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Western Business Chiefs Head To Baghdad Summit
Posted on 26 September 2012. Tags: IBBC, Iraq-British Business Council, trade missions
Around 80 executives from the world’s leading companies doing business in Iraq will arrive in Baghdad this weekend as part of a major trade delegation.
They will attend a two day conference on Sunday September 30th and October 1st at the Al Rashid Hotel, Baghdad, to hear speeches from Deputy Prime Ministers Sharistani and Shaways and Dr Sami al-Araji, chairman of Iraq’s National Investment Commission. Other Iraqi ministers and Mrs Hamdiyah al-Jaf, Chairman, Trade Bank of Iraq, will also attend along with trade groups including Basrah Chamber of Commerce.
Western companies represented will include: Shell, ExxonMobil, AMEC, DWC, Kier, Foster Wheeler, Fluor, Ernst and Young, Mott MacDonald, Kuwait Energy, Weir and major security companies including Olive Group , Control Risks and Aegis.
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (pictured), the IBBC‘s Executive Chairman, will lead the trade delegation. She said:
“I am delighted the conference is being held under the patronage of His Excellency the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr al-Maliki. The trade delegation will be one of highest level groups to travel to Iraq in recent years.“
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Posted on 26 September 2012. Tags: IBBC, Iraq-British Business Council, trade missions
Around 80 executives from the world’s leading companies doing business in Iraq will arrive in Baghdad this weekend as part of a major trade delegation.
They will attend a two day conference on Sunday September 30th and October 1st at the Al Rashid Hotel, Baghdad, to hear speeches from Deputy Prime Ministers Sharistani and Shaways and Dr Sami al-Araji, chairman of Iraq’s National Investment Commission. Other Iraqi ministers and Mrs Hamdiyah al-Jaf, Chairman, Trade Bank of Iraq, will also attend along with trade groups including Basrah Chamber of Commerce.
Western companies represented will include: Shell, ExxonMobil, AMEC, DWC, Kier, Foster Wheeler, Fluor, Ernst and Young, Mott MacDonald, Kuwait Energy, Weir and major security companies including Olive Group , Control Risks and Aegis.
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (pictured), the IBBC‘s Executive Chairman, will lead the trade delegation. She said:
“I am delighted the conference is being held under the patronage of His Excellency the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr al-Maliki. The trade delegation will be one of highest level groups to travel to Iraq in recent years.“
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