The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council , CWEIC , has selected agro - remark company Elgon Kenya as its strategic collaborator and constitute its Managing Director , Dr. Bimal Kantaria , to its ball-shaped advisory council .
The not - for - gain organization is the Commonwealth ’s business web . With over 100 occupation and regime strategic partners from 31 countries and territory , CWEIC has a authorisation to facilitate craft and investment across the 54 phallus nations of the Commonwealth . Every two years , the council host the Commonwealth Business Forum alongside the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting . Through its meshing , at its events , and on external deputation , the organisation ’s activeness aim to create a platform for meaningful date between stage business leaders and Government decision - makers across the Commonwealth .
“ I am honored to be part of this prestigious connection chemical group , and I wait forrader to more interactions and mesh with other members while push back its transformation agenda . I thank Lord Jonathan Marland , the Chairman of CWEIC , for pay for us , ” Dr. Bimal state .
At the helm of one of the large agro - input companies in Eastern and Central Africa , Dr. Kantaria oversees over 600 employees and operations in Kenya , Tanzania , Uganda , Ethiopia , and Zambia as the orotund Department of Agriculture inputs party in East Africa .
He has applied his science and knowledge extensively towards philanthropic endeavors spanning educational activity , health , and social services , among others . In 2020 , H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta awarded him the Kenya Presidential Order of Service- Uzalendo Award , for Robert William Service to the nation during Covid , especially for the Flowers of Hope project , which saved thousands of Kenyan jobs .
In 2020 , Dr. Kantaria was elect chair of the Agriculture Sector connection ( ASNET ) , the umbrella entity of factory farm organizations and stakeholder seek to channelize the industry into the required transformation to force back Kenya ’s economical maturation . The web has since gone regional , following the establishment of the Agriculture Confederation of East Africa , which seeks to negociate with governments and business sector in the East Africa region to formulate a policy to support a seamless movement of good across mete to spurr agriculture development with the EAC border . This effort , despite the EAC Heads of State Summit pledging since 2011 to spearhead a regional approach to USDA development , has not taken off , but with ACEA , the ambition is close to becoming agnize . Dr. Kantaria is the chair of ACEA .
Dr. Kantaria has served as a National Board Director at the Kenya Private Sector Alliance ( KEPSA ) since 2021 and lead on Food Security and Climate Change .
