Romain Guizard (LinkedIn) has been appointed Business France’s Egypt director and commercial counselor of the French Embassy in Cairo, the organization said in a statement (pdf) last week. Guizard will help French companies expand in Egypt via an export development strategy and will draw up a strategy to help Egypt-based investors do business in France. Guizard has more than 20 years of experience in international trade and investment, and has been at Business France for more than five years. He enters his new role after heading up the organization’s industry department for more than a year.