As part of its Corporate Social Investment policy, Africa investor established the Ai Academy as a thought leadership and networking platform to provide valuable information and networks to key decision makers working on investment issues in Africa. The Ai Academy benefits from specialists’ insights from Ai Capital and the operational experience of the Ai Advisory Board, as well as programmes run by Ai events.
The Ai Academy works closely with the Ai Heads of State Investment Advisory Council, launched in 2011 at the New York Stock Exchange in partnership with the United Nations and African Union. The Ai Council brings together and mobilizes business and investment leaders to advise African Heads of State and the African Union on strategies to increase intra-African investment flows and regional economic integration.
The Academy runs proprietary platforms to address and increase the pipeline of investable, bankable projects through the Ai Project Developers Forum and mobilizes African capital and asset owners through the Ai Sovereign Wealth and Pension Leaders Forum.
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The Ai African Project Developers Forum
The Ai African Project Developers Forum (APDF) is a pan-African network of over 200 infrastructure project developers and early-stage financiers that shares and publishes thought leadership, promotes best practice, discusses co-development opportunities and is committed to improving the business environment for project developers and financiers in Africa.
Bart Nnaji
CEO, Geometric Power Limited
Carlo van Wageningen
Chairman, Lake Turkana Wind Power
Edu Okeke
COO, Azura Power Holding Limited
Gad Cohen
eleQtra’s Chief Executive Officer
Helen Tarnoy
CEO, Aldwych International
Johan de Vos
Managing Director, Gigajoule Group
John McCarthy
Head of Global Infrastructure Abu Dhabhi Investment Authority
Marc Mandaba
Managing Director, Themis
Vishal Agarwal
Managing Director (Developments & Investments), GE Africa
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The Ai African Sovereign Wealth and Pension Fund Forum
The Ai African Sovereign Wealth and Pension Fund Forum (ASWPFF) is a high-level platform for African Sovereign Wealth and Pension Fund (SWF & PF) leaders to network and share best practices on key issues related to improving the investment environment for long-term intra-African investment.
Hubert Danso
CEO and Chairman: Africa investor, Chairman: ASWPFF
Uche Orji
CEO, Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority
Linda Mateza
Former Chief Executive & Principal Officer, Eskom Pension & Provident Fund
Mbui Wagacha
Chairman: Kenyan Sovereign Wealth Fund, Senior Economic Advisor: Executive Office of the President, Kenya
Adam Mayingu
Director General of the Public Service Pension Fund (PSPF) Tanzania
Dr. Renosi Mokate
Chairperson, Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF)
David Nuyoma
CEO GIPF
Richard Byarugaba
CEO, NSSF Uganda
Solomon Asamoah
CEO, Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund
Richard Mwiinga
Former Chairman, Zambia Association of Pension Funds (ZAPF)
Papa Demba Diallo
Director General, FONSIS SA (Senegalese Sovereign Wealth Fund)
Joseph Boateng
Senior Analyst Chief Investment Officer, Casey Family Programs
Edward Odundo
Former Chief Executive Officer, Retirement Benefits Authority Kenya & President, International Organisation of Pensions Supervisors (IOPS)
Sundeep Raichura
Chairman, Kenya Pension Fund Investment Consortium (KEPFIC)
Theresa Whitmarsh
Executive Director, Washington State Investment Board
Ayman Soliman
CEO, The Sovereign Fund of Egypt
Obaid Amrane
CEO, Ithmar
Nic Firzli
Director General World Pensions Council
Aldo Tembe
CEO, Moçambique Previdente
Robert Maynard
CIO, Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (P.E.R.S.I)
Gilbert Nyatanhi
CEO , Agaciro Development Fund (Rwanda)
Carlos Alberto Lopes
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Angola Sovereign Wealth Fund
Ndabe Mkhize
Former CEO, Eskom Pension & Provident Fund (EPPF)
John McCarthy
Former Head of Global Infrastructure, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Akim Dauoda
CEO , Gabonese Sovereign Wealth Fund (FGIS)
Paddy Turymwijuka
Director, Petroleum Investment Fund (Uganda)
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Ai Emerging Managers Forum Advisory Board
John Robinson
Senior Managing Consultant, PFM Asset
Robert Greene
President & CEO of the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC)
Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Virginia Retirement System (VRS)
Wilmot Allen
Senior Adviser, Africa investor Emerging Managers Forum
Christine Phillpotts
Snr Vice President, Alliance Bernstein
Angela Miller May
Director of Investments/CIO, Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund