PAST EVENTS
14th Annual AmCham General Assembly
“For the benefit of your companies and the business
community – and ultimately for the benefit of Macedonia – we need to work together to encourage an
environment that fosters economic growth,” said U.S.
Ambassador Wohlers while opening AmCham’s 14th
General Assembly on October 10th, 2014. Ambassador
Wohlers went on to encourage members to further “a
regular, robust, and blunt dialogue” with government.
Ms. Liza Popovska, Board President for the last 2
years, recognized the work of two departing Board
members – Werner Hengst and Makram Ghribi for the
significant time and energy they invested in the organization during their years of Board service.
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Presenting a year in review report, Executive Director, Ms. Michelle Osmanli highlighted AmCham’s activities that aimed at advancing business-university
cooperation and increasing the quality of internships
in the country; improving expat visa and work permit
procedures; raising public awareness and protection
of intellectual property rights; and promoting progressive human resources practices, volunteerism
and a commitment to corporate social responsibility
among members. She also emphasized the organization’s productive cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Skopje which had greatly increased the contribution of U.S. know-how to a number of AmCham
events and activities.
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