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Verstka 2019 September.Qxd CERBA MAJOR EVENTS 2019 TABLE OF CONTENT SEPTEMBER Forum NurSultan, KazEnergy Week and Kazakhstan Eurasian KAZENERGY OPINION Forum CERBA Chairman's Message..............................4 NOVEMBER ASSOCIATION NEWS Business Mission Regina, CERBA Business New Members......................................................6 Canada Mission to Agribition Show Member News......................................................9 DECEMBER MAIN STORIES CERBA Eurasia Mining Conference and Conference Toronto, XIV CERBA Eurasia Canada Construction and Forum.................................................................13 Infrastructure Conference 2019 KCBC Mining and Natural Resources Working Group...................................................15 CERBA MAJOR EVENTS 2020 First CERBA Mission to Mongolia .....................16 Alberta Oil&Gas Mission to Atyrau ....................18 JANUARY KCBC Energy Conference in Atyrau .................19 Conference Vancouver, IX CERBA International Canada Mining Conference on CERBA organizes the largest ever Canadian the Margins of AME BC Roundup2020 Trade Mission to Uzbekistan .............................20 MARCH Canadian Business Mission to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Conference Toronto, XX CERBA Eurasia Canada Mining Conference 2020 2019...................................................................22 JUNE RCBC Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility.....................................................23 Business Mission St.Petersburg, CERBA Business Mission Russia to St. Petersburg CERBA Mission to Innorpom 2019 and Global International Economic Forum Manufacturing and Industrial Summit (GMIS)....25 JULY CERBA Business Mission to Zabaikalye...........27 Business Mission Ekaterinburg, CERBA Business Mission LOOKING BACK Russia to INNOPROM Events and Association Activities ......................30 SEPTEMBER Business Mission Vladivistok, CERBA Business Mission Russia to Eastern Economic Forum On the cover: Lake Baikal, Russia NOVEMBER Conference Toronto, XV CERBA Eurasia Canada Construction and CERBA NEWSLETTER Infrastructure Design: Dmitry Radomsky Conference 2020 IN THIS ISSUE: NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEW MEMBER SERVICES: Chairman Job Bank: post your job openings on our website GILLES BRETON Chairman of the Board, CERBA CERBA attracts a lot of jobseekers who possess very specific skills. Posting your opening on our website will enhance its vi Directors sibility and outreach to potential candidates and will give you BORIS ARYEV Stans Energy Corp. the opportunity to target your desired audience. For CERBA CHRIS WESTDAL Silver Bear Resources members we offer this service as a part of the membership DANIEL KISELBACH Miller Thomson LLP package, but it is also available for nonmembers for a fee. ERIN CAMPBELL (CHUTTER) ECMB Capital Partners GRANT WINTON Alberta International Development Office & Intergovernmental Relations Career postings can be listed on our website by: MARTHA HARRISON McCarthy Tetrault LLP Members free MELVIN DHANARAJ Sensei Technologies Nonmembers $200 + tax MICHIEL VAN AKKOOI Kinross Gold Corporation NATHAN HUNT Ronald A. Chisholm International Career postings should be sent to your local CERBA Regio NEIL WITHERS CFA Association Russia nal Director electronically. Submissions are accepted in Word NICOLAS FRESNE Former Head of Quebec mission in Moscow or PDF. Requests for job postings from nonmembers should NORMAN STORM Falcon Oil&Gas LLP include billing information or a Visa, Mastercard or Amex Bombardier PIERRE SEIN PYUN number. Positions are posted for 30 days or until the appli PIOTR DUTKIEWICZ Carleton University cation deadline, whichever is earlier. For more information STEPHEN PARKES PEMD Group Inc. please contact your local CERBA Regional Director. ALBERTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MOSCOW BOARD OF DIRECTORS Resume Bank: Chairman Chairman Dear CERBA Members, we are happy to remind you of an Stephen Parkes PEMD Group Inc. Nathan Hunt Ronald A. Chisholm International addedvalue service included in your membership package, the Directors Directors resume bank. Among our dedicated volunteers and interns Erin Campbell (Chutter) ECMB Capital Alexander Skoblo Dentons Russia there are a lot of talented bilingual and multilingual professio Partners Anatoly Andriash Norton Rose Fulbright nals who are searching for new career opportunities. Erkin Atakhanov Personal Finance Consulting Clark Dillon Bailey EuroChem Group If you are looking to fill in a position with your company please Laurent Auger Alberta International Luc Jones Fircroft feel free to have a look at the resumes in the memberonly sec Intergovernmental Relations Madina Assylbekova Gowling WLG tion of our website and contact the potential candidates directly. Matt Wills John Deere Construction & Nonmembers are also welcome to submit their resumes to this Forestry Division section for a fee. KAZAKHSTAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mikhail Romanov Ernst & Young Chairman Neil Withers CFA Association Russia Norman Storm Condor Petroleum Pavel Zhelvis RusTechnip LLC Vice Chairman Robert Machowski HATCH CERBA LINKEDInspired Alex Chernoff PetroKazakhstan Ron Lewin TerraLink Technologies Would you like to be the first to know what is new in the CERBA Directors Stanislav Borodyuk Kinross Gold Corporation community? Dmitry Barsukov Cameco Kazakhstan Svetlana Bobrovich Barrick Gold Corporation Please follow our company page on LinkedIn: Gordon Haskins AlHilal Bank Observers http://www.linkedin.com/company/canadaeurasiarussiabusiness Kanat Skakov Dentons Annick Goulet Embassy of Canada in Moscow association Kirill Afanasyev Schneider Group Kazakhstan Stephanie Loiseau Embassy of Canada in Receive regular updates from us and feel free to like, share and comment! Mark Fidnlay Arctic Group Moscow CERBA members, we would like to remind you that you are most wel Rustem Ikramov CTP Equipment come to start discussions, share your views and ask questions in our Ulf Wokurka Kazakh Invest exclusive memberonly LinkedIn group. Created specifically for the con Zhanserik Alimzhanov Kazakh Invest OTTAWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS venience of our members, this group is an excellent place to start a new Observers Chairman conversation, bring up a pertinent issue or just reconnect to someone Darren Smith Embassy of Canada to Gilles Breton Former Deputy Head of who shares the same values. Kazakhstan Mission, Canadian Embassy to Russia Shokan Omarov Embassy of Canada to Directors Kazakhstan Alexandra Logvin Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP Christopher Westdal Silver Bear Resources MEMBERSHIP MONTREAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Greg Shields Hyperline For membership inquiries, please contact your regional CERBA office: Chairman Pierre Pyun Bombardier Nicolas Fresne Former Director of the Observer TORONTO CHAPTER Vera Dedyulya Quebec office in Moscow Cecilia Silundika AANDC email: [email protected] Directors Phone: 1 (647) 822 8149 Alexandre Borduas BRP MONTREAL CHAPTER Sebastien Dakin Leo Knaapen Bombardier TORONTO BOARD OF DIRECTORS email: [email protected] Observer Chair Jocelyn Neron Ministere de l'economie, de Martha Harrison McCarthy Tetrault LLP Phone: 1 (514) 575 6334 l'innovation et de l'exportation du Quebec Vice Chairman VANCOUVER CHAPTER Tatiana Domilovskaya Wolfgang Spillner Logistics Consultant email: [email protected] Directors Phone: 1 (604) 720 2905 VANCOUVER BOARD OF DIRECTORS Alex Peshekhonov Global Performance ALBERTA CHAPTER Frank Kense Chairman Improvement Inc. email: [email protected] Erin Campbell (Chutter) ECMB Capital Alex Shifrin Launch*Pad Phone: 1 (780) 915 1110 Partners Bidhu S.Jha OTCL OTTAWA CHAPTER Sebastien Dakin Directors Boris Aryev Stans Energy Corp. Bryan Hughes EDC Jeremy Wyeth Wood PLC email: [email protected] Daniel Kiselbach Miller Thomson LLP Maria Vorobieva SkyPower Global Phone: 1 (514) 575 6334 Dominique Spragg Viking Air Mike Van Akkooi Kinross Gold Corporation KAZAKHSTAN CHAPTER Taskyn Koshman Dr. Stephen Ramsey Grey Owl Engineering Robert C Kay Migao Corporation email: [email protected] John Kitchen Steveston Net and Gear Robert Glasgow McCarthy Tetrault LLP Phone: 7 (777) 113 4477 John Sloan Former Ambassador of Canada Sergey Stefanishin Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP MOSCOW CHAPTER Alex Grichine to Russia, Armenia and Uzbekistan Vera Chefranova KPMG email: [email protected] Joseph Bonvillain Manning Elliott LLP Phone: 7 (985) 762 1240 Melvin Dhanaraj Sensei Technologies MANITOBA CHAPTER Tom Nevakshonoff Observers Tulegen Kalau ENERTEKKazakhstan email: [email protected] Victoria Hayes Ministry of International Trade Phone: 1 (204) 664 2111 (BC Provincial government) UZBEKISTAN CHAPTER Alexander Antonov email: [email protected] Phone: 998 (71) 2539205 OPINION logy and knowhow, thus supporting modernisation in the CERBA CHAIRMAN'S countries receiving the investment. MESSAGE While it is regrettable that there should even be questions about the intrinsic value of trade, it offers the opportunity to reaffirm CERBA's raison d'etre as a business organisation. In the context of the economic relations between Canada and the countries of Eurasia our efforts to promote trade and investment and make it even more profitable to all sides have usefully focused on diversification for trade and on cor porate social responsibility for investment. Trade diversification, or the efforts to move trade flows beyond the path of least resistance, has been an area where CERBA and the Government of Canada, united
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