The American Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania Events list

As the presidential campaign heats up, American Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania together with its counterparts in Estonia and Latvia is inviting you to join Pan-Baltic events in October dedicated to U.S. election 2020.

Pew Research Center, based in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
Pew Experts – Research Associate Hannah Hartig and Director of Global Attitudes Research Richard Wike will join our event this October to share their research based assessments of American voter attitudes ahead of the upcoming election and global U.S. Image report.

Andreas is a founding Partner of one of Estonia’s most successful PA companies which joined the Fipra network as Fipra Estonia in March 2011. Andreas recently worked for clients in Financial Services, Auditing, the Food Industry, Commercial Real Estate, Energy, Healthcare and Media. Andreas began his career working in the Estonian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, one of the largest business organisations in Estonia. In public service, Andreas served as an Adviser to the Prime Minister, Adviser to the Minister of Defence, head of the centre-right conservative party’s parliamentary group staff and as Political Secretary of the party. Andreas is a member of the Estonian NATO Society and a member of the supervisory board of the Estonian Debating Society. Andreas counsels key clients on public strategies, corpcomms and government relations. As a hobby, Andreas provides social and political commentary as a co-founder of a not-for-profit political blog and radio show poliitika.guru, engages in international aairs punditry and sits on the supervisory board of Estonian Civil Society NGO. 

Registration
This event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

To RSVP, please e-mail administration@amcham.lt. Registration is open until Wednesday, September 30th, 5pm.
(*) Time of this event is subject to change.

AmCham Lithuania is setting up 6 committees to provide its Members with a platform to discuss relevant topics and issues relating to specific industries.We encourage you to join the committees, where you will be able to actively participate and input in matters that are most important to your business. 

Each committee will be led by a Member of the AmCham Board, who is an expert in the field and strives to identify key issues affecting businesses in Lithuania. This autumn, we invite you to join the first meetings of the committees and help us tackle the issues that matter to you!

TOURISM & HOSPITALITY
Led by Žydrė Gavelienė, Estravel Vilnius American Express

The first meeting of this committee will take place online on October 6th, 10AM.

To RSVP please e-mail administration@amcham.lt

AmCham Lithuania, in partnership with AmCham Estonia and AmCham Latvia, is pleased to invite members to an exclusive session to discuss the upcoming 2020 U.S. election with the White House Correspondent for Fox News Radio Jon Decker.

Jon Decker is the White House correspondent for Fox News Radio and has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995.  In 2015, he was elected by his colleagues to the Board of the White House Correspondents’ Association.  He is also on the faculty of Georgetown University and the UCLA School of Law where he is an Adjunct Professor.  Jon, a member of the Washington, DC Bar, is the only lawyer in the White House Press Corps.

He has served as a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and was also an aide to the late U.S. Senator John Heinz.  Jon, who was born in Washington, DC, received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees with Honors from the University of Pennsylvania and received a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.  He also studied international law at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Jon has covered the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump Administrations, as well as 25 State of the Union Addresses, 6 Presidential elections and the Impeachments of both President Clinton and President Trump.  He has been in the Supreme Court to cover some of the most important cases of the past two decades – including Bush v. Gore, NFIB v. Sebelius – which challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, and Windsor v. United States – the landmark civil rights case concerning same-sex marriage.

Linas Kojala is Director of Eastern Europe studies center since July 2016. He was also a Fulbright Fellow at Davis Center, Harvard University (2017-2018), where he continues to contribute as an Associate at the Negotiation Task Force. Since 2020, he is also a Baltic Sea Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute. L. Kojala is also a columnist and a regular political commentator at Lithuanian TV and radio, as well as international outlets (contributions to CNN, European public broadcasters and others).

L. Kojala is teaching at International Relations and Political Science Institute, Vilnius University. His research interests include foreign affairs, foreign relations of Russia and the United States of America, European integration, security and NATO studies, information security. His book on Lithuania’s accession to the European Union and current security challenges of Europe was among top-selling books in Lithuania in 2019. In 2019 and 2020, he was respectively voted third and fourth most influential Lithuanian public figure in a poll by a national media outlet DELFI.

Join us as one of Washington’s most experienced political journalists provides an exclusive insider’s look from the Hill. 

Registration

AmCham Members, Diplomatic Corps – Free of charge
Non Members – 25 Eur

To RSVP, please e-mail administration@amcham.lt. Registration is open until Wednesday, October 7th, 5pm.

AmCham Lithuania is setting up 6 committees to provide its Members with a platform to discuss relevant topics and issues relating to specific industries. We encourage you to join the committees, where you will be able to actively participate and input in matters that are most important to your business. 
Each committee will be led by a Member of the AmCham Board, who is an expert in the field and strives to identify key issues affecting businesses in Lithuania. This autumn, we invite you to join the first meetings of the committees and help us tackle the issues that matter to you!

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Led by Vilius Bernatonis, TGS Baltic

AmCham Lithuania is setting up 6 committees to provide its Members with a platform to discuss relevant topics and issues relating to specific industries. We encourage you to join the committees, where you will be able to actively participate and input in matters that are most important to your business. 
Each committee will be led by a Member of the AmCham Board, who is an expert in the field and strives to identify key issues affecting businesses in Lithuania. This autumn, we invite you to join the first meetings of the committees and help us tackle the issues that matter to you!

IT & SOFTWARE
Led by Rima Valentukevičienė, IBM

AmCham Lithuania is setting up 6 committees to provide its Members with a platform to discuss relevant topics and issues relating to specific industries. We encourage you to join the committees, where you will be able to actively participate and input in matters that are most important to your business. 
Each committee will be led by a Member of the AmCham Board, who is an expert in the field and strives to identify key issues affecting businesses in Lithuania. This autumn, we invite you to join the first meetings of the committees and help us tackle the issues that matter to you!

MANUFACTURING & LOGISTICS
Led by Ramūnas Petravičius, Ellex Valiunas

AmCham Lithuania is pleased to invite you to an exceptional online meeting with Marius Vismantas, Program Leader and a Lead Country Economist in the World Bank’s Equitable Growth, Finance, and Innovation practice group. 
His core professional focus is on holistic economic development, developmental finance, financial and social resilience building, and state’s role in the economy.
While at the World Bank, Marius has worked with top national economic management and financial sector authorities in some 30 countries across multiple regions. Having previously covered countries in the Europe and Central Asia, East Asia and Pacific, and South Asia regions, he currently resides in Addis Ababa and covers Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea. As a task manager of World Bank projects, he has led multiple high-profile lending and advisory operations, including a US$3 billion portfolio of policy and investment loans to governments for financial sector restructuring and crisis resolution, modernization of central, public, and private commercial banks, and for export, MSME, and infrastructure finance development.
His career in finance and international development spans over 27 years and includes, in addition to the World Bank, technical, managerial, and senior leadership positions at the Bank of Lithuania, International Monetary Fund, Danske Bank, and Danske Pension Fund Management. Marius has an MBA degree in Finance and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is a former and current board member of a few non-government entities and also a long-time member of the Vilnius International Rotary Club.

Vytautas Žukauskas is an experienced policy analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the public policy industry. Skilled in Politics, Policy Analysis, Corporate Finance, Government, and Financial Markets, Vytautas is working as Policy Analyst and Research Director at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute.

REGISTRATION

This event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
Please register no later than October 28th, 17:00 by e-mail to administration@amcham.lt

(!) This event will be held in English.