Africa stands at the centre of several global transitions: the energy transition, infrastructure transformation, and critical minerals exploration. Maximising the continent's ability to develop the critical infrastructure needed to power industries, connect markets, strengthen resilience, and create sustainable economic growth is vital.
The global race to secure critical mineral supply chains is increasingly becoming a race to finance the infrastructure that underpins them. Rail corridors, ports, energy systems, water infrastructure, and industrial facilities will determine which countries are able to capture greater value from their mineral resources and participate in emerging global supply chains.
Financial institutions are identifying opportunities across the continent. Understanding how U.S. financiers are approaching investment in Africa’s critical minerals ecosystem. New York remains the world's largest centre for institutional capital, project finance, private equity, infrastructure investment, and commodity finance. As governments and investors seek to diversify critical mineral supply chains, New York-based financial institutions are increasingly assessing opportunities across Africa's mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors. This forum will bring together senior U.S. based financiers to provide practical insights on how what financiers are looking to invest in, what structures need to be in place to encourage further direct or indirect investment.
Infrastructure is one of the critical enablers that connects Africa's development priorities and underpins sustainable economic growth. Across sectors, inadequate infrastructure remains one of the largest constraints to productivity, investment, industrialization, and regional integration.
Featuring practical case studies of successful investments, the forum aims to showcase real-world investment approaches, highlighting how opportunities are identified, evaluated, financed, and executed. By examining concrete examples, participants will gain actionable insights into investment strategies, risk management practices, partnership structures, and value-creation mechanisms.
Invest Africa’s high-level forum on the margins of the 81st United Nations General Assembly will bring together government leaders, development finance institutions, U.S. financiers, global investors, multilateral organizations, and private-sector stakeholders to identify priorities and partnerships for accelerating infrastructure development across strategic sectors for Africa’s long-term economic acceleration.