and consulting assignments in an array of sectors including banking, mining, finance, asset management, construction, insurance, legal, audit, FMCG, retail and automotive. He has also headed up consulting assignments on behalf of a number of South African Industrial Development Zones and Investment Promotion Agencies. He has also done work on behalf of leading donor organisations and specifically on the intra-emerging market flows between Asia and Africa.

In June 2010 Abdullah was asked by South African business to draft the strategy document that was presented to President Jacob Zuma in his discussions with Prime Minister Manmohann Singh.

Abdullah has also led numerous international delegations on global executive programmes and international investment missions to numerous destinations in various countries including China, India, Dubai, Kenya, Germany, Denmark, London, Malaysia, Singapore and the US amongst others. He has led senior executives to these countries and has been hailed for his incredible knowledge and understanding of these markets.

Abdullah presents extensively both locally and internationally,

on an array of subjects, including global economics and politics as well as on frontier and emerging markets. Abdullah serves as adjunct faculty member at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. Abdullah also serves as the founding director of the India Africa Business Network and also serves as the founding director of the FirstRand India Africa Business Network at GIBS.

Abdullah also lectures at the University of Stellenbosch Business School where he is a visiting faculty member as well as the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management. In this position Abdullah designed, conceptualised and introduced South Africa’s first ever Masters (MSC) Programme in Managing in Frontier and Emerging Markets.

Abdullah lectures regularly on business strategy, Emerging and Dynamic Market strategy and the global environment of business.

He has also presented to senior leaders in governments and international organisations on Asia and Africa Business Strategy as well as the influence of China and India in Africa. He has assisted numerous groups, companies and organisations in crafting their engagement strategies under changing political and economic periods. Abdullah is currently co-authoring a book on the commercial corridor between South Africa and India.

Ajai Chowdhry,Founder: HCLChairman: HCL Infosystems

Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founder members of HCL began an exciting journey three decades ago with a dream to give India its very own microcomputer. The sheer clarity of vision and hard work led to a revolution and laid the

foundation for the Indian IT industry, taking India to the league of major economies of the world.

Mr. Chowdhry led the foundation of HCL’s overseas operations, starting with Singapore in 1980s to extensively covering the other South Asian Markets including Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the People’s Republic of China, expanding business operations. HCL, India’s original IT garage start-up founded in 1976, today is an US $ 6 bn global enterprise and Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has been a key force in driving the growth of HCL.

Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, son of an IAS officer, has been a key force in driving the growth of HCL Infosystems. He took over the reins of HCL Infosystems, the flagship company of the group in early 90s. His leadership infused tremendous energy which took the company from a turnover of US $ 89 mn in 1994 to US $ 2.6 bn today. Employing over 7200 people, the company has today emerged not only as the country’s information-enabling powerhouse but a great place to work with industry accolades and awards received year after year. In 2010 alone the company has been awarded ‘Business Superbrands’ by The Brand Council

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and rated the Most Trusted Indian IT Brand by Economic Times for 2010-11, among many more.

Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has been enlisted among ‘India’s Most Powerful Brand Builders’ and has been adjudged among ‘India Inc’s Most Powerful CEOs’ by The Economic Times.

He has worked closely with the Government to take the cause of ‘IT for the masses’ forward and has been on several Government committees on IT, Electronics and Hardware. Under his leadership in 2009 ‘The IT Task Force’ set up by the Ministry of IT & Communications, Government of India, submitted a comprehensive report to the Government. The Task Force Chaired by Mr. Chowdhry had participation from heads of various associations including Mr. Som Mittal of NASSCOM and Mr. Kiran Karnik. The report constituting the vision and recommendations for a need of an ecosystem of ‘Made in India’ hardware, semi-conductor manufacturing, and greater collaboration for development of software and strategic electronics, has been taken up by a Committee of Secretaries and is under serious consideration for implementation by the government in the budget year 2011.

Mr. Chowdhry also chaired the committee to draft the Eleventh Five Year plan for electronics hardware in India. He has also served as Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) National Committee on Technology and innovation till 2010. Mr. Chowdhry has also chaired the CII’s National Committee for IT, ITES & E-Commerce, where he actively encouraged the deployment of IT in Indian SME sector (Small & Medium Industry), to increase their productivity and to make them globally competitive. Actively involved with various industry forums, he has recently been nominated as a Member for the esteemed ‘India Design Council’, a task force set up by the Government of India to constitute the National Design Policy. Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has also been recently nominated as the Chairman of Board of Governors, IIT- Hyderabad.

Mr. Chowdhry has also been invited to Co-Chair the Advisory Group for Research and Development, in the Electronics Hardware Sector (CAREL) by the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. The core group will work coherently to synergise the efforts of the academia and the industry for promoting Research and Development in the Electronics Hardware Sector.

In 2011, the honourable President of India conferred Mr Ajai Chowdhry with the prestigious Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian honours, as recognition of his consistent contribution in building the IT industry of the nation. Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has been awarded the ‘Electronics Man of the year by ELCINA-EFY for the year 2010’. He has also been conferred the Honoris Causa Doctorate of Science (D. Sc.) by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee for his thought leadership for the development of an unmatched ecosystem for IT products, computer hardware and software domain in the country. Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has also been honoured with the CNBC Asia Business Award 2010 for the Viewer’s Choice category reinforcing once again the acknowledgement of his vision and leadership by the

common man. More recently, he is bestowed with the “India Innovator of the Year Award” by Honorable Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee at the 6th edition of the CNBC TV18 India Business Leader Awards 2010. This award is given in recognition of his vision for HCL as an “entrepreneurial incubator,” where in-house entrepreneurship is always encouraged and his passion for new innovations in both services and products that has infused energy and life into the enterprise.

Mr. Ajai Chowdhry has a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering, and attended the Executive Programme at the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, US.

Dr. MG Vaidyan,Regional Head (Africa) & CEO, State Bank of India, South Africa

Dr. M.G. Vaidyan has been in the service of State Bank of India (India’s largest Bank), since 1979. He has held various assignments in the Bank such as Credit Officer in Los Angeles; Regional Manager, Trivandrum,

Kerala; Deputy General Manager, Agri Business, Tamil Nadu; and Dy. General Manager heading SBI’s Rural Business Group in Corporate Centre, Mumbai. Dr. Vaidyan has acquired varied banking experience in areas such as retail, wholesale, corporate, SME, treasury, agriculture and micro finance.

Dr. Vaidyan was closely involved in the setting up and running the business of two subsidiaries of State Bank of India, viz. SBI Gilts Ltd. (Primary Dealer in Govt. Securities), and SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd.

Dr. Vaidyan holds the position of General Manager, State Bank of India and is presently the Regional Head (Africa) and CEO of State Bank of India, Johannesburg.

James Mwangi,Global Managing Partner, Dalberg

James Mwangi is Dalberg’s Global Managing Partner and oversees the firm’s activities across its 10 offices employing more than 100 consultants around the world. He has served a wide range of clients drawn from national

governments, multi-lateral institutions, private foundations, investors and corporations across Africa and around the world. James has also worked with a range of clients in several African countries including Cameroon, the DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Tunisia. Prior to establishing Dalberg’s presence in Africa, James helped

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launch the firm’s first office in New York and has also extensively served Dalberg clients across the US and Europe.

James has worked extensively with new organizations and initiatives helping develop business plans and implement launch strategies for the African Center for Economic Transfor-mation (an Accra-based Think Tank) and for a new SME focused Private Equity fund based in Nairobi. James has also led strategic reviews of several regional financial institutions seeking to develop more effective investment strategies for stimulating development impact in the Southern African region. Other recent work has included advising East Africa’s fastest growing bank on various aspects of its overall strategy, and supporting two West African heads-of-state in thinking through effective structures for rapid and effective decision-making. He is currently leading an analysis of African agricultural value chains and their implications for policy-makers across the continent.

Prior to joining Dalberg, James was a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he served clients in the financial services sector and helped develop the business plan and launch strategy for a start-up e-learning venture. James also worked as an investment banking analyst with Salomon Smith Barney, now part of Citigroup in their Global Energy Practice.

James holds a degree in Economics from Harvard University. He is a recipient of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellowship extended to 20 emerging African leaders each year by the African Leadership Institute.

Christine Jiang,Director, Business Development, Huawei South-Eastern Africa

Christine Jiang is an exceptional leader who has contributed immensely in the progression of telecommunications in Africa for the past seven years. Christine has maintained an excellent track record since

she has joined Huawei Technologies 10 years ago shortly after completing her studies in Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Christine commenced her career in the telecommunications industry as a Sales Director for Huawei China Unicom Key Account in 2001.

The company recognized her immense talent and she was promoted to become the Managing Director for Huawei Zimbabwe in 2004 for a period of four years. She later joined Huawei Africa, the South African representative office of Huawei as a Sales Director, during which she facilitated strategic contract sales and helped to build up the business environment. After that she was made the Sales Director of Huawei MTN Key Account Department.

Christine is currently working in the Huawei South-Eastern Africa Regional office as the Director of Business Development Department.

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