Africa-Europe Foundation

Annette Ssemuwemba is an international development professional with over 20 years of experience in developing and executing corporate strategic initiatives aimed at improving trade competitiveness. In her current role, she implements sustainable solutions to address institutional and productive capacity constraints in 47 least-developed countries. Prior to that, as Chief Strategy and Results Officer for the multi-million Aid for Trade initiative, she worked across Eastern Africa, designing and implementing strategic interventions to address trade, transport and logistics challenges and increase trade competitiveness.

Mateu Turró is a renowned academic who recently retired as Professor of Transport at the UPC in Barcelona. He was previously Associate Director of EIB, responsible for the evaluation of transport and urban projects. He developed the LOGISMED a network of multimodal logistic platforms to connect North-African countries among themselves and with the EU. Turró is widely published on transport and urban issues, including on plurinational transport megaprojects (for IADB), governance and evaluation, and on project financing issues. He developed a methodology to assess redistribution and intergenerational effects. He also assisted the European Commission in several Committees and is presently advising the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA).