OREANDA-NEWS. A delegation of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD arrived in Moscow on September 22 on an eight-day visit during which they are slated to visit two Russian regions and hold talks with the Federal government and regional authorities, as well as business leaders and representatives of civil society.

According to the EBRD press-service, the visit is part of a regular series of consultations and is to enable the EBRD Directors to obtain up-to-date information on developments in what is the Bank's largest country of operation. Representatives of the Board on this visit include:
Anne Counihan, representing Ireland, Denmark, Lithuania and FYR Macedonia; Virginia Gheorghiu, representing Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Moldova; Sven Hegelund, representing Sweden, Iceland and Estonia; David Martinez Hornillos, representing Spain and Mexico; Elena Kotova, representing the Russian Federation, Belarus and Tajikistan;Kazuya Murakami, representing Japan; Simon Ray, representing the United Kingdom; Joachim Schwarzer, representing Germany; Hans Sprokkreeff, representing Netherlands and Mongolia. They are accompanied by Alain Pilloux, EBRD Business Group Director for Russia, representing the Bank's management.

The EBRD Board mission's visiting plan includes Nizhny Novgorod in the central Volga district, as well as Krasnodar and Sochi in southern Russia before returning to Moscow on September 28 for a final round of high-level consultations.