Managing Director of LADOL, Dr Amy Jadesimi, gave the keynote speech at the opening plenary of the 2018 GIZ Joint Symposium on Economy & Social Development, in Bad Neuenahr, Germany on September 11.
LADOL is West Africa’s free zone and logistics hub for multinational industrial and offshore companies
During her speech, Jadesimi highlighted the fact that the global turmoil and search for new operating models is an ideal time for sustainable business models and public sector policies to flourish.
“There have never been as many educated, healthy connected people in the world as there are now and we have definitive evidence that sustainable operating models will outcompete all others,” she said.
She encouraged the 800 people in the audience to be optimistic and use this time to support and enable sustainable private sector companies in low income, high growth countries to flourish.
This, according to her, will lead to massive job creation and attract the trillions of dollars needed to help us meet the United Nations 17 global goals and 169 targets.
Established on January 1, 2011, GIZ is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides services in the field of international development cooperation.
GIZ seeks to follow the paradigm of sustainable development, which aims at balancing economic development with social inclusion and environmental protection.
It offers consulting and capacity building services in a wide range of areas, including management consulting, rural development, sustainable infrastructure, security and peace-building, social development, governance and democracy, environment and climate change, and economic development and employment.
LADOL is the largest private indigenous free zone in Nigeria and a strategic special economic zone, built in a secure island, inside the Port of Lagos.
It has proven it is the ideal location in which to execute the largest global industrial projects.
Local and international companies can engineer, manufacturer and train in this safe sustainable ecosystem.
LADOL will create 50,000 direct and indirect jobs across a range of industries. Having halved the cost of petroleum sector service provision and positively disrupted this sector, the developers are focused on attracting non-petroleum sector companies into the Zone, starting with agriculture and technology.
