The seventh edition of the Africa CEO Forum is the largest international gathering of CEOs and investors from the African private sector.
With Africa swinging into action to strengthen regional integration, the choice of Rwanda— being at the intersection of East and Central Africa, matches the forum’s desire to facilitate meetings and encourage business flow between CEOs from across the continent.
Being the gateway to a regional market of more than 150 million people and a signatory of 68 trade agreements, Rwanda has many assets to host the next Africa CEO Forum, according to the Amir Ben Yahmed, the Founder and President of the Africa CEO Forum.
“This 7th edition will therefore be held at the heart of the continent, in Rwanda, a country both Francophone and Anglophone, whose economic dynamism and development model anchored in education, innovation and performance perfectly reflect the values of the Africa CEO Forum,” announced Amir Yahmed.
According to media reports based on official estimates, the last edition of the forum that took place in Geneva saw at least 1600 attendees and is expected to increase in the future.
Launched in 2012, the Forum was organised for three years in Geneva, before being relocated to Abidjan in 2016 . It was further decided that the meeting was to be alternated each year between Geneva and Africa.
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