Ms Bineswaree Bolaky, Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, visited the Universities of Bari and Foggia on 11–13 May 2025 as a Distinguished Speaker within the WAGON2Africa TNE PNRR project, at the invitation of Prof. Vito Amendolagine. On 11 May, she chaired a high-level roundtable at the University of Bari Aldo Moro entitled “Industrial Policy, Energy Transition and Green Innovation: International Cooperation for Sustainable and Resilient Development”, held as part of an Erasmus+ KA171 Staff Mobility week also involving a Ukrainian academic delegation. On 12 May, she visited the Department of Economics of the University of Foggia, where she was received by the Vice Chancellor, and delivered a presentation on the UNECA perspective on the Water–Energy–Food nexus, followed by an open discussion on future cooperation between UNECA and the University of Foggia. On 13 May, she delivered a keynote on UNECA’s research and policy priorities in Southern Africa a the University of Bari in a TNE WAGON2Africa dissemination event.
