Our guest speakers and panellists were H.E. Engineer Rachid Mohamed Rachid (Minister of Industry & Foreign Trade), Dr. Gamal El Nazer (Chairman of the Egyptian Businessmen’s Association EBA) and Mr. Mohamed Mansour (Chairman US Egypt Council & Chairman of Lead Foundation).

At its first event, EgSAE got the support of the various sectors in Egypt including businessmen, associations, chambers, organisations, bankers, lawyers, consultants, hotels, tourism and press. It was attended by almost 200 selective key persons covering all fields.

Mr. Rachid’s speech was very transparent, straightforward and compiled. He reiterated on the importance of the rising role for associations and private sector in the current reform process and the necessity for this collectively working bodies of the private sector through trade & business associations, chambers and councils, to be managed by qualified and well trained calibres.
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In his speech, Dr. El Nazer dug into the past, materialized the present and envisaged the future, to come to the conclusion of the important role that associations should play in the current reform process.
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Mr. Mansour gave a practical example of how an association can play an effective role in the society whether in the business sector or in the community service field.
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Mr. Hisham Fahmy, EgSAE’s Chairman inaugurated the meeting by giving a brief on EgSAE’s aims, objectives, present and future plans.
He also extended his thanks to all attendees of this event for their support with special thanks to the Guest Speakers and the event’s main and associate sponsors
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Towards the end of the meeting, several questions were addressed to Mr. Rachid.