Africa’s youngest billionaire for CSR confab

Ashish Thakkar
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ThistlePraxis Consulting has said the President, Mara Group and Africa’s youngest billionaire, according to Forbes, Ashish Thakkar, will be the keynote speaker at its 2013 Africa CEO Roundtable and Conference on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility.

The management consulting firm said, in a statement, that the event, scheduled to take place in Calabar would be an all-inclusive CSR and sustainability management conference with the theme, ‘Driving innovation through transformational leadership and sustainability’.

The statement said business and thought leaders from within and outside the continent were expected to share their expertise and experiences on an array of business and development topics at the conference, while making a case for a greater focus on transformational leadership in seeking innovative and responsible ways for sustainable development.

According to the organisers, leading experts who will feature as speakers will focus on issues bordering on how responsibility in leadership promotes innovation and encourages youth empowerment and active participation; the effects of climate change and the increasingly inadequate natural resources that demand better governance.