Tuesday, February 9, 2010.- The Tobago and Bahamas Hall at the Hilton Santo Domingo Hotel was the meeting place for a Group of businessmen members of the British Chamber of Commerce and representatives of the country’s institutions to introduce the new ambassador of Her Majesty Steven M. Fisher.
Mr. Fisher arrived in Dominican Republic on December 13, 2009 to occupy the post of Her Majesty’s Ambassador, presenting his credentials to President Fernandez on December 15, 2009.
The British Chamber of Commerce’s President, Mr. Roberto Herrera explained that the object of that meeting was to introduce his Excellency to the different areas of trade in the country that unite Dominican businessmen from the import, export and service sectors with the United Kingdom.
Before starting this exchange, His Excellency introduced Mr. Tony Lamb, Head of the Latin American Department at UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), duties he performs since the summer of 2009. Mr. Lamb has had an extensive and varied career within such organization. Mr. Lamb has advised British companies in developing strategies and expanding their international relationships and he has also organized, launched and followed up a successful program whose goal is to introduce small and medium sized companies to the export market. Before being named to his current post, Mr. Lamb was the Head of the UKTI teams in Austria and Slovakia located at the British Embassy in Vienna.
At the start of the meeting, Mr. Fisher gave a brief summary of his diplomatic career where we should highlight his work as 2nd Secretary (Economic/Commercial) in Singapore. At his return to London in 1998, Steven joined the Eastern Department as Section Chief covering Ukraine, Belorussia and Moldova. After a period at the European Union Department as Public Diplomacy Chief, Steven was transferred to Caracas in 2002 as the Mission’s Second in Command. From Caracas he went on to Budapest in 2006, also as the Mission’s Second in Command until August, 2009.
Fisher spoke about the United Kingdom’s economic situation and the British Government’s main interests with regards to the bilateral relations with our country. Afterwards, there was an informal exchange with those present where different trading issues were discussed.
