On May 14  AmChams in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania held the First Pan-Baltic AmCham Forum on combating COVID-19 and business recovery with top government leaders representing all three Baltic countries, including Ministers of Health and Economy as well as business leaders. All speakers admitted that it is crucial to combine resources and expertise across the Baltics and ensure closer partnership between the public and private sector in order to combat the current crisis and regain ecomomic growth.

On May 12 AmCham held a webinar in the Connect with AmCham series to discuss the newly introduced Code of Corporate Governance in Latvia with the following experts: Liene Dubava, Vice President of AmCham and Member of the Management board of Nasdaq Riga; Andris Grafs, Vice President of BICG and Māris Vainovskis, Senior Partner at Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns.

On May 11, the Labor Force work group members gathered to review the latest achievements since January 2021 and to set priorities for 2021 based on AmCham strategy related to skilling and improving governance of human capital development, Latvia as an international career destination as well as topics for upcoming events: diversity, mental health and wellbeing of employees.

On April 29, AmCham Latvia and AmCham EU Healthcare Committees organized a joint call to exchange key healthcare priorities for 2021. Both groups shared their advocacy goals, vision and projects related to healthcare agenda.