Europe and Africa: Searching for Common Ground and a New Partnership
The Policy Center for the New South and Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) are pleased to organize a webinar under the theme “Europe and Africa: Searching for Common Ground and a New Partnership” on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 starting 18:00 GMT+1.
Third and last conference of the EU-Africa Initiative, promoted on the occasion of the publication of the ISPI Report “Europe and Africa. The long search for common ground” and the 2021 edition of the PCNS’ annual report on geopolitics in Africa.
The conversation and the panel discussion will focus on recent developments and future prospects in the relationships between Europe and Africa – particularly with regard to the EU’s proposed ‘New Strategy with Africa’ – in view of the African Union-European Union summit planned for early 2022.
The event will be broadcast live on ISPI's social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
To register for the event : https://bit.ly/3k8gzKd
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18h00 – 19h00 |
Europe and Africa: Searching for Common Ground and a New Partnership Moderator: - Giovanni Carbone, Head of the Africa Programme, ISPI; Professor, University of Milan Speakers: - Nezha Alaoui M’hammdi, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South - Alex Benkenstein, Head of the Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme, South African Institute of International Affairs - Amanda Bisong, Policy Officer, European Center for Development Policy Management - Domenico Rosa, Head of Unit, Strategic Partnership with Africa and ACP, DG International Partnerships, European Commission |
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Nezha Alaoui M’Hammdi, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
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Alex Benkenstein, Head of the Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme, South African Institute of International Affairs
Alex Benkenstein is the Programme Head of the Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme of the South African Institute of International Affairs, which he joined in November 2010. His work in SAIIA has focused on a number of resource governance-related issues, particularly in the fields of fisheries, ocean governance and mining. Through his work with SAIIA he has collaborated with a number of partners in the public and private sector, for example, the World Gold Council (Standards for Conflict-Free Gold), the Southern African Development Community (SADC Think Tank Forum on Climate Change), the New Partnership For Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency, and the Benguela Current Commission. Alex graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a Masters Degree in International Studies (cum laude). As a researcher for the South African consultancy Managing for Excellence he completed projects for various clients, including the Parliament of South Africa. He was subsequently appointed as Head of Research for the NGO Regency Foundation Networx, where his work focused on climate change, particularly private sector corporate social responsibility (CSR) responses to emerging issues surrounding climate change.
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Amanda Bisong, Policy Officer, European Centre for Development Policy Management
Amanda Bisong is a Nigerian national, with a background in Law (Bachelor/ Barrister in Nigeria) and a Master degrees in International Law and Economics (World Trade Institute, Bern) and International Trade Policy and Trade Law (Lund University). She is currently also pursuing her part-time Ph.D. on the topic of Regional Migration Governance (with a focus on West Africa) at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Amanda previously worked at GIZ as Head of Trade and Customs Unit managing the EU funded project on regional integration and Trade in ECOWAS in Abuja. Before joining GIZ, Amanda worked at the ECOWAS Trade Directorate, the National Association of Nigerian Traders and the Nigerian Bar Association. She was engaged in legal practice in Nigeria (mostly on civil and criminal matters). Her focus research areas are on migration agreements, labour migration, exploring the linkages between trade and migration in Africa, migration governance and the interplay between regional and national commitments. In recent years, she has published several research articles on migration governance.
Amanda is also part of the following research networks for migration scholars in Africa: (MIASA (Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa) and MILAMET (Migration and international law in Africa, the Middle East & Turkey)) and teaches at the Geneva Summer school on global and regional migration governance.
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Giovanni Carbone, Head of the Africa Program, ISPI
Giovanni Carbone is Head of the ISPI Africa Programme and Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His research focus is the comparative study of politics, geopolitics and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular regard to political institutions.
Giovanni was previously a Research Associate at the Crisis States Programme of the London School of Economics and the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) project. He edited and co-authored a report commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Italy’s policy in Africa, focusing on business opportunities in emerging sub-Saharan economies (La Politica dell’Italia in Africa. Contesto, interessi e scenari della presenza politica e economica italiana nell’Africa subsahariana, ISPI, 2013).
His publications include: Political Leadership in Africa, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2018; co-authored with A. Pellegata); Are lions democrats? The im¬pact of democratisation on economic growth in Africa, 1980-2010 (Democratization, 2016, co-authored with V. Memoli and L. Quartapelle); Leoni d’Africa. Come l’Italia può intercettare la crescita subsahariana (2015, co-authored with M. Montanini); L’Africa. Gli stati, la politica, i conflitti (2012, II ed.)
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Domenico Rosa, Head of Unit, Strategic Partnership with Africa and ACP, DG International Partnerships, European Commission
Domenico Rosa is Head of the Unit INTPA/A/1 on the Strategic partnerships with Africa and OACPS at the Directorate General for International Partnerships (INTPA) of the European Commission. He also leads the INTPA Post-Cotonou Task Force, which steered the negotiations leading to the new agreement to be concluded between the EU and the OACPS upon the expiration of the current Cotonou Partnership Agreement. Domenico previously served as Senior Adviser in the Cabinet of Commissioner Piebalgs (2012-14) and was Member of the Cabinet for Development and Humanitarian Aid of Commissioners Michel and De Gucht (2006-10). He has a Master degree in Economics and Political Economy (Bocconi University, Milan), in International Politics (ULB, Brussels), and a degree in Psychology (University of Padua, Italy).