Support Education Partnership Campaign

On AAI’s 50th anniversary in 2003, The Africa-America Institute mounted a five-year campaign to enlarge the pool of people in Africa with the skills and education to lead. The aim of AAI’s Education Partnership Campaign: 50,000 New Leaders in 5 Years is to raise $25 million in private and public sector support to educate and train 50,000 more Africans over its five-year length, which will yield powerful benefits to individuals, businesses, governments and entire countries.

Download the campaign brochure or the full campaign prospectus. For further information about the Education Partnership Campaign, please contact AAI Headquarters.

Campaign Leadership

Chairs, Heads of State and Trailblazers

HONORARY CHAIR
H.E. Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General
The United Nations

AFRICA LEADERSHIP CHAIR
Alexander B. Cummings, Jr.
EVP, The Coca-Cola Company
President & COO, Coca-Cola Africa

U.S. LEADERSHIP CHAIR
William Johnson
Chairman, President & CEO, H.J. Heinz

HEADS OF STATE
H.E. Fradique de Menezes, São Tomé and Príncipe
H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Uganda
H.E. Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal

TRAILBLAZERS
Pierre Atépa Goudiaby
President, The ATEPA Group
Richard Matzke
NESW Solutions
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President and Head, The Human Development Network, The World Bank

Honorary Committee

Hon. Julia Carson
U.S. House of Representatives
Ruby Dee
Actress
Hon. Harold Ford
Chairman, Democratic Leadership Council
Hon. Howard Jeter
Executive Vice President, GoodWorks International
Professor Anthony Lake
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Hon. Bobby L. Rush
U.S. House of Representatives
Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu
Archbishop Emeritus, South Africa
Hon. Howard Wolpe
Africa Program Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center

Africa Leadership Committee

Benjamin O. Akande
Dean, Webster University School of Business and Technology, Webster University
Hon. Nahas Anglas
Prime Minister, Namibia
Kofi Appenteng, AAI Board Chair
Partner, Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Djibril Diallo
Director, UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace
Blaise Judja-Sato
Founder and Chair, VillageReach
Jonathon Lifa
Africa Coordinator, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron Corporation
Peter Materu
Senior Education Specialist, The World Bank

African Diplomatic Corps

H.E. Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy
Permanent Representative to the UN, Madagascar
H.E. Amadou Lamine Ba
Amabassador to the US, Senegal
H.E. Filipe Chidumo
Permanent Representative to the UN, Mozambique
H.E. Augustine Mahiga
Permanent Representative to the UN, Tanzania
H.E. Segbe C. Oguin
Ambassador to the US, Benin
H.E. Armando A. Panguene
Ambassador to the US, Mozambique
H.E. Molelekeng K. Rapolaki
Ambassador to the US, Lesotho

U.S. Leadership Committee

Chester Crocker
James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies, Georgetown University
Hon. Alice Dear
President, AM Dear & Associates
Amb. Harold E. Doley, Jr.
Founder, Doley Securities
Peggy Dulany
Founder and Chair, The Synergos Institute
Helene D. Gayle
President, CARE USA
Nadine B. Hack, AAI Vice Board Chair
President, beCause Global Consulting
James Harmon
Chairman, Harmon & Co.
Brian Henderson
Chairman, Global Public Sector Client Group, Merrill Lynch
Amb. Richard Holbrooke
Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC
George Kirkland, AAI Trustee
Corporate Vice President, Chevron Corporation
William Lucy
International Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME
Carlton A. Masters, AAI Trustee
President & CEO, GoodWorks International, LLC
Mora Mclean
President & CEO, The Africa-America Institute
Joseph Moodhe, AAI Board Secretary
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Ralph Moss
Vice President, Government Affairs, Seaboard Corporation
Steven Pfeiffer, AAI Trustee
Chairman, Executive Committee, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
William Rhodes
Chairman, Citicorp & Citibank NA
Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Susan Rice
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Gayle Smith, AAI Trustee
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Ted Smyth, AAI Trustee
Senior Vice President/CAO, H.J. Heinz
George A. Strait, Jr.
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Public Affairs, University of California, Berkeley
Maurice Tempelsman, AAI Trustee
Senior Partner, Leon Tempelsman & Son
Roger Wilkins, AAI Trustee
Clarence J. Robinson Professor, George Mason University