African Markets Conference 2025
Welcome to the Africa Markets Conference 2025, a pivotal gathering for shaping the continent's economic future. As Africa stands on the brink of accelerated infrastructure development, urbanisation, and industrialisation, this conference brings together global and African investors, risk leaders, policymakers, and regulators.
Over the course of the event, we will explore how to mobilise capital flows—both local and international—to meet Africa's structural needs and drive sustainable growth. This is an opportunity to forge meaningful partnerships, foster innovation, and build a shared investment vision for the decade ahead.
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Speakers and Moderators
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Panelists
Ms Jinny Yan
ICBCS Managing Director, Chief China Economist China Markets Strategy, Global Markets FIC
Mr. Aadil Cajee
Head of Energy and Infrastructure Finance, Investment Banking, Standard Bank South Africa
Mr. Junaid Kamal Ahmad
Vice President, Operations at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group (WBG).
Ms. Thea Fourie
Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Insights and Analysis, Economics & Country Risk, S&P Global
Mr. Marcel Brühwiler
Manager, Infrastructure Investment, Southern Africa, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Mr. Clay Lowery
Executive Vice President, Research and Policy at the Institute of International Finance (IIF)
Explore our panel discussions
Dive into our engaging discussions and expert insights, designed to inspire and inform.
Panel 1: Geopolitics and Macroeconomic Realities
Global geopolitical and macroeconomic shifts are transforming Africa’s economic landscape. This panel will delve into key current trends, dynamics, and their influence on regional growth.
Panel 2: Policy and Africa’s Economic Developmental Challenges
This discussion will examine Africa’s current economic and development challenges, exploring current policy stances and setting the context for issues that currently inhibit growth.
Panel 3: Closing the Infrastructure Gap
The panel will explore ways to close the infrastructure gap by improving access to funding and collaborative efforts between public and private sectors. It will also look specifically at logistics infrastructure with a view of rail and port infrastructure challenges and ways to unlock potential value.
Panel 4: Unlocking trillions for energy stability and transition
This panel discussion will explore strategies and opportunities to unlock the substantial investments needed to build energy stability and accelerate energy transition across the continent. Inclusive of strategic infrastructure development.
Panel 5: Is there more required? Strategically leveraging emerging market learnings to enhance Africa’s development
This panel discussion will explore learnings from emerging markets, inclusive of BRICS countries. It will seek to provide a high-level synopsis of the thematic approaches highlighted by the previous panel discussions and explore any additional development strategies which may also be applicable in an African context to attract additional Foreign Direct Investment.
Breakaway Sessions
Breakaway 1
South Africa's progress
- Focus on Operation Vulindlela
- Focus on Eskom and Transnet developments
Breakaway 2
Countries Q&A with Investors
Breakaway 3
Reserves Management and Capital and Liquidity Management
- SB as a gateway to liquidity management. This would include emergency funding, repo solutions on the funding side and securities lending and yield enhancement solutions.
- Portfolio performance solutions
World Bank
- Its involvement on the continent
- How have things progressed?
- What opportunities are there?
- Key take-outs from the last day
News and Insights