Members of the press are invited to The Commonwealth Secretariat’s 11th Regional Conference for Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa, from 21-24 June 2021.
Heads of anti-corruption agencies in the region will meet to provide timely assessment, share experiences and discuss progress towards meeting the UN Social Development Goal 16 which incorporates specific targets relating to reducing corruption, bribery, and illicit financial flows.
Heads of anti-corruption agencies in Commonwealth Africa will discuss the theme ‘Assessing Anti-Corruption and Asset Recovery Efforts in Africa’
Secretary-General Patricia Scotland will be delivering a keynote address to open the event on 21 June.
Other speakers include:
• Dr George Larbi, Governance Global Practice, South Asia Region, World Bank
• Prof. Prajapati Trivedi, Commonwealth Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for SDG Implementation
• Mr Paul Banoba, Africa Regional Advisor Transparency International Berlin, Germany
• Yara Esquivel Soto, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
• Mr Amaechi Nsofor, Partner, Head of Africa, Insolvency and Asset Recovery, Grant Thornton UK LLP
• Warren Smith, Global Digital Marketplace Programme Director UK Government Digital Service (GDS)
• Dr Solomon Uwagbole Igedu, Analytics Lab, UK Quadbitcoin.com Microsoft Partner
