Professor Emmanuel Nnadozie, Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (a specialised agency of the African Union), Harare, Zimbabwe, is to deliver the 2022 edition of The Bullion Lecture. Prof. Nnadozie is an educator, economist, author and development expert whose work, spanning over 35 years, has impacted sustainable growth and development in Africa.
The author of African Economic Development (Second Edition), Africa at the Crossroads of Globalization, and dozens of other peer-reviewed journal articles and publications, he is well known in African Peer Review Mechanism ((APRM) and New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) circles, having led the United Nations coordinated support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme. He also led the production of the well acclaimed annual Economic Report on Africa from 2004 to 2013 as well as the Least Developed Countries Monitor, the geo-spatial monitoring tool which helps countries monitor their implementation of the Brussels and Istanbul Programmes of Action and contributed to Africa’s participation in the G8 and G20 processes.
As Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of ACBF – a major pan-African institution among the AUC, AfDB, Afreximbank and ECA – Professor Nnadozie is responsible for conducting the business of the Foundation in line with its vision and mission. He has maintained strong and strategic partnerships and working relationships with African governments, civil society organisations and the international development community.

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