On May 14  AmChams in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania held the First Pan-Baltic AmCham Forum on combating COVID-19 and business recovery with top government leaders representing all three Baltic countries, including Ministers of Health and Economy as well as business leaders. All speakers admitted that it is crucial to combine resources and expertise across the Baltics and ensure closer partnership between the public and private sector in order to combat the current crisis and regain ecomomic growth.

Join Virtual Running Club and support Care Mobile

The Rimi Riga Marathon Virtual Running Club and Neste Latvija invite to join the campaign and challenge “Creating a healthier planet for our children” from May 1, 00:01 AM till May 31, 11:59 PM. By joining this campaign you will give the opportunity to Care Mobile a chance to drive in an environmentally healthy way and offer medical consultations for more than 1000 Latvian children. Join the challenge HERE!

On May 12 AmCham held a webinar in the Connect with AmCham series to discuss the newly introduced Code of Corporate Governance in Latvia with the following experts: Liene Dubava, Vice President of AmCham and Member of the Management board of Nasdaq Riga; Andris Grafs, Vice President of BICG and Māris Vainovskis, Senior Partner at Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns.

On May 11, the Labor Force work group members gathered to review the latest achievements since January 2021 and to set priorities for 2021 based on AmCham strategy related to skilling and improving governance of human capital development, Latvia as an international career destination as well as topics for upcoming events: diversity, mental health and wellbeing of employees.

Survey on corporate sustainability in Latvia

Foreign Investors’ Council (FICIL) in Latvia together with KPMG Baltics AS are currently conducting a survey to identify how significant sustainability topics are in your business and what are your expectations in this regard from the government. Please fill out the survey HERE by May 21, 2021. 

Vaccination Guide for Employers

As of May 3 companies will have the opportunity to sign up for staff collective vaccination against COVID-19. In parallel with individual vaccination, employers can organize collective vaccination of the employees who want to get vaccinated. Learn more about the application procedure and steps to follow.

On April 29, AmCham Latvia and AmCham EU Healthcare Committees organized a joint call to exchange key healthcare priorities for 2021. Both groups shared their advocacy goals, vision and projects related to healthcare agenda.

On April 29, Tallinn hosted a high-level virtual event to further explore investment opportunities offered by Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund that will provide support to large-scale cross-border infrastructure developments and will introduce new sources of financing to expand businesses in the transport, energy and digital sectors in the Three Seas region – a market of 110 million EU citizens with the fastest economic growth in Europe. To view the presentations!

Nel Capadona joins the AmCham Board

Ronelda (Nel) Capadona, Director of the International School of Latvia has been elected to the AmCham Board of Directors to replace Renate Strazdina, Country Manager of Microsoft Baltics. Nel assumes the position immediately and will serve the remaining term until March 2022.