Conservation International and World Bank PIC Tokyo to hold Coffee Hour
World Bank PIC Tokyo and Conservation International will host a coffee hour on July 1 with special guest speaker Okyeame Ampadu-Agyei, Country Director for Conservation International’s Ghana office. Mr. Ampadu-Agyei is in Tokyo to speak at Ricoh’s Global Environment Symposium on Sustainable Development on June 30, where he will discuss the significance of biodiversity and how it relates to sustainable development.
Specific initiatives that have been undertaken in Ghana on conservation and environmental preservation will be discussed at the Coffee Hour, especially collaborative efforts with the private sector. Mr. Ampadu-Agyei is expected to share his experience in the production of chocolate and cocoa in Ghana, the so-called “Chocolate Revolution,” a project that has won praise for having great foresight in the context of biodiversity and sustaining a rich environment. We encourage you to participate at the coffee hour.
Admission (with coffee included) is free of charge. Those interested in attending should register on our Japanese page, or send us an email at: ptokyo@worldbank.org.
Speaker:
Mr. Okyeame Ampadu-Agyei Country Director for Conservation International, Ghana Office
Okyeame Ampadu-Agyei started his professional career as a lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He later worked with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA-Ghana) for over 13 years as the Programmes Director and later joined UNDP as the National Director for its environmental rehabilitation project in Ghana. He has provided consultancy services to a number of local and international institutions including UNDP, USAID, Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI), Friends of the Earth, UN Economic Commission for Africa and World Resources Institute. He has also worked in collaboration on projects with the private sector, including as project manager for a cocoa Agro-forestry project around the Kakum National Park in Ghana, which is partly funded by Ricoh.
He is currently a member of the Presidential Commission on Lands, Forestry and Mines established by the President of Ghana, as well as a member of the National Climate Change Committee as well as member of the Business Biodiversity Programme Global Advisory Committee. Mr. Ampadu-Agyei was recently awarded the National Environmental Personality Award for 2007 instituted by the Government of Ghana in appreciation of his immeasurable contribution to the conservation of biodiversity in Ghana.
Access by Mita subway line (Uchisaiwai-cho Station), Hibiya, Chiyoda, and Marunouchi subway lines (Kasumigaseki Station).
PIC Tokyo is located in the Fukoku Seimei Building lobby in Uchisaiwai-cho, Tokyo. Materials and displays related to development issues as well as information about the World Bank Group are located here, and provided free of charge to the public.
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