Ninth International Europe-Africa Conference GLOBALIZATION AND BUILDING OF AN AFRICAN INTERNAL MARKET

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1 Ninth International Europe-Africa Conference GLOBALIZATION AND BUILDING OF AN AFRICAN INTERNAL MARKET Mérieux Foundation Annecy - August 26 th -29 th, 2010 This conference is organized by L INSTITUT ASPEN FRANCE And L AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT With the support of AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT BANQUE AFRICAINE DE DEVELOPPEMENT BANQUE OUEST AFRICAINE DE DEVELOPPEMENT BIOMERIEUX CFAO CIAN VILLE D ANNECY And the participation of Fondation Mérieux Ville d Annecy Conseil Général du Rhône Ville de Lyon Le Grand Lyon Ville de Grenoble Club Aspen Rhône-Alpes Amis d aspen

2 Program For sixteen years, Aspen France Institute s conferences on Africa nurture a reflection on the conditions of development, the vicissitudes and successes of the African continent. These conferences, held every two years at the Merieux Foundation, on the shores of Lake Annecy, are based on the exchange of views and field-experiences between leaders of various backgrounds and nationalities: politicians, business leaders, scholars and personalities from civil society. Based on the desire to make practical recommendations, the conferences give particular attention to proposals coming from Africans. In previous years, Africa conferences dealt with the emerging Africa and the challenges of growth, new partnerships and new actors involved in Africa and the impact of new rules of international trade on the African continent. In recent years, Africa experiences a considerable attention from the rest of the world, on the back of the rise of commodity prices and of the presences of China, India or other countries. However, trade does not always know the dynamism expected within the African continent. The International Conference on Africa 2010 will reflect on how Africa might seize these opportunities to create an effective internal market and thus better capture the value of globalization: best political construct to support the development of an internal market, best ways to involve the private sector, Africa s agenda with its foreign political and financial partners and the most efficient strategies to link domestic and export markets. This program has been prepared with the active collaboration of Jean-Michel Debrat (Director General of the French Development Agency), Pascal Peyrou (CEO, SOPAT), Didier Acouetey (CEO, AfricSearch), Serge Michailof (author and professor at the Institut d'etudes Politiques de Paris, Director, Council of Investors in Africa), Olivier Lafourcade (international consultant in economic development strategy), Olivier Mellerio (President, International Mellerio, Interfinexa), Jean-Marc Gravellini ( Africa Director, French Development Agency), Corinne Brunon Meunier (Deputy Director Africa, French Development Agency), Florent Canetti (Director of Development, Institut Aspen France), Orianne Duprat-Briou (inspector of Finance). Among others, Jacqueline Novogratz, (President, Acumen Fund), Patrice Fonlladosa (Director for Africa, the Middle East and India, Veolia Water) were also consulted.

3 GLOBALIZATION AND BUILDING OF AN AFRICAN INTERNAL MARKET Africa will remain peripheral, including in its own eyes, until it has built a sufficiently deep market, structured its own economy and acquired a capacity of negotiation in global forums. In a globalized world, these elements are the only ways for Africa to defend its place, which no border can protect. But does Africa actually have the prerequisite conditions for such a long-term building? Four successive sessions will try to answer the question. THURSDAY AUGUST 26 TH, 2010 Arrival of the participants PALACE DE MENTHON Route des Bains Menthon St Bernard 7:30 PM WELCOME COCKTAIL 8:00 PM Welcome speech Mr Pierre Cunéo, Director of rail strategy and regulatory affairs, SNCF Mr Jean-Michel Debrat Deputy Director-General, «Agence Française de Développement» (French Development Agency) Member of the Board, Institut Aspen France OPENING DINNER AT THE PALACE DE MENTHON Intervention Mr Jean-Michel Severino Former Director-General, «Agence française de développement» «The Crisis of Development Models»

4 FRIDAY AUGUST 27 TH, H00 Official Opening of the conference Mr Michel Pébereau President, BNP Paribas Honorary Chairman, Institut Aspen France 9:30-12:00 AM SESSION 1 DOES THE ORGANIZATION OF POLITICAL POWER ALLOW THE BUILDING OF AN INTERNAL MARKET? Introducers H.E.Louis-Paul Motaze, Minister of Economy, Plan and Country Planning, Republic of Cameroon H.E. Charles Konan Banny, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Ivory Coast, former governor of BCEAO H.E. Abdoulaye Bio-Tchane, President, West African Development Bank Moderator Mr Raphaël Hadas-Lebel, President of Pension Advisory Council Honorary president of section, Council of State The prerequisite of peace and security to any development raises questions about the evolution of political leadership in recent years. Despite the progress of democracy since 1990, compliance with election procedures remains a problem in some countries and is not always sufficient to establish the legitimacy of public authority. Four questions can be raised: Social links, values and State legitimacy: what kind of elections? What kind of democracy? From fairness to efficiency: adapting the administration to globalization Role of the State: between research of political consensus and development? Youth and leadership: what integration in the social and political game and what vision of the Africa of tomorrow? 12:30 AM 2:30 PM LUNCH 2:30-5:00 PM SESSION 2 WHAT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE ACTORS OF PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE MARKET BUILDING? Introducers: Mr Arnold Ekpe, Group Chief Executive Officer, Ecobank, Nigeria Mr Alioune Gueye, President Director General, Afrique Challenge, l Afrique qui ose Ms Patricia Sennequier, Founder, Beautiful Soul Mr Stephen Decam, Secretary-General, CIAN (French Council of Investors in Africa) Moderator: Mr Didier Acouetey, Director-General, Africsearch

5 Private sector is by definition the very essence of economic network, but does it play its role of integration? Local private operators will share their vision: The new challenges and market opportunities, representing important regional issues: agricultural markets, infrastructure, new technologies, services, culture New partnerships and internal and external funding available, either North South or South- South (China, Arab countries, India, Brazil, USA...), with their advantages and competitive constraints The obstacles to their own development: funds, business environment, exchange rate, tariff protection, circulation of people and goods... The human resources challenge From small and medium enterprise to African champion? 7:45-8:15 PM Boat Crossing of the Annecy Lake 8:30 PM Cocktail GALA DINNER offered by Mr Jean-Luc Rigaut Mayor of Annecy In the reception rooms of the City Hall INTERVENTION Mr Alain Juppé, Former Prime Minister, Mayor of Bordeaux

6 SATURDAY AUGUST 28 TH, :00 10:30 Intervention and debates Mr Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization «General Framework: Economic Regional Integration in the World» 10:30 AM -1:00 PM SESSION 3 BALANCES BETWEEN AFRICA AND ITS FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL PARTNERS: WHAT KIND OF AGENDA? Introducers H.E.Louis-Paul Motaze, Minister of Economy, Plan and Country Planning, Republic of Cameroon H.E. Charles Konan Banny, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Ivory Coast, former governor of BCEAO Mr Martin Curwen, Director-General, European Bank of Investment Mr Bruno Wenn, Chairman of the board of management, Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft Moderator Mr Jean-Michel Debrat, Deputy Director-General, «Agence française de développement» In the continuing construction of its domestic market, Africa must define its policy towards its main partners and funders and clarify the following fundamental debates: Must we exit from aid paradigm? What place for aid, what place for market? What about the achievement of Millennium Goals and the new funding sources for aid? Among the stated goals of political and business partnerships and real long-term balances with traditional (Europe, USA...) and emerging partners (China, India, Brazil, Arab...): what role for Africa in the economy and the new global geopolitics? 1:00 3:00 AM LUNCH INTERVENTION Mr Bernard Accoyer, President of National Assembly, France

7 3:00-5:30 PM SESSION 4 ARTICULATION BETWEEN DOMESTIC AND EXPORT MARKETS: WHAT KIND OF WINNING STRATEGIES? Introducers H.E. Soumaïla Cissé, President, Commission of West African Economic and Monetary Union H.E. Juma Volter Mwapachu, Secretary-General, East African Community H.E. Ablasse Ouedraogo, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Burkina Faso, General Administrator, Zoodo International Moderators Mr Anthony Carroll, Vice-president and Managing Director, Manchester Trade Ltd Ms Orianne Duprat-Briou, Inspector of Finance What size for African markets? What kind of international agreements? Here are the questions raised by the relationship between local, regional and international institutional level involved: EVENING At the national level, what policy to promote local production: what examples, what results? At the regional level: role and prospects for interregional organizations and the African Union in managing interregional differences and complementarities, the evolution of currency unions and particularly the CFA franc, etc.... At the international level (WTO, EPA...), between openness and fragility of markets, what possible balance and what place for African production, giving the coming "climate revolution"? 7:30 11:00 PM COCKTAIL AND DINNER AT THE PALACE DE MENTHON SUNDAY AUGUST 29 TH, :00-11:30 AM CONCLUSION OF WORK Coordination of the conclusions Mr Jean-Michel Debrat, Deputy Director-General, «Agence française de développement» Ms Orianne Duprat-Briou, Inspector of Finance 9:00-11:00: PRESENTATION OF THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE FOUR SESSIONS BY THE MODERATORS, FOLLOWED BY A GENERAL DEBATE 11:00-11:30: CONCLUSION OF THE CONFERENCE BY MR MICHEL PÉBEREAU, PRESIDENT, BNP PARIBAS, HONORARY CHAIRMAN, INSTITUT ASPEN FRANCE 11:45 AM INFORMAL CLOSING BUFFET