Past Events

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) - provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Venue: New York City, USA (Physical & Virtual)

The quadrennial conference is the highest decision-making body of UNCTAD at which member states make assessments of current trade and development issues, discuss policy options and formulate global policy responses. Venue: Bridgetown, Barbados and Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual)

The meetings are comprised of events open to all attendees, ministerial-level invitation-only sessions, closed bilateral meetings, and events open only to the press. Venue: World Bank MC Building, Washington DC, USA (Virtual)

This event will focus on the key trends impacting on Africa’s economic health, from the many financing challenges encountered by companies in the face of the pandemic and the role of multilateral and DFI’s in providing support, to the strains on supply chains directly and indirectly across a range of sectors, digitization drives and ongoing efforts to reduce dependence on commodities and move African companies up the value chain. Venue: London, UK (Physical & Virtual)

IATF’s theme will focus on the newly-launched African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) - a single market for goods and services across 55 countries, aimed at boosting trade and investment. Venue: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Physical & Virtual)

Long recognised as the industry’s leading event for Sub-Saharan Africa, we’re hugely excited to bring the region’s trade, commodity and export finance community together in Cape Town once again for a much-anticipated return to in-person discussion and networking. An in-depth two day agenda will explore the primary trends shaping African trade in 2022, highlighting the financing initiatives, strategies and sources poised to overcome challenges ranging the constrained financing appetite impacting the continent’s commodity value chains to the pandemic’s effect on…