The Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario, is hosting a series of roundtables to rethink and reconstitute Canadian and African relations in light of the shifting global order. The three roundtables will be on Critical Minerals, Digital Sovereignty, and Food Value Chains and Food Security. The roundtables will bring together leading African and Canadian scholars, policymakers, and thought leaders to discuss several key issues we believe are at the heart of a new agenda.
This first roundtable will focus on the development of Critical Minerals Supply Chains.
We hope you will join us for this important and timely discussion, the outputs of which we will share with individuals in the federal government considering new pathways for international engagement with Africa.
SPEAKERS
Andrew Grant, Associate Professor, Queen’s University
Brian Klein, Assistant Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies; Assistant Professor of Program in the Environment, University of Michigan
Claude Kabemba, Executive Director, Southern Africa Resource Watch
Fikayo Akeredolu, Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Nimrod Zalk, Chief Research Officer, Climate and Development, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
Olusola (Shola) Ogunnubi, Doctoral Candidate, Queen’s University
Pádraig Carmody, Professor of Geography, Trinity College Dublin; and Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
Sara Ghebremusse, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Teddy Samy, Professor of International Affairs and Director, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
AGENDA
8:00 – 8:30 am EST – Welcome & Introductions by Ann Fitz-Gerald & Chair Howard SteinÂ
8:30 – 9:30am EST – Session 1: International Relations and Opportunities: Understanding the Constraints on Supply Chains and Strategic (Re)AlignmentÂ
9:30 – 9:45am EST – Break
9:45 – 10:45am EST – Session 2: From Extraction to Value AdditionÂ
10:45 – 11:00am EST – Break
11:00 – 12:00pm EST – Session 3: Governance, Communities and the Just Transition
12:00 – 12:15pm EST – Closing RemarksÂ
