Moscow International Business Association

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Moscow International Business Association was founded on November, 19 1997. Co founders of the Association are Bank of Moscow, Moscow Property Fund (today Property Department of Moscow City Government), English firm R&A Financial Group inc. and Russian company “Crocus International”. At the beginning MIBA counted 30 companies members from 11 countries of the world. Today it unites 200 companies, banks, enterprises from 23 countries. From the first day Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov stays as the President of the Association. Following its Charter, he was reelected unanimously by the General Assembly in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. His actual mandate is valid through March 2012.

Minister of the Moscow City Government Vladimir Malyshkov is the first Vice-President responsible for GR. MIBA Vice-Presidents are: Andrei Borodin — President of the Bank of Moscow, Aras Agalarov — President of “Crocus International” (they represent the interests of Russian business circles), Patrick Pascal — President of “Alstom” in Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia, senator Oleg Tolkachev — member of Council of Federation representing legislative branch of federal power.

Alexander Borisov, advisor of the Mayor of Moscow for the relations with foreign business community is MIBA General Director. At the same time he is Member of the Board of Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, member of the Inter — Agencies Working Group on Trade at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, member of the Consultative Board on Custom’s Policy at the Federal Customs Service and member of Public-Advisory council at the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Mr. Borisov participates also in the work of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC) under Russian Prime- Minister and represents Russia at the Private Sector Consultative group under General Secretary of World Customs Organization. All of this gives the possibility to extend MIBA’s ability to defend the interests of its members.

MIBA unique character lies in the fact that it is a multiprofessional organization and includes Russian and Foreign companies, working in the Capital City and in Regions, big, medium and small firms, which reflects practically the whole spectrum of the business community of Moscow and Russia. MIBA’s Executive Board includes representatives of the government (federal, regional and local — executive and legislative branches alike) and the business community (Russian and Foreign alike).

International and inter regional connections of MIBA are maintained trough a network of 14 overseas and 32 regional representatives. MIBA also actively co operate with other business associations: Commerce and Industry chambers of Russia and Moscow, National Trade Association, Association of Russian banks and Moscow banks union, the Russian council of trade centers, Union of German economy etc. From 2002 MIBA joined Association of the entrepreneurs of the European capital cities (OPCE). Alexander Borisov is the member of OPCE Board of Directors. From 2003 MIBA co operate with the International association of business communicators (IABC). Mr. Borisov is a member of Presidential Council of the Russian branch of IABC.

Annually MIBA is organizing alone or with partners 90 — 100 events, the most important of them is international investment forum “Moscow-Invest”. It took place in London (1998), Moscow (1999 and 2003), Tel-Aviv(2000), Berlin (2001), Milan (2002), Abu-Dhabi (2004), Munich (2006), London (2007), Vienna (2008) and Shanghai (2009). Each year MIBA is receiving around 600 requests from its members, related to various fields of their activity, including projects of interest for the city and its citizens as well as legal issues proposals, complaints about actions of authorities of different levels, requests to speed up some decisions or to support to solve various problems in different city, regional or federal services. Each request is being considered together with specialists from the state or municipal bodies and, if needed is being reported to Mayor of Moscow, to Chairman of the federal Government, to Federal Ministers, heads of Federal services and agencies. About 2/3 of all requests are usually solved. For the period of MIBA activity its foreign members only managed to attract to Moscow and to Russia about $14 billions of direct investments.

All these years MIBA has been successfully playing role of interface between administrations of all levels and business community of Moscow and Russia, acting under slogan “Business — Government — Direct Dialog”.