Closing speech Ton Dietz at AfricaWorks Conference

ASCL director Ton Dietz gave a closing speech at the end of the two-day international conference AfricaWorks! 2016 in Amsterdam, which was a big success. The theme of this year's conference was Innovation in Finance. In his speech, Dietz highlighted the fact that we need to look not only at matters like access to finance, finance for SMEs and finance for development, but also at finance and integrity. He announced that the ASCL has the intention to appoint a Professor in Finance and Integrity. He furthermore pointed to the fact that African business people are looking at Asia more and more, and concluded by saying that Africa can no longer be ignored, given its demographic development and its young, urban, well informed and eager population.

Ton Dietz's presentation.

You may also be interested in reading the opening speech by Klaas Knot, director of De Nederlandsche Bank.