African Studies Centre to Inaugurate International Advisory Board

vice president yemi osinbajo

The African Studies Centre will formally inaugurate its International Advisory Board (IAB) on 12th October, 2018.

The Board will be formally inaugurated by the Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), who will also deliver a lecture at the event. The inauguration will be held at the Investcorp Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

The AIB will be chaired by Mr Tito Mboweni, the former Governor of the South African Reserve Bank. Mboweni, who was the first black South African to lead the South African Reserve Bank, was the Minister of Labour in President Nelson Mandela’s cabinet from 1994 to 1998. He has also served as the Chairman of AngloGold Ashanti Limited. He is currently an International Advisor of Goldman Sachs International and a founding member of Mboweni Brothers Investment Holdings in South Africa. The Chair of the ASC International Advisory Board was the Chancellor of the University of the North, South Africa (now University of Limpopo) and trustee and Chairman of the Fundraising Committee of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital as well as Trustee and member of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation.

Other members of the AIB include:

  • The First Lady of Namibia, Madame Monica Geingos, a  lawyer
  • Mr Gareth Ackerman, Chairman, Pick’n Pay, South Africa
  • Professor Ibrahim Gambari, former UN Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, and former Nigeria’s External Affairs Minister and most recently Commonwealth Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Zambia
  • Dr Charlotte Harland-Scott, British-born Zambian economic and social development specialist, Oxford alumna and former First Lady of Zambia
  • Governor Nasir El-Rufai, a Quantity Surveyor, Management Consultant and current Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria
  • Ms Linda Mabhena-Olagunju, founder and Managing Director of DLO Energy Group (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
  • Mr Alex Duncan, a Development practitioner, consultant economist and Director, Policy Practice, UK
  • Mr Ivor Agyeman-Duah, a Ghanaian economist and author

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo

Mr Tito Mboweni

6 September 2018