Dubai: RJC's Kinjal Shah and Bethan Herbert have been visiting members and other key industry stakeholders in Dubai and Antwerp in December.
Kinjal Shah, RJC's Country Head for India, visited Dubai to meet with the DMCC to discuss the UAE market and the current challenges for the gold and diamond supply chains. During the meeting, potential opportunities for collaboration in the areas of standards and educational activities were explored. To complement this, Kinjal also visited some of the refiners based in Dubai to open discussion about the industry's need for RJC standards and the value proposition of being an RJC member.
In Antwerp, Kinjal was joined by Bethan Herbert, Certification and Impacts Manager, to gather feedback from this key market. They were encouraged by the overwhelming positive response from the members, auditors and industry associations they met during the two-day visit. Whilst the members they met were at various stages of their RJC certification journey, issues such as KYC, detection of undisclosed laboratory-grown diamonds, the need for more training and face time with the RJC team and opportunities to raise RJC’s profile were common themes across these meetings.
