Aviation Africa Summit: Dzifa Aku Attivor to deliver keynote address 

Aviation Africa 2015 Summit opens on the 10th of this month with the Minister of Transport, Dzifa Aku Attivor, delivering the Keynote Address.  

She is one in a long list of top-level industry speakers, delegates and experts who will share ideas and experiences with their Middle Eastern counterparts to bring Africa’s inevitably pivotal role in the future of aviation front and centre. 

The two-day event, held under the patronage of President of Dubai’s Department of Civil Aviation and Chairman of Emirates Airline, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed al Maktoum, has been established to forge a crucial dialogue among the aviation industry’s leading stakeholders on the social, economic and political benefits to be gained from wide-range improvements to the aviation industry. 

Assistant Director General for Strategy and International Affairs, of the UAE’s civil aviation authority Al Muhairi says Aviation in Africa currently supports more than 6.9m jobs and over eight hundred billion dollars in GDP across African nations. 

This according to him could be better through the effective liberalisation of just 12 key markets, including Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.

Speakers confirmed from African and Middle East airlines already include Girma Wake, Chairman RwandAir (formerly CEO, Ethiopian Airlines); Yves Naninque, CCO ECAir; 

Many other CEOs and COOs are attending including Africa’s leading cargo operator Astral Aviation, South African Airlines and Daallo Airlines. 

The event also features an exhibition with over 40 companies including Boeing, Jeppesen, African Open Sky, Ethiopian Airlines and Astral Aviation. 

GBC