The Chairperson of the Economic Development Board (EDB) has been appointed in the person of Mr Joseph Charles Cartier on 20th November 2017.

The EDB, an initiative that was announced in the Budget Speech 2017/2018, is a new entity which has been set up following the EDB Act passed in the National Assembly in July this year, will regroup and consolidate various investment promotion agencies, namely the Board of Investment (BOI), the Financial Services Promotion Agency (FSPA), Enterprise Mauritius (EM) and the Mauritius Africa Fund (MAF).

The EDB will be the main business licensing agency in Mauritius and will comprise three directorates namely: National and Sectoral Economic Development Planning; Investment and Export Promotion (Integration of BOI, EM, FSPA and MAF); and Business Licensing Agency (Implementation of e-Licensing business platform). It was created with the purpose to strengthen institutional capacity to support growth objectives.