Professor Herbert Vilakazi talks about rural development at the Rural Development Colloquium held at the Protea Hotel Edward on13-14 June 2013 which was hosted by the Ingonyama Trust Board and the Ingonyama Rural Development Forum Secretariat, Ingabadi Group.

Prof Herbert Vilakazi

Inkosi Sbonelo N. Mkhize
AbaMbo Traditional Council: Hlatikhulu, UThukela District, KwaZulu-Natal
Chairmain: UThukela Local House of Traditional Leaders
Convener: Economic Development Portfolio Committee of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial House of Traditional Leaders

Here he chairs one of the break-away sessions held at the end of day one of the Rural Development Colloquium held at the Protea Hotel Edward on13-14 June 2013 which was hosted by the Ingonyama Trust Board and the Ingonyama Rural Development Forum Secretariat, Ingabadi Group.

Inkosi Sbonelo Mkhize Introduction

Inkosi Sbonelo Mkhize Introduction 2

Head of Durban Investment & Promotion Agency (DIPA)

Mr Russel Curtis

Ms Swati Ganeshan, is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Agreements, Legislation and Trade in Resources, Regulation and Global Security Division of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India

Ms Swati Ganeshan - An Indian Perspective

Mr Qi was a Michael Huffington Junior Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. He intensively studied international climate change negotiations with a focus on major emerging economies. His research interests also extend to energy security, environmental politics and economics. Xinran was an NGO observer with the United Nations Foundations to COP16 at Cancun in 2010. Prior to that, he was a Research Associate at the Atlantic Council of the United States and the World Resources Institute. He holds a master’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in international politics from Sun Yat-sen University and is currently a case manager at Kroll Risk & Compliance Solutions.

Mr Xinran Qi - A perspective on China

Francis Kornegay is a Senior Research Fellow in the Emerging Powers programme. He has Masters Degrees in African Studies from Howard University and in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins. Kornegay served two stints in the US Congress as a professional staffer, among other things, developing financial sanctions legislation on South Africa. He established the Research and Evaluation Unit for the African Development Foundation, an independent US agency. In South Africa, he served as the country director of the African-American Institute (AAI) and was involved in electoral support activities. Since then, among other things, he has focused on South-South co-operation issues on which he has written and published extensively. He managed a Ford Foundation-funded project on IBSA and has organised seminars on IBSA both in South Africa and India. In Brazil, he presented a paper on South Africa as an emerging power and will present another on IBSA, BRIC and South-South co-operation at a Stellenbosch seminar in September 2010. In 2009, he authored the Global Insight on ‘South Africa’s South-South Dilemmas: Will a BRIC fall on IBSA.

Mr Francis Kornegay - A South African Perspective

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