The first Session is broadcast this Thursday, July 30, 2020 from 10:00 GMT on the digital platforms and social networks of the Group and its subsidiaries.
The Africa Development Club of the Attijariwafa bank group is launching the AfricaDev Sessions, a cycle of online debate programs intended for its members, institutions and partners of the Group on the African continent. AfricaDev Sessions aims to respond, in a new format of interaction, to the concerns of African companies highlighting African economic themes and making it possible to initiate reflections on current issues for major economic players and SMEs. from the continent.
The current crisis has prompted the Attijariwafa bank group wherever it is located to strengthen its support systems for its customers and to be close to them. Anxious to be up to its mission in this particular context, the first program addresses the theme “COVID19: Lessons and best practices in Africa“. This Session welcomes for debate: Florence Boupda, Director of West and Central Africa of the IFC, Gérard Mangoua, CEO and Co-founder of the Ubipharm group and Ismaïl Douiri, CEO of the Attijariwafa bank group, in charge of the Banking Division International Retail and Specialized Financing Subsidiaries.
About the Africa Development Club
The Africa Development Club, created in 2016 by the Attijariwafa bank group, aims to bring together the business community, managers and public representatives in order to pragmatically boost investments across the continent. A space for networking and exchange dedicated to economic operators wishing to develop in Africa, through the development of business flows and / or investments. It is also a platform giving access to information, training, services and expertise in order to promote the realization of entrepreneurial projects, major structuring projects of States, as well as South-South and North-South cooperation.
In addition to the International Africa Development Forum organized in Casablanca, the Africa Development Club now has more than 3,000 members, and has organized, with the Group’s banks, 20 multisectoral missions in 15 countries, mobilizing more than 2,500 business leaders from the continent. . Since its launch in 2010, the Africa Development International Forum has brought together more than 10,000 companies from 40 countries of the continent and partner countries, carrying out more than 22,000 structured business meetings and generating significant investments all over Africa.
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