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** “ENTREPRENEUR LED DEVELOPMENT: A NEW MODEL FOR AFRICA” BY CHAIRMAN TONY ELUMELU
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Tuesday
May 12, 2015
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Lohrfink Auditorium
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Mr. Elumelu serves as chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited, chairman of affiliated company, Transcorp, Nigeria’s largest listed conglomerate, and is the creator of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, dedicated to catalysing entrepreneurship across Africa.

In his early career, Mr. Elumelu turned the financially distressed Standard Trust Bank into a top-five financial services player in Nigeria. In 2005 he led the largest merger in the banking sector in sub-Saharan Africa, acquiring United Bank for Africa –UBA today operates in 19 Africa countries, as well as New York, London and Paris.

In 2010, he founded Heirs Holdings Limited, an African investment holding company with investments in financial services, power, oil and gas, agribusiness, real estate and hospitality. In the same year he established The Tony Elumelu Foundation, an Africa-based and funded philanthropy, dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship in Africa.

Mr. Elumelu is the author and leading proponent of the philosophy “Africapitalism,” which advocates the private sector’s commitment to Africa’s development through long-term investment in strategic sectors of the economy that drive economic prosperity and social wealth.

In 2003, the Federal Government of Nigeria conferred the national honour of Member of the Federal Republic (M.F.R.) on Mr Elumelu. In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious National Honour of; Commander of the Order of the Niger (C.O.N.) for his service in promoting private enterprise. In 2013, Mr. Elumelu received the Leadership Award in Business and Philanthropy from the Africa-America Institute Awards. He was also named African Business Icon at the 2013 African Business Awards.

Mr. Elumelu presently serves as a member of the USAID’s Private Capital Group for Africa Partners Forum. He sits on the Nigerian President’s Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council and serves as Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute Dialogue Series on Global Food Security. He played a leading role in the formation of the National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria and now serves as its vice chairman. He chairs the Ministerial Committee to establish world-class hospitals and diagnostic centres across Nigeria, at the invitation of the Federal Government.
This event is brought to you by the Georgetown University Office of the President, the African Studies Program and the Global Human Development Program in the School of Foreign Service, and the McDonough School of Business Entrepreneurship Initiative.

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