2014
“Africa Rising: Challenges and Opportunities for Development”
Sponsored by SAIS Africa Association
Teddy Ruge. Co-founder of UMPG, Hive Colab and Remit.ug in Uganda
Florizelle Lizer, Asst. US Trade Representative for Africa, Professorial Lecturer at SAIS
Kalmongo Coulibaly, Economist, OPIC
February 25
“Betrayed: Politics, Power, and Prosperity”
Seth Kaplan, professorial lecturer in the African Studies Program, will discuss his new book
April 2
2013
“Determinants of African Perceptions toward Chinese and American Engagement in Africa: A Hierarchical Approach”
Kristie Inman, CSIR, National Intelligence University
October 2
“The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: New Ideas, Changing Approaches”
Matt Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School
October 31
“The African Growth Story: The GE Perspective”
Todd Johnson, SAIS Alum
General Electric Africa
November 7
“’I am Here Until Development Comes’: Displacement, Demolitions and Property Rights in Urbanizing Abuja”
Carl LeVan, American University
Josiah Olubowale, University of the West Indies
November 18
2012
“Initiating and Sustaining Developmental Regimes in Africa: Findings from Two European-led Research Programmes”
David E.F. Henley, Professor of Contemporary Indonesian Studies, University of Leiden; co-Coordinator Tracking Development Project (www.trackingdevelopment.net)
David Booth, Overseas Development Institute, London; Director, Africa Power and Politics Programme (www.institutions-africa.org)
March 12
2011
Conference: “Africa’s New Era of Growth: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future”
The conference explores the key political and economic factors that have contributed to the acceleration of the region’s development, in addition to the key risks and opportunities for African development looking ahead.
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March 1-2
“African Governance Report: Elections and the Management of Diversity in Africa”
Said Adejumobi, ECOWAS; Lagos State University
March 3
“The Role of China, India, Brazil and Other Emerging Nations in Africa”
Ambassador David Shinn, George Washington University
September 14
“Emerging Africa – Rwanda: a Case of a Top Reformer?”
Stephan Klingebiel, Head of Department “Bi- and Multilateral Development Cooperation,” German Development Institute
November 9
2009
“Emerging Africa: The Unheralded Economic Turnaround in (half of) Africa”
Steven Radelet, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development.
Co-sponsored with the International Development Roundtable.
September 18
“Africa and the Global Economic Downturn: Impact and Responses”
Harry Broadman, Managing Director of the Albright Stonebridge Group.
September 23
2008
“Hope to Horror: Strategies to Overcome Africa’s State Crisis”
Richard Joseph, John Evans Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
February 8
“Liberia: from Conflict to Reconstruction and Development”
Steven Radelet, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
February 13
“Unlocking Africa’s Potential: Development Corridors and SDIs – a private sector led growth strategy”
Dr. Rosalind Thomas, Visiting Scholar of African Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS
October 22
2007
“The Potentiality of Developmental States in Africa: Uganda and Botswana Compared”
Pamela Mbabazi, Senior Lecturer & Dean, Faculty of Development Studies at Mbarara University of Science & Technology, Uganda; Fulbright Visiting African Scholar, SAIS-IDEV
April 9
“The Political Economy of Africa’s Growth 1960—2000, an Analytic Survey: The Determinants of Africa’s Economic Performance in its First 50 Years of Independence”
Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University
April 13