President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to speak on global information and data on Thursday evening at the New Global Financing Pact being held in Paris, France,

He is one of the high profile leaders selected to speak at the financial summit being hosted by France to establish a more responsive global financial system.

According to the progamme, the one-hour panelist session is slated for 18:00 – 19:00 with the topic: “Ensuring more reliable, comparable information and data,”

Other panelists will include: David Craig, Co-Chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD); Mark Carney, Co-Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) ; Mary Schapiro, Vice-Chair of Global Public Policy at Bloomberg; Sabine Mauderer, Vice-Chair of the Network for Greening the Financial System  as well as  the United Nations Special Envoy, Catherine Mckenna.

Tinubu has arrived at the venue in the company of his Aide-de-Camp, Nurudeen Yusuf and was received by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and Europe, Catherine Colonna.

Akinwumi Adesina, a Nigerian and the President of African Development Bank, will also join another set of panelists to speak on “Debt and SDR-channelling: where do we stand and how to go further?”

Also, WTO Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will discuss the question of “what consequences for the trade agenda?”