October 18 at 10:00 am PDT/1:00 pm EDT

Fifteen to 20 million increasingly well-educated young adults are expected to join the African workforce every year for the next three decades, thereby elevating youth as the most significant asset driving the continent's Fourth Industrial Revolution. This demographic reality will not only define the 21st century for the entire planet but will also provide strong investment opportunities. Africans are now taking action to establish strong social institutions and inclusive economic opportunities by reducing poverty, expanding access to better quality health care, and educating its emerging young workforce to fill the tens of millions of new jobs they are seeking to create. This session will explore the economic dynamism and energy already breaking through in African and will examine ways to harness its full potential as the next decades unfold.

Guest 

Reeta Roy
President and CEO, MasterCard Foundation

Moderator

Michael Milken
Chairman, Milken Institute

Speakers

Jingdong Hua
Vice President and Treasurer, World Bank; Pension Finance Administrator, World Bank Group

Uzodinma Iweala
CEO, The Africa Center; Author, "Beasts of No Nation"

Precious Moloi-Motsepe
Co-Founder and CEO, Motsepe Foundation