São Paulo – The vice president of Brazil, Hamilton Mourão (pictured above), confirmed his presence at the Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries, to take place on July 4 at the Renaissance Hotel in São Paulo. Mourão will speak at the event’s closing, which will bring Brazilians and Arabs closer together and celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC), the Forum’s host.
The opening will feature the president of the ABCC, ambassador Osmar Chohfi, the president of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil), Augusto Pestana, and the Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos França (over the internet).
The 4th edition of the Forum, which this year has Legacy and Innovation as its theme, will have a hybrid format, with in-person participation exclusively for guests. Registration to watch the live event online is open. The Forum will start at 8:30 am BRT (11:30 am GMT).
Presence is confirmed for Brazilians Lorival Luz, CEO of BRF; Anna Flávia Ribeiro, founder of Tribo Polímata; Caio Esteves, Place Branding and Placemaking expert of Bloom Consulting; ambassador Rubens Barbosa, president of the Institute of International Relations and Foreign Trade (IRICE); Alberto Pfeifer, founder and general coordinator of the Group for the Analysis of the International Conjuncture (GACINT) of the University of São Paulo (USP); Sergio Gusmão Suchodolski, president of the São Paulo Development Agency (Desenvolve SP).
Also participating from Brazil will be Ali Hussein El Zoghbi, vice president of the Federation of Muslim Associations of Brazil (FAMBRAS), and Antônio Rogério Correia Nogueira “Minotouro,” founder of the Sport Beyond Borders project. Argentine consultant Carolina Larriera, co-founder of the Sérgio Vieira de Mello Center, will also speak on one of the panels.
Among the Arabs with participation confirmed are Khaled Hanafy, secretary-general of the Union of Arab Chambers (UAC); Yousef Khalawi, secretary-general of the Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture (ICCIA); Sarah Al-Jazzar, counselor of the UAC; Alaa Ezz, secretary-general of the Confederation of Egyptian-European Business Associations (CEEBA); and Youssef Cherif, professor of the Harvard University and political analyst (Tunisia).
Khalid Ahmed Mohammed Al Marzooqi, commercial director of Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) (UAE); Alia Moubayed, chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at Jefferies investment bank (Lebanon); Omar Al-Ubaydli, Research director of the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International, and Energy Studies (DERASAT) (Bahrain) (over the internet); Ahmed Elmurtada, managing partner of innovation hub 249Startups (Sudan); and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, journalist of Palestinian descent (USA-Kuwait) will also represent the Arab countries at the event
More information and updates on the Forum will be released in the coming days.
You may also enjoy reading about the previous edition: Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries 2020.
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4th Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries
July 4, 2022
Renaissance Hotel (in-person) and online
For more information: +55 (011) 31453200
Translated by Elúsio Brasileiro
