Paul Walsh

CEO, Diageo

HE Paul Boateng

British High Commissioner to South Africa

Stuart Fletcher

President, Diageo International

Thaninga Shope-Linney

General Manager, Communications and Marketing, New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

Dr Mohamed Ibrahim

CEO, Celtel

HE Christopher Kolade

Nigerian High Commmissioner to UK

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

Executive President, African Business Roundtable

Peter Woicke

Former Executive President, International Finance Corporation

Sue Adkins

Director, Business in the Community

Anver Versi

Editor, African Business (IC Publications)

HE Christopher Kolade

"When a place has not been in the news positively for a long time, what tend to come out are impressions that are created by people who go in briefly and come out quickly. Those who have invested lots of money and are doing business in Africa don't seem to have the time to publicise what they do. So what you get still are a lot of negative images and this is why there is this poor image. But the reality on the ground for those who have actually tried their hand at business in Africa - in particular many of the international companies that have invested in Africa - is that they tend to be putting more and more money in, which means that their real hard experience tells them that it is land of opportunity."

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