Featured Speakers
Fernando Clavijo Batlle
President & Head of Government, Canary Islands
Dr. Fred Olayele
Principal Investigator and Convener, TFi4SD
Dorothy Gordon
Chair, Inter-Governmental Council UNESCO-Information for All Programme
Pedro Ortega Rodríguez
Minister of Economy, Industry, Trade and Knowledge, Government of the Canary Islands
Jeff Finkle
President, International Economic Development Council, United States
Antonio Morales Méndez
President, Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Johanna Odonkor Svanikier
President & CEO, Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa, Ghana
Augusto Hidalgo
Mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Honourable Memunatu Pratt
Minister of Tourism & Culture, Sierra Leone
Aaron Shull
Managing Director, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
Amine Laghidi
President, National Commission of Capital and Intangible Economy, Morocco
Luis Padrón López
Director, Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Fabio Yukio Yamada
General Manager (South America), Castlepines Investment Group, London, U.K.
Thomas Svanikier
Executive Chairman, Svani Group, Ghana
Dr. Isaias Barreto da Rosa
Commissioner for ICT, Economic Community of West African States, Cape Verde
Dr. Courtney Doagoo
Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
Dr. Erika Kraemer Mbula
Associate Professor, South African Research Chairs Initiative, University of Johannesburg
Patricio Azcárate
Secretary-General, Responsible, Tourism Institute, Canary Islands, Spain
Dr. Michel Rod
Associate Dean, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada
Pablo Martín Carbajal
General Director, African Affairs, Canary Islands Government
Dr. Cristiana Oliveira
Rector, Universidad Europea Canarias, Canary Islands
Dr. Richard Clouet
Vice-Rector, Internationalization and Cooperation, University of Las Palmas, Canary Islands
Louis Kouakou
Division Manager, Economic and Social Statistics, African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Cosme García Falcón
Managing Director, Corporation for the Economic Development of Gran Canaria (SPEGC), Canary Islands