Youth Townhall Meeting with Strive Masiyiwa in Berlin
The event with Strive Masiyiwa, Chairman of AGRA, Econet Group Founder and CEO is chaired by Agnes Kalibata, President of AGRA.
Strive Masiyiwa has been selected twice, in 2014 and 2017, to Fortune Magazine’s list of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders”. For more background on Mr Masiyiwa please follow-up further down below.
Masiyiwa serves on several international boards including UnileverPlc, and the Global Advisory boards of the Council on Foreign Relations in the US, and Stanford University. A former board member of the Rockefeller Foundation for 15 years, he also serves as Chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). He has served on two key United Nations Commissions, at the invitation of the Secretary-General – one on Financing Global Education Opportunity, and another on Sustainable Energy for All.
In Africa, he has worked on reform of the African Union and enabling the Continental Free-Trade Area, as part of a Taskforce led by the current African Union Chair, President Paul Kagame. He also drives continent-wide digital transformation as the only private sector member, among a dozen Heads of State, of the SMART Africa Board also Chaired by President Kagame. The Cape-to-Cairo fiber route initiative that Masiyiwa has driven through Liquid Telecom, is under the auspices of the African Union and SMART Africa, and is recognized as one of the key enablers for continental economic integration.
As a philanthropist, Masiyiwa is a member of the Giving Pledge, and his contributions to education, health and development have been widely recognized. Masiyiwa and his wife finance the Higher Life Foundation, which has supported the education of over 250,000 African orphaned, vulnerable and gifted children across Africa over the past 20 years.
Over the last few years, Masiyiwa has devoted his time to mentoring the next generation of African entrepreneurs through his Facebook page, which has a growing followership of over 3.4-million young people from across the continent. For almost two years, Facebook has identified his platform as having the most engaged following of any business leader in the world.
Organizers of Youth Townhall Meeting with Strive Masiyiwa: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Established in 2006, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an African-led and Africa-based institution that puts smallholder farmers at the center of the continent’s growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming as a business that thrives.
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