Globinar Africa Day Global Meet-Up by Global Chamber Accra & Chicago

Co-Hosted by: Global Chamber Accra & Global Chamber Chicago
Theme: Africa Day 2025: Trade, Culture & Opportunity in Action

Join us for a dynamic cross-continental gathering celebrating Africa Day 2025! This virtual meet-up will spotlight thriving trade connections, rich cultural heritage, and emerging business opportunities between Africa and the world. Network with global leaders, innovators, and change-makers shaping the future of Africa.

Rubby Golo - Executive Director at Global Chamber® Accra

Rubby Golo is the Founder/CEO of Global Trade Consult, a Ghanaian-based business consultancy firm supporting overseas companies with business interests in Ghana. The firm helps companies understand, access, and manage business opportunities by helping foreign companies’ trade and invest in Ghana. 

Rubby is a Trade & Investment expert with wealth of experience and demonstrated history of working in the International Trade & Investment space for almost two decades with the Department for International Trade (DTI) in Accra before setting up her business. 

She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Livestock & Fisheries Chamber, Board Chair for Agriwoman Foundation, Vice Board Chair for Nolle Design, Board Member for JA Ghana, Ghana Advisor for the Scottish Africa Business Association (SABA), Country Advisor for Turnkey International Business Group (Turkey), and Country Business Partner for the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (GMCC). 

Rubby is married, with a lovely daughter and very devoted to her family.

Demitrus Evans - Principal and Managing Attorney at The Evans International Law Firms | Advisory Board Chair at Global Chamber® Chicago

Demitrus began her legal career as Ralph J. Bunche Fellow for the Midwest region with the NGO Amnesty International, worked in several Chicago based law firms before going in house with the National Railway Company focusing on international sales and distributorships.

Prior to starting The Evans International Law Firms LLC (“TEIL Firms”) in 2009, classified as a minority and Women Owned Business with the County, City and State, she was a civil rights lawyer with Willis & Associates, a trial attorney panel lawyer for the Northern District of Illinois and a partner at Jones & Collins. At TEIL firms she is the managing Attorney and focus on corporate transactional work, litigation and Intellectual Property in the federal and state courts. In addition she arbitrates and speaks on international contractual issues nationally.

Attorney Evans holds licenses in the Illinois Appellate and Supreme Court as well as maintains license in the Northern District Trial Bar, United States Supreme Court, and the Federal Circuit and the International Court of Trade. She earned her BA from Denison University,  her J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in Miami, Florida, where she worked on Asylum applications for Hattian, Guantanamo Bay refugees, utilizing her French and studied International Constitutional Law at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Her International Trade Law LLM, with a Finance concentration, was earned from John Marshall Law School, Chicago and her Entrepreneurial Studies Certificate from the Joseph School of Business, Forest Park, Illinois.

She is the founder of the non-profit, The Evans Exoneration Project, teaches business law and lectures and advocates for International Busienss trade and expansion on several Busienss focused boards.  Demitrus and TEIL Firms received The Joseph Business School’s Global Entrepreneur of the Year.

Guest Speaker:

E K Bensah - Ghana Rep & coordinator for AUDA-NEPAD's Agenda 2063 Media Network

E K Bensah Jr was trained for the diplomatic service, but he went rogue after completing post-graduate studies at a diplomatic school in Brussels, Belgium in 2003

He opted for a career that was a nexus between international communication; regional integration research; and activism.

Today he is a crime writer; author and regional integration expert with specific expertise on ECOWAS, AU & East Africa.

His expertise includes international moderator experience  at the AU and some of its agencies since 2016. 

Bensah is Ghana rep & coordinator for AUDA-NEPAD's Agenda 2063 Media Network since 2018. He also supports the African Minerals Development Centre with communications in his capacity as Member of AMDC Media Forum.

He has been relentless on pushing for more ratifications of AU Freedom of Movement Protocol since 2018 in his capacity as Deputy Executive Director of Afcfta Policy Network, where in 2020, he single-handedly engaged IOM Special Liaison Office in Addis (SLO) to support APN to promote FMP, which was activated in August 2021. 

As a consequence, he was nominated as a Migration Health Advocacy Consultant in 2022 for a one-month project unpacking migration health; universal health coverage; and FMP for IOM's Regional Office in Nairobi.