OREANDA-NEWS. November 30, 2011. Andrei Shirokov was appointed Director of Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) representative office in Bishkek. In this capacity he will be busy with organizing operations of the Bank in the Kyrgyz Republic of Kazakhstan, which in August this year joined the Eurasian Development Bank; in the first line he will focus on opening the EDB's representative office in the capital of this country scheduled for the first quarter 2012, reported the press-centre of KASE.

"In my view, A. Shirokov's joining our team is capable of rendering a new momentum to our projects efforts, enrich them with new directions and ideas, - says EDB's CEO Igor Finogenov. - We build great hopes on his unique background, business sense and ability to start a business from scratch - these skills will namely be of great importance to Andrei Shirokov in expanding the Bank's operations in the Kyrgyz Republic which recently became a fully fledged EDB member".