The Canada Egypt Business Council (CEBC), held a cultural gala dinner on the special occasion of commemorating the Council’s seventh anniversary. Over than 250 distinguished members, guests, officials and ministers attended the event. The program featured two extraordinary performances of the most anticipated violin player in the Middle East, Ms. Vanessa Nassar and the world-renowned Canadian artist, Ms. Lynda Thalie, on her first performance in Egypt.

The Council celebrated seven years of tireless efforts, hard work and brainstorming ideas to support the Egyptian business community in building a fostered relation with their peers in Canada based on mutual interest and respect between those two great nations.

In 2002, the Canada Egypt Business Council was launched as the first pilot Egyptian NGO aiming to foster Egyptian-Canadian strategic economic and political ties through developing and deploying communication network to connect Egyptian business organizations with the Canadian government officials and business community. In that interest, CEBC has proudly held more than fifty three successful business events with Egyptian and foreign Ministers, government officials and decision makers, and four conferences discussing vital issues for the development of the business climate in Egypt, the Council had also worked on encouraging and inviting foreign business leaders to Egypt as part of our mission to promote our country, hence receiving and welcoming five business delegations and more than eight dignitaries visits to Egypt. CEBC had organized five successive trade missions to Canada which assisted in developing multiple partnerships and agreements leading to prospering economic relations, foreign investments, and created forums for mutual dialogue with the Canadian administration and decision-makers.

Over the past seven years, we had the privilege of working with a group of extraordinary vibrant ministers who headed these trade missions to Canada, among which are:
 H.E. Dr. Osman M. Osman, Minister of State for Economic Development
 H.E. Fayza Abou El Naga, Minister of International Cooperation
 H.E. Dr. Hany Helal, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
 H.E. Dr. Ahmed Darwish, Minister of Administrative Development
 And H.E. Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology

On this very special evening, the Council was privileged to recognize many outstanding individuals, whether in Egypt or Canada, who have helped turning CEBC to a paramount business council, among which are the respectable, dedicated Egyptian ministers who supported us in every possible way to achieve our goals and unlock windows of growth opportunities. The Embassy of Canada in Egypt, headed by Amb. Ferry de Kerckhove and his superb staff, whom we call our friends and “Partners of Success”, our dear members, whom without their extensive support and confidence we wouldn’t be where we are today, and our corporate partners who trusted and believed in our cause:
 Arab Investment Bank
 Bank of Alexandria
 Coca-Cola Egypt
 Export Development Bank
 Mobinil

Last but not least CEBC’s superb staff, for their outstanding efforts, and optimum professionalism.

Today we recognize that the Council’s success is a testament of the combined efforts of all who contributed to CEBC’s achievements over the past years with their time and effort. But mostly for believing in us and our causes.

To all our members and partners of success we say, “Happy Anniversary”, with a promise from us to work harder to establish a further win-win relation in the Canadian Egyptian partnership for growth.