Conveners
Day 1 - Driving higher education excellence and inclusion for the Africa of tomorrow: Perspectives from regional and international partners
- El Hadj Hussein TAPILY (Vice President for West Africa, All-Africa Students Union (AASU))
- Habtamu Tekleselasie (Technology, Climate Change, and Natural Resource Management Division (TCND))
- Dorcas Beryl Otieno (UNESCO Chairholder in Entrepreneurship Education for Sustainable Development, Kenyatta University)
- James Mwangi (Group Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Equity Group Holdings Plc)
- Martha Phiri (Director, Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development Division, African Development Bank)
Day 1 - Round Table 1: “Rethinking Higher Education in Africa for a Sustainable Future” (UNECA)
- Ropafadzo Sandra Shoko (Youth Entrepreneur, Lawyer Science and Technology Incubation Hub Admin, Startups Bea, and Founder of NPO Mentor Me Please)
- Denis Mwighusa (Executive Director of the Africa Research Institute for AI (ARIFA))
- Mactar Seck (Chief of Section – Innovation and Technology, UNECA)
- Gaspard Banyankimbona (Inter-University Council for Eastern Africa (IUCEA))
- Josephine Ulimwengu (Chief, Systems-Wide Coherence and Quality Assurance Section, UNECA)
Day 1 - Round Table 2: Supporting student and academic mobility and inter-university cooperation within the higher education sector across Africa (Campus Africa Pillar 2)
- Armand Abanda (Chaire UNESCO « Partenariat stratégique et institutionnel pour l'accès des jeunes et des femmes aux technologies de l’information et de la communication en Afrique Centrale »)
- Everlyn Anyal Musa (Programme Director, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program e-Learning Initiative Project)
- JOUHAINA BENBOUBAKER EP GHERIB (Chaire UNESCO sur l’enseignement supérieur pour le développement durable en Afrique, University of Manouba, Tunisia)
- Dominique Dumet (Conseillère scientifique pour l'Afrique - Scientific Adviser for Africa: l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD))
Day 1 - Round Table 3: Solutions, Innovations and Emerging Practices in Higher Technical Education (Campus Africa Pillar 3)
- Gideon Murenga (Senior TVET and Labour Markets Advisor - Youth Employment and Vocational Training at GIZ)
- Doreen Irungu (MentorMatch, Winner of TechWomen 2024)
- Rino Pugliano (Nuove technologie della vita Academy (ITS))
- Cherifa Abdelbaki (UNESCO Chair for Sustainable Development and Resilience: Addressing Climate Change, Water Security, Food Sustainability, and Energy Resilience (SUDARE), University of Tlemcen,)
- Daniel Omanyo
Day 1 - Round Table 4: The Role of Data (and Capacity Needs) in the Transformation of Africa’s Higher Education Systems
- Gaspard Banyankimbona (Inter-University Council for Eastern Africa (IUCEA))
- Khalil Bahloul (IIEP-Dakar)
- Magdaline Chepkemoi (Co-Founder, EldoHub)
- Fatouma Sissoko (Statistician, African Centre for Statistics Addis Ababa)
- Jim Occiti (Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General and Director of Institutional Learning and Knowledge Management, Organization of Southern Cooperation (OSC))
Day 1 - Round Table 5: The Addis Convention – Ensuring the recognition of qualifications and robust quality assurance mechanisms
- Romualdo Correia (Director General of Higher Education, Cabo Verde)
- Alice Kande (Director-General of the Kenya National Qualifications Authority (KNQA))
- Mercy Mwiinga Ngoma (Head of the Zambian Qualifications Authority)
- Lamine Gueye (Head of ANAQ-Sup Senegal and President of the Convention Committee, President of Réseau Africain Francophone des Agences Nationales d’Assurance Qualité (RAFANAQ), representative of the African Quality Assurance Network (AfriQAN).)
Day 1 - Messages from Africa’s Youth about the Education They Want
- Leticia Ahirirwe (Student Representative - Mbarara University of Science and Technology)
Day 1 - Close of Day 1
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Day 1 - Opening of the Forum
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Day 1 - Panel discussion: Ministers of Higher Education
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