Reaching out from Buckingham to Ghana

The Social Academic Club (SAC) organised an event last week and kindly invited myself and Julie along. This was the first of the "Buckingham International Talks' arranged by this student association. We were treated first to a presentation from Anthony Nyame-Baafi (Director for Bilateral Trade Ghana and former Ghana trade representative to the World Trade Organisation and to Switzerland and Austria) who spoke about the trading and financial links between the UK and Ghana. Obviously as we approach Brexit such links are going to become more and more important.

Then I joined him, Dr. Juan Castenada (Director for International Institute for Monetary Research and lecturer at the University of Buckingham) and Ronnel Lehmann (CEO Finito and former student at the University) on the panel. We were posed a series of questions by the facilitator Richard Dela Sky (who is a student and works for citi fm 97.3 in Ghana) and students present in the audience. The event was introduced and concluded by Professor John Drew (Dean of Humanities).

It was a fascinating evening and great to meet so many students, presenters and academics. My thanks to La Tess Bartlett, Alakhiwe Ndlovu and Kwasi Nyame-Baa from the SAC to organised this excellent event. Thanks also to Maciej Bochynski for the pics below.

In the front row, Professor Drew, Ronnel Lehmann, Julie and myself

Anthony Nyame-Baafi on the panel with Ronnel