Luxembourg meets Geneva
Location
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Beau-Rivage Hotel
13 Quai du Mont-Blanc
1201 Geneva
Switzerland
Luxembourg for Finance has the pleasure of inviting you to its Geneva networking reception.
Luxembourg meets Geneva
Monday, 6 May 2024
Venue: Beau-Rivage Hotel
17:00-19:00 CEST
Join us at the Beau-Rivage Hotel in the heart of Geneva for our networking reception. We are delighted to be joined by HE Gilles Roth, Minister of Finance for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, who will open the event.
Attendance to the event is free of charge and will include a networking cocktail.
We look forward to hosting you.
For any questions regarding the event or sponsorship opportunities, please contact: Aurélie Zambeaux
Programme
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17:00
Registration & Welcome Drinks
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17:30
Welcome Address
Nicolas Mackel, CEO, Luxembourg for Finance
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17:35
Keynote Address
H.E. Gilles Roth, Luxembourg Minister of Finance
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17:45
Networking Cocktail
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19:00
End of Networking Reception
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Speakers
HE Gilles Roth
Luxembourg Minister of Finance
Gilles Roth, a member of Parliament and Mayor of Mamer Commune, will serve as Finance Minister and thus also be the Chairman of Luxembourg for Finance.
Gilles Roth comes to this position with a wealth of experience as a member of the Parliament’s Budget and Finance Commission as well as from his prior position as Senior Government Advisor at the Ministry of Finance.
A lawyer by training, Roth graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain.
Nicolas Mackel
CEO, Luxembourg for Finance
Nicolas Mackel is CEO of Luxembourg for Finance, the Agency for the Development of the Financial Centre, since July 2013.
Nicolas is a career diplomat. He has graduated with a law degree from the University of Aix-en-Provence, and holds two post-graduate diplomas in European law from the Sorbonne University, respectively the College of Europe in Bruges where he then also served as a teaching assistant in the Law Department. He worked as a legal clerk at the European Court of Justice before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1999. His assignments focused on the successive EU Treaty negotiations (Amsterdam, Nice, Constitution, Lisbon).
Nicolas was consecutively posted at Luxembourg’s Permanent Representation to the EU (2002-07), as Deputy Chief of Mission at Luxembourg’s Embassy in Washington DC (2007-11) and as Consul General in Shanghai (2011-13) where he was in charge of promoting Luxembourg’s economic interests throughout China as the Executive Director of the Luxembourg Trade and Investment Office.
