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Canada : Continental Gold Appoints Dr. Claudia Jimenez to its Board of Directors [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Continental Gold Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Claudia Jimenez to its Board of Directors. Dr. Jimenez is a Colombian-based lawyer with extensive experience in economics and mining in Colombia and internationally. Dr. Jimenez is currently CEO of Jimenez & Asociados S.A.S., a private company based in Medellín, Colombia specializing in fiscal, financial and economic advisory services. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am delighted to welcome Dr. Claudia Jimenez to the Company , commented Leon Teicher, Chairman of the Board. It is a major accomplishment for the Company to have a director with Claudia s expertise in Colombian mining and economic circles, as we advance towards becoming Colombia s next gold producer. Dr. Jimenez was formerly the Executive Director of the Association for the Large-Scale Mining Sector SMGE (now the Mining Colombian Association), an organization created in 2011 which, under Dr. Jimenez s leadership, helped facilitate the rapid growth that the Colombian mining sector has experienced in recent years to become an important economic and social industry in Colombia. She was the Minister-Counselor of the President of Colombia between 2009 and 2010, and the Director of the Colombian Presidential Program for the Reform of the Public Administration (PRAP) at the National Planning Department (2002-2005). Her international experience includes serving as the Ambassador of Colombia in Switzerland and Liechtenstein between 2006 and 2009. Dr. Jimenez graduated with a degree in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia, and later pursued a Doctorate of Law at the Universite of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas) in France. In addition, she earned a Diplôme Supérieur Universitaire (Specialization in Administrative Law) and Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (Master in Public Law) at the Universite de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), France and an International Diploma in Public Administration from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (E.N.A.), in Strasbourg, France. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |