Africa’s Potential : The role of the young African leaders in advancing AfCFTA

• Florence School of Transnational Governance

The School of Transnational Governance (STG) organises high-level lectures by leading experts addressing Africa's specific challenges. Speakers will cover a wide range of topics, including governance, peace and security, democracy, gender, digital policy, economics, sustainability, and migration.

Dr. Joy Kategekwa join the Africa's Potential series to discuss the current state of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA).

Dr. Joy Kategekwa is the Regional Strategic Advisor to Asst. Administrator and Director, for the Regional Bureau Africa at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She served as head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ) Regional Office for Africa, leading delivery of the organization’s trade capacity building programmes across Africa. She is an international trade and development law and policy specialist and has spent the last 16 years shaping development-friendly trade agreements at both the World Trade Organisation and in Regional contexts. She is one of the architects of the African Continental Free Trade Area, having led technical teams in designing the draft legal negotiating instruments for the AfCFTA.

The event is part of the Africa's Potential series, carried out at the School of Transnational Governance, as part of the Young African Leaders Programme (YALP) funded by the European Commission, and is open to the EUI community, YALP alumni and the YALP network. 

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