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.
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
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.