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Speaker

For over 35 years, Iain Banner has co-founded and directed various successful businesses and charitable ventures worldwide, across the sports, entertainment, luxury goods and hospitality industries. As co-founder and chairman of E-Movement, Iain and his partners successfully staged Formula-E Cape Town in February 2023. Prior to that they also staged “Africa’s Green Economy Summit”, connecting capital with the Green Economy, launched Formula Student Africa and staged ELECTRIC Festival. GO GREEN AFRICA was launched by Iain at this time too.

Iain’s previous projects include fo-founding Sports International, the Gary Player Design Company, and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Iain also co-founded the Laureus World Sport Awards and the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which has raised over 250 million euros, supporting some 300 projects annually, using sport as a tool for social change in the lives of children. Independent assessments have shown that some 7 million children have been positively impacted by the work of the Sport for Good Foundation since it was founded in 2000.