ECCSL breakfast forum with Belgium envoy on 22 Sept.

The European Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka will hold a breakfast meeting with Jan Luykx, Ambassador of Belgium to Sri Lanka, India and other SAARC Nations on 22 September at Hilton Colombo Residencies from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. with participation of the Sri Lanka’s elite business community. 

The Ambassador will be delivering the keynote speech at the event. This will be followed by a presentation on Belgian-Sri Lanka Trade by the Investment Commissioner of Belgium Alexis Bossuyt. The meeting will conclude with a Q&A session. 

Jan Luykx has been the Ambassador of Belgium to India since August 2014. He is currently accredited to Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. He earlier had diplomatic assignments in Switzerland, Poland, the USA, Denmark and Austria. Luykx has also worked as Head of Cabinet and Deputy Head of Cabinet with the Belgian Minister for Development Corporation, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Foreign Trade. 

Alexis Bossuyt is the Trade and Investment Commissioner for Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal at the Flander’s Investment and Trade Office (Embassy of Belgium – New Delhi). Earlier he was the Trade and Investment Commissioner for Chile and Peru at the Flanders Investment and Trade Office (Embassy of Belgium – Santiago – Chile).