Agenda

Welcoming Remarks

Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland(1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES

Remarks

Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel
Philippe Cayla, Chairman and CEO, Euronews
Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy

Moderator: Chrystia Freeland

Conference Opening

Welcoming remarks:
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland(1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES

Opening Speech

H.E. Mr. Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine

Special conversation with

H.E. Mr. Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel

The Global Economy — What Went Wrong and How to Right It?

Larry Summers, 8th Director of the National Economic Council of the USA
Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank AG
Iryna Akimova, First Deputy Head, Presidential Administration of Ukraine
Suresh P. Prabhu, fmr. Minister of Industry, Energy, Environment of India

Wider Europe in a Globalized World: Visions of Integration

Andriy Klyuev, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Kairat Kelimbetov, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Kazakhstan

World Architecture in — Continuous? — Reshaping

Javier Solana, EU High Representative for CFSR (1999-2009), member of the Board of YES
Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution
Igor Yurgens, Director, Institute of Contemporary Development
Mani Shankar Aiyar, Member of Manifesto Committee, Indian National Congress

Northern Africa, the Middle East and Europe’s Neighbourhood: Democratization or Backlashes?

Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy
Daniel Russell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, US State Department
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005)
Tarek Osman, writer, Egypt
Martin Indyk, Vice President, The Brookings Institution

The Future of Western Democracy and Market Economy

Paul Robin Krugman, Columnist, The New York Times, Nobel Prize Laureate (2008)

Eastern Europe and the Role of Ukraine

Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Radoslaw Sikorski, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland- country holding EU presidency (July-December 2011)
Vladimir Filat, Prime Minister of Moldova
Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy

Human Rights and Democracy in Wider Europe

Thørbjorn Jagland, Secretary General, Council of Europe
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, President, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, MP, Leader, “Front of Changes”
Mario David, MEP, Member of the Board of YES

Key Trends That Will Shape Tomorrow’s World

Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007), Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Niall Ferguson, Harvard University
Yuri Milner, Founder, DST

Ukraine and Turkey: Europe’s China? Black Sea Tiger States?

Boris Kolesnikov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
Egemen Bağiş, Minister for European Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey
Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Petro Poroshenko, Head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine
Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

EU Association Agreement — Ready to be Signed?

Pavlo Klimkin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Elmar Brok, MEP, Foreign Policy Spokesman of the European People’s Party
Hryhoriy Nemyria, fmr. Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine on European Integration (2007-2010)
Marek Siwiec, MEP, Member of the Board of YES

Alternative Views on Ukraine’s Future — Perspectives of Political Leaders

Arseniy Yatsenyuk, MP, Leader, “Front of Changes”
Vitaliy Klitschko, Leader, “UDAR”, member of the Kyiv City Council
Anatoliy Grytsenko, Leader “Civic Position”, Chairman of the Committee on National Defense and Security, Parliament of Ukraine
Natalia Korolevska, Chairman of the Committee on Issues of Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship, Parliament of Ukraine, BYuT Faction

Concluding Session

Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES