Dr. Martyn Davies
CEO, Frontier Advisory
Dr Martyn Davies is the Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Advisory, a leading research, strategy and capital advisory firm that specialises in emerging markets. Martyn is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of MasterCard’s Global Knowledge Panel, and has served as a strategy advisor to a large number of multinational clients in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. He recently engaged with media in Johannesburg to discuss the insights he offered in his report, The New Commercial Actors in Africa, which is the third in MasterCard’s series of Insight Reports on Africa.
In 2011 South Africa became a member of the new emerging economic power grouping known as the BRICS, along with Brazil, Russia, India and China. What began as a loose grouping of emerging and populous economies is rapidly morphing into a more coherent power grouping that reflects the shifting balance of power in the global
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Over the past decade, the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have become the largest trading partners of, and investors in, Africa. In analysing statistics gathered by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2011, trade between the continent and the five BRICS members climbed from $24bn to $195bn between
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