GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will be heading overseas next week on an economic-focused trip, according to her office.
The five-day “investment mission” will take the governor to Norway and Switzerland, where she will be “focusing on attracting job-creating business investments, particularly in Michigan’s next-generation of automotive manufacturing and clean energy independence ecosystem,” according to a press release from her office.
Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO Quentin L. Messer Jr. and other officials from the department will join the governor.
She will meet with company and government leaders in Oslo, Norway, to talk about investment and collaboration opportunities with industries around the globe like mobility and hydrogen. She’ll also visit Zurich.
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