fDi Personality of the Year 2007 awards event at New Delhi 31st August 2007.
fDi Personality of the Year 2007 awards ceremony at New Delhi on the 31st of August at Kamal Mahal, Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi 7.00 pm onwards. The awards ceremony is hosted by JV Dheldden and fDi, FT Business, London and will be an occasion to honour the regional winners from all over the world and Shree Kamal nath, Honourable Union Minister for Commerce and Trade and also the global winner of this prestigious award.
-- fDi Personality of the Year 2007 awards ceremony at New Delhi on the 31st of August at Kamal Mahal,Maurya Sheraton,New Delhi 7.00 pm onwards. The awards ceremony is hosted by JVDheldden and fDi,FT Business,London and will be an occasion to honour the regional winners from all over the world and Shree Kamal nath, Honourable Union Minister for Commerce and Trade and also the global winner of this prestigious award.The award award is in recognition of Mr Nath's active efforts to attract foreign businesses to India, boost exports, and promote investment - the results of which have been a substantial increase in FDI inflows to India and a rise in export volumes, contributing to the continued economic development of the country and adding to its attractiveness as an investment location.
Kamal Nath, India's minister for commerce and industry, has been named Personality of the Year 2007 by fDi (Foreign Direct Investment)magazine, part of the Financial Times group of London.
The award is in recognition of Mr Nath's active efforts to attract foreign businesses to India, boost exports, and promote investment – the results of which have been a substantial increase in FDI inflows to India and a rise in export volumes, contributing to the continued economic development of the country and adding to its attractiveness as an investment location.
The annual Personality of the Year awards recognise political and business leaders around the world who show vision and leadership in promoting inward investment, economic development and growth.
Mr Nath is this year’s regional winner for Asia as well as the worldwide winner.
In being named global Personality of the Year for 2007, he joins the ranks of such previous winners as Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, former Mexican president Vicente Fox, Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and mayor of Seoul Lee Myung-bak.
“As minister for commerce and industry in one of the world's fastest growing economies, Kamal Nath has played a pivotal role in bringing India centre-stage in the global economy... The rapid rise in foreign investment is a vote of confidence from international investors for the energy and enthusiam that Mr Nath brings to his job,” reported fDi magazine in its August/September 2007 issue, which will have special distribution at the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings in Washington in September in addition to its usual global circulation of business executives.
The other regional winners for 2007 included: Vincent Gadou Kragbé, chairman and CEO of technology park VITIB and special adviser to the president of Côte d'Ivoire (winner for Africa); Andrus Ansip, prime minister of Estonia (Europe); Sergio Fajardo Valderrama, mayor of Medellín, Colombia (Latin America); Dr Khater Massad, CEO of the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority,
United Arab Emirates (Middle East); and Hanry M Paulson, secretary of the US Treasury (North America).
Notes to Editor
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