Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Aubrey Hurby joins Eric and Cobus to discuss her new report on how the United States can catch up, or “challenge,” China’s commercial expansion in Africa. The bottom line, Aubrey writes, is that the U.S. can no longer be ‘all things to all people’ and must focus its policy efforts on those areas where it retains a distinct competitive advantage in Africa over the Chinese.
Show Notes:
- The Atlantic Council: Deconstructing the Dragon: China’s Commercial Expansion in Africa
- World Politics Review: Trump’s ‘Prosper Africa’ Strategy Is Fixated on a Cold War-Like View of China by Kimberly Ann Eliott
- The Brookings Institute: Can Trump’s Prosper Africa make America greater than China and other partners in Africa by Landry Signé and Eric Olander
About Aubrey Hruby:
Aubrey Hruby is an adviser to investors and companies doing business in Africa. She is a Senior Fellow at the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council and the co-author of the award-winning book,The Next Africa (Macmillan, July 2015).
Aubrey has a successful track record in African market entry, project/deal identification, investment facilitation, and experience in the infrastructure, energy, agribusiness, financial services, FMCG, healthcare, and textiles/apparel sectors. She is Managing Partner of Noveni Advisors and a co-founder of AXN.
Aubrey served as the Managing Director of the Whitaker Group, where she helped facilitate over $2 billion in investment and capital flows to Africa. Aubrey has consulted extensively in 20+ African markets (including Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa). She has worked with Fortune 500 companies to design and implement successful investment and market entry strategies and advises the US Chamber of Commerce’s Africa Division. Over the past ten years, Aubrey has regularly led CEO-level delegations to African countries and coordinated presidential visits to the United States.
