Dr. Linwood Tauheed served as the chair of the Monetary Integration and Delinking Strategies panel at the third African Monetary and Economic Sovereignty (MES) Conference. The 2024 conference was held October 9-11 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ndongo Samba Sylla (IDEAs), Kai Koddenbrock (Bard College Berlin), and Ibrahim Aïdara (Open Society-Africa) rounded out the panel on the final day of the conference.
The conference brought together prime ministers, presidential advisors, academics, ambassadors, public policy experts, development economists, and independent researchers to discuss the climate crisis, illicit financial flows, industrial policy, and a pan-African approach to economic development.
More information about the conference can be found here and a video of the panel can be found here.