Reshaping U.S. Economic Engagement in Africa: Perspectives and Expectations

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Add to Calendar 2025-02-24 15:00:00 2025-05-01 12:39:45 Reshaping U.S. Economic Engagement in Africa: Perspectives and Expectations Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, in collaboration with the Policy Center of the New South, is hosting a discussion on the top US-Africa economic priorities with the Trump administration now in office in Washington.

The African continent is experiencing major economic and societal shifts. With South Africa’s presidency of the G20, the pending implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area, the election of the new presidents for the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank Group, and the sunsetting of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, 2025 is shaping up to be a decisive year for US-Africa economic and foreign relations.

This hybrid event is scheduled for Monday, February 24^th at 3 pm (GMT).

For more information, please visit the website: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/reshaping-us-economic-engagement-in-africa/

Agenda

15h00 – 15h05

Welcome Remarks

Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President, Policy Center for the New South

15h05 – 15h10

Keynote Remarks

Macky Sall, Former President, Republic of Senegal

15h10 – 16h00

Moderator: Otaviano Canuto, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South

Speakers:

Aubrey Hruby, Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Atlantic Council

Bryan Lanza, Partner, Mercury Public Affairs

Aymeric Saha, CEO, MiDA Advisors

Daniel Twining, President, International Republican Institute

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Speakers

Otaviano Canuto

Senior Fellow

Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Affiliate Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute. Former Vice President and Executive Director at the World Bank, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Vice President at the Inter-American Development Bank. ...

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 countr ...