MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s New Cities

MIT Center for International

Studies

The sixth webinar in an eleven-part series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa.

Urban economies, modern metropolises, planning for the future

Featuring: Kofi Bio is Associate Principal of Adjaye Associates’ Accra studio overseeing all projects in Africa. Kofi has worked alongside David Adjaye for almost a decade. He began working in the London studio where he played an instrumental role in the completion of several significant projects including the Aishti Foundation, a mixed-use arts and retail building in Beirut and projects for Goldman Sachs and Tishman Speyer respectively.

In 2017, Kofi together with David led the opening of the Accra studio to drive the realisation of key projects such as the National Cathedral of Ghana, the Marine Drive masterplan development, and the Ghana Trade Fair redevelopment. Since its opening three years ago, Kofi has overseen the studio’s growth with an emphasis on sustainable development and cutting-edge technologies with vernacular design into the wider African market, securing major projects in South and East Africa.

In his role as Associate Principal, Kofi oversees all Africa based projects and provides advice on contractual arrangements, trade contractors, current market situation, commercial strategies, project programmes, design scopes, fees and payments.

Kofi holds a Bachelors in Architecture, a Masters in Architecture and a Postgraduate qualification in Professional Practice and Management all from Lincoln University.

Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), TRUE Africa University (TAU)

About the MIT X TAU webinar series: The Center for International Studies (CIS) has partnered with the newly launched TRUE Africa University (TAU) to host a webinar series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa. Thursdays at noon EST, starting on March 4, TAU founder, MIT alumnus, and CIS research affiliate Claude Grunitzky, will interview the thinkers, shapers and doers who he sees as the inventors of the future of Africa. Each of the eleven webinars promises to be a genre-defining look into the opportunities and challenges facing the African continent and its people over the coming century. The CIS-TAU webinar series will be an opportunity for the MIT community and beyond to engage with luminaries such as Taiye Selasi, the Ghanaian-Nigerian author; Jeffrey Sachs, the American economist; and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, the Nigerian serial entrepreneur behind some of Africa’s most valuable startups.

MIT-TAU Webinar Series – https://cis.mit.edu/event-series/true…​ TRUE Africa University – https://www.trueafricauniversity.com/​

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It’s been a year like no other, and we aren’t talking about the pandemic. There were rapid-fire public offerings, surging cryptocurrencies and skyrocketing stock prices. The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest exploded to an unprecedented 2,755–660 more than a year ago. Of those, a record high 493 were new to the list–roughly one every 17 hours, including 210 from China and Hong Kong. Another 250 who’d fallen off in the past came roaring back. A staggering 86% are richer than a year ago.

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It’s been a year like no other, and we aren’t talking about the pandemic. There were rapid-fire public offerings, surging cryptocurrencies and skyrocketing stock prices. The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest exploded to an unprecedented 2,755–660 more than a year ago. Of those, a record high 493 were new to the list–roughly one every 17 hours, including 210 from China and Hong Kong. Another 250 who’d fallen off in the past came roaring back. A staggering 86% are richer than a year ago. Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest for the fourth year running, worth $177 billion, while Elon Musk rocketed into the number two spot with $151 billion, as Tesla and Amazon shares surged. Altogether these billionaires are worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020. The U.S. still has the most, with 724, followed by China (including Hong Kong and Macao) with 698. We used stock prices and exchange rates from March 5 to calculate net worths. See below for the full list of the world’s billionaires and our methodology. For daily updated net worths of all 2,755 billionaires, check out our real-time billionaires rankings on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

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