The U.S. State Department, U.S. Energy Department and U.S. Agency for International Development and other witnesses will testify at a hearing to be held by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Africa Subcommittee, Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04).

    Smith scheduled the congressional hearing, entitled “The Future of Energy in Africa,” for Friday.

         Who:               Smith, chair of the Africa and global health subcommittee, other Members of the panel, and:

• Dr. Robert F. Ichord, Jr., Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State

• The Honorable Eric G. Postel, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Africa at the U.S. Agency for International Development

• Jonathan Elkind, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy

• Walker A. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of Leadership Africa USA

• Dianne R. Sutherland, Owner and Publisher, Petroleum Africa Magazine 

  When:             Friday, Nov. 14 from noon to 3 p.m.

  Where:            Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2172 (first floor)

   

  “According to the International Energy Agency, sub-Saharan Africa is rich in energy resources, but very poor in energy supply,” said Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Africa Subcommittee.  “Our hearing will look at how the Electrify Africa Act and the Administration’s Power Africa program can supplement private energy projects to help bring electric power to more people in Africa, lifting standards of living across the continent.  A more prosperous Africa means better trading partners.”

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