European Business Summit
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PRIVACY-POLICY | GENERAL TERMS OF SALES
Promoting the voices of companies
in Europe & Africa
to achieve concrete outcomes
EU-Africa Business Summit: Unlocking Africa's economic potential
The EU-Africa Business Summit is an event organised by European Business Summits to promote the voices of enterprises in Europe and Africa. This event is independent from the EABF organised by the European Commission and the African Union.
The fourth edition of the EU-Africa Business Summit, held in a new hybrid format, will seek answers to the most critical economic challenges shaping the shared future of both continents by bringing influential business leaders, policymakers and experts together. Thanks to its role of stable North gate to the African continent, Morocco continues to represent the perfect host of the Summit within the renewed EU-Africa Alliance.
After the interruption due to the Covid pandemic, EU and African companies cannot miss the chance to resume their business relations and take them to the next level. This ambitious Summit will position itself in this framework, providing a privileged debating and networking platform to directly engage in finding answers to the most crucial challenges. In particular, the participants will address the topics of Africa’s Value Chain Expansion, Healthcare Innovation, Digital Transformation and Clean Energy Transition.
The aim of the event is to bring politics and business together in order to provide them with an opportunity to debate and pursue their common goals. For the future of EU and Africa to be mutually prosperous, all actors must be involved in creating a new alliance based on fair and sustainable partnerships.
Confirmed Speakers
Jutta Urpilainen
European Commissioner for International Partnerships
Didier Reynders
European Commissioner for Justice
Albert Muchanga
Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission
Ilias El Fali
Advisor to OCP’s Chairman & CEO and former COO, OCP GROUP
Phil Hogan
Former EU Commissioner on Agriculture
Chiza Charles Chiumya
Acting Director of the Directorate of Industry, Mining and Entrepreneurship, African Union Commission
Maria Shaw-Barragan
Director of Lending in Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia and Latin America at the European Investment Bank
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou
Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur on the new Africa-EU Strategy
Markus Thill
President, Region Africa, Bosch
Dr Matshidiso Moeti
WHO Regional Director for Africa
Patrick Child
Deputy Director General, DG ENVI, European Commission
Lacina Koné
CEO, Smart Africa
Dr. Vera Songwe
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa
Samira Rafaela
Member of the European Parliament
Fatou Haidara
Managing Director, Directorate of Corporate Management and Operations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Marina Sereni
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy
Shada Islam
Brussels-based commentator and analyst and founder of New Horizons Project
Jeremiah Fisayo-Bambi
AfricaNews Journalist
Ricardo Mourinho Felix
Vice President EIB
Kabelo Rabotho
Managing Director, South Africa, Nissan
Ali Zerouali
Director of International Cooperation, Masen
Fifi Peters
CNBC Africa
Steven Stone
Deputy Director, Economy Division UNEP
Federico Maria Grati
Head of Agroenergy services, ENI
Ivor Ichikowitz
Chairman of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation and TransAfrica Capital
Gainmore Zanamwe
Senior Manager (Trade Facilitation), Afreximbank
Badreiddine Mansouri
Managing Director, Sub Sahara Africa, Stellantis
Willi Schulz-Greve
Head of Unit DG Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), European Commission
Andres Schipani
East and Central Africa Correspondent for the Financial Times
Linda Munyengeterwa
Regional Industry Director of Infrastructure, IFC
Joakim Reiter
Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer, Vodafone
Prof. Daniel Nahon
Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence
Godfrey Bahiigwa
Director of the Agriculture Department at African Union Commission
Fabrizio Delage Paganini
Co-founder, CPO Valeur-Tech
Cristina Miranda Gozalvez
Head of Unit, DG TRADE, EU Commission
Arnaud Thysen
Director General
European Business Summits
4 PILLARS
Africa's value chain
Digital Transformation
Healthcare Innovation
Green Transition
“The executive team in Brussels has made Africa a priority. Collaboration with the continent will be based on equality. “
Joanna Drake
Deputy Director – DG ENVI, European Commission
“For its development, Africa does not need more aid but it needs investments”
Leila Farah Mokaddem
Country Manager, African Development Bank
“Listing problems is one thing, defining priorities is another”
Ibrahim Guimba-Saidou
Minister – Special Advisor of the President of Niger
CONTACT
Raffaello Stefani
Eu-africa business summit project manager
+32 (0) 2 645 3 485
