High Advisory Board
The High Advisory Board (HAB) constitutes the supreme consultative, foresight, and advisory body within the institutional architecture of GECCA. It stands as a nonexecutive, non-operational, and non-representational board, endowed with the highest level of strategic discernment and institutional wisdom.
The HAB does not exercise decision-making, executive, or administrative powers. Its authority derives exclusively from the eminence, credibility, experience, and moral weight of its members and from its formally recognized advisory mandate within GECCA’s constitutive charter.
The High Advisory Board serves as the strategic conscience and long-horizon compass of GECCA.
The HAB’s mission is to:
- Advise on the ways of safeguarding the foundational vision, philosophical coherence, and civilizational ambition of GECCA
- Provide strategic advice on issues related to ensuring alignment between short-term actions, long-term sovereignty and Africa’s global economic positioning
- Provide high-level counsel on matters related to anticipating systemic risks, paradigm shifts, and political and geostrategic inflection points affecting Africa and global Afrocentric economies
- Provide independent, high-level counsel on matters of exceptional strategic sensitivity or historical consequence
In particular, the High Advisory Board:
- Advises at the highest strategic level, offering non-binding but commanding and influential guidance to the supreme bodies and Secretariat-General on grand strategy, institutional direction and geostrategic posture, as well as on major structural reforms, sovereignty-related initiatives, and GECCA’s civilizational priorities
- Provides strategic foresight and scenario intelligence, by drawing from across global shifts, power-transition and long-term economic trends
- Provides strategic understanding on the ways of controlling, handling and addressing matters related to systemic shocks, global realignments and strategic windows of opportunities for Africa
- Acts as co-custodian of institutional integrity, co-protector of GECCA from mission drift, fragmentation, and short-termism, as well as co-upholder of ethical standards, strategic coherence, and credibility at the highest level
- Serves as an exceptional advisory mechanism, intervening only on matters of exceptional gravity, strategic rupture, and institutional crossroads
- Issues strategic opinions, prudential orientations and cautionary advisories when core values and GECCA's founding principles are at stake
The High Advisory Board stands above sectoral, technical, and operational bodies, yet closer to the HPDB, the Board of Trustees and the Secretariat-General, outside the chain of command. It complements but does not overlap with the Board of Economists. Its role is meta-strategic, not analytical, regulatory, executive, or binding.
The HAB does not exercise governance, regulatory, or managerial powers. It does not exercise hierarchical functions, but strictly stands in strategic and systemic advisory capacities.
The authority of the High Advisory Board derives from its mandated advisory role and the strategic depth and global stature of its members, rather than from delegated executive competence.
However, the supreme advisory councilors may eventually move to the HPDB, in accordance with the weight of their personality and the relevance of their power within the high presidential and diplomatic board.
The High Advisory Board is expected to be composed of a limited number of eminent personalities of exceptional stature, including but not limited to Former Heads of States and Governments, distinguished statespersons, global economists, strategic thinkers and philosophers of development, as well as renowned leaders from science, technology, industry, diplomacy, multilateralism, global governance, and international cooperation.
Members of the High Advisory Board are appointed in their personal and independent capacity, not as representatives of states or institutions.
The High Advisory Board members may convene extraordinarily or periodically, at the request of the Secretariat-General, by the Board of Trustees, by the HPDB, or by its own initiative. Its deliberations and opinions may be confidential or public, depending on strategic sensitivity. Its opinions and recommendations shall be formally recorded and transmitted but shall not be binding.
For further information, relating to engagement and appointment within the High Advisory Board, please, contact GECCA.