Guests of Honour Hon Kamal Nath, Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry and Baroness Ashton, European Trade Commissioner addressed the participants along with Paul Skinner, CBC Chairman and Dr Mohan Kaul CBC Director General.
Special Ministerial guests included, Hon Dr Boolell of Mauritius, HE Amb Bagudu M Hirse of Nigeria, Hon. Daniel Moraka of Botswana, Hon Monique Nsanzabaganwa of Rwanda and Hon Felix Mutati of Zambia.
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(L-R) Mr Paul Skinner CBC Chairman, HE Mr Shiv Shankar Mukherjee Indian High Commissioner to the UK, Baroness Ashton, European Trade Commissioner, Hon. Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry, India, Dr Mohan Kaul, CEO CBC.
Mr Paul Skinner, CBC
and Rio Tinto Chair,
delivering the
opening remarks
at the Dinner
The Commonwealth Business Council, The City of London and the Lagos State Government held the Lagos State Infrastructure Workshop on December 4th 2008 for the visiting Lagos State Governor, HE Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN). This immensely successful event, preceded by a breakfast at the Guildhall, gave the Governor of Lagos State and his officials the opportunity to set out the ambitious vision for the development of Lagos States infrastructure to over 200 practitioners from the worlds centres of engineering expertise and innovative finance.
For more information on the CBC Infrastructure programme please contact Jeff Rodwell
HE Babatunde Raji
Fashola addressing
the Infrastructure Forum in London
Delegates networking during the Lunch Break
The Government of Gujarat inaugurated their 4th Global Investor Summit Vibrant Gujarat in Ahmedabad on 12 & 13th January 2009. The CBC led a delegation of Members to the summit, at which Dr Kaul Chaired a special session on 'Infrastructure with a focus on Special Investment Regions (SIR). The Summit was well attended with over 20,000 delegates comprising Heads of Government, Government Ministers and international business leaders. Over the 2 day summit, $250Billion worth of investment in over 800 MoUs was signed. CBC Technologies, signed a MoU with the Government of Gujarat to build a Clean Technology Solar Power Plant for the production of 5 -10 MW.
For more information please contact Vijay Amliwala.
(L-R) Mr Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijay Kumar, Managing Director, Commonwealth Financial Solutions, Mahesh Ramachandran, Director, Commonwealth Financial Solutions and Dr Mohan Kaul, CBC, launching the Micro Finance initiative in Gujarat, India
The CBC had the pleasure of organising and hosting a breakfast meeting at the Eko Hotel Lagos, Nigeria on 22 January 2009 for our members & partners based in Nigeria, including; Kemson Concept Ltd, Oceanic Bank plc, UBA, Horwath Dafinone, Amazon Energy Ltd, Bank PHB, Access Bank plc, First City Monument Bank plc, Intercontinental Bank plc, Union Bank plc. With the number of CBC members in Nigeria increasing, the focus of the breakfast was to outline the CBCs forward programme for Nigeria, and to seek members views on how the CBCs service could be expanded and in which areas future work should concentrate.
Founded in 1998, the QI Group, is an e-commerce based conglomerate which encompasses all aspects of business, using the internet as its modality bringing products and services from all points of the globe to the customer wherever he or she may be. The Group's expansion into high-quality interrelated businesses, products and services has created many new opportunities for its customers.
With over 1,000 employees, QI Ltd through its various businesses has a global customer base of over three million that spans nearly 160 countries.
Srei has also taken the initiative of building rural infrastructure on an information and technology platform under the Government of Indias National e-Governance Plan. This mega project envisages setting up over 26,500 common service centres in six states to offer a host of B2B, B2C and G2C services to over 250 Million rural Indians.
A large number of reputed international financial institutions like DEG-Germany; FMO-Netherlands;BIO-Belgium;Finfund-Finland;kfW Bankengruppe-Germany and Swedfund-Sweden (financial institutions owned by the Governments of Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Sweden) and BNP Paribas Lease Group, a 100% subsidiary of BNP Paribas, France are among the major stakeholders of the Company. The Company is listed on all the major stock exchanges in India.
February 23, 2009, London, United Kingdom
March 02, 2009 to Mar 03, 2009, London, United Kingdom
March 26, 2009, London, United Kingdom
March 30 to April 1, 2009, Abuja, Nigeria
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