On March 16 AmCham hosted a dinner meeting for members of AmCham's Healthcare work group, key healthcare stakeholders in Latvia and a group of experts from the EU Technical support project “Improving cancer care coordination and screening in Latvia and Slovakia”. According to the experts the main goal of this project is to reduce inequality and provide comprehensive cancer care services to the majority of the Latvian population.

On March 11, members had an opportunity to meet Anita Muizniece, Minister of Education and Science and hear more about the upcoming changes in the education system of Latvia. The Minister spoke about the necessity of advancing digital skills and life-long learning to adapt to the changing labor market needs. 

AmChams in Europe held a live webinar with Andy Hunder, President of AmCham Ukraine, and AmCham representatives from Ukraine’s neighboring countries – Irisz Lippai-Nagy, CEO, AmCham Hungary, Mila Milairau, Executive Director, AmCham Moldova, Tony Housh, Chair, AmCham Poland, Ionut Simion, President, AmCham Romania, and Ronald Blaško, Executive Director, AmCham Slovakia. Revisit the event!

On March 10, AmCham held its 29th Annual General Meeting to review the past year’s activities, elect the Board of Directors and make other important decisions for the business continuity. Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S. Ambassador Carwile opened the meeting with remarks focusing on on the current Ukraine-Russia war. The AGM elected new member Edgars Labsvirs of Medtronic and re-elected Liene Dubava of Nasdaq Riga, Dita Erna Sile of Novartis Baltics and John Tully of MikroTik to the Board of Directors. All are elected to serve two-year terms.