Egypt, represented in its General Authority for Investments and Free Zones (GAFI), has been named as the vice president of ANIMA Investment Network for three years.
ANIMA Investment Network is a multi-country cooperation platform for economic development in the Mediterranean.
It aims at promoting the economies of the Mediterranean countries, to contribute and to favour networking and cooperation between economic actors from European and Mediterranean countries. In this purpose, ANIMA offers its partners economic intelligence tools on the Mediterranean markets, develops projects aimed at improving the attractiveness of the region and organises economic exchange and cooperation between countries within the region.
The elections have been held on the side lines of Tunisia Investment Forum, which took place on June 11-12, 2015.
GAFI has presided ANIMA Investment Network for three years from 2010 to 2012, GAFI also was the vice president for three years from 2013 to 2015, thus it has won for the second time in a row.
The ANIMA network gathers national and regional investment promotion agencies, international organisations, business federations, innovation clusters, financial investors and research institutes from the region. It is operated from Marseille (France) and is chaired by Khalil Laabidi, General Manager, FIPA Tunisia.
ANIMA’s objective is to contribute to the continued improvement of the Mediterranean business climate, as well as encourage a shared and sustainable economic development for the region.
