Debate: On the trail of capital flight from Africa (10/03/2022)

PROGRAMME

Introduction:
-- Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD.

Author presentation:
-- Léonce Ndikumana, Distinguished Professor & Director, African Development Policy Program, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
-- Nicholas Shaxson, Writer, Journalist, and Investigator, Tax Justice Network, Berlin, Germany
-- James K. Boyce, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Discussion:
-- H.E. Margarida Rosa da Silva Izata, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Republic of Angola to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
-- Rob Davies, Ex-Minister of Trade and Industry, Republic of South Africa
-- Janvier Désiré Nkurunziza, Chief, Commodities Branch and Chief of Research and Analysis Section, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD.

Closing remarks:
-- Attiya Waris, Professor of Law, and Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Nairobi, and UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights