We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar, in partnership with United Nations. This webinar is part of a collaborative effort between ACET, UNDP and AfriCatalyst in support of the Africa Credit Ratings Initiative.
The Fourth Finance for Development Conference (FfD4) will take place in Seville from June 30 to July 3, 2025. It is expected that the outcome document will address credit ratings and their impact on international development. In particular, the outcome document is expected to include calls related to credit rating becoming more transparent, national regulatory frameworks for credit rating agencies, improving accountability for credit rating agencies and for the refining of credit rating methodologies.
The webinar will assess progress at FfD4, and follow-on actions related to credit ratings – and particularly what those actions may mean for Africa. The webinar is part of a series addressing issues related to the impact of credit ratings in Africa, the impact of credit rating methodologies, and how African governments can best engage with credit rating agencies.
Meet the Speakers
Fabrice has worked for approximately 20 years with Fitch Ratings in New York, Dubai and Johannesburg. At Fitch, he held various senior analytical roles, led analytical teams and was a senior credit committee member within Fitch’s Financial Institutions and Structured Credit groups. Fabrice has covered banks in the US, Canada, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. Fabrice has also worked at GCR Ratings, a Moody’s affiliate, where he was Head of Business Development, driving expansion into Francophone Africa and promoting the value of national ratings alongside international ratings in Africa. In addition, Fabrice has attended sovereign ratings engagements in the Americas and Africa, meeting with finance ministers, central bank governors, financial market regulators, and other key stakeholders. Fabrice has also led investor outreach activities and conducted credit training workshops in several jurisdictions. He has worked with multilateral organizations to help African countries establish informed and strategic engagements with credit rating agencies and strengthen public finance management to promote debt sustainability
Abeid Mzee is Senior Economist at the Debt Management Division at the Ministry of Finance of the United Republic of Tanzania. Since joining Ministry of Finance, Abeid has been involved in conducting main activities of Debt Management Division which includes Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA), Medium Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) using IMF/WB Analytical Tool and coordinating credit rating issues. He is also responsible for communicating and disseminating policy recommendations drawn from DSA and MTDS to the senior officials of the Ministry of Finance and public at large.
Euphemia Swen-Monmia is a Liberian who is passionate about contributing to the financial empowerment of her people. Her passion drives her eleven years of experience in developing, supervising, and regulating the financial sector, inclusive of banks and financial markets in Liberia and the United States. Her roles and responsibilities encompass training, coaching and supervising staff, market participants, as well as preparing and presenting policy briefs, rules and regulations to senior management, the Board, and external financial markets stakeholders. She has facilitated several financial sector global conferences and forums including the Alliance for Financial Inclusion Global Policy Forum in Cape Town, South Africa; Annual Conference of the International Association of Commercial Administration in USA; Financial Infrastructure Week of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Morocco (2014) and Turkey (2015). She has shared her success story of developing the Liberia Collateral Registry with the State of Maine Collateral Registry in Portland, Maine, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the IFC Finance & Markets global team through WebEx at the Head Office in Washington, D.C. USA.
Dr. Raymond Gilpin is the Chief Strategy, Analysis & Research Team. Prior to joining UNDP, Raymond was the Academic Dean at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington DC and Economics Director at the United States Institute of Peace, where he also chaired the taskforce on business and peace, managed the web-based International Network for Economics and Conflict, and taught resource management courses at the USIP Academy. He has also held senior positions at the Central Bank of Sierra Leone, the African Development Bank, and the World Bank. Raymond was inducted into the Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars at the historic Morehouse College in Atlanta in 2015 for his work on economics and peace. Raymond holds a Doctorate in development economics from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and an Executive Certificate in international finance and capital markets from Georgetown University in the United States.
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