Dr. Edem Adzogenu

Dr. Edem Adzogenu is an accomplished investment facilitation, government affairs and international crisis management specialist for global investors and businesses across Africa, Asia and Middle East, Europe and North America. His global experience ranges from advising African Heads of State, Fortune 500 companies, G7 countries and African regional institutions, to helping resolve disputes over investments in war-threatened regions. Adzogenu has been at the forefront of ground-breaking initiatives to promote public-private partnerships and a stronger role for the African private sector in regional and continental integration. Under his leadership, AfroChampions has grown into an influential regional public-private partnership platform that partners the African Union and several regional institutions to drive African integration and transformation. He championed the landmark “Trillion Dollar Private Sector AfCFTA Investment & Financing Framework” in support of AfCFTA Implementation. The Framework was officially endorsed by African Heads of State in their Summit Decision at the February 2020 Summit in Addis Ababa. He is currently leading the AfroChampions team to operationalise the Framework which aims to facilitate up to one trillion dollars’ worth of investments into AfCFTA-accelerated cross border projects in Africa by 2030.