The Africa Progress Panel (APP) was a Swiss-based foundation that was aimed at changing the

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through analysis,

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and

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History

After the Gleneagles G8 Summit in July 2005 and the Commission for Africa Report earlier that year, the Africa Progress Panel was formed through a UK Government initiative. Following the publication of the final report, the Panel reported that it had ceased its operations at the end of 2017.

Structures

The panel was chaired by former

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Secretary-General

Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder a ...

, and, during its existence, it consisted of the following members: *

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– former Prime Minister of

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. * Michel Camdessus – former Managing Director of the

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. * Peter Eigen – founder and Chair of the Advisory Council at

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. * Bob Geldof – musician, founder, and Chair of Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8, Co-founder of

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. * Graça Machel – President of the Foundation for Community Development. * Strive Masiyiwa – founder of Econet Wireless. * Linah Mohohlo – governor of

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. *

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– former President of Nigeria. * Robert Rubin – Council on Foreign Relations and former Secretary of the United States Treasury. * Tidjane Thiam – Chief Executive Officer, Crédit Suisse. Timeline ImageSize = width:600 height:200 PlotArea = width:405 height:175 left:100 bottom:20 Alignbars = justify DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/2007 till:30/12/2016 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy Colors = id:a value:rgb(1,0,0) legend:Members Legend = orientation:horizontal position:bottom ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:2007 gridcolor:black PlotData = color:blue width:7 textcolor:black align:left anchor:from bar:Annan from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Blair from:start till:30/12/2010 bar:Camdessus from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Eigen from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Geldof from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Machel from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Mohohlo from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Rubin from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Thiam from:start till:30/12/2016 bar:Yunus from:start till:30/12/2011 bar:Masiyiwa from:01/01/2012 till:30/12/2016 The Geneva-based secretariat was a non-profit foundation under Swiss law. The Panel's work was supported by a secretariat established in 2008.

Publications

Africa Progress Reports

The Africa Progress Reports were an annual publication of the Africa Progress Panel. The 2012 Africa Progress Report was launched in

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, United Kingdom, on 8 May 2014 by Kofi Annan, Tidjane Thiam, Bob Geldof, Peter Eigen, and Caroline Kende-Robb. The launch of the 2012 Africa Progress Report was covered by ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Financial Times'', and '' African Business''. As part of the launch, Executive Director Caroline Kende-Robb and Panel Member Olusegun Obasanjo were interviewed for the video series '' This Is Africa''. The 2013 Africa Progress Report was launched at the

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on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, on 8 June 2013 by Kofi Annan, Linah Mohohlo, and Strive Masiyiwa.Africa Progress Report 2013
The 2015 Africa Progress Report was launched in

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, South Africa, on 5 June 2015 by Caroline Kende-Robb, Graça Machel, Linah Mohohlo, and Michel Camdessus.

References

{{Authority control Foundations based in Switzerland International development in Africa Organizations established in 2007