US Trade and Investment Conference 15th and 16th of July

Armando Guebuza, President of Mozambique, opens the recent US-Mozambique trade and investment conference hosted by the US embassy in Maputo.





Click here for more background on the conference and here see to a few photos.

Ronald Langston delivered an interesting speech on behalf of the Corporate Council on Africa which you can find here.

In my research, I'm looking for introductions to companies and organizations with interesting and informative tales of doing business here in Mozambique.

Did they chose investing in Mozambique over another African country or business venture, and if so why?

What of companies that are currently thinking about coming to Mozambique? Why are they interested? What, apart from the current global recession, is currently holding them back?

I'm looking for thoughts and background on where investor confidence comes from in developing nations such as Mozambique, and what is being done to nurture that improving sentiment.



I'm in the process of photographing and or interviewing people from a wide variety of sectors and levels of the economy. If you are interested in sharing your thoughts or experience, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
It can be on the basis of an off-the-record background chat or an interview by email or telephone.

These are complex and important subjects. It's more important to me to get people's best thoughts, best expressed in their own words, than to throw complex questions at people and expect them to give me their most reasoned and fluent answers on the spot. I'm not just looking for glowing praise, but for real information about the challenges and rewards of doing business here.