Elumelu to Drive African Private Sector Agenda at the 2015 World Economic Forum

Tony O. Elumelu, Nigerian business leader and philanthropist, will be a leading voice highlighting the African private sector agenda at the upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF).

Elumelu has been invited to speak on several high-level panels and will host key events during the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, themed “The New Global Context.”

WEF 2015 will gather more than 2,500 participants from 140 countries, hundreds of journalists, an estimated 40 heads of state, and other politicians. An estimated 1,500 business leaders from the world's top global companies will also be in attendance.

WHY: Africa is engaging more strategically and proactively than ever before at WEF. At a time when new leadership is required to address increasingly complex and interlinked global problems; a new set of people are stepping up to contribute.

The complex, volatile, interconnected nature of the world’s economies and societies, means that Africa can be both the source and the solution to many of these issues.