26.03.2015

On 26 March 2015, the VI Northern Dimension Forum jointly organised by the Association of European Businesses and Northern Dimension Business Council started in Saint Petersburg. During the opening session welcome speeches were delivered by: Alexey Mordashov, Chief Executive Officer, AO “Severstal Management”; Co-Chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council (NDBC); Mikael Aro, President and CEO, VR-Group; Representative of the Co-Chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council (NDBC); Vladimir Bulavin, Plenipotentiary Presidential Representative in the North-Western Federal District; Georgy Poltavchenko, Governor of St.Petersburg; Vladimir Goshin, Member of Board (Minister) for Customs Cooperation, Eurasian Economic Commission; Ivan Soltanovsky, Head of Department of European Cooperation, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Sven-Olov Carlsson, Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to the Russian Federation; Philippe Pegorier, Chairman of the Board, the Association of European Businesses (AEB), President, Alstom (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus). Frank Schauff, Chief Executive Officer, the Association of European Businesses, moderated the inauguration ceremony.

The VII Northern Dimension Forum will be held on 7 April, 2016.