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ABSC INC. HOLDS MEDIA CONFERENCE TO PROMOTE EKONOMOS, ISSUE 4, 2023
Dr Frank Alafaci (President, ABSC Inc.)
Australian Business Summit Council hosted 4th annual Media Conference and Luncheon at the Le Montage Reception Centre Sydney
The
Australian Business Summit Council Inc. hosted its fourth annual Media
Conference and Luncheon at the five-star Le Montage Reception Centre in
Lilyfield Sydney on Monday, 13th March 2023 to announce the upcoming publication
of the fourth issue of EKONOMOS, the official ABSC Inc. business affairs
magazine.
More than sixty VIPs and guests attended this significant event, featuring H.E.
Dr Ali Kraishan PhD (Ambassador of Jordan) and the Consuls-General of Egypt and
Bangladesh, the Hon. Mr Damien Tudehope NSW MLC, and the Deputy Mayor of the
City of Canada Bay and Liberal candidate for Drummoyne in the 2023 NSW state
election, Ms Stephanie Di Pasqua, as well as eminent business leaders,
Multicultural community leaders and representative members of the multicultural
press corps.
Dr Frank Alafaci (President ABSC Inc)
ABSC
Inc. president for the fourth consecutive year, Dr Frank Alafaci PhD outlined
the Council’s broad agenda to enable business leaders to network and enhance
business opportunities by serving as an extensive medium for sound business
policies and practices and stimulating informative debates and discussions on
issues pertaining to business relationships between Australia and the
international community.
Indeed, the ABSC Inc. has expanded rapidly since its establishment in late 2018
to augment its influence and pervasiveness within the business community in
Australia and abroad through actively promoting business investment and
innovation into high value-added and technologically advanced sectors and
industries, and assisting small, medium-sized and large businesses to further
multilateral business relationships within the national economy and
extraterritorially through the Council’s signature events.
EKONOMOS magazine presents incisive, well-written appraisals of the current
business trends and forces that impact on economic growth from authoritative
expert figures in the fields of finance, trade, investment, politics, and
diplomacy drawn from the Australian and international communities, including
practical, comprehensive views, opinions, suggestions, and solutions for
bolstering the Australian economy by strengthening commercial links and
investment opportunities with our known regional trading partners and untapped
extra-regional markets.
EKONOMOS, Issue 4, 2023, will comprise article contributions from seventeen
prominent academics, business leaders and diplomatic officials led by Dr Frank
Alafaci PhD (President, Australian Business Summit Council Inc.); H.E. Mr Paolo
Crudele (Ambassador of Italy); H.E. Ms Alicia Moral Revilla (Ambassador of
Spain); H.E. Mr Mauricio Carvalho Lyrio (Ambassador of Brazil); H.E. Mr Maximo
Gowland (Ambassador of Argentina); H.E. Mrs Ithzel Patino de Villareal
(Ambassador of Panama); H.E. Dr Ali Kraishan PhD (Ambassador of Jordan); H.E. Ms
Wassane Zailachi (Ambassador of Morocco); H.E. Mr Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri (High
Commissioner of Pakistan); Ms Agata Utnicka (Charge’ d’Affaires ad interim,
Embassy of Poland); Ms Diana Carvajal Toscano (Charge’ d’Affaires ad interim,
Embassy of Colombia); Mr Piers Morgan (Executive Director, Weringa Group Pty
Ltd); Mr Hasan Gencturk (President, MUSIAD Sydney); Dr Rateb Jneid PhD
(President, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils); Dr Anthony De Francesco
PhD (Managing Director, Real investment Analytics Pty Ltd); Dr Jaehu Shim PhD
(Adjunct Professor, School of Business and Technology, Korean Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology); and Dr Angus Hooke PhD (Emeritus Professor, Finance
and Entrepreneurship, University of Nottingham Ningbo China).
H.E. Dr Ali Kraishan (Ambassador of Jordan)
Interestingly, the ABSC Inc. Media Conference and Luncheon featured keynote speeches by H. E. Dr Ali Kraishan PhD (Ambassador of Jordan) and the Hon. Mr Damien Tudehope NSW MLC, as well as an informative thirty-minute Question and Answer session on business, trade and investment chaired by the ABSC Inc. President, Dr Frank Alafaci PhD between the occasion’s VIPs and
Hon. Mr Damien Tudehope MLC
guests and an assembled panel consisting of H.E. Dr Ali Kraishan PhD (Ambassador of Jordan); the Hon. Mr Damien Tudehope NSW MLC; Dr Joseph Rizk AM D.Litt (CEO / Managing Director, Arab Bank Australia Ltd); and Dr Anthony De Francesco PhD (Managing Director, Real investment Analytics Pty Ltd).
ABSC Inc. President, Dr Frank Alafaci
ABSC Inc. President, Dr Frank Alafaci PhD formally concluded this annual Media Conference and Luncheon with his glowing acknowledgement of EKONOMOS, Issue 4’s sponsors: Alliance Project Group, Swan Wine Group, Arab Bank Australia Ltd and DRS ABCD First Aid Training, and heartfelt expressions of gratitude and appreciation for the unwavering support and assistance provided by the Board of Directors of the Australian Business Summit Council Inc., especially Mrs Sylvia Alafaci, the Council’s secretary, for her prodigious efforts in securing the magnificent venue for the occasion, sending out most of the invitations, organizing the beautiful table arrangements and decorations, preparing the VIP and guests’ name tags, and communicating with Le Montage’s events management team spearheaded by Ms Andrea Hajje and Mrs Agustina Muchaga.
Hon. Mr Damien Tudehope MLC
Dr Frank Alafaci (President ABSC)
His Excellency Dr Ali Kraishan
Host of the evening, Dr Frank
VIP Panel of Dignitaries during the conversation