Conferences

International speaking engagements — late 2025, early 2026.

A selection of keynote addresses, plenary interventions, panels and academic lectures delivered in the world's leading financial and academic capitals on the institutional transformation of African finance and governance.

November 2025

London, UK

Keynote address

Africa Investment Forum — London Edition

Financial Sovereignty and Continental Capital Architecture

Opening keynote on the conditions for the emergence of an African investment-banking infrastructure capable of leading complex cross-border transactions in full sovereignty. Critical analysis of the existing intermediation chains, the levers of institutionalisation, and the priority roadmap for the next decade.

Audience · Global asset managers, multilateral development banks, sovereign wealth funds, African ministers of finance.

December 2025

Paris, FR

Panel chair

Investing in Africa Forum

Institutionalising African Corporates: From Founder to Enduring Institution

Strategic chairmanship of a high-level panel on the structural conditions for African corporate longevity: governance, professionalisation of management, succession planning, family governance, and access to international capital markets.

Audience · Family offices, private-equity general partners, listed pan-African groups, French Treasury, AFD, Proparco.

January 2026

Davos, CH

Spotlight intervention

World Economic Forum — Africa Spotlight Session

The African Capital Decade: A New Architecture for Global Allocation

Intervention dedicated to the architectural conditions of a structural reallocation of global savings toward Africa: market depth, regulatory predictability, institutional governance, ESG alignment. Presentation of a measurable roadmap to 2030.

Audience · Global heads of state, CEOs of systemic institutions, leading global asset managers, multilateral institutions.

February 2026

Abidjan, CI

Plenary address

Africa CEO Forum

Governance as Strategic Asset: The Hidden Path to Valuation Uplift

Plenary speech on governance discipline as the most underestimated value-creation lever for African corporates. Quantified review of the cost-of-capital impact, valuation multiples and resilience through cycles, illustrated by African and international cases.

Audience · Chairs and CEOs of the leading African groups, sovereign wealth funds, international institutional investors.

February 2026

Lagos, NG

Opening keynote

African Capital Markets Summit

Regional Integration of African Markets: The Critical-Size Imperative

Opening keynote on the structural fragmentation of African capital markets, the regulatory, technical and political conditions of integration, and the macro-financial benefits of moving to critical scale. Concrete proposals on the harmonisation of post-trade infrastructures.

Audience · African market regulators, central securities depositories, stock-exchange CEOs, international broker-dealers, institutional investors.

March 2026

Geneva, CH

Strategic roundtable

Emerging Markets Investors Conference

Financial Engineering in Emerging Markets: The Rigour Premium

Roundtable on the disciplines of structuring in complex emerging environments: currency risk management, project financings, hybrid instruments, securitisation, independent valuation. Demonstration of the value created by an uncompromised execution culture.

Audience · Emerging-market dedicated hedge funds, large global asset managers, multilateral financial institutions.

March 2026

Dubai, UAE

Keynote intervention

Global Financial Forum — Africa & Gulf Bridge

The Africa–Gulf Capital Corridor: Building the Next Decade's Allocation Bridge

Strategic intervention on the structuring of a long-term institutional capital corridor between the Gulf economies and the African continent: investment vehicles, regulatory frameworks, integrated governance, transparent risk pricing.

Audience · Gulf sovereign wealth funds, African sovereign wealth funds, large international banks, regulators.

April 2026

New York, USA

Distinguished lecture

Columbia University — Center on Global Economic Governance

Builders, Not Opportunists: The Entrepreneurial Architecture of Africa's Transformation

Academic lecture on the distinction between opportunistic entrepreneurs and institutional builders, the training and financing conditions of a generation of African builders, and the systemic implications for the continent's industrial transformation.

Audience · Academic community, doctoral and MBA students, US-based African diaspora, international media.

Invitations

Invite Laurent Bien Legbane

For any speaking, keynote or panel invitation, please send your request to the address below. Invitations are reviewed based on the strategic relevance of the event and the institutional agenda.

office@laurentlegbane.com