WAIPA Meetings in Geneva
WAIPA President Fahad Al Gergawi, Executive Director Bostjan Skalar, Deputy Executive Director Ismail Ersahin held a number of meetings in Geneva from 27 to 28 January 2020 with: Executive Director of the Enhanced Integrated Framework [...]
WAIPA launches EIF co-funded project to build capacity on investment promotion in LDCs
Aim is to improve the capacities and skills of Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) and EIF National Implementation Units (NIUs), as well as government officials in the least developed countries (LDCs) Co-funded by the Enhanced Integrated [...]
OIC High Level Public and Private Investment Conference
The Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Investment Office, the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Islamic Development Bank Group jointly hold the first “OIC High Level Public and Private Investment [...]
Last FDI Excellence Series training in 2019 held in Rome
The last FDI Excellence Series training course in 2019 was held from 3-4 December 2019 in Rome, Italy and hosted by WAIPA member ITA - Italian Trade Agency. WAIPA had a pleasure to welcome investment [...]
Vacant positions for WAIPA Steering Committee 2019 – 2021 (deadline by 28 February 2020)
Dear WAIPA Members, We would like to inform you that the positions for the regional directorship of North America and South Asia remained vacant. Therefore we hereby invite all our members from said regions who [...]
ICC Trade And Investment Policy Commission Meeting
WAIPA Executive Director Bostjan Skalar was invited to participate at the ICC Trade And Investment Policy Commission Meeting which was held on 20 November 2019 in Paris, France. In his speech he stated that ICC, [...]
World Free & Special Economic Zones Summit
On 13 – 15 November 2019 the FEMOZA (The World Free and Special Economic Zones Federation) organized in cooperation with WAIPA and our Consultative Committee UNIDO (The United Nations Industrial Development Organization) the SU-MEET, a [...]
WAIPA at the second ACP-EU Private Sector Development Framework Event, West and Central Africa Region
WAIPA was pleased to join as partner at the second ACP PSD regional meeting this year devoted to the West and Central Africa region with the main objective of information, knowledge sharing and networking held [...]
Online Training Course on International Business Alliances
WAIPA and its long-term strategic partner, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are pleased to inform WAIPA members about the training course "International Business Alliances". The aim of the International Business Alliances online training [...]
NEW STEERING COMMITTEE ELECTED FOR THE 2019-2021 TERM
Our distinct pleasure to announce and welcome new Steering Committee on board. General Assembly at WAIPA's World Investment Conference 2019 (WIC19) in Warsaw, Poland elects Dubai FDI as Presidency, GAFI and Invest India as [...]
WAIPA at Dubai Investment Week 2019
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, the Dubai Investment Week 2019 was held in Dubai at Jumeirah [...]
Regional Workshop on International Investment Policy Reform for Sustainable Development
UNCTAD in cooperation with the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation and the Islamic Development Bank organized a regional workshop for member countries of the D-8 organization on “International Investment Policy Reform for Sustainable Development”. The [...]
WAIPA in China
WAIPA Executive Director Bostjan Skalar participated in a series of meetings in China. He was invited as a speaker to the 17th Annual Conference of Federation of Investment Promotion Agencies of China (FIPAC), a national [...]
Bled Strategic Forum 2019
Under the title "(Re)sources of (In)stability", the 14th Bled Strategic Forum, took place in Ljubljana/Bled, Slovenia, and was dedicated to discussing the role of (re)sources regarding peace and security, sustainable development and economic progress. The [...]
ANNOUNCING 2019 WAIPA GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA
According to WAIPA Statutes, today on 6 September 2019, 30 days prior to General Assembly we announce the agenda of WAIPA General Assembly, that will take place on the first day of WAIPA World [...]
Presenting the candidacies for the WAIPA Steering Committee 2019 – 2021
According to Statutes, WAIPA is pleased to announce the candidacies for a new WAIPA Steering Committee, to be elected for the 2019-2021 term, 60 days prior to the General Assembly. [...]