Invest2Succeed - Session II - Silk Road: The New Landscape for Cross-Border Investment

Joe Lynam

BBC's Senior Business Correspondent

Joe Lynam is a respected broadcaster and moderator who was the BBC’s senior Business Correspondent for a decade. He now presents the current affairs show ‘The Newsroom’ on the BBC World Service.

Joe has won many awards for his original journalism including the 2018 Headline Money Award for his BBC One exposé of how RBS (GRG) treated many of its own business customers. Joe was also the first to broadcast on Radio 4 a phone fraud (Vishing) in almost real time as an elderly lady unwittingly handed over her life savings to fraudsters. For that, he won the Wincott prize for Journalism in 2016.

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David Saganelidze

CEO of JSC Partnership Fund

David Saganelidze graduated from Tbilisi State Medical University with the surgeon specialty. He was engaged in medical work at Moscow Oncological Medical Center and St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy, as well as at the Cancer Research Center of Georgia’s Ministry of Health. He was granted the title of Honorary Doctorate from Tbilisi State Medical University and is an associate member correspondent of the Georgian Ecological Sciences Academy. He graduated from Tbilisi International Relations Institute with the economist and lawyer specialties and is a graduate of Athens, London and Brighton Business schools; as well as the author of 2 books and 14 scientific papers.

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William Tompson

Head of the Eurasia Division in the OECD Global Relations Secretariat

William Tompson is Head of the Eurasia Division in the OECD Global Relations Secretariat, having previously spent seven years as a Senior Economist in the Organisation’s Economics Department and six years in its Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorates.
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Abdulrahman Essa Al-Mannai

CEO, Milaha Group (Qatar Navigation)

Abdulrahman Essa Al-Mannai has been the President and CEO of Milaha Group (Qatar Navigation) since September 2015. He leads all the business areas of Milaha.

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Alexander Maier

CEO, AE Solar Alternative Energy GmbH

Dr. Alexander Maier is CEO and founder of AE Solar, Germany. He dedicated his activity to renewables driven by concerns of environmental issues.

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Robin Jowitt

Partner at EY, Leader of capital transformation in Europe, Middle East, India, Africa / CESA

Robin Jowitt is partner of Ernst&Young since 2000 to present. He has over 19 years of experience in leading a team of 200 Merger&Acquisitions professionals across the Europe Middle East & Africa region.

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Archil Gachechiladze

CEO, Bank of Georgia

Archil Gachechiladze was appointed as an Executive Director and CEO of Bank of Georgia Group PLC on 28 January 2019. Mr. Gachechiladze serves as a member of the Risk Committee and as CEO of the Bank. Prior to his recent appointment Mr. Gachechiladze has served as CEO of Georgian Global Utilities since January 2017. Mr. Gachechiladze joined the Bank in 2009 as Deputy CEO, Corporate Banking (2009-2013) and has since held various roles with the Bank and the Group, such as Deputy CEO, Investment Management (2013-2015), CFO of BGEO Group (2015-2016) and Deputy CEO, Corporate Investment Banking (2016- 2017).

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