BCCI Annual General Meeting 2020 and Brexit & Sustainability Webchat

Dear Members,

We would like to invite you to a special online edition of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday 25th June 2020 at 16.00. This is your chance to take part in important discussions and decisions on the Chamber’s future, ask questions and put across your views.

Immediately following the AGM, BCCI President Tom Noad will host a ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’ webchat focussed on the final throes of Brexit, the challenges of Covid and the opportunity for all of us to take responsibility for a clean, green recovery.

Tom will be joined by special guest Dr. Adam Marshall (Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce) for a discussion on the future of trade between the UK and Italy in light of the rapidly approaching end of the transition period as well as by Eliot Whittington (Director of Policy & Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group), for a discussion on the opportunities which the COVID-19 crisis will present to rebuild world economies on more sustainable models.

The webchat is expected to last until 18.00.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Adam Marshall
Director General – The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC)

Dr Adam Marshall has been Director General since October 2016. He was previously Executive Director for Policy and External Affairs at the British Chambers of Commerce. Charged with representing the interests of many thousands of companies, Adam works at the highest levels of business, government and the media to tackle many of the key issues facing firms in Britain today.
Prior to joining the BCC, Adam helped start the Centre for Cities, build commercial links between industry and universities, and worked in the broadcast media. He holds a BA from Yale University, and MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge.

Eliot Whittington
Director of Policy; Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group

 Eliot’s work has a strong focus on climate change, but he also helps drive action on the circular economy, plastics and issues around the social and justice implications of economic change. He represents the Corporate Leaders Group on the board of the We Mean Business Coalition and has been responsible for CISL work that has included collaborations with the World Bank, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UNFCCC, a number of European governments and a wide range of senior business stakeholders
He has nearly 20 years’ experience in working to unlock systemic change, including providing policy analysis around climate action for Save the Children and Christian Aid, leading Christian Aid’s UK lobbying work with parliamentarians and political parties, and working on mobilising grassroots campaigning in locations from Addis Ababa to Birmingham.

INFO & REGISTRATION

Please download the documents for the Annual General Meeting 2020:
>> NOTICE         >> BALLOT PAPER       >> PROXY FORM

The audited accounts, the Report of Council and the Audit opinion for 2019 are available here

✴️The webchat is open to non-members as well. To register please email marketing@britchamitaly.com ✴️

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
IMPORTANT: If this is your first time using the Zoom platform, please take a moment to download and install the software.  It should take no longer than 2-3 minutes to execute the setup.

For further information please do not hesitate to contact Maria Luisa Fantoni, Marketing & Event Manager: marketing@britchamitaly.com