American Chamber of Commerce in Italy (AmCham) is a private, non-profit making organization founded on April 13th, 1915 in Milan. It is affiliated with the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington D.C., US Confederation, which includes more than three million companies and it is one of the 117 AmChams in 103 countries worldwide. The Ambassador of the United States to Italy Lewis M. Eisenberg and the Ambassador of Italy to the United States Armando Varricchio are elected Honorary Presidents of AmCham and hold office until the end of their term. It is founding partner of the European Council of American Chambers of Commerce in Brussels, which is an organization that protects free trade between the European Union and the United States of America.