{"id":14029,"date":"2020-03-10T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/?p=14029"},"modified":"2020-06-21T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T07:23:14","slug":"h-e-roddy-drummond-british-ambassador-to-bahrain-discusses-the-outlook-for-2020-for-bahrain-british-business-at-bahrain-british-business-forum-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/h-e-roddy-drummond-british-ambassador-to-bahrain-discusses-the-outlook-for-2020-for-bahrain-british-business-at-bahrain-british-business-forum-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"H.E.\u00a0 Roddy Drummond, British Ambassador to Bahrain, discusses the outlook for 2020 for Bahrain British business at Bahrain British Business Forum meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-H.E.-Roddy-Drummond-addressing-the-forum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-H.E.-Roddy-Drummond-addressing-the-forum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2 H.E. Roddy Drummond addressing the forum\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-H.E.-Roddy-Drummond-and-BBBF-Chairman-Khalid-Al-Zayani-OBE-with-the-BBBF-Executive-Committee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/bbbforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-H.E.-Roddy-Drummond-and-BBBF-Chairman-Khalid-Al-Zayani-OBE-with-the-BBBF-Executive-Committee-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"1 H.E. Roddy Drummond and BBBF Chairman Khalid Al Zayani OBE with the BBBF Executive Committee\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manama, Bahrain \u2013 27 January 2020: <\/strong>More than 115 Bahrain<br \/>\nBritish Business Forum (BBBF) members and their guests attended the forum\u2019s January networking lunch meeting held at the Gulf Hotel Convention Centre. H.E. Roddy Drummond, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Bahrain, was the VIP guest of honour and the keynote speaker. His Excellency was welcomed by the BBBF Chairman, Mr. Khalid Al Zayani OBE, who opened the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In his first address as guest of honour, H.E. Roddy Drummond discussed the outlook for the year ahead for Bahrain British business. He highlighted the latest international trade developments, and also discussed the environment and prosperity. His Excellency also said that the British Embassy would continue collaborating with Bahraini and British businesses to help foster even closer UK-Bahrain business relationships, especially harnessing the opportunities provided by the upcoming Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the BBBF for its 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary this year. It\u2019s a remarkable milestone and it\u2019s my pleasure to be associated with the forum during this special year. I look forward to continuing to meet its members at the many events the BBBF will hold over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the BBBF, Mr. Al Zayani OBE, expressed his appreciation to Mr. Drummond as he thanked him for his support to the forum and for British Business in Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manama, Bahrain \u2013 27 January 2020: More than 115 Bahrain British Business Forum (BBBF) members and their guests attended the forum\u2019s January networking lunch meeting held at the Gulf Hotel Convention Centre. H.E. Roddy Drummond, Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to Bahrain, was the VIP guest of honour and the keynote speaker. His Excellency was welcomed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambassador","category-bbbf","category-embassy","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14042,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions\/14042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobelmedia.com\/bbbf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}