The "COVID-19 and Afri ca" webinar series is hosted by the L iu Institute Network for Africa (LINA) at the School of Public Policy a nd Global Affairs\, University of British Columbia. LINA is a graduate stud ent-led multidisciplinary policy\, academic and community research network\ , with faculty\, postdoctoral\, student\, professional and community member s. The previous webinars in the “COVID-19 and Africa” series have examined African responses to COVID-19 across the public health\, food security and education sectors.
LINA will be hosting another webinar exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on socioeconomic development across Africa\, and the m easures that are necessary for the post-pandemic recovery. The webinar will take place on Wednesday\, September 30 from 9:00 am–10:30 am Pacific Time (Vancouver)\, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm GMT (Abidjan)\, and 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm East Africa Time (Addis Ababa and Nairobi) over Zoom. Panellists fr om international organizations\, Kenya and Nigeria will speak to the webina r theme at the continental\, regional\, or national levels.
O pening remarks: Professor Santa Ono\, UBC's 15th President and Vic e-Chancellor
Moderator: Dr. Sara Ghebremusse\, Assis tant Professor\, Peter A. Allard School of Law\, UBC
Speakers :
Speakers’ Bios:
Dr. David Luke
David Luke is Coordinator of the Af rican Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) wi th the rank of a director at the Commission. He is responsible for leading ECA's research\, policy advisory services\, training and capacity developme nt on inclusive trade policies and in particular the boosting intra-African trade and the continental free trade area initiatives. His portfolio also includes WTO\, EPAs\, Brexit\, AGOA\, Africa's trade with emerging economie s\, and trade and cross-cutting policy areas such as trade\, industrializat ion and structural transformation\, trade and gender\, trade and public hea lth and trade and climate change.
Prior to joining ECA in 2014\, he s erved as UNDP trade policy adviser in Southern Africa and Geneva and also a s Senior Economist and Chief of Trade at the Organization for African Unity /African Union Commission\, and as an Associate Professor at Dalhousie Univ ersity in Halifax\, Canada.
Ms. Amanda Dakouré
Amanda Dakouré is a Canadian qualified lawyer with over ten years of professional experience with the Canadian government\, international law firms and international o rganisations. Based in Abidjan for the past four years\, she currently hold s the position of Senior Legal Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel at the African Development Bank Group where she provides legal advice to s tatutory bodies of the institution.
Prior to joining the Bank Group\, Ms. Dakouré was an Associate in International Arbitration at White & Case LLP in Paris where she provided legal advice in both international commerci al and investment disputes.
Ms. Dakouré holds a LL.M. from the London School of Economics where she specialized in International Business Law. S he also holds a LL.B. and B.Soc.Sc. in Economics from the University of Ott awa where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Law Review from 2009-2010.< /p>
Prof . Damilola Olawuyi
Damilola S. Olawuyi is a Professor\, Depu ty Vice Chancellor\, Chancellor’s Fellow and Director of the Institute for Oil\, Gas\, Energy\, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES Institu te)\, Afe Babalola University\, Nigeria. He is also an Associate Professor of Law at HBKU College of Law\, Doha\, Qatar.
A prolific and highly r egarded scholar\, Professor Olawuyi has practiced and taught law in Europe\ , North America\, Asia\, Africa and the Middle East. He has served as a vis iting professor at Columbia Law School\, New York\, China University of Pol itical Science and Law and senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford In stitute for Energy Studies. In 2019\, he was a Herbert Smith Freehills visi ting professor at Cambridge University. He was formerly an international en ergy lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP where he served on the firm ’s global committee on energy investments in Africa. He has delivered lectu res on energy law in over 40 countries. Professor Olawuyi has published clo se to a hundred articles\, book chapters and books on petroleum law\, energ y and international environmental law. His most recent book publications in clude The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance (Cambridge Universi ty Press\, 2016) and Extractives Industry Law in Africa (Springer\, 2018). Professor Olawuyi serves on the executive committees and boards of several organizations. He is Vice Chair of the International Law Association\; co-c hair of the Africa Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (2016-2019)\; and member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Internat ional Bar Association’s Section on Energy\, Environment\, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy.
Professor Olawuyi holds a doctorate (DPhil) in energy and environmental law from the University of Ox ford\; a master of laws (LL.M.) from Harvard University\; and another LL.M. from the University of Calgary. He has been admitted as Barrister and Soli citor in Alberta\, Canada\; Ontario\, Canada\; and Nigeria. Professor Olawu yi is a regular media commentator on all aspects of natural resources\, ene rgy and environmental law.
Caroli ne Saroni (formerly Caroline Kago)
Caroline Saroni is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya with over fourteen years’ experience in the practice of law. She has taught law at one of the leadin g public law schools in Kenya since 2009 as well as published several artic les in the area of regional integration\, trade and investments law and pub lic participation.
Caroline currently serves as the Chairperson of th e Advocates Complaints Commission. She is also a Tobacco Control Technical Legal Expert for the WHO-Regional Office for Africa.
In March 2020\, Caroline was appointed by the Honorable Attorney General to the legal cell of the National Multi Agency Command Center – COVID 19 (NMACC-Kenya) to rep resent the Office of the Attorney General and Department of Justice.
Caroline is a member of the McCabbe Centre for Law and Cancer (Melbourne\, Australia) International Alumni Network and the Leading in Public Life: Wom en\, Influence Power Programme Alumni Network under the Nelson Mandela Scho ol of Public Governance\, University of Cape Town.
Moderator’
s bio:
Dr.
Sara Ghebremusse
Dr. Sara Ghebremusse is an Assista nt Professor at the Allard School of Law. She writes\, researches\, and tea ches in the areas of African law and society\, law and development\, mining governance in the global south\, human rights\, and transnational law. She has published in all these fields and has presented her research at confer ences in Canada\, Germany\, Kenya\, Mexico\, South Africa\, and the United States. Dr Ghebremusse supervises graduate students in subjects related to her research and teaching interests. She is a member of UBC Black Caucus.
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