This Tuesday, the XVI Ibero-American Business Meeting will begin in Madrid, which will bring together more than 2,000 participants from 42 countries, among Ibero-American delegations, observers and other representatives. The event will take place at the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, where officials from the public and private spheres of the entire Ibero-American region will gather.
More than a dozen ministers and 23 presidents of business organizations integrated in the Council of Ibero-American Businessmen-CEIB will attend the meeting.
The Meeting is promoted by CEIB, the Ibero-American General Secretariat-Segib and the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations-CEOE, and forms part of the official program of the XXX Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government.
The opening will be led by the Ibero-American general secretary, Andrés Allamand; the president of CEOE and CEIB, Antonio Garamendi; the minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, and the Secretary of State for Trade, Amparo López Senovilla.
Along with the business organizations of CEIB, international institutions and related entities will also participate, such as the OECD, the OAS, CAF, the BCIE, the IDB, various universities, investment promotion agencies and foundations.
In this sixteenth edition, prominent speakers will take part, among them the secretary general of UN Trade and Development (Unctad), Rebeca Grynspan, the former first vice president and president of the European Investment Bank, Nadia Calviño, and the executive president of CAF, Sergio Díaz-Granados.
On the 4th, after the Heads of State conversation, the president of CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, will hand over the presidency of CEIB to Anabel Gallardo, president of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (Cohep). The Meeting will conclude with the closing session chaired by King Felipe VI.