16th Annual Global Development Conference - Plenary Session - Agricultural Policies & Development
September 19, 2015
Speakers
Karim El Aynaoui
Executive President
Karim El Aynaoui is Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster.
Karim El Aynaoui is an economist. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco where he held the position of Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. At the Central Bank of Morocco, he was in charge of the Research Department and equally a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Previously, he worked for eight years at the World Bank as an Economist for its regional units of the Middle East and North Africa and Africa.
Karim El Aynaoui has published books and journal articles on macroeconomic issues in developing countr ...
Marcelo REGUNAGA
Professor, University of Buenos Aires, Former Secretary of Agriculture, Argentina
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Ahmed Galal
Former Minister of Finance at Arab Republic of Egypt
Ahmed Galal joined CIGI’s former International Board of Governors in 2003, and now serves on CIGI’s Board of Directors. Currently, he is managing director of the Economic Research Forum. Ahmed served as Egypt’s finance minister between July 2013 and March 2014. He was executive director and director of research of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) between 2000 and 2006, as well as earlier, in 1996 and 1997, while on leave from the World Bank. His contributions helped to shape the character of ECES as a credible and objective voice for change in Egypt.
Ahmed has been on the staff of the World Bank since 1984. During this long tenure, he has served as an industrial economist in the regions of Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); as senior and then p ...
Martin Bwalya
Head, Industrialization Division, AUDA-NEPAD
Currently, Head, Industrialisation Division in the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) – African Union’s Technical Implementing Agency - is a Machinery Design and Machine Management Engineer by training. Has worked many years in machinery design, specialising in research-and-development of farm reduced tillage equipment within the context of conservation agriculture. Has since 2000, worked in several international organisations in the field of development, in general, and agriculture, food systems and nutrition, in particular. Joined the then NEPAD Agency in 2008 as lead specialist on Sustainable land and water management, moving on to Head the Comprehensive Africa Agric19ulture Development Programme (CAADP) – Africa’s continental framework for agricultural transform ...
