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РMУEБGРAИINКАTERVIEW
Mike Zafirovski
Cо-founder of
“Macedonia 2025”
Let us start with the forth- nomic climate and helping build
coming very prominent event –
the Macedonia Economic Summit
2015, which will take place in Sko- vation for citizens, domestic com-
pje in the period November 18-20.
The Summit is organized by “Mace-
donia 2025”, of which you are a co- each year to help advance this mis-
founder and member of the Board
of Directors. What is the general
goal of the Summit?
M.Zafirovski: The Economic
Summit supports the overall mis-
sion of MK2025, which is to help
create a more prosperous eco-
16 November 2015
LET EVERYONE BECOME
A FACTOR OF POSITIVITY
FOR MACEDONIA
a “stronger nation,” one that will
improve opportunities and inno-
panies, and foreign investors. The
Summit is a very important event
sion.”
We have so many exceptional
minds (local Macedonians; Dias-
pora; local and global companies of
all sizes; global citizens) who want Kinross Gold Corp. Canada, Zivko
to give something to Macedonia in
the form of knowledge, ideas and
best practices. So, if I may sum it
Mike Zafirovski is a proud
American and a proud
Macedonian, as he says.
For a number of years he
is restless proponent for
prosperous Macedonia.
This inspirational
interview makes us ask
ourselves what else can
each of us do for our
country
up, I will say the goal of the Sum-
mit is to envision, inspire and con-
nect.
I saw the list of more than 35
speakers from 15 countries; it in-
cludes John Bitove Jr., Harry Krae-
mer, former CEO of Baxter Inter-
national, Gaetano Massara, CEO
of GE South East Europe, Ichak
Adizes, Steve Sharpe, CEO of Eu-
romax Resources, Lou Naumovski,
Mukaetov, Alkaloid, Jim Dunn, etc.,
to name just few. It looks pretty un-