Agenda

Moderator:

Chrystia Freeland, Member of the Parliament of Canada

Welcoming Remarks

Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman of the Board, Yalta European Strategy
Štefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, European Commission
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What Does Maidan Mean?

Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv; Head of the “UDAR” Party
Serhiy Taruta, Head, Donetsk Regional State Administration
Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, Front Leader, “Okean Elzy”; Founder, Foundation “People of the Future”
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Moderators:

Chrystia Freeland, Member of the Parliament of Canada
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Conference Opening

Welcoming Remarks
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board, Yalta European Strategy

Opening Speeches, Conversation and Q&A

Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia
Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament
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Global Economy and Geopolitical Risks – Disruptions from Battlefield Ukraine

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Chairman, Leyne Strauss-Kahn & Partners;
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2007-2011)

Remarks:
Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Ltd.
Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Working Lunch: Media and Digital Communication in Revolution and War: Information and Disinformation

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia
Yevgenia Albats, Editor-in-Chief, The New Times, RF
Mustafa Nayyem, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Hromadske TV
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation

Remarks:
Shaun Walker, Moscow Correspondent, The Guardian
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War in Ukraine: Can It Become European? Global? And How Can We End It?

Gen. Wesley Clark, (US Army, Retired), President, Wesley K. Clark & Associates; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (1997-2000)
Joschka Fischer, Managing Partner, Joschka Fischer & Company; Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany (1998 - 2005)
Ihor Smeshko, President, Centre for Strategic Studies and Analysis

Remarks:
Judith Miller, Contributor, Fox News
Yulia Tymoshenko, Head of the "Batkivshchyna" Party; Prime Minister of Ukraine (2007-2010)
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How Can Business Contribute to Finding Peace for Ukraine

Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group
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Friends, Enemies, Alliances of the Future – Who with Whom Against Whom?

Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Ltd.
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
Joschka Fischer, Managing Partner, Joschka Fischer & Company; Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany (1998 - 2005)
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Energy Security: Now a Question of Life and Death

Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Carlos Pascual, Senior Scholar and Fellow, Columbia University; Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, U.S. Department of State (2011-2014)
Yuriy Prodan, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine
Maxim Timchenko, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board, DTEK
Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Management Board, Institute for Contemporary Development

Remarks:
Sandra Kalniete, Member of the European Parliament; Vice President, Group of the European People's Party
Graham Tiley, Vice-President on Exploration and Production, Shell Ukraine Exploration and Production I LLC
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From Yalta via Budapest to Yalta – Global Security Breakdown?

Valeriy Chalyi, Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine
Gen. Wesley Clark, (US Army, Retired), President, Wesley K. Clark & Associates; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (1997-2000)
Mohamed ElBaradei, Acting Vice President of Egypt (2013); Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (1997-2009); Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2005)
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005)
Javier Solana, President, ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics; Member of the Board, Yalta European Strategy

Remarks:
Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference
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Dinner Speech: Working Together for a United Ukraine in a United Continent

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
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Moderators:

Chrystia Freeland, Member of the Parliament of Canada
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Opening Speech: Building New Ukraine

Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine
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Ukraine’s Economy and Institutions: Reform Now - or Collapse

Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Valdis Dombrovskis, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the European People’s Party; Prime Minister of Latvia (2009-2014)
Valeria Hontareva, Head, National Bank of Ukraine
Dmytro Shymkiv, Deputy Head on Holding Administrative, Social and Economic Reforms, Administration of the President of Ukraine

Remarks:
Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Andrej Plenković, Member of the European Parliament;
Vice-Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament
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Association Agreement With the EU and Strong Relations With Russia – Difficult? Or Impossible?

Cevdet Yılmaz, Minister of Development of the Republic of Turkey
Štefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, European Commission
Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Management Board, Institute for Contemporary Development, RF

Remarks:
Elmar Brok, Member of the European Parliament;
Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament
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Wikipedia Award Ceremony

Working Lunch: Towards Reconciliation

Tony Blair, Patron, Tony Blair Faith Foundation; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007)
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Strength via Decentralization

Mustafa Dzhemilev, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (1991-2013)
Volodymyr Hroisman, Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Building, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine
Yves Leterme, Secretary General, International IDEA; Prime Minister of Belgium (2009 – 2011)
Roger Myerson, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (2007)
Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University
Serhiy Taruta, Head, Donetsk Regional State Administration
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Fight Corruption, Introduce the Rule of Law: Finally Walk the Walk

Katya Gorchinskaya, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Kyiv Post
Tomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. State Department
Pavlo Sheremeta, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine (2014)
Vitaliy Shabunin, Chairman of the Board, Anticorruption Action Centre
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Parliamentary Elections: Breakthrough or Entrenchment of the Old?

Anatoliy Grytsenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Head of the “Civic Position” Party
Oleh Liashko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Head of the Radical Party of Ukraine
Yuriy Lutsenko, Advisor to the President of Ukraine; Head of the “Bloc of Petro Poroshenko” Party
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Closing Session

Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman of the Board, Yalta European Strategy
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