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Cheng Lin, Vice Chairman Europe and North America, ZTE, Pierre Simon, Daniel Pham, Managing Director, CMC Blue France, Hervé Truttmann, Vice President Business Development, Genpact, Anne-Marie Idrac, Patrick Cogny, President, Genpact, Koumar Vijaya, Founder and Chairman , Procubeway, Chiara Corazza. |
16 June 2010
Christine Lagarde, Minister of Economy, Industry and Employment, awarded Chiara Corazza the distinction of « Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur »
14June 2010
Working luncheon in honour of H.E. Kong Quan, Ambassador of China in France, in order to discuss the increasing number of Chinese investments in France in front of 30 members of the Greater Paris Investment Agency.
2-4 juin 2010
Member of the Strategic Committee, the Greater Paris Investment Agency participated to the 8th edition of the World Investment Conference of La Baule entitled “Europe’s attractiveness in a changing world”.
12 April 2010
Working luncheon with H.E. José Mauricio Bustani, Ambassador of Brazil in France, around French and Brazilian companies based in the Greater Paris region to discuss the state of the Brazilian economy and the investment potential of its companies in Europe.
18 February 2010
The Greater Paris Investment Agency launched the Global Cities Investment Monitor, in partnership with KPMG, a yearly benchmark comparing perceptions and reality regarding the attractiveness of global cities. A survey based on a sample of more than 500 global business leaders was conducted by OpinionWay, while investment fluxes were analysed over the last five years.
Investing criteria have changed during the crisis: political stability (92%) and economic growth (89%) now dominate.
The image of Paris is quite good: the city ranks third (35%) with only New York (41%) and London (42%) ahead. Regarding attractiveness, Asia rises, with 5 cities in the Top 10. Mumbai is posed to become the favourite destination of international investors over the next three years.
Paris is also well ranked regarding real investments: fourth in the world in 2008-9, third over the last five years. In the Top 5 cities, only Hong-Kong is more dynamic. London leads with 270 projects (191 in Paris).
Paris is the fastest growing top metropolis for research centres; it is now globally in third position – in pole position at European level. Headquarters (+175% in 2008-9) are also a strong asset: Paris is ranked fourth worldwide regarding these strategic investments.
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Pierre Simon, Chiara Corazza, Jean-Luc Decornoy, Chairman, KPMG and Hugues Cazenave, Chairman, OpinionWay |
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21 January 2010
Seizing the opportunity of the official visit in Paris of Saad Hariri, Lebanese Prime Minister, Chiara Corazza, Managing Director, invited Mrs Raya Haffar El Hassan, Minister of Finance and 1st women to obtain such position in the Arab countries, around a breakfast in presence of French businesswomen.
Events in France 2009
21 October 2009
Annual working luncheon in honour of the new Ambassador of the USA in Paris, Charles H. Rivkin,in order to discuss the new political environment since the election of Barack Obama, the depreciation of the dollar and the US relations with China, Russia and Iran, …
19 October 2009
On the occasion of the launch of the French-Bahrain Business Council by Pierre Simon, Chairman of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Naser M. Y. Al Belooshi, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Paris, and in presence of Anne-Marie Idrac, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, the Greater Paris Investment Agency invited some of its members particularly interested in exchanges with this country to meet Dr Hassan Abdullah Fakhro, Bahraini Minister of Commerce and Industr,y in order to discuss the economic orientation of the Kingdom as well as the next mission the Greater Paris Investment Agency plans to organise at the beginning of 2010.
15-17 October 2009
Participation to the 5th Edition of the Women’s Forum Global Meeting which was held in Deauville and which gathered over 1000 participants from over 80 countries, representing 500 organizations. under the theme “Think again, Think ahead! It is time for action, change and hope”.
Thanks to its good introduction with top Arab Businesswomen, the Greater Paris Investment Agency provided support to the Women’s Forum to invite an Official Delegation from the Middle East composed of 40 leading and remarkbale women from business, NGOs, political circle, academia, sciences and technology, the arts and media.
22 September 2009
Annual working lunch in honour of Ranjan Mathai , Ambassador of India in Paris around French and Indian companies based in Paris. He explained the new political environment following the recent elections and how India is reacting to the global economic downturn. This luncheon was also the opportunity to launch the Greater Paris - India Investors Club under the patronage of Jérôme Bonnafont, Ambassador of France in India and Ranjan Mathai, Ambassador of India in France.
This Club will lend its support to the Indian companies based in the Greater Paris region with the aim to deepen trade and strengthen commercial ties between French and Indian companies.
To serve the specific interests of its members, the club will offer:
- Networking : facilitation of meetings with French public and private decision-makers
- Lobbying : the club will act on specific issues and facilitate relations with French governmental officials and with French local authorities to improve the attractivity of France and increase the venue of Indian investors.
- Benchmarking : publication of studies on the attractiveness of Greater Paris compared to other wolrd-class metropoles including Indians.
- Brand building: Media Communication in France and abroad
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2 July 2009
Lunch in honour of Takatoshi Ito, Professor at the Tokyo University and one of the most distinguished specialist of Japanese and international economy and Michel Didier, Chairman of Coe Rexecode and Member of the Economic Analysis Council.
They presented the state of Japanese and European economies facing the actual international financial crisis in presence of a public and French and Japanese CEOs.
1 July 2009
The Greater Paris Investment Agency presented a new study on the quality of welcome of business tourists compared to the other main world metropoles.
3 June 2009
As an introduction to the workshop organised by the National Assembly on the future Greater Paris, Chiara Corazza, Managing Director of the Greater Paris Investment Agency presented to a public composed of businesspeople and national and local representatives the point of view of the international investors. Chiara Corazza stressed that the building of high-quality towers in the business centres plus the linkage of these areas with the airports by a high-speed subway system, as announced by President Sarkozy, was key to uphold the position of Paris as a major metropolis in the global competition.
3-5 June 2009
Participation to the World Investment Conference at La Baule
3 April 2009
Thierry Jacquillat participated to a debate on TV 5 Monde on the attractivity of the Greater Paris region compared to other world class metropoles.
1st April 2009
Conference on “Bank, Insurance and Islamic Finance”
In partnership with the Embassy of Bahrain in Paris and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Greater Paris Investment Agency organised a conference dedicated to Islamic Finance in order to present its virtues and limits, at a time when Paris would like to compete with London in this sector.
Thierry Jacquillat explained that France has positively revised its legislation and Anne Marie Idrac, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, assured potential investors that France is ready to welcome Islamic banks.
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3,4 and 5 March 2009
Arab International Women's Forum 2009
At the invitation of Christine Lagarde Minister of Economy Industry and Labour and Thierry Jacquillat, Chairman of Greater Paris Investment Agency, the Arab International Women Forum (AIWF) gathered for its annual meeting in Paris on 4 th and 5 th March 2009.
Around the Founder and Chairman Haifa Al Kaylani, more than 180 personalities from Middle East including five Ministers participated to this exceptional event.
Entitled “ From Partnership to Prosperity: Women in the Arab World, France and the International Community ” this forum was a unique opportunity to bridge Arab and French business communities and to promote cross border business growth.
It is the first time Paris welcomes such a high level business and political delegation composed of influential women from 22 countries including 14 Arab countries and active in 30 different sectors.
The purpose of this two days visit was to appreciate Greater Paris as a world class metropole, an indisputable place for business and to discover the new look of France facing the world economic challenges...
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Fayza Mohamed Aboulnaga, Egyptian Ministrer of International Cooperation, Thierry Jacquillat, Haifa Fahoum Al Kaylani, Nicole Hameline, Former French minister and Member of Parliament |
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AIWF conference at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
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Mrs Haifa Fahoum Al Kaylani, Chairman, Arab International Women's Forum, HE Ms Fayza Mohamed Aboulnaga, Minister of International Cooperation, Egypt, HE Mrs Bahia Hariri, Minister of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon, HE Dr Fatima Al Balooshi, Minister for Social Development, Bahrain, Mr Thierry Jacquillat, Chairman, Greater Paris Investment Agency; HE Mrs Suhair Al –Ali, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Jordan and Mrs Chiara Corazza, Managing Director, Greater Paris Investment Agency |
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Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment |
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Gala dinner at theJacquemart André Museum hosted by GPIA |
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Visit of La Défense |
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Followed by a panel discussion on Greater Paris business real estate assets |
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Private visit and Closing Reception/Dinner in Galeries Lafayette at the invitation of its Chairman, Philippe Houzé |
4 February 2009
Signing of a strategic partnership agreement with Montreal International in order to facilitate and develop international investments in our respective regions.
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André Gamache, Chairman of Montreal International, Pierre Brunet, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Montréal International and Chairman of Caisse des Dépôts du Québec, Chiara Corazza, Managing Director of the Greater Paris Investment Agency, Raymond Bachand, Minister for Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Québec and Thierry Jacquillat, Chairman of the Greater Paris Investment Agency. |
Events in France 2008
16 April 2008
In presence of Jean-Paul Huchon , Chairman of the Ile-de-France Regional Council, our Association disclosed the results of its annual survey realised by Ernst & Young on the number of international investment projects in the 15 main European metropolitan areas in 2007. We also awarded the best foreign investors who chose to locate their business in the Greater Paris area in 2007.
4-6 June 2008
Participation to the 6 th edition of the "World Investment Conference" in La Baule
10 June 2008
Annual working lunch in honour of Ranjan Mathai , Ambassador of India in Paris around French and Indian companies based in Paris .
7 July 2008
Working luncheon with Valérie Pécresse , French Minister for Education and Research, and members of the Greater Paris Investment Agency to discuss the excellence of Greater Paris innovation and research sector and consider the best means to enhance its international visibility.
22 July 2008
Presentation of KPMG's Competitive Choices 2008 Survey in presence of Christine Lagarde , Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment.
17 September 2008
Presentation of the results of the European version of our survey "Global Cities' Attractiveness Survey 2008 - Paris and its major European Challengers in the World Competition" in Paris and London .
30 September 2008
The Greater Paris Investment Agency seized the opportunity of the visit in France of the Indian Prime Minister and the high-level business delegation accompanying him to host a business cocktail reception in their honour. Kamal Nath, Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry , asked our Agency to be his main partner to connect French and Indian companies in order to increase bilateral trade, technology transfers and increase investments into specific key target sectors.
1 October 2008
Lunch in honour of Il-Hwan Cho, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Paris and members of the Greater Paris Investment Agency to improve the French-Korean economic cooperation.
24 October 2008
Annual working lunch in honour of Yutaka Iimura, Ambassador of Japan in Paris .
27-28 October 2008
Thierry Jacquillat welcomed Sheikh Fahed Al Thani, Minister of Commerce of Qatar and the delegation accompanying him during the 1 st France Gulf Countries Forum held in Paris
10 December 2008
Lunch in honour of H.E. Kong Quan , Ambassador of China in Paris .
Events in France 2007
27 June 2007
Annual working lunch in honour of Ranjan Mathai , Ambassador of India in Paris .
27-29 June 2007
Participation to the 5 th edition of "the World Investment Conference" in La Baule
5 November 2007
Breakfast around Kamal Nath , Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry
21 November 2007
Annual working lunch in honour of Craig R. Stapleton, Ambassador of the USA in Paris .
13 December 2007
Annual working lunch in honour of Yutaka Iimura, Ambassador of Japan in Paris.
Events in France 2006
3-7 April 2006
A US pension fond delegation from California came to Paris on the invitation of the French Senate and the Greater Paris Investment Agency to prospect the various investment opportunities offered by the Greater Paris Region.
3 May 2006
Dinner in honour of Prince Nawaf Bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim , during his visit in Paris to prospect some of the investment opportunities the Greater Paris Investment Agency presented him during our road show in the Gulf Countries.
6-8 June 2006
Participation to the 4th edition of the « World Investment Conference » in La Baule
25 October 2006
Annual luncheon in honour of Craig R. Stapleton , Ambassador of the USA in Paris .
20 November 2006:
Annual working lunch in honour of Yutaka Iimura , Ambassador of Japan in Paris
