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The 41st World Diamond Congress in Singapore will feature an exclusive fireside chat between GIA President and CEO Pritesh Patel and luxury journalist Richa Goyal Sikri, exploring GIA’s future strategy, research legacy, education initiatives, and industry leadership.

The Board of Governors of the Gemological Institute of America, Inc. (GIA) has named Pritesh Patel, currently GIA’s Chief Operating Officer, as the Institute’s President and Chief Executive Officer, effective August 4, 2025. Patel succeeds Susan M. Jacques, GIA’s President and CEO since 2014, who will continue at GIA as a strategic advisor until her retirement at the end of 2025

Beginning later this year, GIA (the Gemological Institute of America) will start using descriptive terms to characterize the quality of laboratory-grown diamonds and will no longer use the color and clarity nomenclature that GIA developed for natural diamonds. The Institute will continue to accept laboratory-grown diamonds for evaluation and identification