Africa Alternative Assets & Infrastructure Roundtable
A Chatham House-style, invitation-only quarterly forum for pension fund executives, DFI principals, sovereign wealth managers, and infrastructure investors. 40 participants maximum. No stages. No slides. No panels. Just the people who move Africa's institutional capital, in the same room, talking honestly about what works and what does not.
Why Africa needs its own Chatham House
The institutions that allocate the most capital to African infrastructure — Nigeria's pension funds, the IFC, the AfDB, DEG, and FMO — have historically had no forum in which to speak candidly about what is working, what is not, and what would change if they had a vote on the agenda.
There is a well-attended conference circuit: SuperReturn Africa, the AVCA Conference, Africa PPP. These are useful for awareness. They are not useful for the kind of frank, Chatham House-protected conversation that actually changes how institutional capital is deployed.
The AAAIR was built to fill that gap. No stages. No slides. No panel moderators managing airtime. Just the people who move Africa's institutional capital, in the same room, following the Lagos Protocol.
Format
Chatham House — Lagos Protocol. No recording. No attribution.
Attendance
40 participants maximum. By invitation only.
Compere
Simon Stockley
Inaugural session
September 2026 · Lagos
The Lagos Protocol
Participants may use information gained at AAAIR. No participant may be identified as the source of any statement. No recording devices. No digital communications about session content. Breach = permanent removal.
Confirmed anchor speakers
Dahlia Khalifa
IFC
Omolola Oloworaran
PenCom
Dr. Abdul Kamara
AfDB
Bolaji Balogun
Chapel Hill Denham
Olumide Oyetan
Stanbic IBTC Pension
Four sessions. Four conversations.
Theme
DFI Capital and Nigerian Alternative Assets
Theme
Infrastructure PPP — what is actually bankable in Nigeria right now?
Theme
Private Credit — structuring, pricing, and institutional appetite
Theme
Real Estate as an Asset Class — REIT structures and securitisation
Request an invitation
The AAAIR is by invitation only. Applications from senior executives at Nigerian pension funds, DFIs, sovereign wealth funds, and infrastructure investors are welcome.
Request an invitation