African Business Leaders to Set Private Sector Priorities at World Bank Annual Meetings

3 October 2014
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Africa Investor (Sandton)
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Johannesburg/ Washington DC — African business leaders to set private sector priorities at World Bank Annual Meetings

Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment and communications group, today announced that the 7th Ai CEO Investment Summit, held in association with the IFC and the World Bank Group Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, will take place on the 9th October 2014 in Washington DC, USA, on the eve of the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings.

The Ai CEO Investment Summit is an annual Ai-World Bank Group CEO business and government forum, designed to feed into the World Bank Annuals Meetings agenda on Africa and to facilitate action; to highlight and enhance Africa's investment climate, trade competitiveness and job creation, as well as shed light on Africa's investment success stories.

The Summit will comprise a number of CEO-led panels that will showcase high-growth opportunity sectors, and will include feedback from public and private sector leaders working on these issues. Attendees and speakers will include high-level international and domestic representatives from business as well as government with Africa's private sector development as high priority.

On the same day, Africa investor (Ai) will host the prestigious 2014 Ai Investment and Business Leader Awards to reward exceptional business practices, economic achievements and investments across the investment spectrum in Africa. The Ai CEO Investment Summit will take place on the 9th of October at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington DC.

Summit partners include; the IFC and the World Bank Group Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice; African Export-Import Bank; the US Chamber of Commerce; Private Investors for Africa; Bunengi Group; AfricaPLC; AllAfrica; and Quadrant.

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Africa investor is a specialist investment and communications group advising governments, international organisations and businesses on communication strategies for capital market and foreign direct investments in Africa. Africa investor publishes Africa investor, the leading international news stand magazine for Africa's investment decision makers; maintains the Africa investor 40 Investors' Index, hosts the Ai Index Series Summit & Awards and the Africa investor Infrastructure Projects Summit & Awards, among other events.

For more information on the Africa investor (Ai) CEO Investment Summit and Investment and Business Leader Awards, contact Catherine Wright on +27 11 783 2431 or cwright@africainvestor.com.

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