• Moderator: Buchiza Mseteka, Founder & chief Executive Officer, Leriba Risk Ltd.
• Presenter: Patrick Guillaumont, President of Ferdi and Professeur emerite a l'Universite d'Auvergne
• Presenter: Abdoulaye Bathily, Former Minister of Environment, Member of Parliament, Dakar, Senegal
• Presenter: Ola Smith, Professor of Animal Production and Health and Technical Adviser to the Director-General of the International Trypanotolerance Centre, Banjul, The Gambia
• Presenter: Kofi Andah, Regional Manager, AMSCO, Nairobi Office
• Panelists: Paul Van Aalst, Director, E+Co, Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Panelists: Matheiu Badolo, Direcor, Institut d'applications et de vulgarisation en seciences
• Panelists: Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University

• Chair: Ginette P. M. Camara, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Chad
• Paper 1 - Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: What consequences for populations's health? - Alassane Drabo, University of Auvergne, France

    Discussant: Ousmane Gajigo, Statistical Economist, African Development Bank

• Paper 2 - Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Assessing the impact of Agro-pastoral projects on the Productivity of Farmers's Organisations: The Case of Cameroon - Pierre Nguetse Tegoum, Tebila Nakelse and Issaka Ouedraogo, Min. of Econ Planning, Cameroon / Min. of Agriculture, Burkina Faso.

  Discussant: Gamal Ibrahim, Economic Affairs Officer, Governance and Public Administration Division, Uneca

• Paper 3 - Extensification versus Intensification: Revisiting the Role of Land in African Agricultural Growth - Guy Blaise Nkamleu, African Development Bank, Tunis.

  Discussant: Maurice Tankou, Chief, Agricultural, Marketing & Support Services Section, FSSD, UNECA

• Chair: Sibry Tapsoba, Manager Special Projects, Office of the Chief Economist, African Development Bank
• Paper 1 - Fuzzy Indicator of Sustainable land Management and its correlates in Osun State, Nigeria - Abayomi Oyekale, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

  Discussant: Hoseana Bohela Lunogelo, Executive Director, ESRP, Uganda

• Paper 2 - Do Climatic Shocks matter for Food Security in Developing Countries? - Felix Badolo and Somlanare Romuald Kinda, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Developpment ,

  Discussant: Zuzana Brixiova, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Swaziland

• Paper 3 - The Rhythm of the Rains: Seasonal Effects on Child Health in the Gambia - Ousman Gajigo and Benjamin Schwab, African Development Bank, Tunis / University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA

  Discussant: Kwabia Boateng, Chief, NEPAD Section, EDND, UNECA 

• Moderator:  David Batt, Director, Africa Partnership Forum Support Unit, OECD
• Presenter: Maxwell Mzekwalamba, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union Commission
• Presenter: Moustapha Gueye, Ag. Head, Green Economy Advisory Unit, UNEP, Geneva
• Panelist: Esther Agbarakwe, African Regional Coordinator, Youth and Children Major Group, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, UNCSD
• Panelist: Carine Kiala, Executive Clients Coordinator, LCF and Associate, Angola
• Panelist: Babatunde Sofoluwe, Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
• Panelist: Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Professor of Economics, University of South Florida, USA

• Presenter: José Pineda, UNDP Human Development Report Office, New Yorlce, UNDP

    Discussant: Ferdinard Bakoup, Lead Economist, Regional Department West Africa A, African Development Bank
  Discussant: Moustapha Gueye, Ag. Head, Green Economy Advisory Unit, UNEP, Geneva                 Discussant: Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Professor of Economics, University of South Florida, USA

• Chair: Emmanuel Nnadozie, Director, Economic Development and NEPAD Division, UNECA
• Presenter: Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda
• Presenter: O. Ajakaiye, Former Director of Research, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
• Panelist: Una Osili Okonkwo, Director of Philanthropy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
• Panelist: Amita Misra, Director, Bureau for Regional Programmes, Programme Devpt & Technical Cooperation, UNIDO, Vienna
• Panelist: Leonce Ndikumana, Professor of Economics, University of Massachussetts, USA
• Panelist: Abdoulie Sireh-Jallow, Lead Economist, Country Division 3, Operations Complex, Islamic Development Bank

• Chair: Isiyaka Sabo, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Burkina Faso
• Paper 1 - Determinants of Income Poverty in Rural Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Nigeria - Steven Onyeiwu and Jialu Liu, Department of Economics, Allegheny College, USA

    Discussant: Guy Blaise Nkamleu, Principal Post Evaluation Officer, African Development Bank

• Paper 2 - Assessing Capacity Building and Good Governance Indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications for Poverty Reduction - Theodore Davis Jr., Department of Political Science, University of Delaware, USA

  Discussant: Bartholomew Armah, Chief, MDG/LDCs, EDND, UNECA

• Paper 3 - Livelihood strategies in rural South Africa: Implications for poverty reduction - Zerihun Alemu, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg.

  Discussant: Adrian Gaucci, Economic Affairs Officer, UNECA

• Chair: Stephen Karingi, Director, Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade Division, UNECA
• Paper 1 - Monitoring Household Coping During Shocks: Evidence from Kenya and the Phillipines - Shantanu Mukherjee and Shinavi Nayyar, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP / Economic Consultant

  Discussant: Daniel Zerfu Gurara, Senior Research Economist, African Development Bank

• Paper 2 - Subjective Wellbeing, reference groups and relative standing in post-apartheid South Africa - Marisa Coetzee, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

  Discussant: Ginette P. M. Camara, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Chad

• Paper 3 - The Food price Spikes of 2008/09 and 2010/11: Country-level impacts and policy responses - Pedro Conceicao, Sebastian levine and Zuzana Brixiova, UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, New York / UNDP Country Office, Swaziland

  Discussant: Barbara Barungi, Lead Economist, African Development Bank

• Chair: Victor Murinde, Director African Development Institute, African Development Bank
• Paper 1 - Recent African Growth: What Changed, What's Matter? - Abdoul Mijiyawa, African Centre for Economic Transformatiom, Accra, Ghana

  Discussant: Samuel Mwakubo, Research Manager, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya

• Paper 2 - Econometric Determinants of Liquidity of the Bond Market: Case Study of South Africa - Sylvanus Ihenyeni Ikhide and Forget Mingiri Kapingura, Department of Economics, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa.

  Discussant: Elvis Mtonga, Economic Affairs Officer, MAS, EDND, UNECA

• Paper 3 - FDI and Financial Market Development in Africa - Issouf Soumare, Isaac Otchere and Pierre Yourougou, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada./ Laval University

  Discussant: Omneia Helmy, Deputy Director for research, ECES, Egypt

• Master of Ceremony: Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director, African Centre for Gender and Social Development, UNECA
• Speaker: Professor Achille Mbembe, Former Executive Secretary and Professor of Political Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa