Nahom F. Abraham is the executive director of the European Union Business Forum in Ethiopia (EUBFE) since 2018. The EUBFE is a chamber of EU businesses operating in Ethiopia. Including bilateral business associations, the EUBFE boasts membership base of around 150 companies. EUBFE has been successful in forging excellent working relationships with various government institutions and international organizations. Before joining the EUBFE, Nahom was in the consulting business, overlooking a multinational team of experts engaged in consulting various local and international firms. He holds MA in Lifelong Learning Policy and Management from UCL (University College London).

Sana is an award-winning, gender expert, women advocate. In 2016, she established Womenpreneur Initiative, an organisation with a community of 13,000 across the MENA region and Belgium, that aims to advance women’s place in the entrepreneurial scene, technology, innovation & society. Through her work, Sana reached thousands of women, to drive visibility, social impact, and resources for women in the ecosystem and beyond: https://womenpreneur-initiative.com  

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of L’Oréal
Born in France in 1956, Jean-Paul Agon joined L’Oréal in 1978 after graduating from HEC
international business school.
After a brief stint in 1980 as a product manager for the Consumer Products Division in France, he
began his international career in 1981, at 24 years old, becoming Managing Director of the Consumer
Products subsidiary of L'Oréal in Greece.
In 1985, Mr. Agon was recalled to France to become the General Manager of L'Oréal Paris in France.
He launched the Studio Line range and relaunched the Plénitude and Elsève brands.
In 1989, then-CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones entrusted him with leading Biotherm, a brand of the Luxury
Products Division, where he undertook a strategic repositioning.
In 1994, Jean-Paul Agon took over the management of L'Oréal in Germany, then the largest European
market after France. He ran the subsidiary for three years.
In 1997, Lindsay Owen-Jones asked him to set-up and lead the L’Oréal Asia Zone, lending fresh
impetus to these still-emerging markets.
In September 2001, Jean-Paul Agon was appointed President of L'Oréal's North American
subsidiaries, the first market worldwide that represented about a quarter of the Group’s sales.
The Board of Directors appointed him as Chief Executive Officer in 2006, then as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer in 2011.
In 2009, he received the Ethical Resource Center’s Pace Leadership in Ethics Award for L’Oréal’s
achievements in the area of business ethics, diversity, financial transparency and sustainable
development.
He was 2015 Visionary of the Year (Women’s Wear Daily).
Jean-Paul Agon is a Director of Air Liquide, a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists,
and a member of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Goods Forum.
He is also an officer of the French Legion of Honour.

Celestino Alvarez-Neira is the Chairman of the European Business Organisation in Ghana who helps provide a common platform for discussion and development of European Business relations with Ghana.
He is also the President of the French Chamber of Commerce in Ghana and Managing Director of businesses in the fields of manpower, logistics and trading. Before taking these roles, Celestino studied in Paris and promoted his corporate carrier in Africa, Europe and Asia in the fields of IT, communications and oilfield services. Having spent most of his carrier at Schlumberger, he decided to move with his family to Ghana where he has been residing since 2011 to become a business entrepreneur and an advocator of bilateral trade between Europe and Ghana.

Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal (Spain) is an industrial engineer from the University of the Basque Country. He has developed his entire professional career at MONDRAGON cooperatives, where he held several positions in Spain and other countries. Since 2018, he is in charge of Public Affairs at MONDRAGON Corporation. In 2019, he was elected President of CICOPA, the International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives

Anna has almost 17 years working experience and solid education background in the fields of adult learning and upskilling and reskilling of people of working age. 
For the past six years she has been working the in the European Commission, in DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. She is responsible for implementing the Pact for Skills, the first flagship action of the European  Skills Agenda.

Deputy Head of Unit, SME Access to Finance, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission 
Astrid Bartels is the Deputy Head of Unit for the COSME financial instruments at the European Commission, in the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Prior to joining the Commission in 2002, she worked for more than 10 years in the private sector where she was a consultant for Bain & Company and also a corporate client relationship manager with Deutsche Bank. In the Commission she worked on the setting up of the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki before moving into the area of SME policy, more specifically into the development of financial instruments for SMEs. She has strong competencies in business strategy, holds a Vordiplom in economics from the University of Hagen and obtained an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Kenan Flager Business School, USA.

Frank P. Averdung joined Oxford PV as Chief Executive Officer in July 2015. He has over 30 years of experience in the Semiconductor industry in leading technology driven organisations, from small startups to large organisations with more than 1000 employees. Prior to joining Oxford PV Frank was President and CEO of SUSS MicroTec AG, a German manufacturer of semiconductor equipment with up to 250 mio US$ of sales. Under his leadership the company became listed in the "TecDAX", the stock market index for the top 30 publicly traded technology companies in Germany. Having an engineering background (holding the equivalent of a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Aachen, Germany) Frank spent the first 10 years of his career with semiconductor device companies like Siemens, National Semiconductors and ITT Semiconductors. During this time he held several sales and marketing roles from Key Account Manager, Product Manager to Marketing Director. In 1995 Frank moved to the equipment side of the semiconductor industry and General Manager at Applied Materials and Managing Director of Etec Systems Europe. As CEO of the startup "NawoTec GmbH" he led the successful development and market introduction of semiconductor manufacturing equipment utilising a breakthrough proprietary technology. He sold the company to the German conglomerate Carl Zeiss AG where he became CEO of the enlarged Business Unit and later President and CEO of Carl Zeiss' US Operations based in Massachusetts. Frank has a proven track record in enhancing companies' values equally by acquiring and divesting businesses and technologies.