ECCP Talks: An Exchange of Business Perspective on COVID-19

Companies are facing an unprecedented crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic that is disrupting global supply chains, dragging financial markets into all-time lows, and taking a toll on both the world’s population and economic health. Following recent developments due to COVID-19, companies and select government agencies have resorted to work-from-home arrangements, skeletal workforce systems, or suspension of functions until the lifting of the community quarantine. Everyone is adjusting to what seems to be the ‘new normal’.

Stay in touch with and get updates from the European Chamber. Exchange ideas with the wide roster of ECCP members as we discuss the following:

1. Current COVID-19 situation and how it has affected the Philippine-European business community
2. What the Chamber is doing to continue providing value-adding service to its members and how the latter can maximize ECCP membership benefits
3. Key business concerns relating to COVID-19 and ECCP’s advocacies
4. Companies’ exchange of best practices on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

SPEAKER

Mr. Nabil Francis is the incumbent President of the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) – the oldest European Chamber outside of Europe, with close to 800 members. The ECCP provides a support framework for European Companies, and especially SMEs, interested in exporting to or investing in the Philippines and Filipino companies interested in doing business with Europe or European companies already located or doing business in the Philippines.

Mr. Francis is currently the CEO & President of Republic Cement Services Inc. Prior to his role at Republic Cement, Mr. Francis has held leadership positions in Morocco, India, Bulgaria, Egypt, Sri Lanka, France, and Germany, mainly in the construction and cement industry. He obtained a master’s degree in business administration from ESSEC Business School in France and holds degrees in civil engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon and urban planning from McGill University.