For the first time, local authorities together with regional businesses sat down at a joint negotiating table in the format of a public discussion platform. The event brought together about 40 of the most powerful entrepreneurs in the Odessa region. The newly established Council of Investors will meet on a regular basis to find comfortable ways to cooperate, resolve problematic issues, receive direct feedback from the largest market players and jointly promote the Odessa region in the international arena.
A project of a new investment policy ProUkraine is being implemented under the leadership of the head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Serhiy Hrynevetsky and with the support of the President's Office in the region. Its infrastructure has three mechanisms through which local authorities will be able to cooperate competently with external and internal investors, as well as attract new ones. These are the Department of Investment and Foreign Economic Activity, International Relations and Tourism of the Odessa Regional State Administration, the Regional Development Agency of the Odessa Region and the Council of Investors.
"In the direction of investment policy, it is impossible to achieve results without asking those who have already managed to build a strong business. That's why we created this platform to identify painful points, raise problematic and acute issues and find profitable solutions together with the business department. It is also an opportunity to present the work of the government in terms of investment policy and get mentorship from individual companies that can become ambassadors of the Odessa region abroad, so that they can offer our proposals to their international partners. This should be a consolidated position of big business in the region and the regional leadership, "said Roman Hryhoryshyn, Secretary of the Investor Council and Chairman of the RDA Supervisory Board.
Currently, the Odessa region has been certified, which will result in 91 flagship investment projects for each territorial community. They are handled by the teams of the Regional Development Agency and the Department of Investment and Foreign Economic Activity, International Relations and Tourism of the Odessa Regional State Administration together with ten consulting companies. Negotiations on cooperation with Turkish consulting companies are also underway. Real commercial offers will be displayed on an interactive investment card developed by the international IT company HYS Enterprise.
"I believe that everyone here can be an ambassador abroad. We are approached by many of our foreign partners about the study of a particular area in terms of investment. Therefore, it would be good to make an investment resource directory of the Odessa region, which would accumulate presentations on the investment attractiveness of the region: infrastructure, communication, human resources and more. As an ambassador, this would help in the presentation of Odesa region, ”said Victor Get, CEO of Delta Wilmar Ukraine.
"We know that one of the tasks of the President of Ukraine is to make it convenient for our country and our region to implement their ideas and plans for business development and job creation. We tried to attract as many people as possible to the Board of Investors of Odessa region who have extensive experience, conduct proper transparent business, create new jobs and will be able to suggest what needs to be fixed, how to move, how to develop the region, "said Vadym Morokhovsky.
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The permanent location for the meetings of the Investors Council of the region will be the office of the Regional Development Agency of Odessa region, located in the former building of the National Bank at Richelevskaya, 6.
