With the ratification of the landmark African Continental Free Trade Area, the African Union has set the goal for the economic future of the continent of Africa. And critical infrastructure will be one of the pillars of the success of this initiative. Legatum Strategies wants to help drive strategic coordination between countries and sub-regional organizations to promote infrastructure investment. At Legatum, we believe in liaising with partners strategically aligned on specific project objectives in order to achieve deliverables within desired schedules and budgets.

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Africa Today and Tomorrow

Legatum Strategies, LLC has selected a short and non-exhaustive list of events and trends below that are framing and redefining the role and context of Africa in the near term.

1. As the world is increasingly transitioning to AI based systems and electric vehicles, Africa has the greatest reserves of critical and strategic minerals that the world needs to produce electric batteries and smart technologies.

2. The Congo Basin Rainforest accounts for nearly 25% of the CO2 storage capacity of tropical forests worldwide.

3. The population of Africa is projected to grow to 2.5 billion people by the year 2050, and Africa has the youngest population in the world with approximately 60% under the age of 25.

4. 65% of the world’s arable lands are on the African continent.

5. AfCFTA – African Continental Free Trade Area is dropping trade barriers across the continent, making it one of the biggest free trade areas in the world.

What Legatum Strategies Has Done

• 2018 – 2019 - Advised a major global automobile manufacturer on its strategy to diversify critical minerals sources (for electric battery production & competitiveness)

• 2018 – present - Advised the presidential campaign of a current Head of State in Central Africa

• 2019 – present - Advised the presidential campaign of a current Head of State in Southern Africa

• 2020 – Present – Advised Maluku Preserve City, a new Charter City (a private Special Economic Zone) being built in the greater Kinshasa region in the DRC

• 2018 – Present – Worked with the African Union Permanent Mission in Washington, DC to mobilizing the African Diaspora in the US to transfer knowledge and maximize capacity in Africa.

• Assist with a corporate social responsibility strategy that will optimize the support of the local community in which the project is taking place.

Legatum Strategies also partners with YADI (Young African Diaspora Initiative, www.yadileaders.org), and Washington, DC-based NGO that focuses on unifying and organizing Africans who immigrated to the US at a young age, as well as Americans who were born in the US to African Immigrants, and helping them to optimize impact in their participation in African life.

This partnership has been critical in Legatum Strategies’ ability to tap into a large pool of highly educated and qualified American

professionals who are ready to seize opportunities to work in sub-Saharan Africa. As an American company, Legatum Strategies also pays close attention to American economic policies in Africa. We try to align our business actions on the continent with those policies, but we also use our extensive network to offer advice to decision-makers in both the US and Africa from a private sector perspective.