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Enhancing US tools to compete in growing global markets in Africa and beyond
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The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and the Policy Center for the New South are co-organizing a hybrid conversation under the theme: “Enhancing US tools to compete in growing global markets in Africa and beyond”, scheduled for September 11, 2025 at 02:00 PM (Morocco time).
The year 2025 marks a turning point in the landscape of US-Africa economic engagement. With the future of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the African Growth and Opportunity Act under review, and the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approaching its reauthorization deadline, this discussion comes at a pivotal time. Against a backdrop of shifting trade policies and strategic realignments, the conversation will explore how modernized commercial tools and increased investment flexibility can foster shared prosperity across the Atlantic.
This hybrid event will feature the presentation of a new policy brief by Aubrey Hruby titled: “DFC 2.0: A blueprint for a bigger, faster, and more strategic agency”.
For more information, please visit the website: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/enhancing-us-tools-to-compete-in-growing-global-markets-in-africa-and-beyond/
AGENDA
| 14h00 – 14h10 | Opening Remarks Herindrainy Olivier Rakotomalala, Minister of Mines, Republic of Madagascar Mohammed Loulichki, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South |
| 14h10 – 15h00 | Moderator: Adva Saldinger, Senior Reporter, Devex Aubrey Hruby, Senior Advisor, Africa Center, Atlantic Council
Speakers: Ferid Belhaj, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South Helaina Matza, Chief Strategic Development Officer, TechMet Enrique Millán-Mejía, Senior Fellow, Economic Development, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, Atlantic Council Rob Mosbacher, Former President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corporation and Chairman, Mosbacher Energy Company |
