Agenda

Welcome Reception and Dinner at Oreanda Hotel

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

Moderator:
Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor-at-Large, Reuters News

Ukraine in a Changing World. Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine Europe’s Future in a Time of Challenges. Bronislaw Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland

Conference Photo and Coffee Break

The New Global Order and Its Key Players

Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy (opening remarks)
Alexander Babakov, Deputy Speaker, State Duma of the Russian Federation
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Javier Solana, fmr. High Representative of the EU for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Member of the Board of YES
Wang Jisi, Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University

Lunch

Lunch Speech: Euro 2012 — A Chance for Business to Contribute to Ukraine’s Modernisation: Kharkiv as a Case Study

Alexander Yaroslavskiy, General investor and coordinator of Kharkiv for Euro 2012, Owner and President of DCH, President of FC Metalist

The Crisis and Economic Re-Building

Alexei Kudrin, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation (opening remarks)
Iryna Akimova, First Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine
Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Olivier Descamps, Managing Director, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, EBRD
Andrey Kostin, President, VTB Bank

What Happened to Our Economies and How To Avoid It Happening Again? (TV Link)

Martin Wolf, Columnist, Financial Times and Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Coffee Break

Climate Change — A Global Threat Ignored in Ukraine

Kofi Annan (opening remarks, via TV link)
Inger Andersen, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank
Nikolai Dronin, Moscow State University
Joschka Fischer, Adviser, Nabucco Project
Andriy Klyuev, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

How to Overcome the Crisis and Build Sustainable Economies (TV Link)

Larry Summers, Director, National Economic Council of the United States

Dinner at Livadia Palace

Dinner Speech: The United States and the Global Shifts of the 21st Century

William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States

Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Coffee Break

Building High-Tech Economies — an Eastern Silicon Valley and Wall Street?

Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman, Renova Group; Coordinator, International Innovation Center “Skolkovo”
Alexander Voloshin, Head of the Working Group on Creating an International Financial Center in the Russian Federation

Modernising Ukraine — From Strategy to Implementation

Borys Kolesnikov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Vladyslav Kaskiv, Head of the Working Group for National Projects, Committee on Economic Reforms
Kirill Dmitriev, President, ICON Private Equity

Ukraine: Should it Move East Or West?

Elmar Brok, MEP, Foreign Policy Spokesman of the EPP in the European Parliament
Sergey Glaziev, Secretary General, EurAsEc Customs Union Commission
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994–2005)
Marek Siwiec, MEP, Member of the Board of YES

Lunch

The Energy Challenge

Leonid Grigoriev, President, Institute for Energy and Finance
Alan Riley, Professor, City University London

Paths to Ukraine’s Future — What Change Do We Need?

Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Volodymyr Lytvyn, Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine
Sergiy Tigipko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Arsenyi Yatseniuk, MP, Leader of “Front of Change”

Concluding Session

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

Nemiroff BBQ Party at Oreanda Hotel

Arrival to Kyiv. International departures