AdminHarvard University’s Africa Development Conference (ADC), an annual summit on Africa’s development and transformation, has selected Professor Kingsley Moghalu, President and Vice-Chancellor of the African School of Governance (ASG), as its Keynote Speaker for the ADC 2025 summit on April 11-12.
During the event taking place at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Prof. Moghalu will deliver a keynote address on the conference theme, “Africa by 2040: The Future of African Youth”.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelThe ADC, in its invitation to Professor Moghalu, said: “The theme for ADC 2025 raises an urgent question: Will Africa’s rapidly growing youth population be an asset or a liability – a force for transformation or a challenge to overcome? Dr. Moghalu, your distinguished leadership in economic governance, monetary policy, and financial inclusion makes you an ideal keynote speaker for ADC 2025. As the President of the African School of Governance, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and a presidential candidate, your expertise in economic transformation, leadership, and nation-building aligns seamlessly with our theme. Your insights would be invaluable to our discussions.”
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Each year, the ADC, founded by students of African descent at Harvard Law School and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard Kennedy School) draws over 500 attendees and features more than 50 thought leaders from various institutions including heads of state, policymakers and influential figures, to share strategies and foster collaborations for sustainable development in Africa.
Professor Moghalu was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of the African School of Governance in October 2024. Co-founded in 2024 by Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and Hailemariam Desalegn, former Prime Minister of Ethiopia in collaboration with a network of African academics, philanthropists and senior policymakers, ASG is a pan-African, graduate-level university of public policy envisioned to build a generation of African leaders that will transform governance in the continent, equipped by an ASG education with the mindsets, knowledge and skills to tackle Africa’s challenges and opportunities in the 21st century.
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The new institution, headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, will offer Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) degrees to mid-career professionals from across Africa beginning September 2025, as well as Executive Education short courses of 3 days to 2 weeks duration for leaders and executive management in governments, private sector and the social sector.
ASG was established with funding by the Mastercard Foundation and a strategic partnership with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. The institution aims to provide a world-class education, research and policy engagement with an emphasis on an African worldview and narrative, home-grown solutions to governance and leadership challenges, and teaching and learning in an Africa-specific context that is practical and relevant to the continent’s realities.
Kingsley Moghalu’s career trajectory includes 17 years in the international civil service of the United Nations with strategic assignments at duty stations at the UN Secretariat Headquarters in New York, Cambodia, Croatia, Tanzania, and Switzerland, the private sector as the Founder of the risk and strategy advisory firm Sogato Strategies, serving as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and in academia as Professor of International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, and later founding the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a public policy think tank.
Professor Moghalu obtained a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (LSE), a master’s degree at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the LL.B. at the University of NIgeria, Nsukka, and is an alumnus of executive education at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Wharton, and Columbia Business School among others. He has authored several books including the critically acclaimed Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy’s Last Frontier Can Prosper and Matter.
