Event contact: Solveig Tangen
Welcome to the Norwegian-African Business Outlook 2025
On the 6th of March 2025 NABA will again host its annual Norwegian-African Business Outlook
This year’s discussions will focus on the synergies between Norwegian and African businesses, highlighting promising opportunities for innovation, growth, and sustainable development in the light of key trends and happenings in 2025.
The Outlook will explore the implications of a shifting global economy for the Norway-Africa relationship, and discuss the key question of how to effectively navigate the landscape of 2025 and beyond.
Nadia Martin Wiggen
Director at Svelland Capital and Board Member of Accelerate Capital
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Nadia Martin Wiggen is Director at Svelland Capital and Board Member of Accelerate Capital. She has 15+ years of experience in commodities, including analysis (oil liquids, gas, power, coal, renewables, emissions, agriculture, metals, and freight) and origination (power, renewables, and oil liquids) at Pareto Securities, Rystad Energy, Morgan Stanley and Phibro as well as trading (oil) at Phibro. Prior to Svelland Capital, she was Partner in energy and chief oil analyst at Pareto Securities. At Rystad Energy, she was SVP and Head of the Markets Team (oil, gas, renewables). She was also product manager of Rystad Energy’s Oil Market Analytics service. Nadia holds an MSc degree from the Stockholm School of Economics; a BSc from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she specialized in post-Soviet economics, security, and politics; and was a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. She is an active public speaker and mentor to young professionals.
Hackim Abdul
Director, Africa Public Sector Group, Citi
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Hackim is a senior banker and Director in the London-based EMEA Public Sector Group and also doubles as Citi’s Country Representative in Ghana. He is responsible for origination and coverage of sovereigns, central banks and DFIs in Africa. In the past 6 years, Hackim has overseen deal origination in the leading bank for sovereign Eurobond issuances in Africa. Prior to joining the Public Sector Group in 2019, he worked in the Leveraged Finance Portfolio Group from 2015, executing private equity sponsor-led leveraged finance transactions in Western Europe.
Hackim joined Citi as a Management Associate in 2013, spending his early Citi years on different desks (credit risk, equities research and structured trade finance) in South Africa, Nigeria and Cameroon. He has previously led or participated in public engagements, including panels at US Corporate Council on Africa for Critical Minerals, Harvard Business School Africa Business Conference and a judge on Jack Ma’s Africa’s Business Heroes entrepreneurship competition. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from Ashesi University in Ghana and is pursuing an Executive MBA at the London Business School.
Solveig Tangen
Chief Financial Officer, NABA
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Ms. Tangen started her professional career in 2007, as a wealth management advisor for high-net-worth investors. In 2009 she co-founded and acted as head of sales at Groven & Partners Kapitalforvaltning, responsible for institutional sales and distribution of two alternative UCITS funds. In 2014 Ms. Tangen founded North Corporate AS.
Ms. Tangen has worked extensively with sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade, particularly with inbound and outbound transactions, managing the project financing process from supporting investors through to developing strategies, operating models, partner-selection, deal structuring, execution and relationship management.
Ms. Tangen MSc Hons. in Business Management from the University of Manchester.
Erik Nyheim
President and Chief Executive Officer, Höegh Evi Ltd.
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Erik Nyheim (born 1972) has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Höegh Evi Ltd. since August 2022. Erik recently held the position of Managing Director and Partner in Consulting Group. Previously he has worked for close to 15 years with the Wilhelmsen Group where he held a broad range of positions such as Acting CFO, COO, CCO and investment director. He has also served as an office in the Norwegian Navy. Erik holds a BSc Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Business and Administration (NHH) in Bergen. He is a Norwegian citizen and resides in Norway.
Henrik Harboe
Norwegian Sherpa to G20 in South Africa
Chris Brett
President, Altera Production
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Chris Brett was appointed President of the company’s FPSO business unit in 2015. Mr. Brett joined Teekay from Maersk in 2011 where he was formerly Chief Commercial Officer for Maersk’s FPSO business. Mr. Brett’s FPSO, drilling and offshore experience spans many challenging projects and opportunities in the North Sea, Brazil, Australia, West Africa and the former CIS and he has a strong track record of working with large complex offshore projects and joint venture businesses. Mr. Brett has a Law degree (Honours) from the Australian National University and has completed executive education programs at both IMD and Harvard Business School.
Kai Simon Eikli Yuen
International Advisor, Norwegian Shipowners' Association
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Kai Simon Eikli Yuen is an international advisor and works on the international engagements of the Norwegian Shipping Association. He is also a member of the board of the Norwegian African Business Association and the Arctic Economic Council.
Kai holds a Master of Science in International Energy from Sciences Po, Paris, and a Bachelor of Science in International Marketing from the Norwegian School of Business and Fudan University, Shanghai. He has nine years of experience from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including postings to the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi and Norway’s delegation to the EU in Brussels.
Kai has previously worked for the UN in Haiti, for Orkla in China and with investments in developing markets for Norfund.