EU Africa 2019

EU-Africa Business Summit

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To view pictures of this year's event, please see our Flickr page.

Join us as a partner in 2019! Contact partnerships@ebsummit.eu for details.

What is the EU-Africa Business Summit?

The Summit, taking place in the prestigious setting of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Marrakech, will bring together national and European policy-makers, business leaders and experts in order to forge a worthwhile and fruitful collaboration to strengthen the future economic dialogue.

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300

Attendees

28

Speakers

12

Countries

16

Panels

SPEAKERS 2018

Join us for these inspiring discussions with business experts and policy-makers sharing their expertise & analysis on economic relations between EU and Africa. The speakers' list is updated on a daily basis.

Bruno Mettling

Chief Executive Officer

Orange EMEA

Hanan Hanzaz

Representative to Morocco

UNIDO

Cécile Jodogne

Secretary of State in charge of Foreign Trade

Brussels-Capital Region

Othman Benjelloun

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

BMCE Bank of Africa Group

Karim Lotfi Senhadji

Director General

OCP Africa

Patrick Dupoux

Senior Partner & Managing Director

Boston Consulting Group

Brahim Benjelloun-Touimi

Group Executive Managing Director

BMCE Bank of Africa Group

Robert Schofield

Head of Financial Sector Division

European Investment Bank

Lex Paulson

Institut d'Etudes Politiques - Sciences Po

Lecturer in Rhetoric & Political Thought

Leila Farah Mokaddem

Country Manager & Resident Representative in Morocco

African Development Bank

Nathalie Wakam

Editor-in-Chief

Africanews

Mohamed Laklalech

Chief Digital Officer

OCP

Thérèse de Liedekerke

Deputy Director General

Business Europe

Olivier Vanden Eynde

Founder and CEO

Close the Gap

Said Ibrahimi

CEO

Casablanca Finance City Authority

Abdelkader Zighed

Director

Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

Tom Parker

Moderator

Cambre/SEC Group

Younès Zrikem

Senior Executive

Boston Consulting Group

Paola De Caro

International Relations Officer

Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission

SAVE THE DATE

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Save the Date: 29 November, 2019

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EU-Africa Business Summit
Themes in pictures

Some of our participants.

Nathalie Wakam, AfricaNews Editor-In-Chief

The Mandarin Oriental catered a gourmet selection for our participants

Leila Farah Mokaddem from the BAD dand David Schofield from the BEI

Othman Benjelloun, BMCE Bank of Africa CEO

Cécile Jodogne, Brussels Secretary of State and Thérèse de Liedekerke from BusinessEurope

The setting for EU-Africa was the majestic Mandarin Oriental Hotel

Karim Lotfi Senhadji (OCP)

Marc Trenteseau, Belgian Ambassador to Morocco

Leila Farah Mokaddem (BAD), David Schofield (BEI) and Said Ibrahimi (Casablanca Finance City)

Bruno Mettling (Orange EMEA)

Mohamed Laklalech (OCP) and Patrick Dupoux (BCG)

The setting for the Opening Dinner was pure magic.

Some entertainment during the Opening Dinner

About the EU External Investment Plan

EU Commissioner For Enlargement Negotiations And European Neighbourhood Policy

Johannes Hahn

“The European External Investment Plan will help leverage significant private funds into key sectors of Morocco's economy. The Plan will, in turn, empower local entrepreneurs and create jobs in the country. This new and innovative approach will also help carry out big sustainable development projects which otherwise would not have been possible at all or would have been significantly smaller. ”