Success in Africa: CEO Insights from a Continent on the Rise

FOREWORD

by Robert E. Rubinformer co-chairman Goldman Sachs,U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995–1999)

When I’ve had to assess complex environments, I’ve often sought insight from people who have navigated those environments effectively. Success in Africa delivers those insights.

I recall thinking when I visited Africa as Treasury Secretary fifteen years ago that the problems are immense and obvious, yet there also seem to be enormous opportunities and a lot of situations where the risks may be considerable but the rewards far greater. As I spent time in South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Mozambique, and the Ivory Coast, I was involved with finance ministers, central bankers, and other government officials, but I also looked through the prism of ...