Agenda

Opening dinner | WELCOMING REMARKS

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

Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
Kristian Jensen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Conference Opening | WELCOMING REMARKS

Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board, Yalta European Strategy; Founder, EastOne

OPENING SPEECH AND Q&A

Moderator:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine

REFUGEES, POPULISM, BREXIT – IS THE EU COMING APART?

Moderator:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (2004-2014); Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-2004)

Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament (2002-2004); Member of the European Parliament (1989-2004); Member of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy
Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador, Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Senior Professor, Hertie School of Governance; Member of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher and Writer, Director, La Règle du Jeu

Remarks:
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush (2000–2007); Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush (2004–2007)

TURKEY: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Mehmet Şimşek, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey

Remarks:
Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission

American Lunch | US ELECTIONS: WILD CAMPAIGN – OR SYSTEM CRISIS? AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US

Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

David M. Axelrod, Chief Strategist and Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama (2009- 2011)
Barney Frank, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981-2013); Chairman, U.S. House Financial Services Committee (2007-2011)
Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995-1999)
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush (2000–2007); Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush (2004–2007)

Remarks:
Natalie A. Jaresko, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Aspen Institute Kyiv; Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2014-2016)

INEQUALITY AND ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT MOVEMENTS – WILL SOCIETIES BREAK UP?

Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994)
Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Partner, Parnasse International; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2007-2011)
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Co-Founder, Centre for Economic Strategy; Social activist; Leader, Okean Elzy

TERRORISM AND RADICALISM – CAN THEY DESTROY EUROPE AND THE WEST?

Moderator:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (2004-2014); Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-2004)
Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Robert Gates, 22nd United States Secretary of Defence (2006-2011); Director, Central Intelligence Agency (1991-1993)

UKRAINE - TEST CASE FOR THE WEST

Moderator:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission; Prime Minister of Latvia (2009-2014)
Robert Gates, 22nd United States Secretary of Defence (2006-2011); Director, Central Intelligence Agency (1991-1993)
Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro- Atlantic Integration
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Leader, Narodnyi Front (People's Front) Political Party; Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)

Dinner | Dinner Speech: Special Guest

UKRAINE’S REFORMS – CAN YOU STILL FEEL A PULSE?

Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Volodymyr Groysman, Prime Minister of Ukraine

FIGHTING CORRUPTION

Moderator:
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council
Ryszard Czarnecki, Vice-President of the European Parliament; Vice-Chair, Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly; Member, Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee
Sergii Leshchenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine (Petro Poroshenko Bloc Faction); Chairperson, Subcommittee on International Cooperation and Implementation of Anti-Corruption Legislation, Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction

BUILDING A NEW ECONOMY

Moderator:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations

Borys Lozhkin, Secretary, National Investment Council of Ukraine; Deputy Head, National Reform Council of Ukraine; Non-staff Advisor to the President of Ukraine; Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine (2014-2016)
Yuriy Ryzhenkov, Chief Executive Officer, Metinvest Holding, LLC
Dmytro Shymkiv, Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine
Ian R Taylor, President and CEO, Vitol

Ukrainian Lunch | CHANGING ELITES IN UKRAINE

Moderator:
Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament (2002-2004); Member of the European Parliament (1989-2004); Member of the Supervisory Board, Yalta European Strategy Oleksandr Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine
Mustafa Nayyem, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine; Deputy Head, Petro Poroshenko Bloc Faction
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, 12th Secretary General, NATO (2009-2014); Prime Minister of Denmark (2001-2009)
Mikheil Saakashvili, Head, Odesa Regional State Administration

Remarks:
Victoria Voytsitska, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine (Samopomich Party Faction); Secretary, Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety

RUSSIA AND THE WEST – CONFLICT, CO-EXISTENCE, COOPERATION?

Moderator:
Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Tacan Ildem, Ambassador, Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (TBC)
Leon Panetta, 23rd United States Secretary of Defence (2011-2013); Director, Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2011)

Remarks:
Edward С. Chow, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Pierre Lellouche, Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, National Assembly of France

GLOBAL VISION: THREATS, INNOVATIONS, ECONOMY

Moderator:
Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Mikhail Fridman, Chairman of the Board, LetterOne Group
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group

SUMMING UP: MAJOR RISKS FOR THE WORLD, EUROPE, AND UKRAINE

Moderator:
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board, Yalta European Strategy; Founder, EastOne

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Stephen Sackur, Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News
Fareed Zakaria, Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

CLOSING REMARKS

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