MES Africa 2019: Heiner Flassbeck & Cedric Achille Mbeng Mezui

45:30 Cedric Achille Mbeng Mezui: Domestic Resources Mobilization And Industrialization.

Debate Moderated by Arndt Hopfmann

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Heiner Flassbeck studied economics at the University of Saarland


(Saarbrücken) from 1971 to 1975. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics


at the Free University of Berlin in 1987 on a dissertation on money,


credit, business cycle theory and the philosophy of science. In 2005,


he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Hamburg.


Flassbeck was a researcher at the German Council of Economic Experts


in Wiesbaden from 1976 to 1980. He worked as a researcher at the


Federal Ministry of Economics in Bonn until 1986 and served as chief


macroeconomist at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)


in Berlin from 1988 and 1998. Flassbeck became State Secretary (Vice


Minister) in the Federal German Ministry of Finance from 1998 to


1999 (under Oskar Lafontaine). He was responsible for international


affairs, the EU and the relations with the IMF. Flassbeck worked for


the UNCTAD in Geneva from 2000 onwards. From 2003 to 2012,


he was Director of the Division on Globalisation and Development


Strategies. He was the principal author of the team that prepared


UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report. The unit was specialized


in macroeconomics, exchange rate policies and international finance.


He was observer at the G20 Finance Ministers meetings from 2010


to 2012. Since January 2013, Heiner Flassbeck has been Director


of Flassbeck-Economics, a consultancy for global macroeconomic


questions

Cedric Mbeng Mezui is an international officer, economist, financial


analyst, and founding member of the think tank Finance Afrika.


The think tank works on fundraising efforts, building capital markets,


financing infrastructure and economic and financial reforms covering


some 40 African countries over the past decade. He is also the author of


some twenty articles on capital markets and infrastructure financing, as well


as four books, the last two of which are (1) Financing Africa – densifying


local financial systems (2017), and (2) Unlocking Africa’s potential – ideas


by Alexander Hamilton (2019), both published by Editions Saint-Honoré


(France). He participated in several high-level conferences throughout


Africa and abroad, including Bercy, Sciences Po, Paris Europlace, London


Business School, Harvard Business School, etc. In 2017, Financial Afrik


Magazine named him «Financial of the Year» and African Business


Magazine named him one of Africa’s growth leaders. He holds a Master’s


degree in Banking and Financial Engineering from ESC Toulouse.