President John Evans Atta Mills would deliver the keynote address at the three-day forum which would bring together business and government leaders from Europe, North America and Asia.
The Seventh Africa Investment Forum (AIF) to address efforts by the private sector, international community and governments to work together to restore high levels of growth in the face of the global economic downturn is scheduled for Accra on Monday, February 8.
President John Evans Atta Mills would deliver the keynote address at the three-day forum which would bring together business and government leaders from Europe, North America and Asia.
Others are a 38-member delegation from Namibia, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa.
The Heads of State and Governments of Namibia, Rwanda and Togo are also expected to attend the forum, which is under the theme "Accelerating Intra-African Trade and Investment".
It is jointly being organized by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) and Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) to strengthen linkages between African economies to underpin new trade and investment.
Mr. George Aboagye, Chief Executive Officer of GIPC, addressing a press conference in Accra on Wednesday said it would provide a platform for countries to profile investment opportunities in energy, agriculture, infrastructure, oil, gas and manufacturing to an international audience of over 500 business leaders and investors.
He said it would also bring investors and entrepreneurs together to explore public private partnerships on business proposals which would stimulate economic growth required to propel African countries to realize their aspirations and development in the emerging global economy.
Mr. Aboagye said in addition to the main plenary sessions, participants would have excellent networking opportunities including specific investors' roundtable to discuss public private partnerships leading to improvement in infrastructure, trade and the movement of goods, services and persons, the investment climate and access to finance.
He said the forum would benefit Ghanaian investors and companies, most of whom had already registered for the event, immensely as they would be connected to business partners and opportunities in the Commonwealth and beyond.
Mr. Aboagye explained that the CBC had been using the forum to increase intra-Commonwealth trade, investment inflows and influence trade policies in the Commonwealth.
He urged more companies to register to enable them reap its benefits.
