IUGB’s President Saliou Toure and IUGB Foundation Executive Director Amini Kajunju have accepted an invitation to participate in AAI’s State of Education in Africa conference in Abidjan on October 9 and 10, 2018. This event brings together global policy-makers, scholars, private sector, philanthropy and more to discuss the vast opportunities for higher education in Africa to address some of the most formidable issues in career readiness, economic development, governance and leadership and national sustainability.This conference, which is in its fourth year, was the brainchild of Amini Kajunju, the former President and CEO of AAI. Due to his distinguished career in academia and government, President Toure will join a panel on reforms on higher education in Africa. Ms. Kajunju will moderate a panel about Africa in the media. For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.soeafrica.org/ .