Arun Kumar 2019 Speaker

Principal Investment Officer

African Development Bank Group, Cote d'ivoire

Biography

My role is to drive the private sector funding in education and healthcare sectors across the continent at African development bank.

African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. The Bank’s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth. In order to sharply focus the objectives of the Ten Year Strategy (2013 – 2022) and ensure greater developmental impact, five major areas (High 5s) have been identified to accelerate delivery for Africa, namely; energy, agro-business, industrialization, integration and improving the quality of life for the people of Africa.