Panel Discussion: Africa’s Transformation Journey in the 21st Century

Africa’s Transformational Journey in the 21st Century
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 10:45 am-1:15 pm
Feliciano School of Business – 101 and Zoom:
https://montclair.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMufu6urj8pE9Mq8TO9y761uIOMBQRM3kVE

This hybrid event is a collaboration among MSU’s Research on Interdisciplinary Global Studies (RIGS) faculty network members from the Feliciano School of Business (Management) and College of Humanities and Socials Sciences (Political Science & Law, Religion, and World Languages & Cultures). Students and faculty members will engage with a panel of Africa experts in a discussion of the opportunities and challenges the continent faces as countries work toward meeting the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals.

Guest speakers include Dr. Alan Gelb, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, Zemenay Lakew, a consultant with more than thirty years experience working for the United Nations in Africa, the Caribbean, and New York, and Andrea Walther-Puri, currently Visiting Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies at the School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University after five years with the State Department’s Bureaus of African Affairs and Counterterrorism. Funded by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.