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.
4 PILLARS
Africa's value chain
Digital Transformation
Healthcare Innovation
Green Transition
Confirmed Speakers
Jutta Urpilainen
European Commissioner for International Partnerships
Didier Reynders
European Commissioner for Justice
Olivér Várhelyi
European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement
Akinwumi A. Adesina
President of the African Development Bank Group
Inger Andersen
Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme
Albert Muchanga
Commissioner for Trade and Industry of the 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
Wamkele Mene
Secretary General of the AfCFTA Secretariat
Dr Matshidiso Moeti
WHO Regional Director for Africa
Patrick Child
Deputy Director General, DG ENVI, European Commission
Leila Farah Mokadem
Director at African Development Bank
Vera Songwe
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Exective 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
Monique Pariat
Director-General, Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs
Manuel V. Rodríguez Díez
Head of ICEX Moroccom Economic and Commercial Office in Casablanca, Spanish Embassy in Morocco
Michael Spindelegger
Director-General, ICMPD
Ahmed M. El Wakil
President, Association of the Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASCAME)
Lex Paulson
Executive Director at UM6P School of Collective Intelligence
Arnaud Thysen
Director General of European Business Summits
“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
