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Program 2017

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Tuesday 13 June 2017

08:00 Registration
08:55 Welcome Remarks
09:00 Welcome address
* Afriyie Owusu – Chief Executive Forestry Commission Ghana
09:15 A New Type of Forest Finance: The Ghana Public Private Partnership
* Rik Sools – Deputy Director Form International
* Paul Hol – Executive Director Form International

* Richard Fusi – Senior Investment Officer Private Sector Department African Development Bank
10:00 Discussion & questions
10:30 Networking Break
11:00 Plantation Forestry in Africa: An Operational Perspective
* Pieter van Zyl – CEO York Timbers
* Erik Knive – CEO Green Resources

* Finn T. Jacobsen – CEO African Plantations for Sustainable Development (APSD)
* Robert Nabanyumyah – Consultancy Uganda
* George Asamoah Amankwah – Private Afforestation Developers Organisation (PADO)
12:40 Discussion & questions
13:10 Lunch break
14.10 Forest Products Markets in Africa: Demand & Supply
* Paul Ankrah – Principal Winniwood Consulting
* Juho Penttilä – Consultant Indufor
14:50 Discussion & questions
15:10 Networking Break
15:40 Forestry Regulations & Industrial Strategy: A Governance Perspective
* Vincent Awotwe-Pratt – Consultant Biodiversity Heritage Associates
* Prof. Dan Ofori – Chairman of Forest Plantation Investment Forum

* Dr. Daniel Ofori – Director CSIR Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
16:40 Discussion & questions
17:00 End of day 1
17:30 Reception

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Wednesday 14 June 2017

08:55 Welcome Remarks
09:00 Mobilising Capital: A Finance Perspective
* Mads Asprem –  Director NewAfrica
* Alhassan Andani – CEO Stanbic Bank
* Jim Heyes – Managing Director Criterion Africa Partners
* Paul Jacovelli – Forestry Investment Advisor UNIQUE GmbH
* Gareth Phillips – Chief Climate Change & Green Growth Office AFDB
10:40 Discussion & questions
11:10 Networking Break
11:40 Plenary Discussion: Tackling the Key Finance, Regulatory, Market and Operational Barriers to Forest Sector Development in Africa
13:00 Close of the Conference followed by lunch

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