Good practices

Members and partners share their experiences

Experts and testimonials from business support agencies provide keys and answers on a given theme.

Strategic watch & sector prospective

Ola El Kobrosy

General Authority For Investment And Free Zones

Deputy Executive Director

How Egypt developed his portfolio of investment project and promotes it towards investors

Matthieu Leguay

Business France

Business Intelligence Department Invest Department

France: Best practices in prospective intelligence and strategic intelligence

Ghali Manoubi

Tunisia Investment Authority

Head of Investment Policy and Reforms Division

Tunisia: How the TIA set up its monitoring unit


Communication and image

Zied Lahbib

FIPA Tunisia

International Marketing Director

Tunisia: Managing communication during past and current crisis

Ramy Boujawdeh

Berytech

Deputy General Manager

Lebanon: A specific need on crisis communication

Philippe Yvergniaux

Business France

Director, International Cooperation Mission

France: Public-Investor Dialogue at the service of the country's image

Zied Lahbib

FIPA Tunisia

International Marketing Director

Tunisia image branding experience


Aftercare

Amine Bennani

RisingSUD

International Project Manager

France: Aftercare at the service of the Southern Region's attractiveness

Philippe Yvergniaux

Business France

Director, International Cooperation Mission

France: How aftercare can be a powerful political advocacy and a business climate improvement leverage

Nagy Abo El Ela

General Authority For Investment And Free Zones

Under Secretary Head of Investors Care Department

Egypt: Aftercare at the service of attractiveness

Nejma El Houda Bouamama

Agence Marocaine de Développement des Investissements et des Exportations

Head of Service, in charge of the Investment Commission

Morocco: How investor aftercare helps the new law to emerge


Digitalisation of services for companies and investors

Vasso Kyrkou

Enterprise Greece

Director, Communication, International & Institutional Affairs

Greece: Managing digitalisation during the current international crisis

Sonia Fernandez

AMEC

Project Manager, Projects & Partnerships

Spain: Digitalisation needs in Spain during the current international crisis

Anett Numa

e-Estonia Briefing Center

Digital Transformation Advisor

The virus-proof e-business environment- Estonian digital example

Beligh Ben Soltane

Tunisia Investment Authority

Chairman

TIA's experience in setting up the investor platform

Yasser Ahmed Abbas

General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (Egypt)

Chief of Investor Service Centers

GAFI’s experience in implementing e-procedures and services for investors and enterprises


Sustainable development and local impacts

Douja Gharbi

Confédération des Entreprises Citoyennes de Tunisie

Vice President

Tunisia: How the private sector is promoting socially responsible business practices

Philippe Yvergniaux

Business France

Director, International Cooperation Mission

France: How to maximise local impacts of FDI ?

Christos Skouras

Enterprise Greece

Communication, International & Institutional Affairs Directorate

Greece: The Synergassia programme, a local experience that goes global

Emmanuel Noutary

ANIMA Investment Network

General Delegate

Assessing the local impacts of investment projects. Presentation of the EDILE tools


Promote investments thanks to the diaspora

Conor Long

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Ireland)

Deputy Director, Irish Abroad Unit

Ireland: fostering entrepreneurial activity among returned emigrants

Pape Amar

APIX

Head of Department Marketing & Diaspora

Senegal: The Diaspora one-stop shop - State of implementation and perspectives

Laetitia Bicciaci

Provence Promotion

Inward Investment Advisor

France : Home sweet home, a one-stop shop dedicated to expat digital talents

Alain Koum

Ministry of External Relations at the Directorate for Cameroonians

Diplomat

Cameroon: Support and investment programmes for young people

Jihène Ben Romdhane

FIPA Tunisia

Senior Deputy Director

Tunisia: The involvement of Tunisian Skills Abroad

Moussa Bouare

API Mali

Director of the One-Stop-Shop

Mali: The diaspora one-stop shop, implementation status and prospects

Katieneffooua Ouattara

DGD Côte d’Ivoire

Director of Diaspora Skills and Resource Mobilisation

Côte d'Ivoire: the accompaniments of the General Directorate of the Diaspora Côte d'Ivoire

Mathilde Jacquemin

I&P

Consultant

Africa: eligibility criteria for the impact fund


Relocation of value chains


Answer to the COVID-19 crisis

Paul Wessendorp

CNUCED

Chief, Investment Promotion Section, Division on Investment and Enterprise

IPAs response to the pandemic and the New Normal

Virginie Poncet

BPI France

Head of International Expertise Activities

France : Pandemic COVID-19 business support

Kurt Farrugia

Malta Enterprise

Chief Executive Officer

Malta : Aftercare at the service of attractiveness

Majdi Hassen

Institut arabe des chefs d'entreprises

Executive Director

Impact of the pandemic and recovery strategies in countries around the Mediterranean

Hend Mohamed Hassan

General Authority For Investment and Free Zones (GAFI)

Senior economic researcher

Egypt: Innovating to support SMEs and start-ups during the health crisis

Raphaëlle Simeoni

Région SUD

Deputy Director General in charge of the economy, employment, training, innovation and international affairs

France - Southern Region: Evolution of SME support during the COVID-19 crisis


Strategies and opportunities in the green economy

Matthew Stephenson

World Economic Forum

Policy and Community Lead for International Trade and Investment

Innovative investment policies for sustainable growth

Hicham Boudraa

AMDIE

Acting CEO

Green economy in Morocco

Roger Costa

ACCIÓ

FDI Promotion & Partners Manager

Catalonia: FDI attraction strategy on Circular Economy

Ahmed Zohair

GAFI

Director of Foreign Investment Promotion - Promotion Sector

Green economy and green growth in Egypt


Gender equality

Soukaina Bouraoui

CAWTAR

Director

Gender equality in the MENA region

Nadia Sabaneh

TechWomen

Innovation Catalyst and Agent of Change

Palestine - Creation of a one stop shop for women entrepreneurs

Sana Afouaiz

Womenpreneur

Founder & Director

Women entrepreneurs in the MENA region

Sougrynoma Zaïnatou Soré

IITA - CGIAR

Head of Capacity Development Office

Nigeria - Presentation of IITA - CGIAR projects

Seynabou Thiam

Smart Ecosystem for Women

Founder

Senegal - Presentation of the Women in Africa initiative

Jean Claude Ngendandumwen

CCOAIB

Director General

Rwanda - Evolution in the place given to women over the years

Sindi Mzamo

Circle of Global Business Women

Founder and President

The historical motivation for the creation of the Circle of Global Business Women


Strategies to support innovation

Agnès Laurent

Bpifrance

Advisor of International Expertise Activities

France: Main key of a public innovation funding strategy

Agnès Laurent

Bpifrance

Advisor of International Expertise Activities

France: Main key of a public innovation funding strategy

Dr. Anas Doukkali

Minister of health in Morocco

Former Minister

Morocco - Digital transformation strategy in Health Tech

Hend Ismail

EduTech & Sustainability Consultant

Egypt - Potential of Digitalization in improving Education

Randa Harb

Green Robot Tech

Founder

Egypt : Keys to supporting young entrepreneurs

Mohamed Abbas

Nilepreneurs

Associate Director

Egypt: Nilepreneurs, an initiative to support entrepreneurs

Ghada Darwish

Globeleq

Country Director

Egypt: Social and economic impact of the Benban project


Monitoring and support for entrepreneurship

Hélène Guéhenneuc

MAHNA

Founder and Director

Burkina Faso - Youth Entrepreneurship

David Cheboryot

E4Impact Foundation

Manager East Africa

Kenya - Socio-economic challenges of entrepreneurship development

Mathieu Bécue

Embassy of France in Senegal

Attaché for Innovation and Digital Economy

Senegal - Franco-African cooperation as a driver for entrepreneurship

Idrissa Diabira

ADEPME

General Director

Senegal: Opportunities for the Senegalese diaspora

Karim Basrire

MeM by CGEM

Board Member

Morocco: Initiatives to support Moroccans in the world


Opportunities in the creative industries in Africa

Awa Khouma

Institut Français Sénégal

In charge of the Lab Dakar support programme

Senegal: talent in fashion, audiovisual and design

Mounia Aram

Agence Mounia Aram Company

Founder & President

The potential of animation studios in Africa