Paris – CACCI President Mr. Jemal Inaishvili attended the 1st Meeting for 2017 of the General Council of the World Chambers Federation (WCF) held on March 1, 2017 in Paris, France. As a transnational chamber, CACCI is a Permanent Member of the WCF General Council and is currently represented by President Inaishvili. […]
Paris – CACCI President Mr. Jemal Inaishvili attended the 1st Meeting for 2017 of the General Council of the World Chambers Federation (WCF) held on March 1, 2017 in Paris, France. As a transnational chamber, CACCI is a Permanent Member of the WCF General Council and is currently represented by President Inaishvili.
During the Paris meeting, President Inaishvili reported on the 50th Anniversary Celebration and the 30th CACCI Conference held in Taipei in November 2016; the election of new CACCI officers for 2017-2018, including the first woman Vice President of CACCI in the person of Mrs. Magvan Oyunchimeg, CEO of the Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry; the holding of the CACCI Summit Meeting to chart CACCI’s roadmap for the next five years; the issuance of the CACCI Policy Statement on “Promoting Ecomomic Empowerment of Women”; the presentation of the 1st Asia- Pacific Woman Entrepreneurship Award; and the ongoing survey seeking the views of CACCI members on the impact of Brexit and the Trump presidency (particularly his America-first policy) on their respective national economies and the economy of the Asian region as a whole.
President Inaishvili was accompanied at the meeting by CACCI Director-General Amb. Victor C. Y. Tseng and Deputy Director-General Mr. Amador R. Honrado, Jr.
The WCF is a global network of 12,000 chambers that aims to help individual chambers to become more productive and strengthens links among them. The General Council is the governing body of WCF that sets the strategic direction and development of WCF’s services.