On April 6 the Chamber's officials were selected. Eriks Eglitis was elected as the Chairman of the Board and President for 2017-2018. Arnis Kakulis, Ingrida Karina-Berzina, Aigars Milts and Janis Pinnis were elected as Vice Presidents for the next year.

More for than 40 members gathered at Microsoft office for joint Business After Hours hosted by KPMG and Microsoft on the new data protection regulation.

Around 100 members and guests attended the Joint Chamber Dinner Debate on Riga Vision 2017-2021, devoted to the Riga Municipality Elections to be held in June.

This year`s Business & Talent Forum was attended by more than 80 members and guests with focus on how to make companies interesting to millenials.

A small group of AmCham members, representing different industries and different membership levels were invited for the next Member Focus Lunch kindly hosted by Ellex Klavins.

Gints Zalitis has joined the Chamber as an individual member this month. Welcome to the AmCham community!

FICIL is preparing for the annual High Council meeting on 25 and 26 May and would like to update members on the status of its work groups and encourage to join them.

Nordea in the Baltic countries announced EUR 24.5 million in profits for the first quarter of 2017, an increase by 10% compared to the respective period in 2016.

April 2017

Welcome to our April newsletter. This month we elected new Chairman and appointed Vice Presidents. We also discussed different visions of the development of Riga together with members of Foreign Chambers in Latvia. Other events included the Business and Talent Forum to discuss how to make companies interesting to millenials and the Member Focus event which offered the chance to receive member feedback. In addition our monthly Business After Hours hosted by KPMG and Microsoft was devoted to the new data protection regulation. Just click on the links below and register for our upcoming events!

Upcoming events

May 10, 2017

from 15:00 till 17:00

May 17, 2017

from 18:30 till 21:00

Jun 08, 2017

from 18:00 till 21:00

Jul 01, 2017

from 13:00 till 16:00

Sep 28, 2017

from 18:00 till 22:30

Special Offers

7th Annual Conference on Shadow Economy at SSE Riga

How to effectively prepare for the new General Data Protection Regulation

Business Language Workshop at Skrivanek

Business lunch at Le Dome Fish Restaurant