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
Philippe Yvergniaux
Business France
Director, International Cooperation Mission
France: Public-Investor Dialogue at the service of the country's image
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
Diego Guri
AMEC
Deputy General Manager
Spain: How his business exporters association became a purpose driven organisation
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
Mireia López
ACCIO
FDI Team Leader
Promoting FDI contributing to sustainable development in Catalonia
Silvia Pariente-David
World bank
Consultant
Cooperating on Green Hydrogen and Renewables for an effective Energy Transition
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
Matthieu Vis
Provence Promotion
Head of International & Strategy
France: Massilia Mundi, a network of ambassadors serving the international promotion of the Provence
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
Relocation of value chains
Chiraz Belkhiria
PAEB
Marketing Director
Attractiveness and potential relocation of companies within the Parc d'activités économiques
Bruno Casella
UNCTAD
Senior Economist, Investment and Enterprise Division
Global Value Chain transformation in the context of the Covid 19: what prospect? by UNCTAD
Chahir Zaki
University of Cairo
Associate Professor of Economics
The advantages and/or obstacles of MENA countries in capturing projects in the relocation phase
James Zhan
UNCTAD
Director, Division on investment and enterprise
Global Value Chain Transformation toward 2030 and Future Investment Landscape
Blanca Moreno-Dodson
CMI
Director
The need for a Regional reform agenda for better integrating the Mediterranean in Global Value Chains and attracting FDI
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
Antonella Donadio
CCIFM
Secretary General
The Franco-Italia Chamber of Commerce best practices to face the health crisis
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
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
Christina Deligianni
ESGreece
Founder
Sustainability and ESG Finance & Investment trends, globally and in Greece
Gender equality
Nadia Sabaneh
TechWomen
Innovation Catalyst and Agent of Change
Palestine - Creation of a one stop shop for women entrepreneurs
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
Maryse Louis
FEMISE
General Delegate
Innovation in the South Med: scoreboard, common challenges and way forward
Mohab Anis
American University Cairo
Professor
Innovating in the context of Covid crisis, new products, services and business
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
Mohamed Abbas
Nilepreneurs
Associate Director
Egypt: Nilepreneurs, an initiative to support entrepreneurs
Karim Samra
ChangeLabs
Founder & CEO
Egypt: Scale up to Green, a programme dedicated to Egyptian entrepreneurs
Monitoring and support for 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
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
Abel Kouamé
Afrika Toon
General Director
The potential of cinema and audiovisual for African cultural influence
Mounia Aram
Agence Mounia Aram Company
Founder & President
The potential of animation studios in Africa