The Eurasian Business Coalition (EBC) is an alliance of business from America, Europe and Asia (Eurasia) who have joined together to promote investment, trade, and cooperation between the nations of East and West. EBC is a program of the Eurasia Center which brings together top trade and economic organizations and specialists who analyze and advise business executives, companies, and entrepreneurs on important commercial issues in order to promote fair trade and business among companies in America, Europe, and Asia.
The Coalition was formed under The Eurasia Center in order to assist companies in understanding the new changes in world trade and deal with the practical aspects of doing business in the 103 countries of Eurasia. EBC’s members range from Fortune 500 Corporations to small- and mid-size firms throughout America, Europe, and Asia. Each member realizes that in order to build and develop a positive business environment where its products and services can become established and thrive, bridges and coalitions must be formed to strengthen bonds that will not break even in times of crises. These bridges can only serve to strengthen the fundamental business interests of each member abroad.
EBC strives to provide businesses with key analysis and advices through the following activities: Research: Publications, Lecture Series, Economic Analyses, Business Conferences, and Policy Recommendations
“Evening with the Embassy” Series
The “Evening with the Embassy” series establishes even more meaningful and long-term relationships with the various ambassadors and their key Embassy personnel. Incorporated into this goal is hosting one “Evening” at each of the 103 nations recognized by The Eurasia Center. Ambassadors of Eurasia form the Honorary Board of EBC and the Eurasia Center. This effort further establishes The Eurasia Center and its Eurasia Business Coalition as the leaders in Washington, D.C. and abroad for ever increasing communications, understanding, investments, trade, and travel between Eurasia and America.
Participation in the “Evening with the Embassy” is actively promoted to key American investors, businesses, high technology firms, economic developers, bankers, government officials, educators, research institutes, and non-governmental organizations. All organizations take a meaningful part in the monthly events as well as becoming active members of the Eurasian Business Coalition (EBC) with automatic membership in the Eurasia Center.
EBC’s Research Efforts:
The Coalition has conducted important research on the following issues: Doing Business with the BRICS Nations, Doing Business with the Nations of the Silk Road, Developing Long-Term Business, Opportunities in China, Investing in Central Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam in the Eurasia, The Effects of the WTO on Business Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Protection. Now EBC is shifting gears to focus on the development of business in a Covid Environment. It is focusing on efforts to understand the issues between nations that set up barriers to trade, whether it be sanctions, or greater military influence in a region that is open to free trade and international rights of navigation. Thus, EBC hopes to involve America and Eurasia in a new reassessment of how geopolitics can either help or hurt trade among nations, trade among peoples.
EBC Conference and Lecture Series:
EBC invites specialists from America, Europe and Asia to join together and contribute to the Center’s Coalition’s research, publications, and lectures. Since the Eurasia Business Coalition arranged its first “Eurasian Oil and Gas Roundtable” in Washington DC. it has been hosting roundtables ever since. American, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Indian, and other experts participate in these important discussions. EBC has organized important international Conferences - such as The Doing Business with The Eurasian Economic Union, Doing Business with the BRICS Nations Conference & The Silk Road Summit in Washington, DC. However, once again, EBC is shifting gears to focus on Doing Business with Eurasia, Doing Business with Emerging Markets and understanding the new aspects of European trade now that Great Britain is no longer a member of the European Union.
EBC hosts an ambitious lecture series in Washington, DC involving major corporations and their representatives to discuss issues affecting their business developments in Eurasia. Top trade and economic specialists lecture about current trade concerns, import-export problems, and new international legal conditions in order to find the right solutions and direction for conducting successful trade in a changing world.
The Eurasia Center and EBC’s “Star of Excellence” Business Award recognizes American companies who excel in trade and development in Eurasia. In the past, Ford Motor Company won EBC’s Eurasian Star of Excellence Business Award, as has Caterpillar, John Deere, United Technologies, among others.