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Dilona Somai

ESG Analyst and YSIP graduate, PIC

Gopalakrishna Naidu Purseramen

COO Seafood operations, IBL Group

Phyllis Wakiaga

CEO, Kenya Association of Manufacturers

Siobhan Cleary

JSE Board Member

Prosper Burnson

Executive Director Green Carbon (Ghana)

Samuel Kimeu

Member of the Board - Africa Union Advisory Board Against Corruption

Jane Karuku

CEO, EABL

Bridgitte Backman

Director, Global Group Executive, Distell

Ayotola Jagun

Chief Compliance Officer, Oando Plc

Nigel Topping

High Level Climate Action Champion

Admassu Tadesse

CEO, Eastern and Southern African Trade Development Bank

Nozipho January-Bardill

Global Compact Network South Africa Board Chair

Paul Kapelus

Board Member, Global Compact Network South Africa

Raoul Gufflet

Deputy CEO, Mauritius Commercial Bank, Board Chair Network Mauritius and Indian Ocean Region

George Asamani

Business Development Leader, Africa at Project Management Institute (PMI)

abir lemseffer

Deputy Chief Executive Officer Azura Group Morocco

cecilia Müller Torbrand

BSR'S Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (Nigeria)

CELESTIN MUKEBA MUNTUABU

Chief Executive Officer, Equity Bank Congo (DRC), Board chair GCNRDC

Daryl Bosu

Deputy National Director, A Rocha Ghana

Valentina Mintah

Founder West Blue Consulting, Vice Chair ICC Ghana and ICC Executive Board Member

Ezekiel Sekele

Legal & Corporate Affairs Director, Zambian Breweries

Musimbi Kanyoro

Senior Global Advisor, Target Gender Equality, and Board Member, UN Global Compact

Achieng Ojwang

Executive Director, Global Compact South Africa

Jill Bogie

Joint Lead Faculty, Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)

Gregg Brill

Senior Researcher and Senior Advisor to the CEO Water Mandate, Pacific Institute

MAMIE KALONDA

CEO, Finca DRC

African Children's Choir

Tune in for the closing performance with the African Children's Choir

Amina Mohammed

Deputy Secretary General, United Nations

Sturla Henriksen

Special Advisor, Ocean, United Nations Global Compact

Saadia Slaoui Bennani

Board Chair GCN Morocco

Nkechi Coker

Senior Manager for Africa, Open Contracting Partnership

Gloria Okorie

Director Women in Trade, TradeMark East Africa

Nana Duffuor

Chair, CBWN Kenya

Monica Kerretts-Makau

Africa lead for Thunderbird Global School of Management at Arizona State University

Dr. Tonia Smart

Chartered InsuranceInstitute Ambassador, Africa and CBWN Nigeria

Brahim BENJELLOUN-TOUIMI

Group Executive Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of Bank of Africa BMCE Group

Mthunzi Mdwaba

IOE Vice-President to the ILO, Chair of Productivity South Africa

Nazrene Mannie

Executive Director, The Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN)

Louis Camara

Managing Director, Kamsar

Laureine Guilao

CEO, TiPME LIBERIA

Sanda Ojiambo

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Khalid ENNDA

CEO, Youth-In Morocco

JOSEPH ILUNGA

CEO, DIJIMBA, Board vice-chair DRC

Tulika Bansal

Senior adviser, Human Rights and Business, The Danish Institute for Human Rights

Catherine Kimaryo

Chief Strategist Adviser at Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank

Anne Githuku-Shongwe

UN Women Representative for the Southern Africa Multi-Country Office

Andrew Mold

Chief, Regional Integration and AFCTA, UN ECA

Siddharth Ramaswamy

Vice President (Supply Chain), Unilever West Africa

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International Choir Operations Director

Moumini Barry

Entrepreneur

Freda Miriklis

Chair, Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network (CBWN):

Rose Maghas

Rova Digital, Kenya, CTO, Commonwealth Businesswomen's Network (CBWN) and UNGC member

Nyasha Simbanegavi

Regional Manager, Southern Africa, Commonwealth Local Government Forum

Caroline Gathii

President, Organisation of Women in International Trade (OWIT) Nairobi

Gloria Atuheirwe

Director Women in Trade, TradeMark East Africa

Arif Zaman

Commonwealth Centre of Excellence for Women in Procurement

Howard L

Sustainable Finance, UN Global Compact

Alex Kennedy

Head, Sustainable Finance Solutions for Standard Chartered PLC

Edward Kyei

Group Chief Executive Officer, Glico Group

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