PACCI Executive Council
The PACCI Executive Council is the elected governing body directing the continental chamber’s strategy, advocacy, and institutional partnerships. Composed of regional representatives from five PACCI zones, the council ensures that Africa’s private sector speaks with one coordinated voice at the AU, AfCFTA, and global policy tables.
PACCI Membership
Connect your chamber, association or business to the continent’s largest private sector network. Members access continental policy advocacy, cross-border trade facilitation, event participation, and a network spanning every economic corridor on the continent
Meet the Candidates
Thirteen candidates from six regions are seeking election to the PACCI Executive Council for the 2026–2028 term. Browse by region or view all profiles below.
North Africa- 26/28 PACCI Executive Council Presidency
Under PACCI’s statute, the continental Presidency rotates every two years among Africa’s five regions, ensuring that no single region dominates and that every part of the continent leads in turn. For the current mandate, the Presidency passes to North Africa — coming from the Central Africa zone. North Africa brings to this role the Mediterranean gateway, the most active commercial links between Africa and Europe, and a region undergoing significant economic reform. Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya collectively represent one of Africa’s largest trade and investment pools, and the Fez-Meknès General Assembly is itself hosted in the heart of North Africa’s most dynamic private sector economy.
Northern Africa Nominees
Central Africa
Sits atop some of the world’s most significant natural resource deposits- cobalt, coltan, copper, timber, and oil, yet remains the least integrated region on the continent. The DRC alone holds an estimated 70% of the world’s cobalt reserves, essential for the global electric vehicle transition. The Congo Basin is the world’s second lung, making the region central to any credible climate finance conversation. For business, this gap between resource wealth and economic development is precisely the opportunity: infrastructure investment, logistics, financial services, agribusiness, and value-addition manufacturing are all under-served in a region of 200 million people.
Central Africa Nominees
West Africa
Home to Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, and a consumer market of over 420 million people stretching from Senegal to Cameroon. The region holds some of the continent’s most significant oil and gas reserves, a growing fintech ecosystem centred on Lagos, Accra, and Dakar, and a cocoa belt that supplies 70% of the world’s output. ECOWAS has given West African businesses a head start on regional integration — cross-border trade, a common tariff framework, and free movement of people are more advanced here than anywhere else on the continent. The BCEAO’s CFA monetary union further simplifies Francophone West African trade.
Western Africa Nominees
East Africa
where African integration is moving fastest. The EAC single customs territory, M-Pesa’s cross-border payments, Ethiopia’s manufacturing surge, and Kenya’s services economy have created a corridor that businesses from Lagos to Casablanca are watching closely. The port of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam handle trade flows for landlocked markets stretching to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan. This region produces coffee, tea, cut flowers, and textiles that reach global markets — and is building the digital infrastructure to trade them without paper.
8+Member countries : $350B+ Combined GDP
Eastern Africa Nominees
Southern Africa
Africa’s most developed financial markets, best logistics infrastructure, and strongest institutional governance frameworks. Johannesburg is the continent’s financial capital; the Durban-Gauteng corridor is its most efficient freight route; and SADC’s trade protocols have created one of the continent’s most functional free trade areas. The region produces platinum, diamonds, wine, fruit, and vehicles — and has an automotive sector competitive with global supply chains. Zambia and Zimbabwe offer mining investment in copper and lithium; Mozambique and Tanzania hold significant gas reserves; and Botswana continues to rank among Africa’s best-governed investment destinations.
10+ Member countries , $600B+ Combined GDP
Southern Africa Nominees
Applications open until June 19
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