The Permanent Secretary of CEIB will follow an intense schedule of activities in Bogota
He will speak at the 30th Anniversary of ProColombia, which will be attended by leading representatives of the Colombian Government and of the leading Colombian and Spanish companies.
He will also participate in the 2nd coordination session of the Colombia-Spain Business Committee with the President of ANDI, Bruce Mac Master, and his team.
The Director General of CEOE International and Permanent Secretary of the Ibero-American Business Council-CEIB, Narciso Casado, is travelling this week to Bogota, where he has an intensive schedule of activities, including celebrating the 30th Anniversary of ProColombia, which will be attended by senior representatives of the Government of Colombia and representatives of the leading Colombian and Spanish companies.
Casado will also participate in the 2nd coordination session of the Colombia-Spain Business Committee with the president of ANDI, Bruce Mac Master and his team; and will meet with the director of the Alianza Impacto Latino-PVBLIC Foundation, to coordinate a possible collaboration between the Spanish business sector in the Latino Impact Summit; with the director of the ANDI del Futuro (Organisation of Young Entrepreneurs of the Colombian employers’ association), Andrés Raigosa, to assess opportunities for collaboration in the context the activities implemented in the Ibero-American region by FIJE and CEIB; and with the Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, María Mónica Conde Barragán.
30th Anniversary of ProColombia
The Director General of CEOE International will speak at the business meeting, which is being held as part of the 30th anniversary of ProColombia, a Colombian institution focused on fostering exports and investment in Colombia. He will discuss, among other matters, the collaboration and potential among business organisations in Spain and ProColombia in third markets through Spain. In fact, the Colombia Investment Roadshow 2022, Colombia’s main event for attracting foreign investment. After the success of the last edition held at the CEOE, Casado will meet the most senior representatives of ProColombia to prepare and coordinate the organisation of the forthcoming Colombia Investment Rodshow in 2023 in Madrid.
Colombia-Spain Business Committee
Another focus of this trip will be the 2nd meeting of the Colombia-Spain Business Committee, a council coordinated by the CEOE and ANDI, which is an excellent tool for private cooperation that seeks to promote and facilitate trade in goods, services and investment between Colombia and Spain, and represent legitimate business interests, broadening, deepening and projecting economic and trade relations between these two countries. The purpose of this meeting is to follow up on the work done in 2022 and to coordinate and prepare the visits of two business delegations from Colombia to Spain and from Spain to Colombia in 2023. He will meet the President of ANDI, Bruce Mac Master, and the Executive Vice-President of ANDI, Paola Buendía.
This meeting takes place in the context of good relations between the CEOE and ANDI arising from the organisation of the 11th Ibero-American Business Meeting at the 25th Ibero-American Heads of State and Government Summit, and the follow-up work that both business organisations have done since it was held in Cartagena de Indias in 2016.
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