High-Level Roundtable: Diplomacy and Investment Promotion

Dialogue between ambassadors and IPA Executives. Diplomatic missions and investment promotion agencies are natural partners. Coordination between them remains challenging.

• How to create synergies between diplomacy and investment promotion?
• How to maximize impact?

Co-chairs of the roundtable

• H.E. Amb. Maria Martin-Prat, Permanent Representative and Ambassador of the European Union to the World Trade Organization (WTO), European Union (Geneva)
• H.E. Amb. Prof. Muhammadou M.O. Kah, Coordinator of LDCs, Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the WTO in Geneva, The Gambia (Geneva)
• Dr. James Zhan, Chair, Executive Board of World Investment Conference, WAIPA

Lead Speakers

• H.E. Amb. Erwin Bollinger – Head of the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the WTO and EFTA, Switzerland (Geneva)
• H.E. Sadiq Mohammad Marafi – Ambassador; Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations, Kuwait
• H.E. Amb. José Sánchez-Fung – Ambassador to the WTO; SIDS Coordinator; President, UNCTAD Trade and Development Board (TDB), Dominican Republic (Geneva)
• H.E. Sung-yo Choi – Ambassador to the WTO, Republic of Korea (Geneva), Co-chair of the WTO Investment Facilitation
• H.E. Amb. Sharaf Sheralizoda – Ambassador, Tajikistan (Geneva); Coordinator of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
• H.E. Amb. Manuel A.J. Teehankee – Ambassador to the WTO, Philippines (Geneva)
• H.E. Amb. Alaa Mohamed Salaheldin Hegazy – Ambassador; Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations Office at Geneva
• H.E. Amb. Ivars Pundurs – Ambassador to the United Nations, Latvia (Geneva)
• H.E. Mr. Mark Cassayre, Head of the IDLO delegation in Geneva and the Permanent Observer of IDLO to the UN in Geneva

IPA Executives

• Mohammed Mulla Yaqoub, President of the Steering Committee of WAIPA
• Ismail Ersahin, CEO and Executive Director of WAIPA
• Vladimir Pimentel Camilo, Vice President of the Steering Committee of WAIPA, Executive Director at ProDominicana, Dominican Republic
• Tae Hyung Kim, Vice President of the Steering Committee of WAIPA, Commissioner at Invest KOREA
• Omar Rekkache, Regional Director (MENA) at WAIPA, Director General at AAPI, Algeria
• Yusif Abdullayev, Regional Director (Central Asia) at WAIPA, Executive Director at AZPROMO, Azerbaijan
• Marinos Giannopoulos, Regional Director (Europe) at WAIPA, CEO at Enterprise Greece
• Simon Madjie, Regional Director (Sub-Saharan Africa) at WAIPA, CEO at GIPC, Ghana
• Marios Tannousis, Regional Director (Eastern Europe) at WAIPA, CEO at Invest Cyprus (CIPA)