Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia
VICE PRESIDENT Dr
Mahamudu Bawumia is billed to address participants of the 2019 Financial Times
(FT) Africa Summit in London today at 2pm.
Dr Bawumia, whose
keynote address will focus on Ghana’s Digital Transformation Agenda, will also
participate in a number of plenary sessions.
Among other
planned engagements, he will also meet with a number of world and business
leaders to deliberate on ways to accelerate Ghana and Africa’s socio-economic
development.
The FT Africa
Summit brings together stakeholders and decision-makers to deliberate on
Africa’s challenges and brainstorm to find lasting solutions. According to the
organisers, the 2019 conference will place “a special emphasis on the youth,
women, entrepreneurs, scientists and artists and on fresh thinking generally.
Africa’s home-made solutions are becoming more relevant as the continent takes
its destiny into its own hands.”
Participants at
the 2019 FT Africa Summit will include H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South
Africa; Razia Khan, Chief Economist (Africa), Standard Chartered Bank; Mo
Ibrahim, Founder and Chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Uche Orji, Managing
Director & Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority;
and Vera Songwe, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, Economic
Commission for Africa.
Dr Bawumia, who
left Accra on Friday, returns on Wednesday, 16 October 2019.
