Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is established as the supreme fiduciary and custodian authority of the Global Economic Cooperation Council for Africa (GECCA), entrusted with the ultimate responsibility to safeguard the organization’s founding mission and values, and ensure that it evolves as highly trusted, non-partisan, transformative and globally inspiring institution advancing ethical multilateralism, multipolarism, and global Afrocentric development cooperation. The Board is intended as well to function as the supreme governance body, entrusted with shaping the coherence, credibility, and longterm strategic integrity of GECCA’s mandate across domains of governance, policy and strategic cooperation.The Board of Trustees embodies the dual function of “supreme governance authority” (exercising the highest level of institutional oversight and decision-making); and “Trusteeship Body” (ensuring fiduciary responsibility, ethical stewardship, and preservation of the GECCA’s mission). In this capacity, the Board integrates the roles commonly associated with both senior governance and custodial responsibility, while maintaining a structure adapted to GECCA’s multi-stakeholder and non-treaty-based nature. The Board of Trustees exercise supreme oversight and direction over GECCA by: Defining Grand Strategic Orientation, and approving GECCA’s overarching neoeconomic and civilizational principles and strategies in alignment with Afrocentric priorities, multipolar balance, peace economies, and global cooperative prosperity. Ensuring Governance Integrity and upholding the highest standards of governance, ethical conduct, institutional legitimacy, and policy coherence across all GECCA organs, frameworks, funds, and affiliated mechanisms. Harmonizing economic and strategic cooperation, serving as the principal catalyzer in alignment of multilateral, bilateral, triangular and plurilateral cooperation architectures, including development of strategic investment corridors and economic transition pathways as well as synergies and alliances for peace and multipolar stability-driven development and shared prosperity Ensuring that all partnerships, financial instruments, and cooperation models under GECCA are judiciously fit to its vision and values, while ensuring that Africa’s strategic autonomy, economic sovereignty and self-determination for development cooperation and multipolar transition are highly considered. The recruitment and appointment of members of the Board of Trustees reflect global diversity, multipolar balance, Afrocentric centrality, professional integrity and highest meritocracy, ensuring sovereign legitimacy and global credibility. The Board of Trustees is entrusted with the authority and the power to:
Approve GECCA’s strategic frameworks, flagship initiatives, and transformational economic architectures, under the strict obligation of the supreme advisory opinion of the presidential and diplomatic board. Endorse and recalibrate major investment and strategic cooperation programs of regional and global Afrocentric significance. Issue supreme policy directives, strategic resolutions, and guiding principles binding upon all GECCA executive and subsidiary organs. Act as the ultimate harmonization body in matters of institutional alignment, strategic convergence, and inter-organ cooperation. The Board shall harmoniously cooperate with Secretariat-General and the high presidential and diplomatic board to shape the GECCA’s overall affairs, including its funds, missions, and strategic policies and goals to be subject to the General Assembly for adoption and sponsorship by members. While not engaged in day-to-day administration, the Board of Trustees retains supreme strategic authority to mandate and adjust corrective or adaptive measures where necessary, under the supreme and astute opinion of the high presidential board. The Board of Trustees is destined to embody and shaping the GECCA’s role as a promoter of the global Afrocentric economic transformation, a transitional bridge between civilizations, regions, and power blocs, and a catalyst of multipolar prosperity, peace economies-driven development models, as well as of equilibrium and new universal order in global Afrocentric governance and cooperation The Board of Trustees covers the following core responsibilities:
Safeguard the mission and vision, and ensure that all actions, strategies, partnerships and engagements of GECCA remain aligned with its founding purpose and policies. Oversee financial integrity, resource stewardship, and institutional sustainability, ensuring transparency and accountability aligned with highest international standards. Preserve institutional independence and sovereignty, and protect GECCA from undue political, commercial, or external influence, maintaining its neutrality and credibility as a non-aligned multilateral organization. Approve long-term strategies, governance frameworks, and major institutional orientations, while ensuring ethical adaptability to evolving global and African priorities. Establish, validate, and ensure coherence among all governing and executive bodies of GECCA, including their mandates, interactions, and accountability mechanisms. Appoint, and, where necessary, evaluate senior governing and executive leadership, ensuring alignment with the GECCA’s values, its competence standards, strategic criteria, and requirements for merit, excellence, and integrity. Act as Moral Arbiter, and serve as the ultimate authority in matters of institutional interpretation, governance disputes, and exceptional decisions affecting the GECCA’s integrity, reputation and continuity.
The Board operates in accordance with the principles of collegiality and collective responsibility, independence and impartiality, transparency and accountability, respect for diversity and balanced representation, as well as integrity, professional excellence, and the continuous search for perfection The Board of Trustees is composed of a limited and strategically balanced number of distinguished experts and trustful professionals hired from across the world; including former high officials and senior executives as well as prominent figures in development economics, diplomacy, global governance, public-private sectors, and from bilateral, multilateral, regional and global cooperation fields and international affairs, appointed in accordance with GECCA constitutional and ethical charters, with great priority and privilege granted to the largest contributors as well as to member states and partner institutions. Trustees are selected on the basis of standing and recognized leadership, proven expertise in fields relevant to GECCA’s mission, and demonstrated integrity, independence, and commitment to global Afrocentric development
For further information on members’ engagement and responsibilities within GECCA, please, contact John Ragi Provisional Chair of the Board of Trustees