OPENING SESSION:

Chair
Saul Levin (TIPS)

Opening Panel
Rasmus Lema (SARChI, UJ)
Pamela Mondliwa (IDC)
Cheryl Hendricks (NMS)

• Presentation: Regulating International Trade in a Fragmenting Global Economy: Implications for Industrial Policy and Trade in Africa - Edna Kabala
• Presentation: The AfCFTA, US Tariffs, and China’s Strategic Role in Global Trade - Michael Weluzani
• Presentation: Trade Fragmentation, Geopolitical Shock, and African Industrial Policy - Zamokwakhe Somhlaba for Frontline Africa Advisory
• Paper: Regulating International Trade in a Fragmenting Global Economy: Implications for Industrial Policy and Trade in Africa - Shimukunku Manchishi, Kalemba Mpandamwike and Edna Kabala
• Paper: The AfCFTA, US Tariffs, and China’s Strategic Role in Global Trade - Michael Weluzani
• Paper: Trade Fragmentation, Geopolitical Shock, and African Industrial Policy: AfCFTA, US Tariff Activism and Systemic Risk - Zamokwakhe Somhlaba

• Presentation: AfCFTA Tariff Liberalisation and Fiscal Stability: A SMART Simulation Analysis of Revenue Implications for SACU - Leseko Makhetha
• Presentation: Pressure and Policy Response: South Africa’s Horticulture Trade with SADC, the EU and the USA - Gillian Chigumira
• Presentation: Trade under Duress: Assessing South Africa’s Trade Diversification towards China in Response to U.S. Tariff Actions - Godfrey Kamutando
• Presentation: Integrated Compliance Systems as Industrial Policy Infrastructure: Supporting AfCFTA Regional Value Chains and Industrial Development in Southern Africa - Makibinyane Thoso
• Paper: Trade under Duress: Assessing South Africa’s Trade Diversification towards China in Response to U.S. Tariff Actions - Godfrey Kamutando, Vincent van der Westhuizen and Matthew Stern
• Paper: Integrated Compliance Systems as Industrial Policy Infrastructure: Supporting AfCFTA Regional Value Chains and Industrial Development in Southern Africa - Makibinyane Thoso

• Presentation: Rethinking Industrial Policy in Africa: Inclusion, Employment and the Limits of Growth-Led Strategies - Dale Trimble
• Presentation: Industrial Policy Under Constraint: Monetary Instability and the Limits of Industrialisation in Southern Africa - Gerald Macheka
• Presentation: Industrial Policy Space and WTO Reform: An Indian Perspective within the Developing Country Framework - Kanika Karwal
• Presentation: The Implications of New Approaches to Industrial Policy for Economic Growth and Industrial Development: A Multi-Country Comparative Study with Lessons for South Africa and Africa Under AfCFTA - Nicholas Mudungwe
• Paper: Rethinking Industrial Policy in Africa: Inclusion, Employment and the Limits of Growth-Led Strategies - Dale Trimble
• Paper: Industry Policy Under Constraint: Monetary Instability and the Limits of Industrialisation in Southern Africa - Gerald Macheka
• Paper: The Implications of New Approaches to Industrial Policy for Economic Growth and Industrial Development: A Multi-Country Comparative Study with Lessons for South Africa and Africa - Nicholas Mudungwe

• Presentation: Leveraging Industrial Policy-Related Factors for Economic Diversification: Evidence from Zambia - Kiru Sichoongwe
• Presentation: Reframing Industrial Policy in Africa: Inclusive Energy Transitions, Equity and Community-Based Industrialisation - Nomthandazo Mpande
• Presentation: Botswana’s Post-Diamond Industrialisation: New Directions for Trade-Resilient and Gender-Transformative Diversification in Southern Africa - Natasha Phuthego
• Paper: Leveraging Industrial Policy-Related Factors for Economic Diversification: Evidence from Zambia - Kiru Sichoongwe
• Paper: Reframing Industrial Policy in Africa: Inclusive Energy Transitions, Equity and Community-Based Industrialisation - Nomthandazo Mpande
• Paper: Botswana’s Post-Diamond Industrialisation: New Directions for Trade-Resilient and Gender-Transformative Diversification in Southern Africa - Natasha Phuthego

• Presentation: Beyond the Factory: A Macro Reassessment of Industrial Policy and Economic Growth in the Era of Artificial Intelligence in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ndirangu Ngunjiri
• Presentation: South Africa’s Trade in AI-Related Goods: Patterns and Policy Implications - Vincent van der Westhuizen
• Presentation: Industrial Policy for a Digital Economy: Incentivising Fibre Infrastructure to Support Inclusive Industrialisation in South Africa - Marc Ashton OBO of Albert Oosthuysen
• Paper: Beyond the Factory: A Macro Reassessment of Industrial Policy and Economic Growth in the Era of Artificial Intelligence in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ndirangu Ngunjiri
• Paper: South Africa’s Trade in AI-Related Goods: Patterns and Policy Implications - Vincent van der Westhuizen
• Paper: Industrial Policy for a Digital Economy: Incentivising Fibre Infrastructure to Support Inclusive Industrialisation in South Africa - Albert Oosthuysen

• Presentation: Institutional Coordination in South Africa’s Electric Mobility Transition - Brandon Davoren
• Presentation: Industrial Policy and Technological Upgrading in Electronics Manufacturing: Lessons from Vietnam, India and Ethiopia for South Africa - Nozipho Ziqubu
• Presentation: Innovation Without Industrialisation: Scientific Capability, Weak Business Embedding and Manufacturing Divergence in South Africa - Sandile Mbatha and Yogesh Gupta
• Presentation: Thinking Outside the Box: How Rwanda and Tanzania are Using Industry Policy to Foster Structural Transformation - Steve Onyeiwu
• Paper: Institutional Coordination in South Africa’s Electric Mobility Transition - Brandon Davoren, Nathan Fredericks and Nicholas Brooks
• Paper: Industrial Policy and Technological Upgrading: Lessons from Asia and Africa - Nozipho Ziqubu
• Paper: Innovation Without Industrialisation: Scientific Capability, Weak Business Embedding and Manufacturing Divergence in South Africa - Sandile Mbatha
• Paper: Thinking Outside the Box: How Rwanda and Tanzania are Using Industry Policy to Foster Structural Transformation - Steve Onyeiwu and Yogesh Gupta

• Presentation: Green Industrial Policy in Africa: Pathways for Climate-Resilient Structural Transformation - Piera Wanjau
• Presentation: Designing Fiscal and Industrial Policy for South Africa’s Green Hydrogen Industry: Making Public Support Conditional on Delivering Decarbonisation and Industrial Development - Nokuthula Mokgele
• Presentation: Green Growth through Industrial Policy Budgets: The Case of the South Africa's DTI(C) - Glen Robbins and Nishal Robb
• Presentation: Regionalizing "Green" Transition Minerals for Structural Transformation in Africa - Gideon Ndubuisi, Elvis Avenyo, Solomon Owusu and Woubet Kassa
• Paper: Green Industrial Policy in Africa: Pathways for Climate-Resilient Structural Transformation in a Fragmenting Global Economy - Piera Wanjau
• Paper: Designing Fiscal and Industrial Policies for South Africa’s Green Hydrogen Industry that Achieve Domestic Decarbonisation and Industrial Development Goals - Nokuthula Mokgele
• Paper: Green Growth through Industrial Policy Budgets: The Case of the South African Department of Trade and Industry - Glen Robbins and Nishal Robb
• Paper: From Extraction to Transformation: Africa’s Green Transition Minerals and the Path to Beneficiation and Upgrading - Gideon Ndubuisi, Elvis Avenyo, Solomon Owusu and Woubet Kassa

• Presentation: Building a Just Future: Policy Solutions for South Africa’s Coal Workforce Transition – Insights from Global Experience - Simbarashe Mhaka
• Presentation: Social Movement Unionism, Just Transition and Green Industrial Policy - Chere Monaisa
• Presentation: Green Industrial Policy: What It Means for South Africa - Michael Hector
• Presentation: Green Transition and Strategic Dependency: Governance of the EV Battery Value Chain in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Eric Lubangu Muamba
• Paper: Building a Just Future: Policy Solutions for South Africa’s Coal Workforce Transition – Insights from Global Experience - Simbarashe Mhaka
• Paper: Social Movement Unionism, Just Transition and Green Industrial Policy - Chere Monaisa
• Paper: Green Industrial Policy in the South African Context - Michael Hector
• Paper: Green Transition, Strategic Dependency and the Limits of Industrial Upgrading: Governance of the EV and Battery Value Chain in the Democratic Republic of Congo - Eric Lubangu Muamba

• Presentation: Climate-Induced Floods and Trade Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa - Canicio Dzingirai
• Presentation: Green Roads, Broken Budgets: How Decarbonisation Threatens the Fiscal Foundations of Road Maintenance in Southern Africa - Angelo Macuacua
• Presentation: Gas Roadmap for South Africa: An Industry-Led Pathway to Regional Industrialisation, Energy Security and Growth - Jaco Human
• Paper: Climate-Induced Floods and Trade Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa - Canicio Dzingirai, Nixon Chekenya and Emeriya Manzote
• Paper: Green Roads, Broken Budgets: How Decarbonisation Threatens the Fiscal Foundations of Road Maintenance in Southern Africa - Angelo Macuacua
• Paper: Gas Roadmap for South Africa: A Strategic Pathway to Secure, Sustainable and Diversified Gas Supply for Industrial Growth and Energy Transition - Jaco Human

• Presentation: Linking Industrial Policy to Local Impact: The Atlantis Community-Industrial Nexus in Action - Selwyn Willoughby
• Presentation: Green Special Economic Zones as Catalysts for Sustainable Reindustrialisation in Africa: Lessons from the Atlantis Special Economic Zone for Green Technology - Tariro Chivige
• Presentation: The Quality of Public Services as a Determining Factor for Investment Attractiveness in the Nacala Special Economic Zone, Mozambique - Amelia Machava
• Presentation: Digitally Enabled Industrial Parks and Financing Ecosystems: Rethinking Place-Based Industrial Policy Transformation in Africa - Anthony Kamau
• Paper: Linking Industrial Policy to Local Impact: The Atlantis Community-Industrial Nexus in Action - Selwyn Willoughby
• Paper: Green Special Economic Zones as Catalysts for Sustainable Reindustrialisation in Africa: Lessons from the Atlantis Special Economic Zone for Green Technology - Tariro Chivige
• Paper: The Quality of Public Services as a Determining Factor for Investment Attractiveness in the Nacala Special Economic Zone, Mozambique - Amelia Machava
• Paper: Digitally Enabled Industrial Parks and Financing Ecosystems: Rethinking Place-Based Industrial Policy Transformation in Africa - Anthony Kamau

SESSION 11: CLOSING PANEL DISCUSSION

Implications of the changing geopolitical, technological and economic environment for industrial policy in Africa over the coming decade

• Faizel Ismail (AfCFTA Advisory Council)
• Elvis Avenyo (SARChI)
• Neva Makgetla (TIPS)

Closing
Saul Levin