9:00-10:30 a.m. LABOR, HUMAN CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Chair: IBEABUCHI CHUKWUMA, Commercial Insurance and Investments - Africa Regional Director, Starr Companies
- YAN HAIRONG, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- BARRY SAUTMAN, Visiting Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
- FLORIAN SCHAEFER, Fellow, Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE)
- LINA BENABDALLAH, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
11:00-12:30 p.m. PUBLIC HEALTH
Chair: MICHAEL CAPPELLO, Professor of Pediatrics, Microbial Pathogenesis, and Public Health at the School of Medicine, Yale University
- MADDALENA PROCOPIO, Associate Research Fellow, Italian Institute for International Political Studies
- NITSAN CHOREV, Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs, Brown University
- XINGZUI WANG, Vice Chair of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation
- MEAGAN MARTZ, Senior Associate Director, Principal Gifts-Asia, The Carter Center
12:30 p.m. LUNCHEON - CHINA-AFRICA COLLABORATION ON THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Keynote Speaker: CLAIRE ZHANG, Consultant on Africa-China Business Relations
2:00-4:00 p.m. CLOSING SESSION – POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Chair: FOLASHADÉ SOULÉ, Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford
- MARIANNE CAMERER, Programme Director of Building Bridges, The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
- JOHN KARUGIA, Researcher, Inter-Centre-Programme on new African-Asian Interactions, Goethe University
- OSCAR OTELE, Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Nairobi
- XIAOYANG TANG, Deputy Director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University