The In-focus session about Jobless Growth during the Atlantic Dialogues on December 14th led to a passionate debate on the future impact of jobless growth on Africa as well as the world economy.
« Jobless growth » was coined by the American economist Nick Perna (Yale) in the early 1990s. The causes of this phenomenon are highly discussed. For instance, automation is seen as the main source of jobless growth by some economists while others argue that it falls into a « Luddite Fallac ...
14:00 – 15:15 Plenary IX: Lessons from Foreign Military Interventions in Africa Location: Ballroom Moderator: Zeinab Badawi, Director, 2 - Michel Duclos, French Diplomat and Senior Fellow, Institut Montaigne - Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, President, Nato Defense College Foundation - Michell...
16:15 – 17:30 Plenary X: The Development of Africa: Insights from Latin American Presidents (In Spanish) Location: Ballroom Moderator: Lourival Sant’Anna, Columnist & Reporter, CBN/Estadão/Exame - Eduardo Duhalde, Former President, Argentina - Federico Ramon Puerta, Former President...
Moderator: Kimberly Dozier, Executive Editor, The Cipher Brief, CNN Global Affairs Analyst - Youssef Amrani, Head of Mission, Royal Cabinet, Kingdom of Morocco - Tewolde Gebremeskel, Director, Peace and Security Division, The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (tbc) - General (R...
14:00 – 15:15 Plenary IX: Lessons from Foreign Military Interventions in Africa Location: Ballroom Moderator: Zeinab Badawi, Director, Kush Communications - Michel Duclos, French Diplomat and Senior Fellow, Institut Montaigne - Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, President, Nato Defense College Fo...
Moderator: David Applefield, Special Representative for Africa, the Middle East, and Emerging Markets, Financial Times Business - Jorge Arbache, International Secretary of the Ministry of Planning, Brazil - Dominique Lafont, CEO and Founder, Lafont Africa Corporation, former President a...
Moderator: André Caillé, Board Member, Junex - Eric Festa, Senior Vice President, LNG Business Development, Total - R. Andreas Kraemer, Founder & Chairman, Ecologic Institute - Thione Niang, Co-Founder of Akon Lighting Africa - Simone Tagliapietra, Research Fellow, Bruegel
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Moderator: John Yearwood, Executive Board Chairman, International Press Institute - Karen Donfried, President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States - Ana Palacio, Member, Council of State, Spain - Fathallah Sijilmassi, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean - Aminata To...
Moderator: Jordi Bacaria, General Director, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs - Newai Gebre-ab, Executive Director, Ethiopian Development Research Institute, former Chief Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia - Paulo Neves, President, Institute for the Promotion of...