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Events in France 2011

17 November 2011: Greater Paris-India Investors’ Club
For the 4th meeting of the Greater Paris-India Investors Club, Benoît Coeuré, Deputy Director General of the French Treasury and Chief Economist, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, was our guest of honour.
As an active player in the G20 negotiations in Cannes, he presented an overview of the Summit’s conclusions and the key points of convergence between France and India on numerous economic and commercial issues. Benoît Coeuré highlighted the importance of such club of investors which helps to improve links between these two countries. During this exchange, the members of the GPIIC shared with him their questions and their anxiety on the future of the Eurozone.

16 November 2011
Meeting with Mohammed Bin Essa Al-Khalifa and the delegation of Bahraini CEOs accompanying him in the frame of our strategic partnership with EDB (Economic Development Board).

27 September 2011: Forum on Innovation and Research
« From the City Light to the Smart City? »: 6th Forum on Innovation and Research
From the conclusions of the exclusive survey « Digital ecosystem: how to capitalize on best international practices » drawn with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the Greater Paris Investment Agency analysed the levers of attractiveness in nine global cities and recommends seven actions to reinforce the position of our Capital Region in the international competition among Smart Cities.

Paris and its region have several important assets to put forward: one of the most developed Very High-Speed network, a high-qualified workforce of 3000 workers in ITC, a cluster dedicated to 1000 ITC projects (representing an investment of 550 million euros over four years), 4,25 billion euros invested in numerical field by the government…

During this Forum, Delphine Manceau, Director of the Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness led the first round table on the topic “Best practices of Smart Cities - strengths and weaknesses of Paris Ile-de-France”. The second discussion, animated by Chiara Corazza, focused on two questions: “Which concrete applications can we gain from the foreign experiences? How can we use digital technologies as a lever for of success for the Greater Paris project?”.

Among the propositions made by the Greater Paris Investment Agency, the numerous companies and experts attending this Forum stressed on the ones promoting innovation, ICT and a better governance.

Jean-Christophe Saunière, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory 

Augustin de Romanet, Serge Villepelet, Pierre Simon

Round Table: “Best practices of Smart Cities – strengths and weaknesses of Paris Ile-de-France”
Claude Sassoulas, Managing Director of the Europe Region, Tata Communications, Gordon Gill, Partner, PositivEnergy, Emmanuel Lumineau Managing Partner, 1Oak Group, Delphine Manceau, Director of the Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness, Sylvie Spalmacin, Vice-Président Smarter Cities, IBM France, Jean-Luc Beylat, President, Systematic, President, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs France, Patrick Delanoë, Strategy, Business Development & Solution Cente,  Schneider Electric

Round Table: “Which concrete applications can we gain from the foreign experiences? How can we use digital technologies as a lever for of success for the Greater Paris project?”
Stéphane Quéré, Senior VP Sustainable Urbanization , GDF Suez, Karen Le Chenadec, Director of the Department of digital development of the territories, CDC, Pierre Louette, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Group General Secretary, Orange, Chiara Corazza

Pierre Louette, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Group General Secretary, Orange, Chiara Corazza, Robert Vassoyan, Managing Director, Cisco France, François Gerin, Deputy Managng Directori, Siemens France, Henri Verdier, President, Cap Digitalng

More than 300 participants to this 6th Forum on Innovation and Research

Download the survey (only available in French)

 

22 September 2011: Greater Paris-India Investors’ Club
The Greater Paris-India Investors’ Club received HE Rakesh Sood, Ambassador of India in France, appointed just a few weeks ago.
This meeting was the first contact of the Ambassador with the French and Indian business community in Paris. The exchanges highlighted the great dynamism of Indian companies in Paris, and the will of French businessmen to develop special links with Indian partners.

 

1 September 2011
Participation to the Innovation Award 2011 delivered by Siemens France. This Prize rewards the technologic advances and the innovative spirit of SMEs and big companies in different fields: “start-up”, “city of the future”, “the favourite choice of the jury” and the Greater Siemens Innovation Award.

The jury of this prestigious Award assessed the value of the numerous innovative projects studied, and expressed its support to the winners.

Among the members of the jury : Claudie Haigneré, Former Minister and President of Universcience, François Gerin, Deputy Managing Director, Siemens France, Emmanuel Leprince, Managing Director, Pacte PME, Laure Reinhart, Executive Director of Innovation, Oséo, Jean Syrota, Consultant, and Chiara Corazza, Managing Director of the Greater Paris Investment Agency.  

The laureates:

  • Greater Siemens Innovation Award : Ipdia, for its PICS’ technology (Passive Integration Connecting Substrate)
  • City of the future : Cortus, for its innovation Processor APS3 32 bit
  • Start-up : Osseomatrix
  • The favourite choice of the jury : Lemer Pax

 

 

4-5 July 2011
Presentation by Pierre Simon of the new investment and partnership opportunities in the frame of the Greater Paris Project on the occasion of a panel session dedicated to Chinese companies in the frame of the Paris Europlace International Financial Forum.

 

8 June 2011: Attractiveness Eve

The Greater Paris Investment Agency disclosed the “Perception by Investors” of the Global Cities Investment Monitor 2011 created with KPMG  to which participated Maurice Leroy, Minister of the City in charge of the Greater Paris project

Introduction by Pierre Simon, Chairman, Greater Paris Investment Agency

Investors perception tends to confirm this. Paris maintains a good image for the 500 international deciders questioned by OpinionWay: it is the 3rd global city in this ranking, behind New York and London, but ahead of Shanghai.
                                       
Nevertheless, in terms of economic attractiveness, Shanghai comes first, followed by Beijing, Mumbai and New York. Paris no longer appears in any Top 5 made for the rankings concerning the criteria considered as determining by the investors: political and judicial stability, accessibility and size of markets, economic growth.

“The economic image of the Capital Region is not strong enough in the global cities of emerging countries, declares Pierre Simon. We have to pursue our efforts towards promotion in these regions. Each one of our road-shows proves it: the Greater Paris project is a unique opportunity to seize their attention and thus help us remain among the most attractive global cities”.

 

To conclude, Maurice Leroy, Minister of the City in charge of the Greater Paris, stated that “we must insure that the offer represented by the Greater Paris project will be fully integrated as an attracting factor in the criteria chosen by investors. I wish that Greater Paris should automatically be taken into account in companies’ strategies”.

Round table with Jean-Michel Boussemart, General Delegate, Coe-Rexecode, Hughes Cazenave, President, OpinionWay, Chiara Corazza, Pierre-Mathieu Duhamel, President of the Strategic Committee, KPMG, and François Gerin, Managing Director, Siemens

The results reveal some contrast. Concerning the reality of investments, Greater Paris ranks 3rd over the last five years; it yet shows a slight decrease for the past year, during which our Capital Region only ranks 5th. The emerging global cities are the great winners of the present trends.

Download the Global Cities Investment Monitor 2011


26-27 May 2011


As a member of the Strategic Committee, the Greater Paris Investment Agency participated to the 9th World Investment Conference of La Baule, on the theme “Stimulating Global Economic Growth”

This year, the focus was on India and Pierre Simon took part in the concluding session entitled “Practical next steps to define the EU-India business framework”.

24 May 2011
“Greater Paris is on the move” seminary organized by the Greater Paris Investment Agency, in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).

The Greater Paris Investment Agency invited a delegation of chosen Indian investors, conducted by Anand Sharma, the Indian Minister of Trade and Industry. This was done under the patronage of several French ministers: Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Finances and Industry, Valérie Pécresse, Minister for Higher Education and Research, and Maurice Leroy, Minister for Urban Affairs in charge of the Greater Paris project.

This event, which brought together around 150 CEOs, aimed at presenting the concrete investment opportunities in Greater Paris through various thematic panels, in fields such as infrastructure, business real estate, finance, research and innovation, mergers and acquisitions….

Welcoming of the participants by Greater Paris Investment Agency (here represented by Chiara Corazza), H.E. Ranjan Mathai, Indian Ambassador in Paris and Claude Blanchemaison, former French Ambassador in India and President of the Greater Paris India Investors’ Club of Greater Paris Investment Agency


Introductory speeches by Pierre Simon and N. Kumar, Former President of the CII and Vice-President of the Sanmar Group.

“The Greater Paris project- Focus on Infrastructures”
André Santini, Former Minister, Mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, Président of the Greater Paris Society, France
Pierre Graff, CEO, Aéroports de Paris, France
Pierre Mongin, CEO, RATP, France
Gopichand P. Hinduja, Co-President, Hinduja Group, India
Chandrajit Banerjee, Managing Director, CII, India

“The Greater Paris project- Focus on Real Estate”
Christian Sautter, Former Minister, Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of Employment, Economic Development and International Development, France
Philippe Chaix, Managing Director, EPADESA, France
Jean-Pierre Duport, Senior Advisor, Unibail-Rodamco, France
Frédéric Nouel, Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel, France
Prashant Jhawar, President, Usha Martin Ltd, India

“Paris as a key financial place in Europe, leader in asset management: cross-border investment opportunities”
Olivier Garnier, Group Chief Economist, Société Générale, France
Alain Papiasse, Responsable Corporate and Investment Banking, BNP-Paribas, France
Arnaud de Bresson, General Delegate, Paris Europlace, France
N Kumar, Former President, CII & Vice-President, The Sanmar Group, India
Sanjay Mehta, Managing Director, Essar Global, India

Intervention by Anand Sharma, Indian Minister of Trade and Industry

“Networking Luncheon: Innovation in Education and rising talents France India partnerships” in presence of Valerie Pecresse and Anand Sharma, with interventions by Pascal Morand, Managing Director of ESCP-EAP and Laurent Batsch, President of Paris Dauphine University

For this event, the Greater Paris Investment Agency offered an Archos tablet to the ministers and the Indian delegation, in which they could find information and presentations of the assets of the Greater Paris region.

“Investment and Partnership Opportunities in innovation”
Jean-Luc Beylat, CEO, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs and VP International System@tic, France
Eric Prosé, Managing Director, SynergEthic SA Tilter, France
Jean-François Humilier, CEO, AAA Industries, France
Hervé Schricke, President, AFIC, France
Laure Reinhardt, Managing Director in charge of Innovation, Oséo, France
Frédéric Grard, Deputy Managing Director, Altran Technologies, France
Anjan Lahiri, President, IT Services, MindTree Ltd, India
Mukesh Aghi, Managing Director (Asia Pacific), Steria Ltd, India
Bala Subramiam, VP-Europe, ITC Infotech, India

For this session, a prototype of “the Tilter”, an urban electric car, was presented to the ministers.

 

“Mergers and Acquisitions in France: how can we make it happen?”
Stéphane Baller, Partner, Ernst&Young, France
Gilles Dessanges, Partner, Axcior Corporate Finance, France
Christophe Eck, Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel, France
John Hadley, Partner, Responsable for the India Business Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, France
Arnaud Saint-Mleux, Managing Director, Vice-Chairman Global MNA, Crédit Agricole CIB (Calyon), France
Laurent Schoenstein, Partner in charge of the India Desk, Clifford Chance, France
Marc Stehlin, Founding Partner, Stehlin & Associates, France
Thierry Varène, Head of Investment Banking Europe, BNP Paribas, France
Mohan Murti, Managing Director Europe, Reliance Industries Limited, India
Barahm Vakil, Founding Partner, AZB & Partners, India

Gala dinner offered by Greater Paris Investment Agency at Place de la Concorde

 

5 April 2011 
Working luncheon with H.E. José Mauricio Bustani, Ambassador of Brazil in France and in presence of the Greater Paris Investment Agency members particularly active on the Brazilian market.

This was the opportunity, in a very friendly atmosphere, to do a review of the Brazilian economy and investments and to prepare the future road show of the Greater Paris Investment Agency in Rio de Janeiro.

 

11 March 2011 
The Greater Paris Investment Agency invited its members to the presentation by Bertrand Collomb, honorary President of Lafarge, Member of the Institute and Michel Drancourt, Economist and journalist, of the the book “Plaidoyer pour l’Entreprise” that reveals, using many examples, the right choices to make in order to boost our trust in the future.

This was the opportunity to exchange with the authors over the role of companies faced with the new challenges of a rapidly changing world.

 

24 January 2011

Annual working luncheon in honour of H.E. Yasuo Saito, Ambassador of Japan in France, in order to discuss Japanese investments in France in front of 30 members of the Greater Paris Investment Agency.

 

11 January 2011
Luncheon with André Santini, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Société du Grand Paris, and some members of the Greater Paris Investment Agency.


5 January 2011
Seizing the opportunity of the venue in Paris of Kamal Nath, Indian Minister of Road Transport and Highways, the Greater Paris Investment Agency organised a networking cocktail meeting with the presence of Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry and the French business community.



Events in France 2010

24 November 2010 : Hospitality Evening

The Greater Paris Investment Agency in partnership with Presence and with the support of Aéroports de Paris, RATP and SNCF, disclosed the results of its exclusive survey « Quality of hospitality of business tourists and investors compared to other main world metropoles».

This survey mobilized 11 mystery visitors who made a 2 day trip in one metropole and evaluated 700 observation criteria (smile, attentiveness, availability, courtesy, …) strictly comparable from one metropole to another.

New York is on top of the podium and London ranks 4th.

Paris rises from the 9th to the 7th rank within a year, therefore stressing the increasing interest given to the necessity to improve hospitality in the Greater Paris area in order to match its recognised leadership regarding the quality of life (2010 Anhold City Index).

A few results concerning Greater Paris:

  • The Transportation sector registered a significant progress (7th, +3)
  • Hotel hospitality stays at an excellent level (2nd, -1)
  • Business information centers reveal important deficiencies which absolutely need to be corrected (11th)
  • Command of the English langage, business language (5th, -1) places Greater Paris behind North Europe but well ahead Asian metropoles.

Download the study (only available in French)
Download the Press Release (only available in French)

Presentation by Philippe Chaix, Managing Director of EPADESA and Katayoune Panahi, Managing Director of Defacto of the new policies and strategies for the business district of La Defense.

Launch by Jean-Yves Durance of the new internet website Connecting-Paris realised in partnership with the Greater Paris Investment Agency.

This website is designed to bring together a network of public and private partners which put their expertise at the service of businesses and their employees to help in various stages of their implementation project:  completion of administrative formalities, finding premises, recruiting staff, impatriation of foreign employees, etc.

29 October 2010
Participation to the 13th Moscow – Invest 2010 International Forum during which Chiara Corazza explained the investment opportunities existing in Greater Paris, especially in the business real estate sector.

Chiara Corazza and Vladimir Platonov, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma

Alexander Borisov, Managing Director of the Moscow International Business Association and Chiara Corazza signed a strategic partnership to promote foreign investments in the Greater Paris and in the City of Moscow, with an aim to foster economic development in both regions.

28-29 September 2010
In the frame of the strategic cooperation between the Greater Paris Investment Agency and the Bahrain Economic Development Board, Sh. Mohammed bin Essa Al Khalifa, its Chairman, came to Paris accompanied by the main Bahrain economic decision-makers.
                             
Was organised during this visit:

  • a seminar at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the investment and partnership opportunities in both countries. It was followed by B to B meetings between French and Bahraini CEOs
  • a visit of the business district of La Defense with a presentation made by EPADESA
  • a gala dinner at the invitation of the Embassy of Bahrain in Paris to which the Greater Paris Investment Agency invited its members particularly interested in exchanges with this country.

23 September 2010
Fifth Forum on Research: « Innovation as a key factor of attractiveness: a challenge for Paris ? »
The Greater Paris Investment Agency released an exclusive study realised with Deloitte. It benchmarks seven European metropolises including Paris on reality and perceptions of innovation.
In real innovation, Paris comes on top, with outstanding human resources and higher education and a top-tier level of spending on R&D.
However, in terms of perceptions, London has the upper hand thanks notably to a more mature venture capital sector. The Greater Paris Investment Agency proposes several measures designed to close the gap.            

Download the study(only available in French)

The Greater Paris Investment Agency also published a toolkit at the request of a set of international experts. The toolkit is designed to help innovative entrepreneurs to better convey the value of their projects to business angels and venture capital funds.


Forum speakers : Pierre-Emmanuel Aubert, Chairman, Angels Santé, Administrator France Angels, Bernard Bigot, Chairman, French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Laurent Blanchard, Managing Director, CISCO France, Pascal Colombani, Chairman, Valeo, Chairman of the Greater Paris Investment Agency working group, Senior Advisor, AT Kearney, Jean-Baptiste Coumau, Senior Associate, McKinsey&Company, Francois Drouin, Chairman and Managing Director, Oséo, Franck Escoubes, Directeur principal, Deloitte Montreal, Jean Noel de Galzain, Vice-Chairman, Systematic, CEO, Wallix, Nicolas Granier, Partner, Landwell, Jean-Claude Karpeles, Member of the Supervisory Board, MERSEN, Bruno Lescure, Partner, Altran, Gilles Pedini, Head of Public Sector Consulting, Deloitte, Augustin de Romanet, Managing Director, CDC, Jacques Sciammas, Managing Director, Keiretsu Paris

20 September 2010
Annual working luncheon with H.E. Ranjan Mathai, Ambassador of India in Paris, and around French and Indian companies based in Greater Paris.
This was the opportunity to discuss the state of the Indian economy and the investment potential of its companies in Europe as well as present the coming Greater Paris Investment Agency road show in New Delhi planned on November in the frame of the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum.
This meeting also allowed Pierre Simon to speak of the “Greater Paris – India Investors’ Club” which mission is to 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.


22 June 2010 : «  the Attractiveness evening 


The Greater Paris Investment Agency invited a panel of international investors and decision-makers in presence of Anne-Marie Idrac, Minister of State for External Trade to discuss the Greater Paris advantages and challenges in the face of growing competition from Asian cities, as revealed by the Global Cities Investment Monitor 2010.

The panel composed of Pierre-Mathieu Duhamel, Chairman of the Strategic Committee, KPMG, Léo Sun, Managing Director France, Huawei, John Vassallo, Vice President EU Affairs General Counsel, Microsoft and Chiara Corazza, Managing Director, Greater Paris Investment Agency agreed that, in spite of the Asian Cities new attractiveness to strategic functions such as headquarters and research centres, the Greater Paris was one of the best placed Western Global Cities, thanks to its exceptionally diverse economy and to its innovative clusters.

The Monitor fully reflects this opinion, since Paris is in 2010 the first non-Asian Global City for Greenfield Investments in Research centres and the fastest-growing European City for headquarters.

On this occasion, Anne-Marie Idrac and Pierre Simon awarded the Greater Paris Investment Agency “Trophee of the Best Investor of the Year”  to 4 companies who set up in the Greater Paris region in 2009:  Genpact (USA), Procubeway SAS (India), ZTE (China) and CMC Blue France (Vietnam) (click here to know more about the award ceremony)

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.

Pierre Simon, Chiara Corazza, Jean-Luc Decornoy, Chairman, KPMG and Hugues Cazenave, Chairman, OpinionWay

Download the survey

Download the Press Release

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.
Download document on Islamic Finance in France

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...

Fayza Mohamed Aboulnaga, Egyptian Ministrer of International Cooperation,  Thierry Jacquillat, Haifa Fahoum Al Kaylani, Nicole Hameline, Former  French minister and Member of Parliament
AIWF conference at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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
Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment
Gala dinner at theJacquemart André Museum hosted by GPIA
Visit of La Défense
Followed by a panel discussion on Greater Paris business real estate assets
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.

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

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