Date: Tuesday 3 February 2015
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Mthuli Ncube
Chair: Professor Alnoor Bhimani

Professor Mthuli Ncube, Chief Economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank, will look at the challenges facing leaders who must identify development needs and priorities for an entire, rapidly evolving continent. He will discuss the future of Africa and the global opportunities this brings, as well as his own experience of being an entrepreneur in Africa.

Mthuli Ncube (@MthuliNcube) is the Chief Economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank and Professorial Research Fellow at Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Finance from Cambridge University. Before joining the bank, he was Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also Chairman of the Global Agenda Council on “Poverty and Economic Development” (World Economic Forum) and a Governor of the African Capacity Building Foundation.

Alnoor Bhimani is Director of LSE Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management Accounting at LSE.

LSE Entrepreneurship (@LSEship) runs a series of lectures, short courses, networking platforms and debates that explore entrepreneurship's extreme potential for change.

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