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The International Marketing Council, custodians of Brand South Africa in association with Brand Leadership Academy is proud to host the inaugural Brand Africa FORUM 2010, a one day summit of pan-African decision makers in media, business & economy, and nation branding. The FORUM aims to leverage and extract sustainable learnings of the successful 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa to shape the image of Africa, and to set an agenda to drive the reputation, image and competitiveness of Africa.

This seminal event will enable African decision makers and leaders of Africa’s Top 500 corporations, media and nation brands, to interact and address issues and opportunities catalytic to the success of brand Africa.

The panels will feature, among other global and African thought leaders and decision makers including:

Shaping the image of Africa with Thebe Ikalafeng

Dambisa Moyo, former Goldman Sachs economist, author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa, and director of Barclays Bank Plc and SABMiller Plc, Simon Anholt, the leading authority on managing and measuring national identity, policy advisor to over 40 governments, and author of Brand New Justice and Brand America, Anver Versi, editor of African Business & African Banker, Trevor Ncube, Executive Deputy Chairman of Mail & Guardian Media Group, and CEO’s of leading African nation brands, Mathias Akiota (Ghana), Lolu Akinwunmi (Nigeria), Miller Matola (South Africa), Mary Kimonye (Kenya) and Jacob Nkate (Botswana).

The Brand Africa FORUM 2010 will be broadcast to 41 sub-saharan African countries on CNBC Africa, the leading business channel on DStv reporting on business in Africa from an African perspective.