Report Launch Roundtable

Today, the Coalition for Global Prosperity launched their latest report during a roundtable discussion in the House of Commons. The report is titled: Outcompeting Strategic Challengers: The Case of China in Africa.

The discussion looked at the UK’s role in Kenya following the Integrated Review Refresh, opportunities from a closer relationship with Kenya and the UK’s strengths as a competitive partner to Kenya.

In attendance at the discussion were:

• Co-host: The Rt Hon David Mundell, Conservative MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

• Co-host: Professor Dominic McVey MBE, Chair of the ODI Global Advisory Board and Member of the CGP Advisory Council

• His Excellency Mr Manoah Esipisu, High Commissioner of the Republic of Kenya to the United Kingdom

• Anthony Mangnall MP, Conservative MP for Totnes

• Theo Clarke MP, Conservative MP for Stafford

• Maggie Throup MP, Conservative MP for Erewash

• Professor Sir Myles Wickstead, Member of the CGP Advisory Council

• Michael Emile Kynaston Jones, Research Fellow, Terrorism and Conflict, RUSI

• Christopher Vandome, Senior Research Fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House

• Evie Aspinall, Head of Research, British Foreign Policy Group

• Ted Elgar, Head of Research, Coalition for Global Prosperity

• Christina Nielsen, Researcher, Coalition for Global Prosperity

Read the report in full here.