キーワード：セミナー・イベント情報, アフリカ開発銀行

Date:    November14,2025 (Friday)

Place:   United Nations University, Elizabeth Rose Hall (5th floor), Tokyo, JAPAN 

Check-in for pre-registered attendees :   13h30-14h00 (2nd floor)

Symposium: 14h-15h30h (5th floor)

Reception: 15h30-16h30 (2nd floor)

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Symposium flyer

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Keynote Speaker

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Organized by: African Development Bank (AfDB)

Supported by: The University of Tokyo & University of Pretoria

Purpose:. Supported by the Ministry of Finance Japan, AfDB has taken the lead in developing the African-Asia (A-A) Platform, in alignment with TICAD 9’s call to “Co-create innovative solutions with Africa”. The Platform aims to establish an over-arching framework for promoting new private and public partnership initiatives linking Africa and Asia in support of skills development, youth entrepreneurship and innovation for Africa’s sustainable industrialization. Central to these efforts is inter-university collaboration for reciprocal knowledge transfer and joint nurturing of next generation of leaders, between Africa and Asia. The symposium, celebrating its roll-out, brings together experts involved in the newly-established A-A Platform to collaborate toward its shared objectives.

 

 【Agenda】 (the event is entirely in English)

Opening: Prof Aya Suzuki (Senior Vice Rector of United Nations University; Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations)

Keynote remarks: Teruo Fujii (President, The University of Tokyo) 

Lecture / Statements on roll out:

Francis Petersen (Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Pretoria)

Sidi Ould Tah (President, African Development Bank) 

Expectations for A-A platform project:

Perspectives from the Government of Japan: Mr Takaaki Nomoto (Director, Multilateral Development Banks Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance)

Perspectives from two Japanese youth entrepreneurs

Closing:

Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan (TBD) 

Reception

 

Overall MC: Keiko Takei (Chief Education Analyst, Task Manager of A-A project, African Development Bank & Visiting Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Public Policy)