ai academy

About The Academy

"The Ai Academy helps business leaders and policy makers understand the evolution of the global economy, enhance performance and competitiveness, and provide a fact base for decision-making at both the continental and international level".

Hubert Danso, Patron Ai Academy.

As part of its Corporate Social Investment policy Africa investor established the Ai Academy to provide valuable information, networks and training to key decision makers working with Africa. The Ai Academy benefits from specialists insights and the operational experience of the Ai Advisory Board and programmes run by Ai events.

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The Africa investor Academy established Sukuma Afrika (Zulu for "Stand Up") in partnership with the United Nations, as a public-private forum to facilitate dialogue, mentoring and access to finance for young African social entrepreneurs with projects in Africa that impact the UN millennium development goals - the 8 UN goals to half poverty worldwide by 2015. See: http://www.sukumaafrika.org/campaign_competition.htm

The primary objectives of the Academy are to:

• Build a community of decision makers

• Deliver actionable, practical knowledge and skills to top level professionals

• Enable cascading of skills and knowledge to lower levels by the top executives

The Ai Academy facilitates economic growth in Africa through increasing financial leadership and skills such that proper investments can be adequately represented, analysed, approved and executed and monitored.

What we do.

The Ai Academy delivers leading-edge knowledge and skills to its constituents through specialised training programmes, seminars, conferences and facilitated networking events. The Ai Academy works to develop the capabilities of investment professionals in Africa and contribute to up-tiering financial and professional skills in Africa. 

The services provided by the Ai Academy are targeted at upper management level professionals from across the African continent and designed to enhance their networks, decision-making skills and contribution as Africa's business ambassadors with policy makers.

 Areas of Special Focus:

1.     General Financial Services

2.     Risk Management

3.     Project & Structured Finance

4.     Private Equity

5.     Corporate Finance

6.     Treasury Products & Markets

7.     Pension Funds

8.     Public Sector Financing

9.     Professional Skills

10.   Compliance / Governance / Ethics

11.   Specific Industry Sectors, such as:

• Telecoms

• Natural Resources

• Infrastructure

 Types of Offerings

1. Special Event Seminars, for example:

   •  Carbon Trading Seminars

   •  Project Finance Seminars

   •  Corporate Governance Seminars

   •  Leadership Seminars

2. Short open-enrolment courses (one to five days in length)

3. E-Learning courses

4. Online research and reading

For more information contact:

Hubert Danso

Africa investor Academy

Email: hdanso@africa-investor.com