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Africa
Milken Institute Scales Up Engagement with Africa Through New Business Council
Milken Institute Scales Up Engagement with Africa Through New Business Council
The Milken Institute's Africa strategy focuses on fostering resilient, inclusive economies led by African entrepreneurs and investors that can help realize the continent’s brightest future. Among other initiatives, we are building the next generation of leaders in financial policy and asset management; catalyzing technological innovation and entrepreneurship; and fostering policy and investor dialogue to help advance sustainability, health, and shared prosperity in Africa.
Leveraging Finance and Innovation for a Resilient, Prosperous Africa
We work with governments to train, inform, and empower the next generation of financial policymakers and public-sector fund managers who can effectively drive financial market reforms and foster shared prosperity for all.
Financial Innovations Labs® tackle funding gaps around specific economic development issues by holding a microscope to the problems and analyzing them from every angle.
This program is a series of multiyear, multimillion-dollar innovation competitions and awards harnessing Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to advance technological solutions toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa.
Milken Institute Health bridges innovation gaps across the health and health-care continuum. We advance whole-person health throughout the life span by improving healthy aging, public health, biomedical science, and food systems.
Harnessing Africa's Potential
Meet the Africa Leaders Business Council
Our Impact
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Flagship Initiatives
Global Financial Scholars Programs
Global Financial Scholars Network
Robust financial markets play a crucial role in supporting private-sector-led growth, job creation, financial security, and the sustainable funding of national development priorities. Through two flagship training programs, we work with governments to train, inform, and empower the next generation of financial policymakers and public-sector fund managers who can effectively drive financial market reforms and foster shared prosperity for all. This work is made possible by a generous group of program supporters and internship providers.
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Featured Event Sessions
Upcoming Events
- A private investor dialogue on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (New York, September 2024)
- A policy roundtable on pathways for debt sustainability in Nigeria (Lagos, October 8-9, 2024)
- The Milken Institute Middle East and Africa Summit (Abu Dhabi, December 5-6, 2024)
Please return to visit this page for more information as these events draw closer, in addition to updates on our curated webinars and private in-person and virtual discussions.
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- Roundtable on Nigeria's National Strategic Cancer Control Plan and National Cancer Research Agenda (Abuja, Nigeria, June 2024)
Graduation of the 2nd Cohort of the World Bank-Milken Institute Public Financial Asset Management Program (London, UK, June 2024)
Financial Inclusion at the Frontier: Digital Asset Regulation in Africa Roundtable (Washington, DC, USA, April 2024)
Invest Africa-Milken Institute Investment Forum: Changing the African Investment Paradigm (New York City, USA, September 2023)
Meeting of the Next Generation of Financial Leaders: IFC-Milken Institute Capital Markets Program Alumni Retreat (Cape Town, South Africa, January 2023)
Milken Institute- Invest Africa US Private Roundtable: Advancing Impact and Innovation (Washington DC, USA, December 2022)
Our Team
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Vanessa Adebayo
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Khalila Baldwin
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Carole Biau
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Laura Deal Lacey
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Brenda Huneycutt
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Esther Krofah
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Caitlin MacLean
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Emily Musil
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Shannon Stroud
Featured External Content and Scholar Contributions
- Tinubu appoints new board for Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, Premium Times | April 19, 2024
- Bolokwe succeeds Tsheole as BSE Interim CEO, The Executive | April 10, 2024
- International Finance Reforms: Collaborative Actions for Greater Impact in Africa, ACET | March 15, 2024
- After a decade of false starts, Angola finally gets its stock market, news24 | June 9, 2022
- The Pandemic and an African Reset, WorldQuant | February 28, 2022
- Fintech’s Roadmap to Financial Inclusion, Milken Institute Review | July 30, 2020