Agenda item

EDO Monthly Update

Report of the Director of Economic Development.

Minutes:

The Sub-Committee received a report of the Director of Economic Development proving Members with highlights of the key activity undertaken by the Economic Development Office (EDO) in January 2019.

 

A Member asked a question regarding the type of pass that the Policy Chair and the Lord Mayor possessed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Members heard that the Lord Mayor had the full congress pass, which allowed him all access to the congress centre. The Policy Chair had the hotel pass, which enabled her to go to all the fringe events. The Member felt that it was important that the Policy Chair should also have the full congress pass and that if both the Lord Mayor and the Policy Chair were both going, they should be treated equally. The Director of Economic Development explained that he had been negotiating with the World Economic Forum to allow them to have two congress passes but had not been successful this year and would continue to negotiate for next year. The Director gave an overview of the Policy Chair’s programme and the Policy Chair stated that many representatives of financial institutions choose to have the hotel pass rather than the full congress pass.

 

RESOLVED, that:

·         The progress of the EDO workstreams be noted.

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