The 2015 African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings will take place from Monday, May 25 to Friday, May 29 at the Sofitel Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The 50th Annual Meetings for the African Development Bank and the 41st meetings of its soft loan affiliate, the African Development Fund (ADF), will focus on the theme "Africa and the New Global Landscape".
The event, where key decisions about the Bank Group are made each year, is attended by Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the Bank's 54 regional member countries (RMCs) and 26 non-regional member countries, and attracts more than 2,500 delegates representing multilateral finance institutions, development agencies, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the media. During the Annual Meetings, the Bank's 50th Anniversary will be marked and a new AfDB President will be elected.
What: 2015 African Development Bank Annual Meetings
Where: Sofitel Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Who: Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the Bank's member countries, more than 2,500 delegates representing multilateral finance institutions, development agencies, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the media.
Registration is now open and you are kindly requested to register for the meetings on the Annual Meetings website
To access the online Registration Form, please use the ID number provided as the reference to your invitation letter. If your organization intends to send one or more representatives, they should kindly complete separate online Registration Forms, using the same Reference Code.
If you encounter any difficulties in registering online, please call (+225) 2026 35 81 / (+225) 2026 25 37, or send a message to annualmeetings@afdb.org. Your confirmation letter will be sent to you after you have duly completed the online Registration Form and attached your passport photograph.
A series of documents comprising the provisional programme, the information bulletin and other useful information relating to your participation in the Annual Meetings will be available soon on the Bank's 2015 Annual Meetings microsite.
Contacts
Annual Meetings Secretariat: Selina Peters, tel. +225 20 26 35 81 or Hildegarde Birara, tel. +225 20 26 25 37; annualmeetings@afdb.org
Media contacts:
Olivia Ndong-Obiang, tel. (+225) 20 26 45 84, mobile (+225) 01 56 05 05, o.ndong-obiang@afdb.org
Joyce Mulama, tel. (+225) 20 26 58 78, mobile (+225) 46 10 24 49, j.mulama@afdb.org
Follow the 2015 Annual Meetings on Twitter: @AfDB_Group
Official conference hashtag: #AfDBAM2015