8:30

Registration with Croissants, Fruits, Coffee/Tea

09:00

Opening remarks
Hans Brattskar, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Governor AfDB

09:20

Keynote address
Heikki Tuunanen, Executive Director for Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and India, AfDB

09:30

Current Africa, what are the prospects?
Massamba Diene, Manager, Strategy and Operational Policied Department (COSP), AfDB Group

09:50

Establishing Norwegian Business Presence in Africa - The role of Emerging Clusters
Amir Sasson, Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and Logistics, BI Norwegian Business School

10:10

AfDB as a partner for Norwegian private sector interests in African markets, with focus on Energy, Water, Infrastructure, Environment, Agriculture and Health.

• Project Financing and Investment
• AfDB’s Innovative Financial Instruments
• Procurement
• Q & A

Désiré Vencatachellum, Director, Resource Mobilization & External Finance (FRMB), AfDB

10:45

Coffee break

11:00

Project financing by financial institutions in East and South Africa relevant to Norwegian investments. Presentation of a recent mapping.
John Ponsonby, Director, Corporate Finance, Deloitte Consulting Limited, Kenya

11:25

Höegh LNG & Agua Imara followed by a panel discussion.
Ragnar Wisloff, Chief Commercial Officer
Hans Jacob Bull-Berg, Director, Project Finance
Panel Discussion / Q&A moderated by Bjorn Amland, Editor-in-Chief, Development Today

12:00

Financial instruments: options, synergies and how to deal with risks.

• Panelists get 4 minutes each to reflect on presentations, followed by a panel discussion
• Q&A

AfDB
Innovation Norway
DNB-Kjetil Hoydal
Norfund-Mark Davis
Eksport Credit Norway-Ivar Slengesol

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Opportunity for individual meetings with AfDB, Innovation Norway , Veiledningskontoret, Export Credit Norway, GIEK, Norfund, NABA, other

16:00

Closing (AfDB available for B2B meetings till 17:00)