2025 Highlight Video

The AVCA Sustainable Investing in Africa Summit serves as a focused forum for critical dialogue on the evolving role of private capital in sustainable development across the continent. The gathering explores best practices for investing with a sustainability lens, emerging trends and risks, and innovative, homegrown solutions for long-term growth.

2025 Highlights: 

  • 150+ delegates globally, including from US, UK and Nigeria, in an intimate and personal setting. Delegates say the summit was “intimate enough to have good conversations”.
  • Attendees included GPs, law firms, advisors and LPs, such as British International Investment (BII), DEG, IFC, U.S. DFC, UBS Optimus Foundation and WHO Foundation.
  • Panel sessions covered climate, impact and measurement, digitisation, gender, and much more. 

The Venue 

Jumeirah Carlton Tower will play host to the summit this year, an iconic landmark in the heart of London’s Knightsbridge.  

As part of Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts, the elegant yet conscious venue reflects a growing commitment to environmental stewardship through the group’s comprehensive Sustainability Roadmap. This includes ambitious goals such as achieving carbon neutrality, eliminating single-use plastics, conserving water, and sourcing responsibly