Profiles of speakers at Y'de Investment Confab

Among the high-calibre officials to speak at the following: Chung Un-Chan, Economist with Economic Growth Ideas

Korea is an emergent economy with prowess in growth-inducing domains such as technology, industry agriculture, volunteerism, ultramodern infrastructure. One person who masters how the Republic of Korea got there is 69-year old Chung Un-Chan; former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 2009 to 2010. Prior to this position, the economist was a professor at the Seoul National University from 1978 to 2009 and eventually became the university's President from 2002 to 2006.

Dr. Chung was also a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii in 1983. Today, he continues to write and conduct research in macroeconomics and financial markets. During the Yaounde International Economic Conference, he will be lecturing on the South Korean economic growth experience.

Aliko Dangote, Africa's Investment Success Story

Ranked 67th richest person in the world and the richest in Africa by Forbes magazine, Nigerian-born business magnate has become a well-known world figure in investment. He is the President Director General of the Dangote Group which produces cement, sugar, flour and petrol with investments spread out in 14 African countries including Cameroon.

Born on April 10, 1957, Aliko Dangote is an ethnic Muslim Hausa from Kano State. He established the Dangote Group as a small trading firm in 1977. Today, it has moved from being a trading company to being the largest industrial group in Nigeria, employing over 11,000 people.

Paul Fokam Kammogne, Rare Business Flair

Paul Fokam Kammogne is a household name in Cameroon's business landscape and beyond. As a successful banker he owns and heads the Afriland First Bank Group now present in several countries. Counted by Forbes Magazine amongst the wealthiest in Francophone Africa in 2015, the 68-year old business magnate's holding company owns investments that cut across a wide range of sectors such as real estate, media, microfinance and even education.

He is known to have a flair for profitable business. After working for the defunct Cameroon Bank from 1976 to 1979, he furthered his education in Bordeaux, France before creating in the CCEI Bank in 1987.

Arthur Zang, Young Daring Inventor

Many already refer to this young Cameroonian engineer, Arthur Zang, as Cameroon's Bill Gates, with Forbes magazine pointing out that he represents what Africa has best in innovation. In effect, he invented Africa's first medical tablet, the Cardiopad, to monitor heart conditions in patients suffering from cardiac pathology.

After moments of trial and quest for funding for his initiative, Arthur Zang now markets his device through his company, Himore Medical, to save lives in a country where hypertension-related ailments have become the number one killer in society. His young but creative business mind will be a great feature during the Yaounde International Economic Conferencein Yaounde.