African Monetary and Economic Sovereignty Conference – 3rd Edition
9 -11 October, 2024
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the New International Economic Order (NIEO). Alongside multiple debt, development, climate, and migration crises and a resurgence of large-scale wars and genocidal violence, there is a decline of Western hegemony, which the challenge posed by the emergence of the BRICS + makes visible. Although the United States, Western Europe, and Japan still dominate the Bretton Woods Institutions, whose legitimacy deficit is growing, they no longer have the global economic, industrial, and financial clout of yesteryear. This trend towards multipolarity, a rebalancing of international relations seems irreversible. The key question is to know what new or alternative options this multipolarity can offer countries of the South, Africa in particular. What economic opportunities could peripheral countries foresee in a world where the West no longer has the last word
The Third Edition of the African Monetary and Economic Sovereignty Conference, convened by the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) and the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA), aims to explore the economic opportunities open to the continent in the multipolar world that is taking shape, based on the lessons of history – past successes and failures – but also of a present fraught with multiple crises and diverse emergencies for which coordinated and rapid action is required.
Among the topics to be discussed are:
- Addressing the current debt, development and climate crisis.
- Domestic resource mobilization and illicit financial flows.
- Lessons from the New International Economic Order: documenting successful and less successful experiences of delinking.
- The BRICS + project: opportunities and risks for Africa.
- Understanding the revival of industrial policy in Northern countries: prospects for Africa.
- How to capitalize on the resurgence of pan-Africanist sentiment on the continent and in its diasporas.
Conference proceedings will be live-streamed, and a link will be circulated closer to the Conference date.
Speakers
Agostina Constantino
Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina & a teacher at UNS
Ibrahima Aidara
Founder of the Public Policy Institute for West Africa, previously deputy regional director of Open Society–Africa & country economist at UNDP Senegal
Howard Stein
Development Economist, Professor, The University of Michigan
Chérif Salif Sy
Political Economist, Academic, Researcher and active in the non-political society. Coordinator of the Third World Forum (TWF) created by Professor Samir Amin
Joab Okanda
Africa Regional Manager at GGON | Pan African Climate, Energy & Development Expert
Souad Aden-Osman
Executive Director of the Secretariat for the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA)
Dzodzi Tsikata
Professor of Development Sociology, Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), the University of Ghana
Lumumba Di-Aping
Ambassador and Deputy Head of the Sudan Mission to the United Nations
Kai Koddenbrock
Professor of political economy at Bard College Berlin
Hamadziripi Tamukamoyo
Programme Co-Director at the Institute for Economic Justice
Adeyemi Dipeolu
Former Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters in the Office of the Vice‐President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Senior Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Horman Chitonge
Researcher, Professor, Head of the African Studies Section, University of Cape Town
Aby L. Sène
Assistant Professor, Parks and Conservation Area Management, Clemson University
David Adler
Political Economist & co-general Coordinator of Progressive International
Guillaume Long
Politician, Historian, and Expert on Latin American Foreign Policy and Multilateral Initiatives
Mizanekristos Yohannes
Senior Policy Consultant in international economic development, Consultant Moderator at United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Martín Guzmán
Former Minister of Economy of the Republic of Argentina
Jason Hickel
Economic anthropologist, Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and LSE, and Professor, University of Barcelona
Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei
Head of Programmes at the Third World Network-Africa, Member of the Working Group of Post-Colonialisms Today
Ingrid Kvangraven
Lecturer, Department of International Development at King’s College, London
Rachel Mukamunana
Senior Policy Advisor & Head of Country Reviews at The African Peer Review Mechanism
Natalia Flores Garrido
Senior Program Officer for Gender and Economics in Latin America and the Caribbean at IDEAS
Charles A. Abugre
Ghanaian development economist, researcher, social activist. Executive Director, IDEAs
Linwood Tauheed
Professor of Economics & Director of the Center for Economic Information
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Senior Adviser, Khazanah Research Institute, Fellow, Academy of Science, Malaysia, and Emeritus Professor, University of Malaya
Ndongo Samba Sylla
IDEAs
Martin Abeles
Director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)´s Office in Buenos Aires
Redge Nkosi
Executive Director at Firstsource Money, Monetary Reform International (UK)
Amara Enyia
Strategist, Public Policy Expert, Social Impact Professional
Peter James Hudson
Associate Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia
Yan Liang
Professor at Willamette University, specialist in Post Keynesian-Institutionalist approach to international trade and finance, financial macroeconomics, and economic development (with a regional focus on China)
Jemima Pierre
Professor of Global Race at the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia, Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg
Hippolyte Fofack
Research Economist, leading the Macroeconomic and Growth Program at the World Bank Institute, founder of the Nelson Mandela Institution
Zinabu Samaro Rekiso
Economist, UNDCO/ UN Resident Coordinator’s Office – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mayada Hassanain
Researcher within the Feminist Economics project at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ)
Semereta Sewasew
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s State Minister of Finance for Economic Cooperation
Fadhel Kaboub
President, the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University
FAbdalla Hamdok
Former Prime Minister of Sudan
Emilia Reyes
Programme Director of Policies and Budgets for Equality and Sustainable Development, at the feminist Mexican organization Gender Equity: Citizenship, Work and Family
Andres Arauz
Senior research fellow and expert in finance and macroeconomics, with government experience in Ecuador and international negotiations
Segun Apata
Former Ambassador, Chairman of the Nigerian Bottling Company Ltd (NBC), Member of the National Council of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN)
