How the AfCFTA and WTO can work towards sustainable investment in Africa
The AfCFTA's Protocol on Investment and the WTO's Investment Facilitation for Development promise to reshape the way African nations engage in investment.
Teniola Tayo is a Policy Advisor with a focus on regional integration issues in Africa
including the African Continental Free Trade Area and wider trade, investment, and
development policies on the continent. She is currently the Trade Policy Fellow at the
Africa Policy Research Institute and the Lead (Economic Intelligence) at Nigeria's Office for Strategic Preparedness and Resilience. She also runs Aloinett Advisors, a policy research and advisory firm. She has previously worked as a consultant with the Institute for Security Studies, Supply Chain Africa, United Nations Development Programme, and the West African think tank. She has also worked as a senior legislative aide with the Nigerian Senate and as a consultant with the Office of the Vice President. She has a Masters degree from the London School of Economics, a Bachelors degree from the University of Ghana, and completed a fellowship at the European University Institute's School of Transnational Governance.