Planning for the Future 2019

Images from the event.

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Flyer for the event.

This event was a timely conversation whose value was maximized by the presence of many top-level U.N. week attendees to discuss global challenges and possible solutions. The panel discussion focused on education, entrepreneurship and employment in Africa. It highlighted how the African continent can turn the 90m youth aged 20-24 into a youth dividend which harnesses all economic sectors to increase access to education, entrepreneurship and employment. The right mix of equitable educational opportunities that will provide jobs and training for entrepreneurship must be deployed now to head off the large numbers of students studying overseas (374,000 in 2017 compared to 156,000 two decades earlier.)

PANELISTS: Elozi Lomponda, CEO of Books on Canoes operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a team member of the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in Belgium, Leila Ndiaye, President and CEO of Initiative for Global Development, Leonard Wantchekon, founder of the African School of Economics in Benin, Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of the Africa House, and Nabou Fall, CEO of Vizio.

This event raised the profile of the International University of Grand-Bassam in Côte d’Ivoire and its contributions to the local and international community by providing high quality higher education to African students. Register here!

This event was hosted by the IUGB Foundation. The IUGB Foundation is a 501(c)3 U.S. tax exempt nonprofit organization founded by U.S. and Ivorian supporters of the International University of Grand-Basaam (IUGB) who wanted to connect IUGB with the best resources, connections and insights that the U.S.A and the world has to offer.