"African Development Bank named to the board of World Business Angels Investment Forum"

" \n The World Business Angels Investment Forum today announced the African Development Bank as its newest Board Member. In this capacity the Bank will represent Africa\u2019s early-stage equity markets, entrepreneurship and startup ecosystems, small and medium enterprises and high-growth businesses, angel investors, and private equity funds. Abdu Mukhtar, the Bank\u2019s Director of Industrial and Trade Development, will occupy the Bank\u2019s Board seat. \u201cWe are delighted to have the African Development Bank Group as a global board member of the World Business Angels Investment Forum,\u201d said Baybars Altuntas, WBAF\u2019s Executive Chairman. \"I am confident that by including AfDB, WBAF will be able to provide a wide range of opportunities for start-ups, scaleups and high growth businesses in Africa\u2014ones that will open the doors for economic development. By working together across borders, with a common vision, and with these smart dynamics in mind, we are well placed to bring about positive change in the Africa and global economy,\u201d he stated further. WBAF promotes access to finance for businesses from start-up to scale-up, with the goal of generating more jobs and social justice worldwide. The Forum engages with a wide range of institutions to help shape the global agenda. The African Development Bank is Africa\u2019s preeminent Development Finance institution, and the only one with a Triple A credit rating. The Bank fights poverty and works to improve living conditions on the continent by promoting public and private capital investment in projects with the potential to drive regional economic and social development. The Bank has 81 shareholders: fifty-four regional member countries and 27 non-African countries.\u00a0 As of November 2019, the bank had a capital base of $208 billion. \u2018I am excited about joining the WBAF Board and am quite impressed by its vision. Support for innovation, entrepreneurship and SME development is very important to us, especially since these areas are directly linked to some of our development objectives, including job creation and women empowerment,\" said Director Mukhtar. \"I look forward to working with the experts on the WBAF Board to advance these objectives. I am sure WBAF and AfDB will create a great impact in the startup, angel investment and SME markets of Africa. The ultimate goal is to produce more jobs and social justice in Africa,\u201d he added. WBAF is a partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), a platform for G20 members, interested non-G20 countries, and relevant stakeholders to advance financial inclusion, and implement the G20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan. Other\u00a0 board members include Abdulaziz N. Al-Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Development Bank;\u00a0 Dr. Abdul Malek Al Jaber, President, Middle East Business Angels Network (MBAN); Dr. Hashim S. Hussein, Head of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization \u2013 Investment & Technology Promotion Office (UNIDO-ITPO) and Prof Dr Inderjit Singh, Co-president, World Entrepreneurship Forum (WENF). \u201cI welcome Dr Abdu Mukhtar to the Board, and I look forward to working with him in our mutual efforts to ease access to smart finance to create more jobs and more social justice worldwide. I believe AfDB\u2019s efforts to convert the world and Africa economy to a smart economy in cooperation with the World Business Angels Investment Forum will be very productive,\u201d said Altuntas. He added, \u201cWBAF is committed to collaborating globally to empower the economic development of the world by fostering innovative financial instruments for startups, scaleups, innovators, entrepreneurs and SMEs and to promoting gender equality and women\u2019s participation in all sectors of the world economy.\u201d \n "

"African Development Bank named to the board of World Business Angels Investment Forum"

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