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Entrepreneurship and Africa’s industrialisation Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 9.15 18.00 hrs. Room CC 1, OECD Headquarters 2, rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris 8.30 9.15 Registration and welcome coffee 9.15 10.45 Opening Session Welcome addresses Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Victor Harison, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union Commission (AUC) Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer, French Development Agency (AFD) Keynote speeches Daniel Kablan Duncan, Vice-President, Côte d’Ivoire Alpha Condé, President of Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Theme: What type of entrepreneurship will lead Africa’s successful industrialisation? 10.45 12.15 Session 1 Can entrepreneurs drive Africa’s industrialisation? Panel discussion Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, Minister of Business Development, Ghana Luís Filipe Lopes Tavares, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communities and Defence, Cabo Verde Aicha Pouye, Director, Division of Market Development, International Trade Centre Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco Main topics: Industrialisation strategies; high-growth entrepreneurship; regional integration. Moderator Mario Pezzini, Director, OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development Q/A 12.15 13.45 Luncheon 13.45 15.15 Session 2 How can entrepreneurship promote social and economic inclusion? Panel discussion Wiseman Magasela, Special Advisor to the Minister of Social Development, South Africa Papa Mademba Ndao, Director-General, Directorate of Small and Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Trade, Informal Sector, Consumption, Promotion of Local Products and SMEs, Senegal Somachi Chris-Asoluka, Head, Policy and External Relations, The Tony Elumelu Foundation Dorothy Githae, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, 360 Degrees International, Kenya Almoktar Allahoury, Executive Director, Centre Incubateur des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises du Niger (CIPMEN) Main topics: Subsistence entrepreneurs; opportunity-driven entrepreneurs; social business; economic inclusion. Moderator René N’Guettia Kouassi, Director, Department of Economic Affairs, AUC

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Entrepreneurship and Africa’s industrialisation Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 9.15 – 18.00 hrs.

Room CC 1, OECD Headquarters 2, rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris

8.30 – 9.15 Registration and welcome coffee

9.15 – 10.45 Opening Session

Welcome addresses

Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

(OECD)

Victor Harison, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union Commission (AUC) Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer, French Development Agency (AFD)

Keynote speeches

Daniel Kablan Duncan, Vice-President, Côte d’Ivoire

Alpha Condé, President of Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Theme: What type of entrepreneurship will lead Africa’s successful industrialisation?

10.45 – 12.15 Session 1 – Can entrepreneurs drive Africa’s industrialisation?

Panel discussion

Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, Minister of Business Development, Ghana

Luís Filipe Lopes Tavares, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communities and Defence, Cabo

Verde

Aicha Pouye, Director, Division of Market Development, International Trade Centre

Karim El Aynaoui, Managing Director, OCP Policy Center, Morocco Main topics: Industrialisation strategies; high-growth entrepreneurship; regional integration.

Moderator Mario Pezzini, Director, OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD

Secretary-General on Development

Q/A

12.15 – 13.45 Luncheon

13.45 – 15.15 Session 2 – How can entrepreneurship promote social and economic inclusion?

Panel discussion

Wiseman Magasela, Special Advisor to the Minister of Social Development, South Africa

Papa Mademba Ndao, Director-General, Directorate of Small and Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Trade, Informal Sector, Consumption, Promotion of Local Products and SMEs, Senegal

Somachi Chris-Asoluka, Head, Policy and External Relations, The Tony Elumelu

Foundation

Dorothy Githae, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, 360 Degrees International, Kenya

‎Almoktar Allahoury, Executive Director, Centre Incubateur des Petites et Moyennes

Entreprises du Niger (CIPMEN) Main topics: Subsistence entrepreneurs; opportunity-driven entrepreneurs; social business; economic inclusion.

Moderator René N’Guettia Kouassi, Director, Department of Economic Affairs, AUC

Q/A

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee-break

15.45 – 17.30 Session 3 – The politics of industrialisation: enabling factors and stumbling blocks

Panel discussion

Clare Akamanzi, Chief Executive Officer, Rwanda Development Board

Mamadou Traoré, Commissioner for Macroeconomic Policy, Economic Community of West

African States (ECOWAS) Commission

Abdu Mukhtar, Director, Industrial and Trade Development, African Development Bank

(AfDB)

Ibrahima Diouf, Managing Director, EBI SA, Ecobank Group

Emmanuel Nnadozie, Executive Secretary, African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

Main topics: Reform of public institutions; implementation and monitoring of policy reforms;

inter-ministerial co-ordination; private sector promotion.

Moderator Gaël Giraud, Chief Economist, AFD

Q/A

17.30 – 17.45 Concluding remarks

Pierre Duquesne, Chair, Governing Board, OECD Development Centre; Ambassador of

France to the OECD