We partnered with the Government of Queensland and Start-up Catalyst during London Tech Week to convene a panel discussion on: how corporates and start-ups can better work, learn and engage with each other. CWEIC Strategic Partners formed the panel: Lucy Demery, Executive Director, Financial & Strategic Investors Group, Standard Chartered, Mark Evans, Director of Partnerships… Continue reading Australian SME session at London Tech Week, June 2019
Building on CWEIC’s partnership with the Government of Queensland, established at the time of the Commonwealth Games 2018, we convened a roundtable with Hon Cameron Dick MP and our Strategic Partners.
CWEIC’s Deputy Chair, Sir Hugo Swire, co-chaired a roundtable with Strategic Partners and members of the CII delegation of CEOs led by Vikram Kirloskar, President, CII and Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor and Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). CWEIC and CII agreed to work on collaborating at the India-Africa conclave in… Continue reading Commonwealth Roundtable with Confederation of Indian Industry CEOs’ Delegation, June 2019
We hosted a roundtable discussion with Jeremy Clarke-Watson: New Zealand’s Special Envoy for Commonwealth Trade and our Strategic Partners at Marlborough House in London.
CWEIC supported our Strategic Partner, the Association of Business Executives (ABE), to celebrate their UNESCO-backed project to provide entrepreneurial skills to 1.2 million young Nigerians. The project is partially funded by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
We hosted Imo State Governor, the Rt. Hon Chief Sir Emeka Ihedioha, and discussed the Governor’s ambitious economic plans for the state during his first visit to the UK as Governor.
Lord Marland led a Commonwealth session at the Malta A.I. & Blockchain Summit in April 2019. Whilst in Malta, Lord Marland called on the Prime Minister and met our existing Strategic Partners.
CWEIC CEO, Alan Gemmell, Country Director, Obinna Anyanwu, and Supo Sashore called on HE Vice-President Osinbajo to discuss how CWEIC’s Commonwealth network could support the economic ambitions of the new Nigerian Government.
Former Attorney General of Lagos State, Supo Sashore, agreed to chair our Nigeria Advisory Council, which held its inaugural meeting in Lagos in April 2019. We were delighted to host the new Governor of Lagos State, HE Babajide Sanwo-Olu who gave one of his first international business addresses following his election. The meeting was also… Continue reading Nigeria International Advisory Council Meeting, Lagos April 2019
On Wednesday 6 March, the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC) was joined by Country Director and former Director of Investment & Trade for Malaysia Tony Collingridge OBE, who delivered an insightful briefing on the economic climate in Malaysia ahead of CWEIC’s CEO Alan Gemmell’s visit to Kuala Lumpur in April. The roundtable discussion, hosted… Continue reading Malaysia Country Director Briefing at Marlborough House
