Agenda
Navigate the meetingThursday, September 10
Welcoming Remarks
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy
Dinner Discussion: Time to Deliver! What Ukraine Expects from Europe – and Vice Versa
Moderator:
Dmytro Shymkiv, Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine
Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General, NATO (2009-2014); Prime Minister of Denmark (2001-2009)
Radosław Sikorski, Member of the Parliament of Poland; Speaker, Sejm of Poland (2014-2015); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2007-2014)
Remarks:
Bruno Maçães, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal
Friday, September 11
Conference Opening. Welcoming Remarks
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy; Founder, Victor Pinchuk Foundation and EastOne Group Ltd.
Opening Speech and Q&A
Moderator:
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine
Containment, New Yalta, or What? Restoring European Security
Voting: How to reform existing security structures?
Moderator:
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, NATO
Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference
Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Gen. Stanley McChrystal (US Army, Retired), Commander, ISAF (2009-2010); Commander, USFOR-A (2009-2010); Co-Founder, McChrystal Group
Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution; Chair, Foreign Affairs Policy Board, U.S. Department of State
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President of Latvia (1999-2007)
Remarks:
Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Gen. Rainer Schuwirth (Retired), Chief of Staff, SHAPE (2004-2007)
Working Lunch: Joint Challenges, Separate Values? Changing Dividing Lines in a Volatile World
Voting: What will be the major change in the international system in the coming 5 years?
Moderator:
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
Yevgenia Albats, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, The New Times, Russian Federation
Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994)
Elmar Brok, Member of the European Parliament, EPP Group; Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs
Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2000-2007)
Javier Solana, President, ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics; Member of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy
Remarks:
Ribal Al-Assad, Founder and Chairman, The IMAN Foundation
Vladislav Inozemtsev, Director, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies
Judith Miller, Adjunct Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Commentator, Fox News
Energy – from Gordian Knot to Silver Bullet?
Moderator:
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
Andriy Kobolyev, Chief Executive Officer, NaftoGaz of Ukraine
Carlos Pascual, Senior Vice President, IHS; Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, U.S. Department of State (2011-2014)
Radosław Sikorski, Member of the Parliament of Poland; Speaker, Sejm of Poland (2014-2015); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2007-2014)
Ian R Taylor, President and CEO, Vitol Group
Maxim Timchenko, CEO, DTEK LLC.
Remarks:
Viktoriya Voytsitska, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Secretary, Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety
Rescuing the Global Economy – and Ukraine’s?
Voting: What should be the Western strategy vis-à-vis Ukraine’s economy?
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Ltd.
Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
Natalie Jaresko, Minister of Finance of Ukraine
Arthur Laffer, Founder and Chairman, Laffer Associates and Laffer Investments
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Partner, Parnasse International; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2007-2011)
Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus and the Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
Remarks:
Philip Bennett, First Vice President and COO, EBRD
Global Challenges and their Interconnection
Moderator:
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy; Founder, Victor Pinchuk Foundation and EastOne Group Ltd.
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1997-2007)
Shimon Peres, The Ninth President of The State of Israel
Dinner Conversation: Truth Today. Information, Narratives, Media, Propaganda
Voting: Who is spreading propaganda and distorting the truth?
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher and Writer; Director, La Règle Du Jeu
Peter Pomeranzev, Senior Fellow to the Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute
Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University
Oksana Zabuzhko, Author
Special TV link: How New Ukraine’s Fate Affects Europe and the World
Donald J. Trump, Chairman and President, The Trump Organization
Saturday, September 12
Ukraine’s Reform Program
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine
The Reform Team - What They Have and Have Not Achieved and Why?
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Aivaras Abromavičius, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Valeriya Gontareva, Governor, National Bank of Ukraine
Ivan Mikloš, Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic; Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic (2002-2006, 2010-2012)
Oleksiy Pavlenko, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
Andriy Pyvovarsky, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
Ukraine’s East and Crimea: Solving the Unsolvable
Voting
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (2004-2014)
Refat Chubarov, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Chairman, Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005)
Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Gen. David H. Petraeus (US Army, Retired), Chairman, KKR Global Institute, KKR & Co. L.P.; Director, CIA (2011 –2012)
Lamberto Zannier, Secretary General, OSCE
Remarks:
Sevgil Musaieva, Editor-in-Chief, Ukrayinska Pravda
Andrej Plenković, Member of the European Parliament, EPP Group; Vice-Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs; Chair, Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee
Vitaly Portnikov, Anchorman, "Espreso TV”
Working Lunch: Tolerance and Human Rights – the Responsibility of Business and Social Leaders
Moderator:
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy; Founder, Victor Pinchuk Foundation and EastOne Group Ltd.
John Andrew Henry Forrest, Chairman, Fortescue Metals Group
Sir Elton John, Founder, Elton John AIDS Foundation
Rule of Law, De-Oligarchization, Fighting Corruption: Any News?
Voting: Who is pushing reforms, who is blocking?
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Serhiy Leshchenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Chairperson, Subcommittee on International Cooperation and Implementation of Anti-Corruption Legislation, Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction
Thomas O. Melia, Executive Director, Democracy International
Mikheil Saakashvili, Head, Odessa Regional State Administration
Davit Sakvarelidze, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine
Artem Sytnik, Director, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine
Decentralization – Panaceas and Trojan Horses
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Volodymyr Groysman, Chairman, Parliament of Ukraine
Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy
Sergiy Lyovochkin, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Faction, "Opposition Block" Political Party
Serhiy Taruta, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Head, Donetsk Regional State Administration (2014)
Yulia Tymoshenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Head, All Ukrainian Union “Batkivshchyna” Party
How to Reform Ukraine’s Army and Security Sector
Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994)
Yuriy Lutsenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Head of the Faction, Petro Poroshenko Bloc
Gen. Stanley McChrystal (US Army, Retired), Commander, ISAF (2009-2010); Commander, USFOR-A (2009-2010); Co-Founder, McChrystal Group
Mustafa Nayyem, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Deputy Head of the Faction, Petro Poroshenko Bloc
Gen. David H. Petraeus (US Army, Retired), Chairman, KKR Global Institute,
KKR & Co. L.P.; Director, CIA (2011 –2012)
Ekaterine Zguladze-Glucksmann, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Remarks:
Gen. Rainer Schuwirth (Retired), Chief of Staff, SHAPE (2004-2007)
Closing voting: What will Ukraine look like in three years?
(moderated by Stephen Sackur)
Closing Remarks
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy
Closing Reception
