THEME: Optimizing Partnerships and Local Content Development for Recovery and Growth

Local content development in Africa’s energy and infrastructure sectors experienced significant growth especially in the past decade, as indigenous companies and home-grown players now have a significant share of the market from the traditional foreign multinationals, largely due to the implementation of local content frameworks and policies across the continent. Experts have opined that energy and infrastructure, in all its forms, will be the cornerstone of Africa’s re-emergence from COVID-19. Therefore, as Africa continues to grapple with the uncertainties and disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Africa will need to increasingly embrace and escalate local participation and strategic partnerships to recover better and stronger, and minimize the impacts of future disruptions and shocks.

 African Leadership Magazine is, therefore, putting together the 4TH Africa Energy and Infrastructure Forum (AEIF) 2021 to bring together policymakers, private sector leaders, Industry Titans, civil society leaders, and all stakeholders during this Summit to explore ways Africa can maximize the full value of local content requirements for sustainable post-COVID 19 economic recovery, while focusing on what is needed to unlock investments in African energy and infrastructure for regional growth and development. Most assuredly, the summit will be a platform that will connect local and international oil companies, institutional investors, and private equity firms, and all actors across the entire energy and infrastructure value chain, to push forward with commitments and business deals that would power the African economic recovery.

Summit Highlights

1. Keynote and Paper Presentations.
2. Oil & Gas CEOs Roundtable Session.
3. Private sector leaders & Policy Makers Interactive Session.
4. Launching the inaugural edition of the African Energy & Infrastructure Year Book.
5. Presentations to the “Top 50 Africa Oil and Gas Local Development Champions”.

Target Audience

1. Ministers of Petroleum 
2. CEO/VP/Board/Directors of Energy and Infrastructure companies in Africa.
3. Consultants and strategic change managers
4. Heads of Strategy and Technology
5. Academics, R&D professionals, industry experts
6. Finance players, and Afro-centric funds, VC Funds,
7. Trade Unions in Oil and Gas
8. Oil and Gas service providers and local content developers

About African Leadership Magazine:

The African Leadership magazine is published by African Leadership (UK) Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom (Company No. 07435198). The magazine focuses on bringing the best of Africa to a global audience, telling the African story from an African perspective; while evolving solutions to peculiar challenges being faced by the continent today.

Since its maiden edition, African Leadership Magazine has grown to become a leading pan-African flagship leadership-focused publication read by targeted international investors, business executives, government policymakers, and multilateral agencies across Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Europe, and the US. It is distributed at major international and African Leadership events around the world. The magazine has over 900,000 subscribers/Followers on Facebook alone and a virile readership on other social media platforms. It is a niche and unbiased African voice, telling African stories from African lenses.