The Peterson Institute for International Economics and OCP Policy Center have partnered to organize the first edition of the African Economic Policy Symposium. This unprecedented initiative in Africa will establish a continental platform for prominent economists, central bankers, other policymakers and financial market professionals, to discuss the current and forthcoming challenges facing Africa and frame them in their global context. Through regular, yearly meetings, the symposium will help cement a community of economic policy thinkers that could help shape a new thinking on development policy for the continent.