Dr. Olumide Abimbola

Executive Director Africa Policy Research Institute

Dr. Olumide Abimbola is a political economist and director of APRI – Africa Policy Research Institute, a Berlin-based African think tank. His areas of focus include climate adaptation, climate finance, trade policy, regional integration, and natural resources management. He has either conducted research or worked in Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, and Nigeria. He has also worked with high-level government officials in several other African countries.

Before APRI, he worked at the CONNEX Support Unit, a GIZ-hosted, G7 initiative funded by the German government and the European Commission. Prior to that, he worked on trade and regional integration at the African Development Bank.

Olumide currently sits on the International Board of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) at the University of California, Irvine, and is Member, Policy Working Group, at the Institute of Humanities in Africa (HUMA) of the University of Cape Town. He has graduate degrees from Uppsala University in Sweden and Martin Luther University in Germany. He did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany.

2024 Agenda Sessions

DISRUPTIVE DISCUSSION-African Development Bank

Empowering African mining in an era of disruption: The role of development finance and support organisations

•   Gain insights into the current investment landscape in African mining, including opportunities, challenges, risk factors, and potential areas for growth and diversification.
•   Policy options for creating Africa’s demand for EV products.
•   Innovative ways of financing segments of the BEV (battery electric vehicle) value chain (for example, role of DFIs like the AfDB and the WB. Financial instruments available, funding mechanisms, risk mitigation strategies, etc.).
•   Understanding the impact of policies and regulatory frameworks on the African mining sector.
•   Available support from institutions to improve governance of the BEV value chain.

Tuesday 06 February 14:40 - 15:40 Disruptors Stage

Disruptive Discussions

Add to calendar 02/06/2024 14:40 02/06/2024 15:40 DISRUPTIVE DISCUSSION-African Development Bank

Empowering African mining in an era of disruption: The role of development finance and support organisations

Disruptors Stage Africa/Johannesburg

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