PAIPED participated in the Women’s Forum in France

Eng. Nisreen Ahmed Jaffar , Director General for Investment Promotion of PAIPED, participated in the 5th Woman’s Forum for the Economy & Society Global Meeting as an official delegate from the Middle East at Deauville during 15th to 17th October.

The Women’s Forum was founded in 2005 by Ms. Aude Zieseniss de Thuin, to promote women’s vision on the economic and social issues of our time. They aim to become a hub of debate, sharing brainstorming and action where women and men from around the world and from all horizons to speak and exchange all major social and economic issues...

This year event was the 5th edition and the official delegation was Middle East. Over fifty leading and remarkable women from business, politics, academia, science & technology and art & media participated in the event . Apart from that there were many renowned speakers of Middle East origin. The total participation was over 1000 from about 80 countries. The organizers were able to gather excellent speakers and the topics of discussion varied from global business and politics to economy and society

Commenting on the event Nisreen mentioned that this forum considered to be women’s edition of the World Economic Forum and was excellently organized and managed. The organizers had the support of many international companies and it was an excellent opportunity to meet many senior executives from the multinational companies and promote Oman and to invite them to Oman to explore the business opportunities. She also added that during the visit she also met many of leading French companies in Paris which were identified by the Investment Promotion Strategy and they showed interest to invest in regain and discussed investment opportunities in Oman