Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1965.
Yvonne Chaka Chaka OIS is a South African singer,songwriter,entrepreneur,humanitarian and teacher. Dubbed the "Princess of Africa",Chaka Chaka has been at the forefront of South African popular music for 35 years and has been popular in Nigeria,Zimbabwe,Kenya,Gabon,Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast. Songs such as "I'm Burning Up","Thank You Mr. DJ","I Cry For Freedom","Motherland" and the ever-popular "Umqombothi" ensured Chaka Chaka's stardom. The song "Umqombothi" was featured in the opening scene of the 2004 movie Hotel Rwanda.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria is an international financing and partnership organization that aims to "attract,leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations". This multistakeholder international organization maintains its secretariat in Geneva,Switzerland. The organization began operations in January 2002. Microsoft founder Bill Gates was one of the first donors to provide seed money for the partnership. From January 2006 it has benefited from certain US Privileges,Exemptions,and Immunities under executive order 13395,which conferred International Organizations Immunities Act status on it.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist,who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. Notably,she is the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General. She sits on the boards of Danone,Standard Chartered Bank,MINDS:Mandela Institute for Development Studies,Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,Georgetown Institute for Women,Peace and Security,One Campaign,GAVI:Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization,Rockefeller Foundation,R4D:Results for Development,ARC:African Risk Capacity and Earthshot Prize plus others. She also previously sat on the Twitter Board of Directors,and stepped down in February 2021 in connection with her appointment as Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
Anna Gunilla Carlsson is a Swedish politician and a member of the Moderate Party. She served as Minister for International Development Cooperation from 2006 to 2013,member of the Swedish Riksdag from 2002 to 2013 and deputy chairman of her party from 2003 to 2015.
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in Abidjan,Ivory Coast,since September 2014. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies investing in the regional member countries (RMC).
Sir Mohammed Fathi Ahmed Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies,before founding Celtel,which,when sold,had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion,he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa,as well as creating the Ibrahim Index of African Governance,to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa regional advisory board of London Business School.
Njuguna S. Ndung'u is a Kenyan economist who is the Minister of Finance in the cabinet of President William Samoei Ruto since October 2022.
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is an African non-grant foundation founded in 2006 by businessman Mo Ibrahim. Headquartered in London and Dakar,Senegal,it works to strengthen governance and leadership in Africa through its key initiatives:
The Brenthurst Foundation is a Johannesburg-based think-tank established by the Oppenheimer family in 2004 to support the Brenthurst Initiative in seeking ways to fund African development and to organize conferences on African competitiveness.
Harold E. Doley,Jr.(born March 8,1947) is an investment banker and former United States ambassador. He is the founder of an investment banking firm in the U.S.,taking emeritus status in 2003.
Matia Kasaija is a Ugandan politician. He is the current Minister of Finance in Uganda's Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 1 March 2015,replacing Maria Kiwanuka,who was appointed to Senior Presidential Advisor for Finance. From 27 May 2011 until 28 February 2015,he served as the State Minister for Finance (Planning) in the Cabinet of Uganda. He replaced Ephraim Kamuntu,who was promoted to Minister of Tourism. Before that,he served as the State Minister for Internal Affairs,from 1 June 2006 until May 2011. He is also the elected Member of Parliament for "Buyanja County",Kibaale District.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan Politian,pediatrician and co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996,she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a professor of global health delivery practice since 2016 and a professor of pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She resides in Kigali.
Made In Africa Foundation is an organisation established in 2011 to assist development of the African continent by providing first-stage funding for feasibility studies and business development of large-scale infrastructure projects based in the region.
Jonathan M. E. Oppenheimer is a South African billionaire businessman and conservationist,and the executive chairman of Oppenheimer Generations,a former executive of De Beers and a former vice-president of his family's firm,Anglo American plc.
Inger Andersen is a Danish economist and environmentalist. In February 2019,she was appointed as the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Vera Songwe is an economist and banking executive from Cameroon who worked for the World Bank from 1998-2015,and in 2015-2017 served as Western and Central Africa's regional director for the International Finance Corporation. She was the first woman to head the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the level of Under Secretary-General. Songwe currently serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Africa Growth Initiative.
Frannie Léautier is a Tanzanian civil engineer,academic,and international finance and development consultant. She leads and helps organizations in the private,public,and not-for-profit spheres thrive in advanced and emerging economies.
Uzziel Ndagijimana is a Rwandan economist who has been serving as Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in the government of President Paul Kagame since 2018.
Ibrahim Ibrahim Abubakar is a British-Nigerian epidemiologist who is Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College London and Dean of the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences.
