Speaking Engagements
Engage with my dynamic insights and perspectives through my international speaking engagements and diverse media appearances.
December 2023
- Virtual: Keynote Speaker, C40 Cities, CFO Network – Strengthening Sub-National Financial Intermediaries
- Virtual: Panellist, United Nations Project on Governance – Strengthening Municipal Finance and Finance Systems
November 2023
- Kigali, Rwanda: Keynote Speaker, Commonwealth Local Government Forum – Accessing Debt, Investment and Green Finance
- Marrakech, Morocco: Keynote Speaker, Africa Investment Forum – From Millions to Billions: Financing the Development of African Cities
- Johannesburg, South Africa: Panellist, South African National Treasury, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Development Action Group – Future of Land Value Capture in South Africa
October 2023
- Virtual: Speaker, Friedrich Eberts Stiftung: Financing the Just City in Africa
June 2023
- Virtual: Keynote Speaker, Development Action Group and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy – How Legal Interpretation Hinders or Helps Land Value Capture: Case-Studies from Africa and Beyond
- Nairobi, Kenya: Moderator, Local Government Revenue Initiative – Building Public and Political Support for Reform: Insights from Experience and Research
- Nairobi, Kenya: Panellist, Local Government Revenue Initiative – Property Tax Challenges to Reform
May 2023
- Virtual: Discussant, Habitat for Humanity Europe and the Middle East – Financing Informal Area Upgrading through Land Value Capture
- Bahrain: Speaker, Prime Minister’s Office Fellowship Programme
- Marrakech, Morocco: Speaker, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, OECD, UCLG-Africa, Cadi Ayyad University- Land Use Policy and Data
April 2023
- Berlin, Germany: Speaker, German Bundestag – Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
March 2023
- Podcast: Panellist, Ufahamu Africa, Episode 167: A conversation with Prince Guma, Astrid Haas, and Patience Mususa on urban Africa
- Beirut, Lebanon: Presenter, City Urban Labs
- New York, USA: Presenter, Charter Cities Institute and New York University, New Cities – Cities for All (Not Just the Privileged Few)
February 2023
- Paris, France: Panellist, OECD and Lincoln Institute for Land Policy – Expert Workshop on Land Value Capture Policies
January 2023
- TV Interview: Voice of America – Report: 100-year Coastal Floods in Africa Now Happen Every 40 Years
November 2022
- Virtual: Keynote, Oxford Urbanists – Africa’s Urbanisation: It’s Global Importance
- Virtual: Panellist, French Institute of International Relations – Geopolitics of Urban Infrastructure Financing in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Virtual: Panellist: COP27 – OECD Pavillion – Leveraging land value capture to achieve climate goals in cities
October 2022
- Dialogue: Friedrich Eberts Stiftung – Urban Justice Dialogue
September 2022
- Virtual: Panellist – Afriursa Fintech Summit – Financial Inclusion in African Cities
July 2022
- Interview: in The Independent Uganda – Kampala city needs green mass public transportation now
- Panel: United Nations Economic Comission for Africa – Virtual Report Launch: Cities: Gateways for Africa’s Economic Integration
June 2022
- TV Interview: CNBC Africa – Why Urbanisation is Africa’s Biggest Opportunity
- Kigali, Rwanda: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Keynote Presentation – Future Cities: Sustainable Urbanisation
- Kigali, Rwanda: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Panelist – Cities as Centres of Economic Growth and Securing Long Term Finance
- Kigali, Rwanda: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: Moderator – Leaving No One Behind
May 2022
- Davos, Switzerland: World Urban Forum SDG Lab: Panellist – Cities Not Camps
- Vienna, Austria: Economic Development Days: Presenter – Achieving the Promise of Cities that Work
- Kisumu, Kenya: Africities, Book Launch – Dynamics of Systems of Secondary Cities in Africa
March 2022
- Virtual: Panellist, OECD DevTalks, 21st Century Urbanisation and technology dynamics in developing countries
February 2022
- Podcast: Nordic Talks, Green and Liveable Cities
- Virtual: Panellist, Transforming Transportation Conference 2022, Building Resilience in Transport Project Design
January 2022
- TV Interview: Voice of America Straight Talk Africa, Urban Development and Informal Settlements
- Podcast: CSAE Research Podcasts, University of Oxford, Urbanisation in China and Africa
December 2021
- Kisumu, Kenya: Keynote, Kisumu Investment Conference 2021, Investing to Achieve the Promise of Cities that Work
- Virtual: Keynote, WITS-TUBS-UNILAG Urban Lab Summer School 2021, Achieving the Promise of (African) Cities that Work
November 2021
- Interview, Voice of America, World Reacts to New COVID Variant
- Glasgow: Panellist, COP26
- The Commonwealth and Prince’s Foundation, Call to Action for Sustainable Urbanisation
- African Development Bank and United Cities and Local Government Africa, City Action for Climate Finance and Resilient Infrastructure
- Alliance for Climate Action South Africa, Financing the Transition to Net Zero in South African Cities by 2050
- Nordic Development Fund, Green and Liveable Cities in Africa
- Virtual: Contributor, RTI International, The Idea Lab for Equitable Economic Development: Gallery of Voices
October 2021
- Virtual: Panelist, Royal Economic Society Discover Economics, Black History Month Event 2021
- Virtual: Chair, Innovate for Cities Conference, Unlocking the Potential of African Subnational Development Banks to Finance Africa’s Transition
September 2021
- Virtual: Panellist, World Resources Institute, Impact-Driven Investing in New Mobility Enterprises
- Virtual: Panellist, Coalition for Urban Transitions, Africa Climate Week: Financing Africa’s Urban Opportunity
- Virtual: Presenter, Bubble Bubble Gen Z Economics, Why Economics? The African City: Where Economic Principles Come to Life
- Virtual: Panellist, C40 Cities, African Finance Adaptation Academy
- Virtual: Speaker, African Tax Administrators Forum, 6th African Tax Research Network Congress on Maximising the Revenue Potential of Property Taxes through Digitisation
July 2021
- Virtual: Panellist, Coalition for Urban Transitions, African Cities and Built Environment Day: Seizing Africa’s Urban Opportunity
- Virtual: Panellist, C40 Cities, ICA Academy, Sustaining inclusive and equitable impacts – financing and safeguarding equitable access to green and just jobs.
- Virtual: Panellist, Commonwealth and Prince’s Foundation, Building a strong evidence-base for policy making and action in
June 2021
- Virtual: Panellist, New York University, Policy Roundtable: Inclusive Urban Development to Address Spatial Inequalities
- Virtual: Panellist, EARSC Exandeo 2021 Event, Illustrating country-driven and programmatic demand for satellite EO services from the perspective of International Financial Institutions
- Video Blog, ATAF The importance of property tax for rapidly urbanising cities
May 2021
- Virtual: Panellist, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and African Tax Institute Property Tax Conference, Property taxation and land value capture in Africa.
- Virtual: Panellist, Chatham House Making Urban Land Use and Housing Systems Work for Young People in Africa
March 2021
- Virtual: Contributor, United Cities and Local Government MOOC Introduction to Subnational Governmental Finances, Land Value Capture
- Virtual: Chair, ATAF ICTD Webinar Effective property valuation for tax purposes: Balancing precision and equity
- Virtual: Panellist, Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan Property taxation and innovative approaches
- Virtual: Chair, University of Toronto School of Cities Urban equitable resilience: Power structures, spatial justice and climate action
February 2021
- Virtual: Discussant, Book launch Tax Justice and Global Inequality
- Virtual: Discussant, SDG Bergen Conference Urban Pathways to SDG Success
January 2021
- Virtual: Presenter, St Paul’s Girls School, Achieving the Promise of Cities that Work
- Contributor, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Envisioning Climate Resilience
December 2020
- Interview, Clarin, El inicio de la fase operativa del AfCFTA enfrenta a África a viejos lastres
- Interview, FDI Intelligence, New cities to change African topography
- Virtual: Panellist, London School of Economics Maryam Forum How to lead better responses to global emergencies?
- UNECA Experts Group Meeting – Discussant, State of Urbanisation Report 2020 Cities: Gateways for Africa’s Regional Economic Integration
November 2020
- Kampala, Uganda: Opening Remarks and Chair, Uganda Economic Mkutano 2021 Financing Local Government Development Plans to Achieve the NDP III and the SDGs
- Virtual: Interview, University of Bergen, Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP) Inequality in the (Post-) Pandemic City: The Urban Economic Crisis
- Virtual: Panellist, University of Boston Big City Africa
October 2020
- Virtual: Expert discussant, UNDP Multi-City Challenge Africa on Integrating the Informal Economy into Africa’s Cities
- Virtual: Panellist, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance panel on How Has COVID-19 Affected Municipal Fiscal Health
- Virtual: Panellist, IFPRI Policy Seminar COVID-19: Impacts on agriculture and food policies
- Virtual: Interview, Global Centre for Pluralism (Canada) Pluralism and the Pandemic: Inclusive Economic Recovery in African Cities and Beyond
September 2020
- Virtual: Panellist, African Centre for Cities panel on Political Economy of Urban Transformation
- Virtual, Public Lecture, University of Lagos, African Research University Alliance Centre of Excellence for Urbanisation
- Virtual, Keynote Address, African Leadership University, Kigali Rwanda: Grand Challenges
July 2020
- TV Interview, Voice of America Our Voices What is Africa’s “next normal”?
- Virtual: Panellist, Consortium for Development Policy Research, Pakistan on Property Tax and Urban Policy in KP
June 2020
- Radio interview, BBC World Service The Real Story How will COVID-19 change our cities?
- Virtual: Chair, UNHabitat Urban Thinkers Campus on Urban Research and Education in the wake of COVID-19: Impact and Future Prospects
- Virtual: Panellist, Commonwealth and Prince’s Foundation panel on Launching the Commonwealth Sustainable Urbanisation Programme
May 2020
- Podcast: University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business podcast on Urban Infrastructure and COVID-19 in the Global South
- Contributor, University of Toronto School of Cities Coronavirus and the City: Urban Institutes
- Virtual: Keynote, TedX Yaba Achieving the promise of cities that work
April 2020
- Radio Interview, 91.3 Voice of the Cape How to shape Africa’s urban areas to withstand future pandemics
- Virtual: Panellist, CSIS and GSMA panel on Digital Solutions to COVID-19 and Urban Challenges
- Virtual: Panellist, Skoll World Forum panel on Urban Innovation in Africa
February 2020
- Dakar, Senegal: European Investment Bank Africa Day
- Panellist, Financing Projects and Development Programmes
- Video Interview, In conversation with Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown
- Abu Dhabi, UAE: Chair, 10th World Urban Forum Researchers Roundtable
November 2019
- Radio Interview, ABC National Radio Counterpoint Cities and Suspicion
- TV Interview, Deutsche Welle, Business Africa Africa’s Cities of the Future
- Radio Interview, Kaya FM Cape Town, South Africa on Smart Cities
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Expert discussant, UNHabitat Hargeisa Urban Visioning Workshop
October 2019
- London, UK: Panellist, London School of Economics panel on Paths to urbanisation: Comparing the stories of Chinese and African cities.
- Toronto, Canada: Panellist, Global Urban Network, Urban Symposium
September 2019
- Lahore, Pakistan:
- Presenter, Financing Punjab’s Cities: Land and Property Taxes Workshop
- Video interview, Best practices for property tax enforcement
June 2019
- Lusaka, Zambia: Keynote Address, Commonwealth Local Government Forum
May 2019
- Beijing, China: Framing Presentation, UK-China Development Working Session on Lessons for African cities from the Chinese urbanisation experience
April 2019
- Amman, Jordan: Chair, Greater Amman Municipality and Columbia Global Centres Amman: an Engine for Growth
- Glasgow, Scotland: Presenter, Prince’s Foundation Roundtable Event on Planning and sustainable urbanisation in the Commonwealth
2019
- London, UK: Video interview, The importance of bus rapid transit (BRTs) for cities
November 2018
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Chair, LSE Cities Urban Age Conference session on Financing Urban Futures
April 2018
- Paris, France: Expert discussant, OECD conference on Secondary Cities: Towards a Policy Dialogue for Development Strategies and Resource Mobilisation
March 2018
- Washington DC, USA: Panellist, World Bank’s Annual Land and Poverty Conference session on land taxes
February 2018
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 9th World Urban Forum
- Panellist, Special Session on Urban labs for urban extension and urban renewal
- Video interview, In conversation with Executive Director Jennifer Musisi of Kampala