President Leonel Fernandez will be the keynote speaker during this year’s Dominican Week events scheduled for the United States. The annual event sponsored by the law firm of Russin, Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti seeks to promote business, economic, historical and cultural awareness of Dominican society in the United States. President Fernandez is scheduled to speak at the business lunch scheduled for Monday, 12 September at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. (To participate, contact jdieguez@amcham.org.do)
On the program of the 13th Dominican Week is an event in honor of Dominicans elected to office or appointed to work in the US government. Likewise, there will be business presentations at the International Finance Corporation, the Interamerican Development Bank and the InterAmerican Investment Corporation, and at the US Department of State. Also participating in the event again this year is Dominicans on Wall Street, which will have a presentation at Goldman Sachs, the Dominican American Chamber of Commerce of New York and the American Chamber of Commerce. For more information, see http://www.rvhb.com