Akshay Mathur, Director of Research and Fellow, Geoeconomics Studies at Gateway House attended the T20 Conference in Johannesburg from the 1-3 February 2017, titled “Africa and the G20: Building alliances for sustainable development”. The T20 Africa Conference brings together opinion leaders from think tanks and universities in Africa and the G20 countries as well as high-level policy-makers from Germany, South Africa, international and African regional organisations. The key objective of the conference is discussing options about what future cooperation between the G20 and Africa could and should look like. The conference addresses priorities of the German G20 Presidency and explores potential follow-up by future G20 presidencies in order to support a more long-term and sustainable cooperation between Africa and the G20.
The Johannesburg T20 Africa Conference on Africa’s and G20’s potential to further the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is part of the official T20 programme during the German G20 presidency. The event was organized by the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the T20 Germany Co-chairs (German Development Institute / DeutschesInstitutfürEntwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)). It also draws on DIEs MGG and SAIIA’s GEGAFRICA networks.