​​​​​​Sovereign debt restructuring.
Future sustainable investments in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A two part webinar organised by the Berne Union Sub-Saharan Africa Working Group
will take place on 4 November 2021 14:00-16:00 GMT London time


The first part of the webinar will focus on Sovereign debt and debt restructuring in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Robert Besseling, CEO, Pangea - Risk

Benjamin Mugisha, Chief Underwriting Officer, ATI
Benoit Fugah, Head: Political, Economic Analysis and Research, ECIC SA

The second part will address export credit and investment insurers’ framework, policies, and engagement with sustainable investments in addition to investors’ own view and framework.

Sarvesh Suri, Director for Climate, Energy and Finance, MIGA, will bring a climate business angle and talk about implementing WBG’s new Climate Change Action Plan.
Lotfi Zairi, Lead of Business Unit - Sovereign Underwriting, Underwriting Department, ICIEC
Lisa Pinsley
, Head of Africa for Actis’ Energy Infrastructure Team, which is a global investor in sustainable infrastructure, will talk about their business as investors in sustainable infrastructure in Africa. 


                Moderated by Christina Westholm-Schroder, Vice President of the Berne Union (and Chief Underwriter and SVP, Sovereign Risk Insurance)

Dial in link in MS Teams will be sent to all registered participants one hour before the scheduled start time