On December 11 members had an opportunity to join an online meeting with the Deputy State Secretary and the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Economy who shared their insights on Latvia’s plan for economic recovery.

AmCham raised €2500 at its Virtual Christmas Charity event for five charities: Bezvests.lv, Pink Train Foundation, RMHC Latvija, SOS Children Villages and Latvian Foster Families this year. Over 40 members joined to celebrate the season of giving, award AmCham Members of Year, look back at some of the past year's highlights and enjoy virtual networking.

On International Anti-Corruption Day together with OSAC, U.S. Embassies in Latvia, Lithuania and Estionia, FBI, U.S. Department of Justice and our Pan-Baltic sister AmChams we co-hosted a webinar on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This event provided an overview of the FCPA and offered insights into building an anti-corruption corporate compliance program and a resilient corporate culture to combat corruption and its corrosive effects.

During the latest Labor Force work group meeting the work group focused on development of a survey on skills employers require now and in the near future that would help prepare more specific recommendations related to improving content for upskilling and reskilling programs.

Yet another live streaming event was held in partnership with Tatarklubben where David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau, Vice Presidents at the world-renowned research and advisory company Gartner, introduced with the key insights from their new book The Real Business of Blockchain.