PSLO Network: 100 PSLOs in 80 countries

The Enterprise Outreach Services (EOS) team is dedicated to strengthening the World Bank Group's relations with the private sector in order to increase the awareness and participation of companies in development. To facilitate this work, the World Bank Group (World Bank, IFC and MIGA) has developed a network of liaison officers based in business intermediary organizations - the Private Sector Liaison Officers Network (PSLO Network)- working to foster trade and investment in developing countries with the support of the World Bank Group's products and services.

LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PSLO Energy Mission 2009 Invitation Registration 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program & list of participants

 

Presentations delivered by World Bank experts & Turkish specialists 

 

 

The PSLO for Turkey, Haleh Onursal of TUSIAD, together with the World Bank office in Ankara, hosted the launch of the World Bank's Global Development Finance 2009 Report "Charting a Global Recovery" on June 26th in Istanbul.  Mark Thomas, World Bank Lead Economist, Ankara office, and World Bank Senior Economists and contributors to the report, Mick Riordan and Dilek Aykut, participated in the launch.

 

For more information on the report :

 

The PSLO for Spain, Cristina Moreno of the High Council of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Spain, invited Louis Bedoucha, Senior Business Development Officer for MIGA and Paula Alayo, Investment Officer for IFC to meet with Spanish companies in Madrid on June 10th. More than 250 companies participated to learn about IFC’s and MIGA’s programs to assist companies seeking to invest in development countries.  

Cristina Moreno, Louis Bedoucha and Paula Alayo

The PSLO for Greece, Theodoros Axilithiotis of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) organized procurement workshops in Thessaloniki and Athens led by Spiros Voyadzis (Consultant) for 35 Greek consulting companies.  The workshops included the participation of Ms. Andrea Anayiotos, Advisor to the World Bank Executive Director for Greece, and staff from the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Theodoros Axilithiotis, Spiros Voyadzis, Andrea Anayiotos and Emmanuel Vlahogiannis (VP, TCCI)

During the week of May 11-15, several meetings took place in the Hague related to the IFC Russia Cleaner Production Program. Kristina Turilova and Viera Feckova of the IFC office in Russia chaired a seminar together with Dutch PSLO Lotte Schippers of the Netherlands Agency for International Business and Cooperation (EVD) on IFC procurement rules and opportunities for Dutch consulting companies to bid for assignments within the IFC Russia Cleaner Production Program. The Netherlands is contributing to this program via a Dutch trustfund. Participants included Dutch companies working in the agriculture, energy efficiency, and wind energy sectors.  In addition to the seminar, the IFC representatives visited a biogas installation, innovative greenhouses and a landfill gas excavation and utilities system in the Netherlands and also met individually with companies, a professor of the Netherlands University of Twente with expertise in water, the waterboard of Amsterdam and others.

For more information on the IFC Russia Cleaner Production Program : www.ifc.org/rcpp

May 14, 18 - The PSLO for Greece, Theodoros Axilithiotis of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) organized workshops in Thessaloniki and Athens to present MIGA's products and services to Greek investors interested in investing or expanding their business in developing countries.  Bertrand Marchais, MIGA liaison officer in Europe, led the workshops and also met with the Black Sea Trade Development Bank.

For more information on MIGA : www.miga.org 

April 23  - Representatives of the World Bank, MIGA and IFC offices in Paris met with members of the CAC30 - group of public affairs managers of 30 large French companies -  to discuss the World Bank Group (WBG) response to the financial crisis and how the private sector can benefit from WBG instruments at a time when credit is difficult to come by and the risks are high.  The group has proposed to meet on a periodic basis around different themes.

For more information on the WBG's response to the financial crisis: http://www.worldbank.org/financialcrisis

April 1 - Mr. Hans Timmer, Manager of the World Bank's Development Prospects Group presented the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects (GEP) Update Report at the Santiago Chamber of Commerce in Santiago, Chile. Organized by the PSLO for Chile, Carmen Fuentealba of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce, the event attached more than 60 participants from the Chilean private and public sectors, academia and civil society.

GEP Update Report 

March 28 -  The World Bank Director for Southern and Central Europe and the Baltic Countries, Orsalia Kalantzopoulos, participated in a round table discussion with the Greek Minister of Development and professors from prominent Greek universities on the global economic crisis, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The event, attended by representatives of the Greek private and public sectors, civil society, academia and the media, was organized by the Thessaloniki newspaper MAKEDONIA and supported by the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) which hosts the PSLO for Greece, Theodoros Axilithiotis. 

For more information on the World Bank's response to the financial crisis see : www.worldbank.org/financialcrisis 

March 17 - International Enterprise (IE) Singapore and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) jointly organized a seminar in Singapore to help Singapore-based companies understand the benefits of risk mitigation products for their investments in developing countries in today’s challenging economic environment. Led by Nabil Fawaz, MIGA's Sector Leader for Agribusiness, Manufacturing and Services and the PSLO for Singapore, Jayakrishnan Gopalakrishnan, Deputy Director of International Organizations at IE Singapore, the seminar attracted 60 participants from a variety of industries.

See press release 

For more information on MIGA : www.miga.org