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Harnessing Water and Energy for Africa's Sustainable Industrialization and Inclusive Economic Transformation

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Add to Calendar 2023-07-19 08:30:00 2025-05-24 11:02:13 Harnessing Water and Energy for Africa's Sustainable Industrialization and Inclusive Economic Transformation Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

Dr. Hafez Ghanem, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, will be speaking at a Panel under the theme « Harnessing Water and Energy for Africa's Sustainable Industrialization and Inclusive Economic Transformation » during a Forum entitled « Africa Day at the HLPF » for its first edition launched by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (UN-OSAA), the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

"Africa Day at the HLPF", is an annual Ministerial event designed to share good practices and lessons learned to overcome challenges facing the African Member States in their efforts to implement and monitor the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union Agenda 2063.

The annual Africa Day at the HLPF also aims to popularize and promote the outcomes of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD), which was established to follow up on and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Africa and feed into the work of the HLPF.

The event is taking place on July 19th, 2023 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am (EST/New York)

Speakers
Hafez Ghanem
Senior Fellow
Hafez Ghanem – who holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis – is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a development expert with a large number of academic publications; and more than forty-year experience in policy analysis, project formulation and supervision, and management of multinational institutions.  He has worked in over 40 countries in Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, and South East Asia.   Between 2015 and 2022 he was Vice President of the World Bank, initially responsible for the Middle East and North Africa, then for Sub-Saharan Africa and then East and Southern Africa.     In this latter capacity he was responsible for developing and implementing the World Bank ...