Ingrida Karina-Berzina becomes President of AmCham

Ingrida Karina-Berzina was elected as the Chair of the Board and President of AmCham Latvia for 2019-2020 at the Board meeting on March 26. She is the first female President of the Chamber. Liene Dubava, Zinta Jansons, George Miu and Pauls Miklasevics were elected as Vice Presidents for the next year. Congratulations to the new officers!

During a joint conference experts offered their take on how to get ready for the new Whistleblowers Law, which takes effect on May 1, 2019, and will require companies employing over 50 people to introduce certain whistleblowing mechanisms. Presentations and full video of the conference are available.

Are companies ready for Whistleblower's law?

Following our top priorities related to improvement of the business climate and ensuring greater transparency, in March we held a conference on implications of the Whistleblowers Law in cooperation with Transparency International Latvia (DELNA) and five foreign chambers of commerce in Latvia.

Welcome new member Bite Latvija

BITE Latvija, the fastest growing mobile operator in Latvia that for more than ten years has been providing Latvians with modern and innovative mobile services, joins the Chamber as a Corporate member.

Human Development Award open for applications

The 6th Annual Human Development Award, created to honor inspirational people, businesses and organizations of Latvia, is open for applications by May 31 in 4 categories: Social Responsibility, Outstanding Commitment to Education, Exemplary Contribution to Health and Well-Being and The Future of Latvia. The application form is available here. The Awards Ceremony will take place on September 19.

Dynatech becomes a Corporate member

Please welcome our new Corporate member, an information technology company DYNATECH to the Chamber. Founded in 2013, DYNATECH has been creating flexible, innovative and efficient IT solutions

Ellex named leading Intellectual Property firm in Baltics & Eastern Europe

Ellex was awarded “Baltics & Eastern Europe Firm of the Year 2019” at the Managing IP EMEA Awards 2019 ceremony in London on 7 March. This award is presented to firms, individuals and companies behind the most innovative and challenging intellectual property work of the past year. Congratulations to Ellex!

AmCham in cooperation with the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Latvian American Chamber of Commerce held the 7th Seminar in Gateway to the USA program exploring the topics of Healthy living, Food and Technologies. Watch the video below!

Welcome volunteer organization Bezvests.lv

Bezvests.lv, the only volunteer organization providing missing persons search in Latvia territory since 2009, has joined the Chamber as a Non-Profit member. They have found 108 persons in 800 search operations.

With over 75 participants our 26th Annual General Meeting was a great success. Members met to review the past year’s activities and elect the Board of Directors, which now consists of: Zinta Jansons, Partner at Ellex Klavins; Roberts Melbardis, Country Manager, Operations Director of Encompass Digital Media; Pauls Miklasevics, Individual member and Ieva Racenaja, Director of Riga Graduate School of Law. We would like to thank our previous President Arnis Kakulis and Vice President Janis Meija for their service and wish them best of luck in their future endeavors!