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IGD and the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University hosted an intimate dinner conversation on February 9, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. The dinner featured a spirited exchange of ideas about Kenya’s economic complexity and its prospects for growth in coming decades. Frontier 100 CEOs in attendance included James Mwangi, CEO & Managing Director [...]
On January 24, IGD partnered with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) to help MCC and the Ghanaian government identify opportunities, constraints and solutions to private sector participation in Ghana’s power sector, a key area of focus for Ghana’s second MCC compact. More than 20 companies across the power [...]
IGD and the Aspen Institute’s Partners for a New Beginning – North Africa Partnership for Economic Opportunity (PNB-NAPEO) presented a dinner in Marrakech, Morocco on January 16 to discuss increasing economic growth in the Maghreb. Nearly 50 participants including CEOs from North Africa, U.S. government officials and regional political leaders gathered to build relationships and [...]
IGD Leadership Council co-chairs Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell hosted the council’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on December 14. Participants expressed strong support for IGD’s sharpened strategic plan for reducing global poverty by catalyzing profitable investment with a social impact in Africa. Members of the Leadership Council were joined by three African Frontier 100 [...]
On November 1, CSIS hosted a launch event for the release of their report “Seizing the Opportunity in Public-Private Partnerships” by Dan Runde and Holly Wise. The event featured IGD Leadership Council members E. Neville Isdell, Former Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company and Henrietta H. Fore, Former Director, U.S. Foreign Assistance and Former Administrator, [...]
As part of USAID’s Partnership Forum on The Strategic Value of Connecting Business and Development held October 20th, IGD co-sponsored the lunch event, at which Administrator Raj Shah gave the keynote address entitled “Embracing the Role of the Private Sector in Development.” The speech signaled that in the same way companies are making development part of their core [...]
Following the Frontier 100 Forum in New York City, IGD organized meetings for interested CEOs with a number of U.S. government agencies focused on increased investment and economic development in Africa. The purpose of the meetings was to generate increased awareness of major U.S. government development initiatives that stimulate private sector activity in Africa as well as the availability [...]
