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PARTNERSHIP FOR THE POOR? THE JOINT AFRICA-EU STRATEGY: RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Monday, 30th November 2009 Gremiensaal der Deutschen Welle Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 3, 53113 Bonn

SPEAKERS

Cornelia Rowena Amoah is the Head of Public Affairs at the National African Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council in Ghana. She is a member of the Ghana Journalists Association and a VISNEWS (International Television Journalism) and NUFFIELD Fellow. Cornelia Amoah joined the Television Newsroom of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) as a reporter and was the first journalist to be appointed a News Anchor. In 1995, she became Information Specialist at the Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Accra. In 2000, Cornelia Amoah moved on to work with the Media Foundation for West Africa, where she co-coordinated the training of a number of community radio stations. From 2002 to 2006, she was Head of News and Current Affairs at TV Africa. www.naprm-gc.org

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Mahamat Saleh Annadif is the African Union’s (AU) representative to the European Union and General Secretary of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) group of states. He joined the African Union in January 2006. He was advisor to the president of the AU Commission before being appointed its permanent representative in Brussels in August 2006, with the task of promoting the AU and its activities within the EU, its institutions and among its Member States. Since taking up this role, he has helped to reinforce the visibility of the AU in Europe. Before joining the AU, he held several high-level positions in his home country, Chad, including Secretary of State for Agriculture, Managing Director of International Telecommunications for Chad’s National Post Office, Foreign Minister for African Cooperation and Integration, and head of cabinet for the President of Chad. www.africa-union.org

Kofi A. Annan of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, served from 1997 to 2006 and was the first to emerge from the ranks of United Nations staff. Mr. Annan was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize for Peace jointly with the United Nations. Since leaving the United Nations, he has continued to advocate for better policies to meet the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly in Africa. Kofi Annan is Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, serves as the President of the Global Humanitarian Forum and chairs the Africa Progress Panel, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and the Prize Committee of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. www.africaprogresspanel.org

Jutta Barth has been working for the State and Democracy Department at the GTZ headquarters and has been responsible for supervising the programmes in Latin America and Lusophone and Anglophone Africa since 2007. She started her professional career with the “Evangelische Zentralstelle für Entwicklungshilfe” (today’s Church Development Service − EED) in Bonn, where she dealt with development issues such as promoting democracy and civil society, gender and impacts of non-governmental co-operation at the Principles and Information Department. In late 1997, she assumed directorship for GTZ of the Programme to Promote Participatory Urban District Development (PRORENDA) in South Brazil. From 2004 on, she was Programme Head for Decentralisation and Local Development in the Dominican Republic. www.gtz.de 2

Rev. Malcolm Damon is a founder member of Economic Justice Network (EJN), which was formed in Zimbabwe in 1997 to serve the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa on economic justice issues. He joined EJN in 2001 and as Executive Director holds overall responsibility for the organisation’s work. He serves (exofficio) on the Steering Committee of EJN and works closely with its members and the General Secretaries of Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa (FOCCISA). He serves as Chairperson of the Food Strategy Group of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), is a member of the Ecological Debt Working Group of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and an executive member of the Industrial Ministry of the Reformed Church family in South Africa. www.ejn.org.za

Ewah Eleri is the Director of the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED). He is currently a leading figure in the energy and climate change reform process in Nigeria. Ewah Eleri is the lead author of the “Renewable Energy Master Plan”. Issues addressed by ICEED are poverty, access to energy and climate security. The centre is committed to an agenda of change through high quality research and advocacy. It seeks to reform public policies and build partnerships with the private sector and civil society to fight poverty through enhanced access to sustainable energy services for the poor. www.iceednigeria.org

Peter Finger is Project Head of the projects SolarLokal and Solar2World at the solar energy corporation SolarWorld AG, a company dedicated to the manufacture and marketing of photovoltaic products world-wide by integrating all components of the solar value chain, from feedstock (silicon) to module production, from trade with solar panels to the promotion and construction of turn-key solar power plants.. He is Member of the City of Bonn’s Town Council and Party Whip of the Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN Faction. Peter Finger has worked for the solar energy corporation SolarWorld AG in the field of public relations since 2003. He studied sociology, political science and German language and literature at the University of Bonn, and is a Staff member of the University of Bonn’s Seminar of Sociology. www.solarworld.de

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Adolf Kloke-Lesch has been Director of Division 3 “Global and Sectoral Tasks; European and Multilateral Development Policy; Africa and Middle East” since November 2007. He joined the Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation in May 1978. There, among other things, Adolf Kloke-Lesch was responsible for the “Budget” and directed the Sub-Division “Peace and Democracy; Human Rights; United Nations”. He studied urban and regional planning at “Technische Universität Berlin” and then attended the 13th Training Course of the German Institute for Development in Berlin. www.bmz.de

Ndichia Tilder Kumichii is Program Coordinator for Gender Empowerment and Development (GeED) a Non-Governmental Organisation seated in Cameroon and also a Development Consultant. She has a background in sociology and is currently working in the field of Gender and Human Rights. She has ten years of experience working on gender and related concepts. Tilder Kumichii has been actively involved in promoting women's participation in governance over the last few years in Cameroon.

Prof. Norbert Lebalé is Chief of the Africa Section in the Research and Policy Analysis Branch at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He was the Research Team Leader for the preparation of the UNCTAD Report on Economic Development in Africa "Strengthening Regional Economic Integration for Africa's Development" (2009). He was Coordinator for technical assistance in the Division on International Trade in Goods, Services and Commodities (DITC). Previously, he was Regional Coordinator and Chief Technical Advisor for West Africa for WTO/UNCTAD/ITC Joint Integrated Technical Assistance programme in selected least developed and other African countries (JITAP). He also worked as Coordinator of the Coordinated African Programme of Assistance in the area of Services (CAPAS) to assist African Governments in their participation in international trade negotiations and was Coordinator for Technical Assistance to the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in the re-negotiations of the Lomé Convention. www.unctad.org 4

Franz Marré is. Head of Division “Water, Energy, Urban Development” since January 2007. He joined the Federal Ministry of Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) in February 1989 after having studied Law in Bonn and worked as a part time assistant at the Institute for Public International Law (University of Bonn). Franz Marré has broad work experience in bilateral development cooperation with assignments as Senior Desk Officer for Indonesia, as Head of Section for Development Cooperation at the German Embassy, Pretoria, and as Desk officer for Peru, Ecuador and Colombia). He has experience in multilateral cooperation (among other secondment to the Interamerican Development Bank in Washington, D.C., USA), and internal organization (Deputy Head of BMZ Organization division). www.bmz.de

Dr. Miria Matembe is Governance Director of the Centre for Women in Governance (CEWIGO). A lawyer by profession, Hon. Dr. Matembe has over 25 years of experience in legal and human rights work, parliamentary practice and government business. She was a member of the National Parliament of Uganda for 17 years, a Cabinet Minister for Ethics and Integrity from 1998 to 2003 and a pioneer member of the Pan African Parliament. In 1990 she was Deputy General of the Pan-African Congress held in Kampala. In 1995 she was a member of the Constitutional Court that created the Ugandan Constitution. She was the former chairperson of Action for Development, Uganda’s leading women’s advocacy organisation, which she cofounded. She has been a lecturer on law and English at the Chartered Institute of Bankers also in Kampala. www.cewigo.org

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Joanna Maycock has been with ActionAid International (AAI) since 2002 and has been Europe and New Countries Manager since May 2008. She has been an elected member of the CONCORD Board since 2006. At AAI, she is responsible for the association and affiliation of other organisations to AAI, participates in its organisational development and growth and leads the negotiations and integration of existing organisations across a range of issues. At CONCORD, she previously presided the Working Group on Funding for Development and Relief and was AAI representative on the Policy Working Group. From 1994 to 2002, Joanna Maycock worked on EU policies and funding in the field of migrants´ rights and migrant trafficking at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). www.actionaid.org

Jürgen Maier has been Director of the German NGO Forum Environment & Development in Bonn and Berlin since 1996. Between 1993 and 1996 he was the Director of the German Asia Foundation in Essen and a member of the German Green Party’s National Executive Committee from 1987 to 1991. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of the German Asia Foundation, of the Board of the Climate Action Network as well as of the Steering Committee of the German Climate Alliance and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. www.forum-ue.de

Gerda Meuer worked as a journalist in various countries for more than 15 years before she became managing director of DW-AKADEMIE. She started her career as a correspondent for the development oriented news agency Inter Press Service, in Bonn, with several postings in Latin America. She worked for Deutsche Welle's news service before moving to Tokyo as a foreign correspondent. After her return to Germany she became head of DW-RADIO's German-language service, and was also deputy editor-in-chief from 1999. From August 2000 onwards, Gerda Meuer worked as European Affairs and NATO correspondent at DW-RADIO's Studio Brussels. She returned to Bonn in mid-2003, where she took over management of the newly-formed DW-AKADEMIE. www.dw-world.de 6

Roelof Plijter is in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Trade the Adviser on Development and EPAs since January 2009. He studied political science at the University of Amsterdam and, after his military service, he joined the Ministry of Transport and Public Works in The Hague. In 1980, he entered into the Commission’s Services where he held various positions in the Directorate-General for Transport, and since 1993, in the Directorate-General for Trade. In 1998, he became Head of Unit responsible for Trade & Environment, Sustainable Development and relations with civil society, and between 2002 and 2007 he occupied the same position dealing with trade issues related to steel, coal, shipbuilding, automotive and other industries. Europa.eu

Prof. Dr. h. c. Christa Randzio-Plath is Vice Chairperson of VENRO. She works as a lawyer, is an advisor to the European Commission and a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and the College of Europe in Hamburg. Since 1984, she has been President of the Marie-Schlei Association, an NGO giving financial support to women´s projects in third world countries. From 1989 to 2004 she was a member of the European Parliament. During her period in the European Parliament, she was a speaker on trade issues for the PSE, the SPD delegation’s spokeswoman on economic, taxation and monetary issues policy in the European Parliament and a member of the ASEAN delegation. From 1999 on she was Chairwoman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. www.venro.org

Ute Schaeffer has been Head of the Deutsche Welle Channels for Africa/Near East since 2006 and Head of DW-RADIO/French since 2005. From 2001-2005, she directed the Ukrainian Channel of DWRADIO. Previously, she had been Desk Editor of the Central-Eastern Europe Editorial Office. Between 1996 and 1999, she was Desk Editor of the Central Editorial Office for Politics/Business. During her career with Deutsche Welle, regions she visited included North and West Africa, South Africa, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Georgia. www.dw-world.de

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Michael Steeb has been Managing Director of the Association for Development Cooperation (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe AGEH e.V.) since 2000. In addition, he is Chairman of the Arbeitskreis Lernen und Helfen in Übersee (AKLHÜ e.V.) and the Exposure and Dialogue Programme (EDP e.V.). He was a development aid worker in Tanzania and Rwanda for eight years, also as Director of the RwandaRhineland-Palatinate House of Partnership. From 1993 to 1998, he was Country Director of the German Development Service (DED) in Benin and, later on, DED consultant at its Berlin offices. Since 2005, he has been Spokesman for the VENRO Working Group on European Development Policy. www.ageh.de

Karin Ulmer is currently working as Policy Officer at APRODEV based in Brussels. APRODEV is the Association of 17 major protestant or World Council of Churches related development and humanitarian aid organisations in Europe. Her main focus is on EU Trade/Agriculture and EU Gender policies. Her particular focus is on the EU-ACP trade negotiations of economic partnership agreements. She previously worked for WIDE network – Women in Development in Europe, and with EFIL − European Federation for Intercultural Learning and Youth Action for Peace. Her activities have focused on, among others, on European Voluntary Service Programmes and placements including training on intercultural learning. She has been involved in Euro-ArabDialogue under the auspice of the Council of Europe. www.aprodev.net

Dr. Claudia Warning was elected chairperson of the Association of German Development Non-Governmental Organisations (VENRO) in December 2005, after being vice chairperson of the board for four years. She is a member of the board of the Church Development Service (EED) based in Bonn and heads the department “International Programmes”, which promotes development projects in over 80 countries worldwide. She studied in Bonn and Pune (India) and holds a Phd in Geography. Claudia Warning has gained experience in the field of development cooperation in different governmental and non-governmental institutions, such as the German Foundation for International 8

Development (DSE, now InWEnt), the German Commission Justitia et Pax / Exposure- and Dialogue Programme as well as the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, where she was in charge of bi- and multilateral co-operation in the field of urban development. www.venro.org

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