At GDP Global, we’re listening to our government and private sector clients in many parts of the world. All economic promoters, without exception, are facing simultaneous challenges never seen faced before. Join us in conversation on investment promotion matters, trade promotion, smart cities development, global value chains, policy matters and other economic challenges of the day.
Get advice and hear how to reorganise your investment promotion agency and how to reach out to investors online. You will receive world best practice advice and ideas as well as checklists on, for example, how to support struggling industries and how to capture your share of the rapidly reorganising global value chains. Get inputs on the policy changes you can make to bringing great new opportunities to your economy.
Secure your place at our webinars
As a leading economic consulting group GDP Global is reaching around the world with its Global Economic Webinar Series. Follow the links below to book your place on our regional and global webinars that could shed light on issues that concern you:
Thursday 29th October 2020: 14.30 – 16.00 (SAST)
South & Southern Africa: FDI & State Economic Prospects and SEZ Promotion
Presenters:
Josef Neumeier, Associate Director, Economic Promotion at GDP Global
John Hanna, Director, GDP Global
Guest: Johan Pretorious: Group IT Leader and OCTi Strategist, Aerosud.
Facilitator: Christina Knutsson, Director, GDP Global
Webinar themes:
- Trade and FDI flows and prospects update
- Sector prospects: disruptive technologies 4IR and impact on existing business/industries
- Guide: Checklist and prospects for South & Southern Africa sectors: Investfdi.
- South & Southern Africa Webinar 3: 3 December: FDI Promotion Excellence: Structure, Strategy, Campaigns.
Thursday 5th November 2020: 11:00 – 12:30 (WAST)
Nigeria: FDI Investment Promotion Part 1: The Essentials, Done Perfectly.
Presenters:
Charles Ughele, Chief Representative and Advisor, West Africa GDP Global
John Hanna, Director, GDP Global
Guest presenters: TBC
Facilitator: Christina Knutsson, Director, GDP Global
Webinar themes:
1) Taking stock – national and regional FDI audit
2) Investment prospects: how to define and package investment opportunities
3) Researching the world for investors
4) Training with GDPKnowHow.
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Thursday 3 December 2020: 14.30 – 16.00 (SAST)
South & Southern Africa: FDI Investment Promotion Part 1:The Essentials, Done Perfectly.
Presenters:
Josef Neumeier, Associate Director, Economic Promotion at GDP Global
John Hanna, Director, GDP Global
Guest: TBC
Facilitator: Christina Knutsson, Director, GDP Global
Webinar themes:
1) Taking stock – national and regional FDI audit
2) Investment prospects: how to define and package investment opportunities
3) Researching the world for investors
4) Training with GDPKnowHow.
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Thursday 3rd December 2020: 11:00 – 12:30 WAST
Nigeria and West Africa: FDI Investment Promotion Part 2 – The Essentials, Done Perfectly
Presenters:
Charles Ughele, Chief Representative and Advisor, West Africa GDP Global
Francis Crusto, Senior Associate Director – Nigeria
John Hanna, Director, GDP Global
Guest presenters: TBC
Facilitator: Christina Knutsson, Director, GDP Global
Themes:
1) Organising outreach campaigns to markets and investors
2) Presenting the investment case to investors at a distance
3) Facilitating investor visitors to your location
4) Training with GDPKnowHow.
Interested in running your own webinar series?
Equally, if you wish to engage your stakeholders with new thinking to take your economies and businesses forward, we can help you achieve that. Let us know what you need. Is it ideas development, stakeholder engagement, driving home new ways of economic promotion, FDI Attraction, industrial development, knowledge economies or something else? Our regional and local consulting team are there to assist.
Missed a webinar?
You can watch replays of all our webinars:
Nigeria: Policy Choices in a COVID Environment