Ambassador Jendayi Frazer Former Assistant Secretary of African Affairs, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa studies at the CFR. She was the special assistant to the president and senior director for African Affairs at the NSC and was the first US Ambassador to South Africa. She was the first at the Pentagon as a [...]

Ambassador Cindy Courville Former US Ambassador to the African Union was the special assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the NSC where she helped craft US policy towards Africa. Ambassador Courville worked at the National Security Council, Defense Intelligence Agency and Office of the Secretary of Defence and [...]

Florie Liser Florie Liser is the President and CEO of Corporate Council on Africa and is the first woman to lead the Council since 1993. Before Presiding CCA, she was the Assistant US Trade Representative for Africa where she led trade and investment policy towards 49 sub-Saharan African countries and oversaw the implementation [...]

Witney Schneidman Has 40 years of experience working across Sub-Saharan Africa and is the current senior international advisor for Africa at Covington & Burling LLP. Witney was the co-chair of the Africa Experts Group and a member of the Presidential Transition Team. During the Clinton Administration, Witney served as deputy assistant secretary of [...]

Ambassador David Shinn Ambassador David Shinn is a Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. Ambassador Shinn is an American Diplomat who has served for 37 years in the United States Foreign Service with assignments in Lebanon, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Cameroon, and Sudan and was a [...]

Dr. Mohamed Camara Dr. Mohamed Camara is the Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Howard University. Dr. Camara was the Director of Mc Nair Scholars Program, Speaker of the Faculty Senate and Associate Vice President for Academics at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. Dr Camara has authored several books and [...]

Gregory Simpkins Gregory Simpkins is the Executive Director of the African Merchants Association. Before going into the private sector, Gregory worked for the government as a Senior Advisor in the Africa Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) focusing on trade and helping with the operational management of the Trump’s [...]

Frank Samolis Frank Samolis is the Co-Chair of the International Trade Practice. He advises clients on International trade matters, including trade law, trade policy and legislation, and International trade negotiations. Frank handles matters before the Office of the US Trade Representative, other Executive Branch Trade agencies, the US International Trade Commission, US Court [...]

Dr. Joseph N. Sany Joseph N. Sany is the Vice President of the newly established Africa Center. For the past 20 years, Joseph has been working on peacebuilding with civil society, governments, businesses and international organizations in Africa. Prior to joining USIP, Joseph provided technical leadership in the design and implementation of multi-year, [...]

Koffi Alle Koffi Alle is a Senior Advisor to the International Monetary Fund’s Executive Director representing 23 Sub-Saharan African countries at the IMF Board. In that capacity since 2006, he has been assisting African government authorities in negotiating IMFsupported programs and in implementing growth-enhancing economic reforms. He has also contributed to designing the [...]