Country and Regional
Cross-Border Payments dimension of Digital Currencies
May 19, 2021
Moderator: Alessandra Perrazzelli, Deputy Governor, Bank of Italy
Speakers:
- Rasheed M. Al Maraj, Governor, Central Bank of Bahrain.
- Mehdi Manaa, Chief Executive Officer, Buna.
- Lars Sjögren, Chief Executive officer, P27 Nordic Payments
- Ousmene Mandeng, Senior Advisor Accenture.
- Jagruti Solanki, Chief Financial Officer, BitPay
The Trade Finance Dimension
May 19, 2021
Moderator: Abdulrahman A. Al Hamidy, Director General Chairman of the Board, Arab Monetary Fund
Speakers:
- Tarek Amer, Governor, Central Bank of Egypt.
- Ayhan Kose, Acting Vice President of Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, and Director of Prospects Group, World Bank
- Stefano Favale, Global Head of Transaction Banking Department, Intesa San Paolo.
- Robert Barnes, CEO TradeIX & The Marco Polo Network
Capital Markets Dimension
May 19, 2021
Moderator: Mohammed Omran, Chairman of Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority and Vice Chairman of the International Organization of Securities Commission.
Speakers:
- Bernard Ferran, General Manager, EMEA & CIS, Euroclear.
- Rami El Dokany, Secretary General, Arab Federation of Exchanges.
- Renat Bekturov, CEO Astana international exchange.
- Michael Grifferty, President, The Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association.
- Mohamed Damak, Senior Director, S&P Global Ratings
BRICS Сountries at 20- Prospects for Acceleration?
February 9, 2021
Chair: Sofia Rekord, Professor, Head of the Department of World Economy and International Economic Relations, Saint- Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON)
Michael Buchanan, Head Portfolio Strategy&Risk Group, Macro Strategy, Temasek International Private Limited
Yaroslav Lisovolik, Head of Research, Sberbank
David Daokui Li, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics, Director, Center for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University
Logan Rangasamy, Academic Director and Adjunct Professor, Wits Business School
Alexander Losev, Director General, JSC “Management company Sputnik – capital management”
Eurasia: Economic Outlook and Accelerating Regional Integration
February 9, 2021
Chair: Stefan Fule, Former European Commissionner for Enlargement
Jihad Azour, Director Central Asia and Middle East Department, International Monetary Fund
Igor Maksimtsev, Rector, UNECON, Chairman of the IPA CIS Economic Expert Council
Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor, Astana International Financial Centre, Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Aleksander Liberov, the President of Siemens AG to the Russian Federation
Mengya Li, Director of Global Affairs, Shenzhen Thousand Cities Strategic Algorithms Cloud Technology Co., Ltd (TCSA)
Qi Wenhai, Professor, Director of Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of Development, Heilongjiang University, China
Natalya Volchkova, Senior Lecturer, New Economic School; Director, Center for Economic and Financial Research, Vice-rector, Russian Foreign Trade Academy
The Repurposing of the State: Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in Eurasia
December 11, 2020
Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Associate Professor of Economics, Tokai University, Japan
Rika Ishii, Lead Economist for Industry, Commerce and Agribusiness sector at the Country Sector Economics Department, EBRD
Nicolas Blancher, Mission Chief for Kazakhstan and Division Chief for Central Asia in the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department
Hans Christiansen, Senior Economist, Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance Division. OECD
Aziza Umarova, CEO Smart Gov, Uzbekistan
Building Back Better: From Corridor to Economic Platform? Empowering Eurasia in the Global and Regional Value Chains
December 10, 2020
Hans Holzhacker, Chief Economist, Carec Institute
Olga Yangol, Former Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Debt HSBC Global Asset Management
Kamiljon Akramov, Senior Research Fellow at Development Strategy & Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
Assel Zhanassova, Deputy Minister of Trade and Integration, Kazakhstan
Post Covid 19: The Changing Structure of National Economies in Eurasia and Caucasus- “Building back better”
December 10, 2020
Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of the Board ,Frenkel Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics (chair)
Koba Gvenetadze, Governor, Central Bank of Georgia
Christopher Weafer, Chief Executive, Macro-Advisory Ltd.
Sylvain Broyer, Chief EMEA Economist, S&P Global Rating
Werner Liepach, Director General, Western and Central Asia, ADB
Baur Bektemirov, Chief Economist, AIFC
Coping with Covid 19 in the Caucasus and Central Asia
October 29, 2020
Jack Farchy, Bloomberg Reporter
Baur Bektemirov, Chief Economist, AIFC
Jihad Azour, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF
Martin Galstyan, Chairman, Central Bank of Armenia
Aziza Umarova, CEO, SmartGov Consulting