Composed of leaders of European and African industrial companies, services and financial institutions, the role of the Patrons Committee is to validate the selection made by the Selection and Monitoring Committee, to designate the project leader and monitor the main steps.
Composed of leaders of European and African industrial companies, services and financial institutions, the role of the Patrons Committee is to validate the selection made by the Selection and Monitoring Committee, to designate the project leader and monitor the main steps.
ABBAS JABER
Founding President and CEO of Advens Geocoton Group
« I was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1958 into a Lebanese family installed In Thiès since the beginning of the century; I also have the French nationality. I belong to 3 continents, I’m proud and I claim my 3 cultures. At the beginning of the 80’s, after my studies in economic sciences at the University of Dakar, I left Senegal and settled in France.
I get myself initiated to international trading in the field and working closely with high ranking mentors until I laid the foundations of the current ADVENS Group in 1988. I always knew that agriculture will regain its key role in Africa’s development. To this end, The ADVENS Group introduced a new fully integrated model. »
PATRICK SEVAISTRE
Member of the Board of Directors of the French Council of Investors in Africa (CIAN) and President of the Commission “European Institutions”
« There is a status of agricultural entrepreneurship to invent »
Author of numerous publications on Africa, Patrick Sevaistre is an expert on private public dialogue in Africa. In the book “For new EU-Africa trade agreements for development”, he proposes with Jean-Luc Ricci, from HEC Paris a series of reforms to engage to change the game and establish a real climate of confidence. With two objectives: to promote the State as a strategist, facilitator and arbiter, and strengthen the role of business in the development of Africa. Supporting agriculture as a sector of the future, he joined Patrons Sans Frontières.
Jean-Louis MATTÉI
Graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and of the Center of Higher Studies of Banks, Jean-Louis Mattéi joined the Societe Generale in 1973. He became Director of the Africa / Overseas / Middle East Zone in 1993. In 1998, he became head of Retail Banking outside Metropolitan France. He then dxevelopped the international network while strengthening the group’s historical positions – particularly in Africa. In 2012, he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Société Générale in Morocco (until 2015). Among his terms of office, Jean-Louis Mattéi has also been a director of SGBL and previously Director and Chairman of the AFD Risk Committee and Director and Chairman of the Risk Committee of the Mauritius Commercial Bank Group.
Jean-Jacques Chateau
It is an honor for the Association Patrons Sans Frontières to count Mr. Chateau on his governance.
His career at Total, as well as his position as head of Total Africa and his knowledge of the continent, on which he set foot for the first time in 1963, make his knowledge a real wealth.
