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• New trends in global integration
• Competition through integration
• Open date for the competitive economy
• Outlook for Russian companies as global players
• What is a competitive economic policy?
• Business-climate in Russia
• The role of the private sector in creating a 'shared value'
• Global positions of the Russian regions
• Competition for investments: what is the real progress?

Ruben Aganbegyan, CEO, Otkritie Financial Corporation

Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization
Andrei Belousov, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Mikhail Abyzov, Minister of the Russian Federation
German Gref, President and Chairman of the Board, Sberbank of Russia
Mikhail Mishustin, Head, Federal Taxation Service
Viktor Khristenko, Chairman, Eurasian Economic Commission Board
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director, Global Indicators and Analysis, the World Bank
Aleksei Mordashov, CEO, OJSC Severstal

Sergei Naryshkin, Chairman, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Anatoly Chubais, CEO, "Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies" State Corporation
Andrei Kostin, President-Chairman, Management Board, JSC VTB Bank
Sanjiv Kakkar, President, Unilever in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus
Andrei Nikitin, Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)
Rustam Minnikhanov, President, Republic of Tatarstan, Chairman, Council, Association of Innovative Regions of Russia 
Mikhail Kovalchuk, Director, Scientific Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"
Viktor Tolmachev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ACIG Group of Companies
Aleksandr Utkin, CEO, "Cotton Way", Member, Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation

• Government control as a factor of sustainable economic growth
• Development of government control in post-crisis period
• Reforming the world system of financial control

Valery Goreglyad, Deputy Chairman, Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
Igor Bartsits, Dean, International Institute of Public Administration and Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Stanislav Prokofiev, Deputy Head, Federal Treasury of the Russian Federation
Yuliya Krokhina, Director, Research Institute of System Analysis, Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
Aleksei Simanovsky, First Deputy Chairman, Central Bank of the Russian Federation
Viktor Dvurechenskikh, Chairman, Moscow Chamber of Control and Accounts
Natalya Doronina, Deputy Director, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Konstantin Titov, Public Figure, Member, Committee for Economic Policy of the Federation Council
Gennady Onischenko, Head, Rospotrebnadzor (Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service)
Igor Egorov, Chairman, Accounts Chamber of the Ulyanov Region
Natalya Semilyutina, Head, Department of Civil Legislation of Foreign Countries, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

The World Bank has been preparing a Doing Business Report for ten years. The authors of this survey assess 10 aspects of business regulation in 185 countries. The Doing Business Report, as well as the Global Competitiveness Report of the Global Economic Forum, has become a world-acknowledged reference point for the comparative assessment of the countries' investment climate. In 2012, Russia was ranked 112th in the World Bank Report.

• What are the methods for the assessment of the doing business conditions in different countries?
• Is there room for assumption or subjectivity?
• Can the Doing Business ranking be a criterion for the assessment of the governments’ efficiency?
• How achievable are the intentions of the Russian Government to up the Doing Business position from the 112th to the 20th by 2018?
• How to reduce administrative barriers in the economy and make Russia a leader in terms of investment attractiveness?
• How effective is the format of Roadmaps which was chosen to develop measures for the elimination of the most serious barriers for doing business?
• Does the Doing Business ranking have an impact on investment decisions?
• What problems do large foreign investors face in practice?
• How do large companies estimate the conformity of the real business conditions in Russia?

Oksana Derevyanko, Head, Business Programs Department, Russia Today
Kirill Rogov, Senior Research Fellow, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director, Global Indicators and Analysis, the World Bank
Sergei Belyakov, Deputy Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Ljubo Grujic, Region Manager, Coca-Cola, Russia
Alexander Ivlev, Managing Partner for Russia, Ernst & Young
Andrei Nikitin, Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)
Fulvio Guarneri, Senior Vice President, Unilever Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Aleksei Komissarov, Head, Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship, Moscow City Government
Aleksandr Brechalov, President, OPORA ROSSII
Dmitry Grishankov, General Director, Ranking Agency Expert RA, Science Editor, Expert magazine

• Russia in the WTO: what would be the right approach to adaptation?
• How could Russia capture the full benefits from the WTO-membership?
• What is the WTO’s current state and prospects?
• What strategy should Russia pursue in the WTO?
• Trade negotiations: a reset.

Sergei Prikhodko, Executive Director, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Silvana Malle, Professor, University of Verona
Maksim Medvedkov, Director, Department for Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Anders Aslund, Professor, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Vladimir Salamatov, General Director, World Trade Center
Leonid Kazinets, Chairman, Board of Directors, Barkli Corporation,
Member, Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation
Wilfried Bergmann, Vice President, International Affairs, European Business School, Wiesbaden University
Irina Bakhtina, Member of the Board of Directors, Unilever NAMETRUB
Kari Liuhto, Professor, University of Turku, Director, Pan-European Institute, Finnland

Within the framework of the panel discussion, the following books published by Gaidar Institute Press will be presented:

• Gregory Clark. A Farewell to Alms: a Brief Economic History of the World. 2nd revised edition. Moscow: Gaidar Institute Press, 2013 [Gregory Clark. A Farewell to Alms: a Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007]
• Robert C. Allen. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Moscow: Gaidar Institute Press, 2013 [Robert C. Allen. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009]
• Georgi Derlugyan. How the World is organized: Sketches on Macrosociological Topics. Moscow: Gaidar Institute Press, 2013

• The tasks of economic history
• Historic trends and  future challenges
• Economic evolution vs. political evolution

Vladimir Mau, Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 
Carol Leonard, Vice-Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Yury Petrov, Director, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences
Robert Allen, Professor, Oxford University
Gregory Clark, Professor, University of California, Davis
Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
Hassan Malik, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, Harvard University
Georgi Derlugyan, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington
Elina Rybakova, Chief Economist, CITI Group
Aleksei Zabotkin, Head, Macroeconomic Analysis and Investment Strategy Directorate, VTB Capital

• What reforms does Russia need to foster its regional convergence?
• Can the differences in the countries' incomes be explained by the regional income dispersion?
• What are the factors and trends of the Russian regions' economic development over the recent decade and how it differs from other countries?

Aasim Hussain, Deputy Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund
Oleg Chirkunov, Professor, Higher School of Economics

Antonio Spilimbergo, Mission Chief for Russia, International Monetary Fund
Stanislav Voskresensky, Deputy Authorized Representative of the RF President in the Northwestern Federal District
Irina Starodubrovskaya, Director, Center for Political Economy and Regional Development, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Rolf Alter, Director for Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Natalya Zubarevich, Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Daehaeng Kim, Economist, European Department, International Monetary Fund
Bruno Balvanera, Head of Regional Development in Russia, EBRD
Laura Solanko, Research Adviser, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
Evgeny Gavrilenkov, Professor, Higher School of Economics
Kaspar Richter, Lead Economist for the Russian Federation, the World Bank
 

• Global integration processes and Intergovernmental nuclear projects
• Strengthening nuclear and radiation safety cooperation
• Effective economy of the atomic energy industry
• Innovation industry development, implementation of technological know-how and new management technologies

Mikhail Kovalchuk, Director of the Scientific Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"
Viktor Tolmachev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ACIG

Oleg Alekseev, Vice President, Chief Operating Officer for Education and Research, Skolkovo Foundation
Anatoly Yanovsky, Deputy Energy Minister
Rem Arkhipov, CIS Director, NUKEM Inc.
Andrei Gagarinsky, Advisor to the Director, Scientific Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Deputy Director, Institute of Innovative Power Engineering
Valery Govorukhin, Deputy General Director, Techsnabexport JSC
Baurzhan Duisebaev, Head, Directorate of Scientific and Technical Development, NAC Kazatoprom JSC
Luydmila Zalimskaya, Acting General Director, Techsnabexport JSC
Michael Irgang, Development Director, CIFAL
Aleksei Kalinin, Director, International Business Department, State Corporation Rosatom
Maksim Kozlov, Director for Special Projects, INTER RAO UES OJSC 
Andrei Kondratiev, Deputy General Director, Russian-German Energy Agency RUDEA
Vasily Konstantinov, Senior Vice-President for Commerce and International Cooperation, TVEL OJSC
Sergei Korotkov, Director, UNIDO Centre for Interbational Industrial Cooperation in the Russian Federation 
Aleksei Lebedev, General Director, International Uranium Enrichment Center OJSC
Aleksei Molsky, Deputy Chairman, Board, Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System OJSC
Nikolai Pomoschnikov, Head, ESCAP Subregional Office for North and Central Asia
Mikhail Prokudin, General Director, Russian-German Energy Agency RUDEA
Dzamali Ramazanova, Deputy Head, AREVA Representative office in Russia and CIS-countries
Evgeny Romanov, General Director, Rosenergoatom OJSC
Larisa Silkina, Deputy Head, EDF Representative Office in Moscow (Electricité de France)
Angela Stent, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Sergei Turygin, Head, Department of Long-Term Strategic Planning, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Helmut Engelbrecht, CEO, URENCO
Luc Charreyre, Deputy Head, EDF Representative Office in Moscow (Electricité de France)
Dmitry Yalov, Vice-Governor, Leningrad Region, Chairman, Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activity of the Leningrad Region 
Leonid Yanko,  Executive Director, Department of Marketing and Business Development, TVEL OJSC 

• Global priorities of enhancing financial resources inclusiveness and challenges for Russia
• Results of Russia’s implementation of its obligations under the Seoul Consensus concerning enhancing financial services inclusiveness for small business and population
• Balance between the social and financial outcomes of the microfinance organizations' activities; forms and methods for the assessment of the social impact of microfinance on borrowers – entrepreneurs and individuals
• Outlook and challenges for financial innovations: from bank agents to e-money and mobile payment systems
• Reform of financial supervision and establishment of a mega regulator: what will be the impact on the financial services availability?

Mikhail Mamuta, President, Russian Microfinance Centre and National Partnership of Microfinance Market Participants

Aleksei Moiseev, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
Douglas Pearce, Manager,Finance and Private Sector Department, the World Bank
Anna Zelentsova, Russian Co-Chair, G-20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI G20)
Olga Tomilova, Regional Representative, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), the World Bank
Sergei Kryukov, Chairmen of the Board, SME Bank (Vnesheconombank Group)
Nadiya Cherkasova, Member, Board of Directors, National Bank Trust
Viktor Dostov, President, Electronic Money Association
Aleksandr Norov, Chairman of the Board, Credit Cooperative "Chest"
Yuliya Bondareva, Deputy Head, FSFM

• Goals and instruments of the Russian Central Bank's monetary policy
• Outlook for the Russian Central Bank's switching to the inflation targeting regime
• Outlook for the Russian ruble as a reserve currency
• Transfer of the Russian ruble's exchange rate trends to the RF prices
• Monetary policy as a tool for influencing economic activity in the Russian Federation
• Foreign currency hedging tools

Pavel Trunin, Head, "Macroeconomics and Finance" Research Division, Laboratory for Monetary and Credit Policy, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Aleksei Mironov, Research Fellow, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Aleksandr Morozov, Chief Economist for Russia and the CIS, HSBC
Sergei Narkevich, Research Fellow, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Maksim Kulikov, Advisor to the First Deputy Chairman, Bank of Russia
Vladimir Sokolov, Assistant Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Vladimir Tikhomirov, Chief Economist, Otkritie Financial Corporation
Sergei Pukhov, Leading Expert, Development Centre, National Research University Higher School of Economics

• Forms of tax integration known in the world
• Comparison of tax administration in the Customs Union countries
• Outcomes of indirect taxation harmonization on the territory of the Customs Union
• Advantages and disadvantages of tax integration for companies
• Prospects of tax harmonization between Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus
   

Natalia Kornienko, Head, Tax System Laboratory, "Macroeconomics and Finance" Research Division, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Sergei Shatalov, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation       
Diane Juzaitis, Ernst & Young Partner (France)
Ivan Shunko, Deputy Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus
Timur Suleimenov, Minister for Economy and Financial Policy, Eurasian Economic Commission
Bembya Khulkhachiev, Director, Department for Financial Policy, Eurasian Economic Commission
Nurmatbek Mambetaliev, Head, Tax Policy Department, Eurasian Economic Commission
Elena Velikova, Senior Economic Fellow, Tax System Laboratory, "Macroeconomics and Finance" Research Division, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Sergei Glushkov, Vice President, Corporate & Government Affairs, Russia & CIS, PepsiCo
Denis Polekhin, Deputy Head, Department for Tax Policy and Tax Accounting Methodology, JSC Russian Railways
Vladimir Tyutyurnikov, Deputy Director, Central Asian Tax Research Center, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research

• Bank system structure in the current decade
• Macro regulation issues, systemic risks and financial stability issues
• Risks linked with credit expansion
• Monetary policy and banking sector
• Potential sources of resources for credit expansion

Aleksei Vedev, Head, Financial Research Laboratory, "Macroeconomics and Finance" Research Division, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Garegin Tosunyan, President, Association of Russian Banks
Sergei Moiseev, Deputy Director, Financial Stability Department, Central Bank of the Russian Federation
Joerg Bongartz, Chairman of the Board, Deutsche Bank Russia
Oleg Solntsev, Expert, Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting
Ekaterina Trofimova, First Vice President, Gazprombank
Elman Mekhtiev, Economist, GE Money Bank
Evgeny Nadorshin, Chief Economist, Sistema JSFC

• Key approaches to forecasting in Russia:

               - short-term

               - medium-term

               - long-term

• Are the Russian macroeconomic forecasts reliable?  

Marina Turuntseva, Head, Laboratory for Short-Term Forecasting, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Gennady Kuranov, Leading Expert, Consolidated Department for Macroeconomic Forecasting of the Russian Ministry for Economic Development

Sergei Smirnov, Deputy Director, 'Center of Development' Institute of the Higher School of Economics
Aleksandr Shirov, Head, Laboratory of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Konstantin Styrin, Professor, New Economic School
Vladimir Salnikov, Leading Expert, Head, Real Sector, Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting                                                                             
Iikka Korhonen, Director, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition

• Information society and smart society: development strategy and correlation
• Smart society – a new development paradigm
• Professional society in smart education and smart economy development
• Knowledge as a foundation for the smart society development
• Managing knowledge as one of the aspects of a smart society development
• Smart economy: goals, functions, prospects

Vladimir Tikhomirov, Chairman, Expert Council for Information Technologies in Education under the State Duma Committee on Education

Oleg Smolin, First Deputy Chairman, State Duma Committee on Education and Science
Natalya Tikhomirova, Rector, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics
Timothy Colton, Professor, Harvard University
Valery Ivanov, President-Rector, International Academy of Business and New Technologies, Yaroslavl
Aleksandr Tolkachev, Partner, Managing Director, Monitor Group, Member, Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation
Elena Tikhomirova, General Director, E-Learning Center, Founder, E-Learning PRO Community
Vladimir Zhivikin, Director, Ryazan Branch, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics
Valentin Garkusha, General Director, Virtual Technologies in Education
Alun Rhydderch, Director, Horizon Scanning, UK

• Trade policy in Russia: yesterday, today, tomorrow
• Outlook for Russia's Regional integration in WTO
• Global supply and added value chains: prospects for Russia
• CGE modeling of foreign trade
• Risks and challenges of future trade policy

Aleksandr Knobel, Head, Laboratory for International Trade, "Real Sector" Research Division, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Georgy Idrisov, Head, Laboratory for Industrial Markets and Infrastructure, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
David Tarr, Former Lead Economist, the World Bank, Professor of International Economics, New Economic School
Andrei Spartak, Director, All-Russian Market Research Institute (VNIKI)
Natalya Volchkova, Director for  Applied Research, Centre for Economic and Financial Research, Professor,  New Economic School
Aleksandr Pakhomov, Lead Research Fellow, Center for International Trade Research, Institute of Applied Economic Research, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
 

Working language-English

• Is there any special management model in the BRICS countries? Or is the fast growth caused by a crouch start and going to come to nothing soon?
• If there is such a model, what is it so special about?
• What is the slack time of efficiency of this model? (Taking into account that "Japanese Miracle", which gave birth to the Japanese management model, is over).
• How close are the functions and efficiency of a manager in a private company and in the public sector?
• Can a manager be taught to be universal and "multifunctional" and work equally efficiently in the public and private economic sectors?
• Future training for top managers – will it be an МВА/МРА hybrid program or do we need other approaches?

Sergei Myasoedov, Vice-Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, Dean, IE Business School
Sir Paul Judge, President, АМВА International

Erick Cornuel, Director General, EFMD
Michael Wiemer, Vice President, AACSB International
Christian Chopper, President, CorpFinCa
Christopher Metzler, Associate Dean, Georgetown University
Sergei Vorobiev, Senior Partner, President, Ward Howell, Member, Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation
Thierry Grange, President, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Steef van der Velde, Dean, RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands
Elena Kalyuzhnova, Associate Dean, Henley Business School, Great Britain
Boris Shcherbakov, President, Dell Corporation Russia 
Evgeny Plaksenkov, President, Miel Real Estate

• Approaches to defining and establishing an appropriate structure of beer, wine and strong alcohol use. The role of taxes in this process
• Analysis of the current situation in alcohol taxation in Russia
• Prospects for the increase in the quality of the alcohol tax administration
• Defining a socially and economically justified level of taxation for separate categories of alcohol products
• Estimating the implications of the increased excise rates for alcohol products
• Justifiability of the existing legislative requirements and restrictions set forth for the alcohol production and sales

Ilya Sokolov, Head, Laboratory for Budgetary Policy, "Macroeconomics and Finance" Research Division, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Vadim Zhivulin, Director, Department of Regulatory Impact Assessment, Ministry Of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Nina Nechiporchuk, Deputy Head, Indirect Taxes, Department of Tax, Customs and Tariff Policy, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Sergei Shtogrin, First Deputy Chairman, State Duma Budget and Tax Committee
Kirill Bolmatov, Public Affairs Director, Efes
Andrei Erin, Corporate Affairs Director, SUN InBev
Ekaterina Azimina, Senior Vice President, Finance and Econoics, Baltika
Vladislav Skrebtsov, Executive Director, Belarusian Guild of Brewers

• Agriculture: new challenges and new structure
• Structure of agricultural land ownership and use
• Rural income
• Agricultural production: dynamics and structure

Natalya Shagaida, Director, Center for Agrarian and Food Policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Vasily Uzun, Chief Research Fellow, Center for Agrarian and Food Policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Zvi Lerman, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aleksandr Serkov, Chief Research Fellow, Department for Agrarian Policy and Agriculture Development Forecasting, All-Russia Research Institute of Agricultural Economics
Nikolai Pugachev, Deputy Director, Institute for Agrarian Policy of the Ukraine
Darya Snitko, Leading Analyst, Center for Economic Forecasting, Gazprombank
Donald Van Atta, MEAS Project Consultant, North Carolina (USA)
Aleksandr Shpak, Director, Institute for Agrarian Policy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Ivan Stanchin, Professor, Voronezh Institute of Economics and Law
Tatyana Nefedova, Chief Research Fellow, Social and Economic Geography Department, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alla Sabirova, Head, Department of Land Relations, Kazakh Research Institute of Agribusiness Economics and Development of Rural Areas

Participants are kindly requested to present their passports/IDs

Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, OECD - «Modernizing Russia in a challenging global environment»

Presentation of the Russian-language version of the Better Life Index

Better Life Index is an innovation online tool enabling comparison of well-being in different countries on the basis of 11 aspects influencing quality of life. 

Anthony Gooch, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, OECD

• Economic development and social guarantees
• Social-welfare state of the 21st century
• Is Russian education competitive?
• Does a society need humanitarization?
• Crisis of culture and culture of crisis

Tatyana Maleva, Director, Institute of Social Policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Anders Aslund, Professor at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
Vladimir Mau, Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Yaroslav Kuzminov, Rector, Higher School of Economics
Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev, Rector, Russian Foreign Trade Academy

Tatyana Maleva, Director, Institute of Social Policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Aleksandr Auzan, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Mikhail Shvydkoi, President, Russian Television Academy Foundation, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation
Aleksandr Arkhangelsky, Literary Scholar, TV Presenter
Gennady Khazanov, Art Director, Moscow Variety Theater, People's Artist of Russia
Aleksandr Lyubimov, General Director, RBK-TV

• R&D development in health care and pharmaceutics
• Diversification of R&D projects
• Mechanism for attracting Russian researchers and partners to the development of new medicines
• Attracting global medicine developers to carry out research in Russia 

Entrance by invitation only
 

• Consumers and suppliers of medical services: convergence orientation
• How to increase health care effectiveness?
• Government-Business Partnership: how to achieve a balance of interests?
• National health condition as a criterion of the country economic development
• How improving treatment results in Russia can lead to the release of financial resources?

Aleksandr Auzan, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Michal Rutkowski, Director, Russia Country Office, the World Bank 
Aleksandr Safonov, Vice-Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Vladimir Gimpelson, Professor, Higher School of Economics
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director, Global Indicators and Analysis, the World Bank 
Irina Denisova, Professor, New Economic School
Nikolai Volgin, Head, Labour and Social Policy Department, International Institute of Public Administration and Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 
Aleksandr Razumov, Deputy Director, Institute for Labour and Social Insurance, Ministry of Labour of the Russian Federation

Martin Rama, Director, World Development Report 2013, the World Bank

• World History through a Russian Lens: The Gaidar Variations
• The Economy of Obligation: Contract Imperfection and the Cost of the Welfare State
• Did Serfdom Matter? Economic Consequences of Emancipation of serfs in Russian Empire
• Exogenous and endogenous factors in share price dynamics at the St.-Petersburg Stock Exchange during the takeoff of industrialization: Oil and Metal Works, 1897-1914
• Revolution and Industrialization through the Lens of Neoclassical Growth Theory
• Investing in the Revolution: Foreign Financiers and the Revolutions of 1917
• Publishing and Channels of Distribution for Books in an Age of Technological Change: Business History as Economic History

Carol Leonard, Vice-Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Andrei Belykh, Customer Service Director, Bank “Saint Petersburg”, Professor, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Leonid Borodkin, Professor and Head, Centre for Economic Policy, Lomonosov Moscow State University
George Grantham, Professor,  McGill University
Sergei Guriev, Rector, New Economic School
Hassan Malik, Professor, Harvard University
Daniel Raff, Professor, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania 
Avner Offer, Professor, Oxford University
Andrei Markevich, Professor, New Economic School
Andrei Volodin, Assistant Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University 
Sofya Salomatina, Assistant Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Dmitry Didenko, Analyst, Vnesheconombank

 

• How should an independent and professional quality assessment system be organized to prevent monopolistic advantages for separate players and support innovations in education?
• How to balance the interests of the business, education community and the state?
• Should the international experience in business educational programs quality assessment be actively implemented in Russia? Or should the Russian system have its own distinguishing features?
• To which extent should business education internationalization (foreign accreditation, strategic alliances with foreign partners, teacher and student exchange, lecturing in English, TOEFL and GMAT entrance requirements etc.) be the key criterion of quality assessment in Russia?
• What are the aims and structure of the Russian National Business Education Accreditation Council? When and how is the All-Russian accreditation procedure to start?
• Will the Russian National Business Education Accreditation Council deal with national business education rankings? What are the arguments for and against this practice?

Sergei Myasoedov, Vice-Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Aleksandr Klimov, Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation
Ivan Muravyev, Head, Rosobrnadzor (Federal Education and Science Supervision Service)
Dmitry Zelenin, President, Russian Managers Association
Aleksandr Galushka, Co-Chairman, All-Russian Public Organization "Delovaya Rossia"
Aleksandr Rybakov, Vice President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
Aleksandr Murychev, Executive Vice President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
Anatoly Milyukov, Executive Vice President, Association of Russian Banks

Yakov Urinson, Deputy CEO, RUSNANO JSC

• What drives  changes in the public mood?
• How do the actions of authorities, opposition and mass media influence social and political trends?
• What scenarios can be expected in a short- and long-term perspective?
• What are the risks of destabilization and the conditions of social and political stabilization? Is a positive scenario possible?

Leonid Gozman, Director, Humanitarian Projects, RUSNANO JSC

Igor Bunin, President, Center for Political Technologies
Denis Dragunsky, Journalist, Writer
Andrei Kolesnikov, Editor, "Opinions" section, Novaya Gazeta
Aleksei Levinson, Head, Analytics Department, Levada Center
Aleksei Makarkin, Vice President, Center for Political Technologies
Dmitry Oreshkin, Chief Research Fellow, Institute for Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences

Vladimir Faltsman, Dean, Russian-German Higher School of Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Valentin Fedorov, Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Elmira Krylatykh, Head of Department, Russian-German Higher School of Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 
Andrei Paptsov, Deputy Director, All-Russia Research Institute of Electrification of Agriculture
Valentina Gerasimenko, Head of Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Viktor Lischenko, Director, International Agricultural Business Center, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 
Sergei Kiselev, Head of Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Vladimir Miloserdov, Academician, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Gennady Bespakhotny, Head of Department, All-Russia Research Institute for Production, Labour and Management Organization in Agriculture

• Economic policy with super-long-term effects: optimization between generations
• Global climate change risks and potential impact on the economy
• Appropriate climate and energy policy in the context of uncertainty
• Forecasts of greenhouse gases emissions in Russia
• Climate and energy policy options
• The role of forest degradation in the global climate policy
• Assessment of marginal costs of reduced greenhouse gases emission in Russia

Oleg Lugovoy, Research Advisor, Center for Economic Modeling of Energy and Environment, RANE; Sr. Economic Analyst, EDF, USA

Aleksey Kokorin, Head of climate and energy program, WWF
Ruben Lubowski, Chief Natural Resource Economist, Environmental Defense Fund, USA
Andrey Polbin, Research Fellow, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Alexander Golub, Professor, The American University (USA)
Vladimir Potashnikov, Research fellow, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

• Providers of the Higher Education Institutions activity in the innovation environment: What education fields should be put emphasis on?
• Negative impact of the modern changes in the economic development focus on Higher Education Institutions activity
• Problem of Shortage of Managers in the R&D sphere in Russia
• Relevance of creating programs for training of innovation executives, managers in the R&D sphere in Russia
• Comparison with the world experience: the existing innovation education programs
• Requirements to the heads of Russian and Foreign R&D centers

Anton Yaremchuk, Project Head, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)

Aleksei Komissarov, Head, Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of the city of Moscow
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Director, Department for Promotion of Innovations and Social Programs, RVK OJSC
Igor Rozhdestvensky, Director of Commercialization, Skolkovo Technopark
Aleksandra Shitts, Expert, Personnel and Education Section, iR&Dclub
Vladimir Zinov, Dean, Department of Innovation and Technological Business, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Darya Arkhincheeva, Lead Recruitment Consultant, Antal Russia
Ilya Dubinsky, Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovations Skoltech
Dmitry Stupin, Chairman, Board of Directors, R&D Club, Deputy General Director, RTI Systems Group of Companies
 

• Changes in the methods of state programs’ development
• Medium-term plans for state programs implementation and the format of their approval
• Expense obligations within state programs
• Areas and forms of use of sovereign and non-budgetary funds for the implementation of state programs
• Role of state corporations and joint-stock companies with state participation in the implementation of state programs 
• Introduction of project principles in implementation of state programs’ measures
• Impact of the extended program practice on the changes in the public administration system

Within the framework of the Round table, the actualized Roadmap for the management implementation following the outcomes of the state and local authorities’ activities for 2012-2015 will be presented.

Aleksei Mitkin, Deputy Director, Department for Strategic Management, State Programs and Innovation Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Yuzhakov, Director, Center for  Public Management Technologies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Elena Dobrolyubova, General Director, “Center for Economic and Financial Consulting”, ”Chief Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Vladimir Klimanov, Director, Department of State Economic Regulation, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Tatyana Klyachko, Director, Center for Continuous Education, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration  
Evgeny Shwarz, Director for Environmental Programs, WWF
Alexander Motta, Director, National School of Public Finance, Brazil
Olga Krever, Expert Adviser for the Upper Environmental Council of the Committee for Natural Resources, Nature Use and Ecology of the Russian Federal Parliament
Irina Starodubrovskaya, Director, Center for Political Economy and Regional Development, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Oleg Aleksandrov, iCEFC, Chairman of the Board, CEFC Group, Russian Federation
Leonid Bogdanov, Deputy Director, Institute of State Resources Management, Higher School of Economics

• What is the current situation with civilized lobbyism in Russia?
• What provisions on lobbyism regulation in different countries can be applied in Russia and which ones cannot?
• How to balance the interests of the business community and the government?
• What forms of the business community – government dialogue already work and can be strengthened?
• What legal provisions of lobbyism regulation in Russia can be suggested for inclusion to the draft law "On Lobbyism"?

Tatyana Kostenkova, GR Interaction Expert, International Institute of Public and Political Research
Veronika Kotsoeva, Deputy Dean, Institute of Business Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Andrei Loginov, Deputy Head, Apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation
Timur Suleimenov, Collegium Member (Minister) on Economy and Finance Policy, Eurasian Economic Commission
Kirill Shamalov, Deputy Chairman of the Board, SIBUR LLC
Aleksei Kasprzhak, Executive Director, Managers Association
Aleksei Godunov, Vice-President, Otkritie Financial Corporation, Chairman, Committee on Interaction with Authorities, Managers Association
Marat Bashirov, Director for Interaction with Authorities and Strategic Communications of Complex Energy Systems
Stanislav Naumov, President, Russian Association for Public Relations
Dmitry Badovsky, Chairman, Board of Directors, Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research (ISEPR)
Svetlana Belozerova, Deputy Minister of Public Management, Information Technologies and Communication of the Moscow Region
Irina Smirnova, Minister of Economy of the Moscow Region
Dmitry Nesvetov, Chairman, Committee for General Services , Moscow City Department of OPORA ROSSII
Dmitry Knyazev, Deputy Head, Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of the city of Moscow
Igor Dines, Chairman, Committee on Gaming and Lotteries,  Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Mau, Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

• Forming business environment for self-fulfillment of youth
• Key provisions of the law "On Youth Policy"
• Prospects for the youth entrepreneurship development
• International experience: student projects aimed at formation and development of local communities

Vyacheslav Shoptenko, Director, Institute for Organizational Development and Strategic Initiatives, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Mikhail Abyzov, Minister of the Russian Federation
Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister for Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Peskov, Director, "Young Professionals" Division, Agency for Strategic Initiatives
Aleksei Komissarov, Head, Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship, Moscow City Government
Svetlana Zhurova, Member, Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Association of Youth Parliaments of the Russian Federation
Yury Kotler, Director, Centre for Modern Leadership, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Director of the Project  "Candidate Pool as the Country’s Professional Team", United Russia Party
Konstantin Fokin, General Director, Moscow Innovation Development Center

UIF Student debate club, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration