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DiaForum 2006 featured high profile speakers drawn
from the academia, civil society, national and
international community.
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Bernard De Gerlache |
Mr De Gerlache is the President of the Belgian
Luxembourg ACP chamber of commerce. With membership made
up of private Belgian companies with interests in Africa,
the chamber's objective is the development of relations
between Belgium-Luxembourg/Africa-Caribbean-Pacific and
vice-versa in the field of industrial, commercial,
agricultural and cultural exchanges. Mr. De Gerlache is
also board member of a number of Belgian companies.
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John Page |
Mr. John
Page is
the Chief Economist for the Africa Region at the World
Bank. In this position, he provides strategic guidance
and policy advice for the Bank’s country strategies and
operations in Africa. He is also responsible for
intellectual leadership of the Region’s economic
management, growth, poverty reduction, trade and
regional integration agenda. |
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Bram SCHIM VAN DER LOEFF |
Mr SchimVan Der Loeff is the communication and
information manager for the ACP/Investment facility of
the European Investment Bank |
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Dr. Hamed Sow |
Dr. Sow is the Director, Center for the development of
Enterprise CDE), Brussels, Belgium |
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Patrice Dufour |
Mr. Dufour is the communication and external relations
officer, Center forthe Development of Enterprise (CDE),
an EU sponsored center for the promotion of investments
in Africa. |
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Amb. René Makongo |
His Excellency René Makongo is the Ambassador of the
Republic of Gabon to the Benelux countries and to the
European Union. He is also the current president of the
African Group of Ambassadors. |
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Amb. Clarkson Umelo |
His Excellency Ambassador C. Umelo is the
Nigerian ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg and to the European Union.
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Yves de Rosee |
Mr. Yves de Rosee is a senior project's officer with the
International Finance Corporation. He assumed
responsibility for the Brussels office of this
institution early in 2006. |
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Bwalya Mwali |
Originally from Zambia, Ms. Mwali has invested in the
Jewellery sector in her native Zambia as well as in Mali. |
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Jean-Marie Rurimirije |
Mr. Rurmirije, has established a thriving health
insurance scheme in his native Burundi. |
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Béatrice Gakuba |
Mrs. Gakuba is the Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda
Flor, a Kigali-based flower production firm. Previously,
member of the African diaspora working for the World
bank Group and other international insititutions, Mrs. Gakuba decided to invest in her native Rwanda. |
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Loic de Canniere |
Managing Director,
Incofin - Impulse Microfinance Investment Fund, Belgium.
Prior to joining INCOFIN,he worked as project finance
specialist for the DEME Group, a leading marine
engineering company, where he was in charge of financing
large port construction projects worldwide through
structured finance in Africa and Asis. |
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Cécile
Carlier Parnotte |
Mrs Carlier Parnotte
is industrial
adviser, United Nations Organisation for Industrial
Development, Paris, France.
She joined UNIDO in 1994, focusing on the industrial
partnership between France and latin America for the
first 6 years. In 2000, she moved to the Africa
department with responsibility for investment promotion
for African countries in ITPO, Paris. |
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Paul Goosens |
Mr. Goosens is the
Senior Investment officer, Belgian Investment
Organisation (BIO), Brussels, Belgium. He manages the
SME Fund, BIO's investment vehicle for local SMEs. Prior
to joining BIO in 2005, Mr Goosens worked for 5 years
with GINV in private equity investment after an
international career with Schlumberger. |
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Dina Ionescu |
Dina Ionescu is a research fellow at the Geneva
headquarters of the International Organisation for
Migration |
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Peter Von Bethlenfalvy |
Mr. Von Bethlenfalvy is the regional representative of
the International office for Migration in Brussels. |
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Barbara Kasekende |
Ms. Barbara Kasekende
is the International & Corporate Marketing Manager
of Akright Projects, Kampala, Uganda, a company
active in the tourism sector in the East African region. |
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Frances B. Marshoff |
H.E. Frances Marshoff
is the
Premier of the Free State Province of South Africa |
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Nosimo BALINDLELA |
H.E. N.
BALINDLELA is the Premier of the Eastern Cape Region,
south Africa |
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Jasminar Gasnolar |
Mrs Gasnolar is the Regional Manager, Asset Finance
within the small and emerging markets department of ABSA
Bank. This bank is part of the Absa Group, one of South
Africa's largest financial services organisations which
also provides products and services to selected markets internationally. |
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