Mr. Emmanuel Noutary

Emmanuel has been General Delegate of ANIMA Investment Network since 2010. He joined Business France in 2006 to participate in the creation and development of the ANIMA network as Project Director. Since then, Emmanuel has coordinated or supervised more than thirty projects in the areas of country attractiveness, investment promotion, business internationalisation, research and innovation, clusters and start-ups, access to finance for SMEs and entrepreneurs, and diaspora mobilisation. In this context, he has collaborated with the European Commission, the European Investment Bank, the World Bank, the AFD Group, GIZ and ENABEL, among others. He is notably behind the first business angel networks in North Africa and Middle East, the establishment of new legal frameworks and services aimed at improving the business and investment environment, and the creation of clusters in contrie. Previously, Emmanuel spent 12 years in the telecoms, internet and communications sector: as a telecoms consultant in Paris, marketing director of a pioneering internet telephony operator based in London that operated in the MENA region, and research director for several telecoms operators.   He is the author of a dozen of studies and numerous reports and papers on economic development in MENA and Africa. He is graduated from University Parix Dauphine (PSL University): Master 1 in Management Science and Master 2 Management in Telecoms and Medias.