Vice-President, Union for African Population Studies and Chairperson of the International Organizing Committee of the conference • Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, University of Ghana

President, Union for African Population Studies • Jean-François Kobiané, Université de Ouagadougou

Bathabile Dlamini, Honorable Minister of Social Development

Pali Lehohla, Statistics South Africa

Official opening of the conference • Bathabile Dlamini, Honorable Minister of Social Development

O. Babatunde, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)