EBRD PRESIDENT TO VISIT ARMENIA MARCH 18

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2010 14:57 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD), Mr. Thomas Mirow will visit Armenia on March 18,
2010 to meet with the country’s President Serzh Sargsyan, Ministers
and entrepreneurs.

A press conference and signature of agreements with a couple of
Armenian banks are also on the agenda, Loretta Martikian a member of
the EBRD’s Press Unit, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

She also informed that Mr. Mirow will be in Azerbaijan on March 16
and in Georgia on March 17. "This is Mr. Mirow’s first visit to the
South Caucasus," she said.

Thomas Mirow, born in January 1953, is the fifth president of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He took up
this position on 3 July 2008. The EBRD Board of Governors nominated
Mr Mirow on 19 May 2008 to replace Jean Lemierre as President of
the EBRD. After graduating from the University of Bonn in 1975, Mr
Mirow worked as the Assistant and then as Chef de cabinet to former
German Chancellor Willy Brandt, then Chairman of Germany’s Social
Democratic party. After serving as Director of the Press Office of
the city-state of Hamburg, Mr Mirow held several senior positions
within the Hamburg administration between 1991 and 2001, including
state minister for economics. He also held several senior management
and advisory positions in the private sector. More recently, Mr Mirow
was Director General for Economic Policy in the Federal Chancellery
in 2005 and appointed State Secretary at the Federal Finance Ministry
in November 2005.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress