Alexey Miller moderates 35th Presiding Committee Meeting of International Business Congress in St. Petersburg
December 5, 2016
St. Petersburg hosted today the 35th Presiding Committee Meeting of the International Business Congress (IBC) moderated by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, President of the IBC.
The Chairpersons of the IBC Working Committees presented their progress reports to the Presiding Committee. Special emphasis was put on the successful implementation of a number of projects in such areas as energy efficiency, use of gas as a vehicle fuel, health and ecology. At present, the IBC supports the work performed within five projects covering, inter alia, education, LNG and computer technologies.
The Meeting addressed the issue of altering the membership of the Presiding Committee. In addition, the participants approved the IBC budget for 2017 and agreed on the central theme of the next IBC General Meeting: “Natural Gas as the Fuel of Choice for the Future.” The 20th IBC General Meeting will take place on May 25–26, 2017, in Vienna.