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Discover Cameroon Day Lunch

Speaker :

• H.E. EPHRAIM INONI, Prime Minister, Head of Government of Cameroon

Holder of a Masters in Business Administration, Mr Inoni entered the government as Finance Secretary of State in April 1992. The same year, he was promoted Assistant General Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic. Position he will occupied during twelve years, until his nomination on December 8th 2004 as Prime Minister.

Lunch Conference: Public-private partnerships and sustainable development

Speaker :

• Daniel Kaufmann,

Director, World Bank Institute, Global Governance

Regarded as a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on governance and development, Mr. Kaufmann, with his team, has pioneered new approaches to analyze country governance as well as survey methodologies and indicators for good governance and anti-corruption programs around the world. His research on economic development, governance, the unofficial economy, macro-economics, investment, corruption, privatization, and urban and labor economics has been published in leading journals.  Mr. Kaufmann is also frequent keynote speaker on governance and development issues in major fora.

Doing business with Africa

• Manley BARNARD,

Consul (Economic affairs), High-Commission of the Republic of South Africa

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• Mohamed Ali MAMLOUK,

Vice-consul, Economic representation of Tunisia in Montreal

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• Senator Aloysius ETOK,

Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Nigeria 

• Apollinaire N’DRI,

Governor, District of Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast

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Workshop 1 : On-going Training, guarantee of Success for SME

• Nicole Beaudoin,

CEO, Réseau des femmes d’affaires du Québec (RFAQ)

She was successively controller for Lavo Ltd and vice-president finance and administration at the Group Mode Shirmate. In 1987, she became one of the first women in Canada to take control of the financial and administrative direction of an important company, Via Rail. In 1992, she took up the position of managing director of the processing division of Eastern Canada for Scott Paper, thus becoming the first businesswoman to attain a senior management position in the paper industry. In 1998, she founded the Training Institute for business people, organisation which then became in 2005, the Center for Female Entrepreneurship in Quebec.

• Nicole MERCIER

Director, International development services, Collège Édouard-Montpetit

Graduated from Université Laval in Management, Mrs. Nicole Mercier was first active in the Business sector. In 1989 she joined a team dedicated to the promotion of On-going Training and Services to Entreprises at Collège Édouard-Montpetit. Since 2004 she manages the International Development Services as well as working on the implementation of the College’s Policy of the Globalization of Training.

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• Lalla HAIDARA

Program Manager, Trade Facilitation Office Canada (TFOC)

Lalla has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Investments from Baruch College in New York and a Master of International Affairs (International Development) from Carleton University in Ottawa.  She is currently responsible for TFOC’s Developing Countries Program in Ghana and Haiti and for the Programme for Building African Capacity in Trade (PACT) which will conclude this year.

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Workshop 2 : Project financing 

• Jean-Louis Ekra

President, Africa Export Import Bank (Afreximbank)        

After a long carrier with Citibank N.A. Abidjan (1979-1991) where he was vice-president in charge of financial insitutions from 1989, Mr Ekra was general manager of the ivorian company Post and Savings, and regional director for the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa. He joined Afreximbank in 1996 and was senior executive vice-president until his appointment as President in 2005.

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• David G. Creighton

President and Chief Executive Officer, CORDIANT

Over the course of his 22 year career, Mr. Creighton has accumulated extensive experience in the field of international markets, first with the brokerage firm of Richardson Greenshields in Toronto, in the area of International Money Markets, and later with Burns Fry in New York. For 13 years in London, England, he managed and developed the international fixed income sales team. During his tenure, he expanded the institutional European, African, Middle Eastern and Asian businesses. Mr Creighton has had extensive dealings in fund management, financial engineering, derivatives and securitizations.

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• Langis Lagacé,

A/Director General,Private Sector Directorate (PSD), CIDA

M. Langis Lagacé has been Director- Management and Operational Support, Canadian Partnership Branch – CIDA. Before joining CIDA, he was responsible for a Cultural Orientation Program in a refugee camps in South-East Asia.

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• Tim TURNER

Director, Private Sector and Microfinance Department, African Development Bank (AfDB).

Tim Turner joined the AfDB in 1996 as the inaugural head of risk management. Previously, he worked for Smith Barney, an American Investment Banking firm, in both London and New York. He holds an engineering degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from IMD in Switzerland.

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