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Digitalization and the AU-EU dialogue

From

28
2:00 pm May 2020

To

28
4:00 pm May 2020

Webinar (by invitation)

Karim El Aynaoui, President of the Policy Center for the New South, will intervene in a virtual discussion organized jointly by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), the German Development Institute (DIE) and the European Center for Development Policy and Management (ECDPM) under the theme “Digitalization and the AU-EU Dialogue”.

This virtual meeting, set to take place on Thursday, May 28 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. GMT, will inform a policy brief for senior EU and AU officials ahead of the next EU-AU Summit, currently scheduled for October 2020.

As background, the European Commission has set out its ambitions for a comprehensive and innovative partnership between Africa and the EU under the name “New Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investments and Jobs”. Together, the AU and the EU have established a Digital Economy Task Force, which published its final report in June 2019. The policy brief on digitalization will provide evidence-based insights and will aim to highlight areas of opportunities, common objectives and mutual interests, as well as potential for collaborations between the AU and EU on digitalization. It will outline a set of policy recommendations leading up to the EU-AU summit in 2020.

The webinar will take place on May 28th, 02:00 PM GMT.

Speakers
Karim El Aynaoui
Executive President
Karim El Aynaoui is Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster. Karim El Aynaoui is an economist. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco where he held the position of Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. At the Central Bank of Morocco, he was in charge of the Research Department and equally a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Previously, he worked for eight years at the World Bank as an Economist for its regional units of the Middle East and North Africa and Africa. Karim El Aynaoui has published books and journal articles on macroeconomic issues in developing countries. Hi ...