Bringing Business and Policy Makers Together

The Chamber conducts a program of high-profile speaker events featuring top government officials and business leaders so that AmCham members can hear firsthand from these policymakers. More importantly, high-profile speaker events provide members a chance to ask questions directly to the experts regarding how new policies will affect bottom lines.

2008 speakers included:

• Herman Gref, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sberbank (May 16, 2008)
• Janice Jacobs, Acting Assistant Secretary of State & Head of the Consular Affairs Section of the US State Department (May 8, 2008)
• Reuben Jeffery III, U.S. Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs (Jan 30, 2008)
• Vladislav Reznik, Chair of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market (Jan. 23, 2008)
• Senator Chuck Hagel (Jan 15, 2008)

2007 speakers included:

• Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, EBRD (Nov. 15, 2007)
• Alexey Klimov, Deputy Director of the Consular Department of the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Alexander Aksyonov, Head of the Visa and Registration Department of the RF Federal Migration Service (Nov. 12, 2007)
• Maxim Medvedkov, Head of the Trade Negotiations Department of the RF Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and Russia's Chief WTO Negotiator (Oct. 12, 2007)
• Vyacheslav Postavnin, Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service (Feb. 8, 2007)

• Georgy Boos, Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast (Dec. 1, 2006)
• William J. Burns, U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (Nov. 28, 2006)
• Alexey Mordashov, Chairman of Severstal Board of Directors, Severstal Gruop General Director and RSPP Trade Policy Committee Chairman (Nov. 21, 2006)
• Oleg Mitvol, Deputy Head, Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Management (Nov. 14, 2006)