Forum program

Issues for Discussion:

• How have realia of work for investors in Russia changed over 25 years? What is the secret formula for growth and sustainability of business: localization and strategic partnerships, investments or cost reduction? Best practices
• How far did global companies become Russian companies, did they provide the Russian market with high-quality goods, and did they start exporting the products manufactured in Russia abroad?
• The world has changed: supply chains, regional needs, labor costs are changing - to what extent does the Russian market continue to be attractive for foreign investors in the current environment?
• Interaction of business and authorities: how does the level of dialogue of the Russian authorities and investors meet the expectations of investors and what has to be done to bring the dialogue to a new level?
• Growth points: infrastructure, entrepreneurship and regions - how can foreign companies contribute to further development of the Russian economy? 

Moderator:
Maxim Akimov, First Deputy Chief of the Government Staff of the Russian Federation

Keynote report:
Maksim Oreshkin, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Andrey Nikitin, General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO, the Russian Direct Investment Fund

Participants:
JV Raman, President, Unilever in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Marvan Akar, General Manager, MSD Russia
Robert Nichols, Managing Director, 3M Russia
Elena Kartasheva, General Manager, Abbott Laboratories
Christoph Roerig, Vice President, Russia and CIS, BASF
Niels Hessmann, General Representative, Russia and CIS, Bayer
Aleksey Grigoriev, Head, Representative Office Moscow, METRO AG
Martial Rollan, Market Head, Russia and Eurasia, Nestle S.A.
Vadim Vlasov, President, Novartis Group Russia
Mikhail Alekseev, Chairman of Management Board, UniCredit Bank
Lev Kuznetsov, Minister of North Caucasus Affairs of the Russian Federation
Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan
Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of the Kaluga region
Aleksey Dyumin, Governor of the Tula region
Svetlana Orlova, Governor of the Vladimir region
Vladimir Yakushev, Governor of the Tyumen region
Sergey Morozov, Governor of the Ulyanovsk region

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The Systematic Country Diagnostic: ”Pathways to Inclusive Growth” identifies the most critical constraints and opportunities facing Russia’s efforts to chart a new growth path for the country and ensure the sustainability and inclusivity of economic growth going forward. The report analyzes the key constraints of productivity growth, such as the remaining weaknesses of the investment climate, the lack of sufficient competition, physical and non-physical barriers to infrastructure connectivity, the relatively low innovation capacity of firms and the mismatch between available skills and the demands of the labor market. It also reviews the opportunities for further strengthening Russia's human capital, through improving people's health, and the quality and relevance of education. Finally, it identifies three key requisites for putting the economy on a higher growth path, including improved governance, fiscal reform and strengthened stewardship of Russia's rich natural resources. While the report focuses mostly on diagnostics, it also presents a set of recommendations that would help address the above constraints.       

The Systematic Country Diagnostic has been prepared by the World Bank Group in close consultations with many of its partners, including federal and regional governments, academia and think tanks, the business community, civil society and other stakeholders.

Moderator:
Sergey Drobyshevsky, Scientific Director, the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

Keynote report:
Cyril Muller, Vice President, Europe and Central Asia, the World Bank
Ana Revenga, Deputy Chief Economist, the World Bank

Participants:
Ksenia Yudaeva, First Deputy Governor, Bank of the Russia
Aleksey Vedev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Kolychev, Director, Budgetary Policy and Strategic Planning Department, Russian Finance Ministry
Alexander Dynkin, Director, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Issues for Discussion:

• Challenges to long-term development - why shall the development be sustainable?
• Long-term goals of sustainable development
• Paris climate change agreement - seriousness of voluntary goals and initiatives
• Low emission development strategies - additional load on the economy or growth driver?
• Technological challenges and demand for innovation
• The role of business in achieving sustainable development

Moderator:
Pavel Kadochnikov, President, the Center for Strategic Research Foundation (CSR)

Participants:
Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on the Sustainable Development Goals, Director of the Earth Institute at the Columbia University
Paul Polman, CEO, the Unilever Group
Tarja Halonen, President, Republic of Finland (2000-2012); Co-chair, UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability
Guido Schmidt-Traub , Executive Director, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Clyde C. Tuggle, Senior Vice President, Chief Public Affairs and Communications Officer of The Coca-Cola Company

Experts:
Svetlana Lukash, Russian G20 Sherpa
Marina Larionova, Director, the Center for International Institutions at RANEPA
Oleg Lugovoy, Scientific Director, the Center for Economic Modeling of Energy and Environment, RANEPA

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In today's world, there is a general understanding that the quality of human capital has a decisive impact on the competitiveness of the national economy. Social institutions of forming human capital (education, health) and institutions of human capital use (labor market) are distinguished by their functions and efficiency. Historical traditions of social development have a great impact on the functioning of these institutions. This fully applies to modern Russia. Social development has changed dramatically over the past century since the Russian revolutions. No less significant challenges are facing the country at present and, even more in the long-term outlook.

Issues for Discussion:

• With what traditions, achievements and problems in the social sphere did Russia enter the market era? 
• Which ones have become drivers of economic development and which are the brake?
• What are the requirements to the human capital and social institutions imposed by a postindustrial society?
• How is the vector of social development seen in the world and in Russia in the mid-term and long-term outlook?
• What tasks have to be solved in the social sphere today to ensure sustainable social development tomorrow?

Moderator:
Alexander Shokhin, President, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Keynote report:
Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Participants:
Maksim Topilin, Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
Yaroslav Kuzminov, Rector, the National Research University Higher School of Economics
Vladimir Lisin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, NLMK
Mikhail Shmakov, Chairman, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia

Experts:
Branko Milanovic, Presidential Fellow, City University of New York; Lead Economist, the World Bank (1991-2013)
Anton Drozdov, Board Chairman, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation
Olga Bantsekina, Head, Representative Office, Coleman Services; Deputy Chair, the Association of European Businesses

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Since the end of 2016, the Government of the Russian Federation has launched a number of priority projects, which are intended to give tangible social and economic benefits within limited managerial, human and financial resources. And the effects tangible for citizens must be received in the first two years of the priority projects implementation.

Issues for Discussion:

• How can the project management system help to overcome the limitations of economic growth in the Russian economy?
• What is the social and economic motivation to launch the projects?
• In what directions should new priority projects be launched, and what are they?
• How do approved priority projects implement Russia's development strategy?

Moderator:
Andrey Slepnev, Deputy Chief of the Government Staff of the Russian Federation

Participants:
Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
Alexander Idrisov, President, Strategy Partners Group
Gleb Nikitin, First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Nikolay Podguzov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Sergey Levin, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
Alexander Auzan, Acting Dean, the Economic Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Petr Fradkov, Director General, Russian Export Center JSC
Alexey Urusov, Director, Economics and Corporate Planning Directorate, Gazprom Neft

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Issues for Discussion:

• How can the policy and law reforms promote economic efficiency and economic growth (looking for an optimum by economic criterion)?
• Implementation of the justice concept and legal coverage (legal support) - what is the role of economic structures (institutes) and economic policy through the lens of the justice concept (looking for an optimum by ethical criterion)?
• What economic conditions enable non-legal actions, where do these economic conditions stem from?
• What can the economic policy make to limit non-legal actions of the social development actors?
• What economic institutions restrict non-legal actions, what is the optimum structure of these institutions (restriction of shadow economy, etc.)?
• What is the role of the Russian judicial system and enforcement as a whole in the search for an optimum by economic and ethical criteria?
• What are the peculiarities (the national overtone) of the problem of property rights protection in the Russian economy?
• In what specific areas of economic and financial activity could law foster the movement to modern markets the most?
• the greatest contribution to the movement to modern markets    

Moderators:
Stanislav Mogilevsky, Director, Institute of Law and National Security, RANEPA
Alexander Radygin, Dean, the Economic Faculty at RANEPA

Participants:
Revold Entov, Chief Research Fellow, research area Macroeconomics and Finance, the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Dmitry Dedov, Judge, the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the Russian Federation
Yuri Tikhomirov, Deputy Director, Center for Public Legal Studies, the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Experts:
Grigory Ivliev, Head, the Federal Service for Intellectual Property
Garegin Tosunyan, President, the Association of Russian Banks
Ivan Aksenov, Deputy Head, the Federal Agency for State Property Management
Lyudmila Lapteva, Leading Researcher of the State History, Law and Political Thought Sector, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with benevolent autocrats, leaving dictators with yet more power to violate the rights of the poor.

In The Tyranny of Experts, bestselling author of The White Man’s Burden, traces the history of the fight against global poverty, showing not only how these tactics have trampled the individual freedom of the poor, but how in doing so have suppressed a vital debate about an alternative approach to solving poverty: freedom. Presenting a wealth of cutting-edge economic research, Easterly argues that only a new model of development - one predicated on respect for the individual rights of people in developing countries, that understands that unchecked state power is the problem and not the solution - will be capable of ending global poverty once and for all.

William Easterly, Director, Development Research Institute, New York University

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This book was first published in 1999 and quickly became a basic review of the governmentality research. However, it is not only an introduction to the thematic field, but also a development of a special control analytics - an independent development of Michel Foucault approach in the historical and social-political analysis. Due to the attention to the relationship between the governmentality and other key concepts of Foucault, such as biopolitics and sovereignty, the first edition anticipated and partly defined the dictionary of modern discussions and studies in this field.

In the second edition (2010) Mitchell Dean works with full text shell of Foucault's lecturess and provides invaluable insights into the traditions, methods and theories of political power, identifying the authoritarian as well as liberal side of governmentality.

For the second edition, each chapter was completely revised and updated, taking the latest theoretical, social and political developments of this field. A new introduction with an overview of the governmentality state today was added, as well as an entirely new chapter on international governmentality.

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Issues for Discussion:

• Effectiveness of public audit as a tool for ensuring transition to innovative economy
• Institutional features of public audit
• Role of external audit in maintaining the efficiency and improving the system of company management
• Operational effectiveness of external audit
• Conflict of expectations in the interaction of internal audit service and management team
• Problem of positioning of internal auditors: independence, ethics, company management vision of the goals and objectives of internal audit
• Increasing requirements for professionalism and competence of internal auditors. Need for a national system of internal audit standards and national certification for internal auditors
• Audit theory development directions in Russia and in the world
• Strategic state audit and objectives of social and economic development of Russia
• Internal audit as a tool to enhance efficiency of a company: samples of best practices
• Staffing the audit services: new requirements and technologies

Moderators:
Valery Goreglyad, Chief Auditor, the Bank of Russia
Igor Bartsits, Director, the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service at RANEPA

Participants:
Tatyana Blinova, Auditor, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
Mikhail Beskhmelnitsyn, Head, the Control and Analytical Service of the President of the Russian Railways OJSC
Maksim Skorokhodov , Director of Audit and IFRS, ACIG Group of Companies

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There are two tremendous forces to reshape the global economy: the rapid shift in economic power fr om the declining West to the growing East and shocks caused by the waves of financial crises that gripped the countries with high incomes. These are deep, long and interrelated changes that have been defining the shape of the world for decades. The shift reflects a complete change in the sesquicentennial trend towards economic divergence that resulted in a situation wh ere the citizens of countries with high incomes almost held a monopoly on the results of the industrialization process.  

The yesterday's differences in growth between economies with high incomes and new market economies resulted in a rapid convergence in terms of revenue today. Although this convergence is desirable in itself, it also poses serious challenges to the global economy. Financial shocks significantly increase these challenges. They resulted in the long reduction of credit leverage and slowing the growth in high-income countries and especially strong crisis in the fragile eurozone. Moreover, the global economic shift created certain conditions for these shocks, particularly global macroeconomic imbalances and the downward trend in wages. 

Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times 

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The ratings of conditions and results of development of high-technology businesses show, in which Russian regions it is profitable to run an innovative business, and reflects the actual situation following the innovative activities in the constituents of the Russian Federation.

To make them objective and well-founded, the ratings are not based on expert assessments, but on quantitative indicators. The ratings involve evaluation of regions by individual components of the condition block and result block. This makes it possible to identify leaders in each component, to show strengths and weaknesses in the development of each region.

Issues for Discussion:

• Presentation and explanation of the results of ratings
• Application of the ratings for planning and regional development
• Further improvement of the ratings

Moderator:
Ivan Bortnik, Adviser to the Director General, the Innovation Promotion Fund

Participants:
Oleg Fomichev, State Secretary - the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Oksana Kozlovskaya, Chairperson, the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk region
Roza Semenova, Expert, the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia
Vera Barinova, Head, the Center for Corporate Strategies and Firm Behavior at RANEPA
Stepan Zemtsov, Senior Research Fellow, RANEPA

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Moderator:
Vladimir Mau, Rector, RANEPA

Participants:
Giuliano Amato, President, the Council of Ministers of Italy (2000-2001); Member, the Constitutional Court of Italy
Marek Belka, Prime Minister of Poland (2004-2005); President, the National Bank of Poland (2010-2016)
David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Paul Polman, CEO, the Unilever Group
Kevin Michael Rudd, President, the Asia Society Policy Institute; Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010, 2013)
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

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Issues for Discussion:

• How have Russian regions and cities developed in recent years, are we  in the "trend" of global development?
• What objectives should be set for the new regional policy? Can we find the balance between putting the stake on strong regions and support to the lagging ones?
• Does the current power distribution system provide the incentives and resources for development of regions and cities? 
• How can we accelerate the development of urban agglomerations, and how can we focus and coordinate the efforts of the Federal Government, regions and municipalities? 

Moderator:
Alexey Kudrin, Chairman of the Board, the Center for Strategic Research Foundation (CSR)

Participants:
Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan
Vladimir Yakushev, Governor of the Tyumen region
Svetlana Orlova, Governor of the Vladimir region
Sergey Morozov, Governor of the Ulyanovsk region
Victor Tolokonsky, Governor, the Krasnoyarsk territory

Experts:
Aleksey Prazdnichnykh, Head, Spacial Development direction, Center for Strategic Developments
Alexander Tsybulsky, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

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Main themes shall be development bifurcation points: banks and banking, government-owned and private banks, federal and regional banks, offline and online banks (do we need branch networks?). Due to the emergence of the payment services such as PayPal, Bitcoin cryptocurrency, Blockchain, P2P lending, the global financial system is being transformed. Large IT companies have already turned their attention to the development of financial and technological platforms. This work resulted in their own developments in this field. All this inevitably leads to competition with classic commercial and investment banks.

Issues for Discussion:

• What will the emergence of new players in the world of finance lead to in the future?
• How is the global financial landscape being transformed?
• When will financial and technological platforms replace classic banks?
• Development bifurcation points: public and private banks, federal and regional banks, offline and online banks
• Do the modern banks need branch networks?

Moderator:
Ruben Aganbegyan, Chairman of the Managing Board, Member of the Board of Directors, Otkritie Holding JSC

Participants:
Olga Skorobogatova, Deputy Governor, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation
Vadim Kulik, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank of Russia
Petr Aven, Member of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank JSC, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABH Holdings S.A.
Oleg Tinkov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tinkoff Bank
Alexey Malinovsky, Head of MasterCard in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia

Expert:
Andrey Belykh, researcher at RANEPA, Director of Economics Directorate, St. Petersburg Bank branch network

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Issues for Discussion:

• The future of integration processes in EU
• Changing the balance of power within EU
• EU trade policy without the United Kingdom
• General foreign and security policy of EU after Brexit
• The new model of the relationship between EU and UK. What will it look like?
• Place of the United Kingdom in Europe and in the world
• EU in global governance processes after the United Kingdom leaves

Moderator:
Fedor Lukyanov, Director, Research, Valday Fund; Editor-in-chief, Russia in Global Politics

Participants:
Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Vice-President, the European Parliament
Vaclav Klaus, President, The Vaclav Klaus Institute; President, the Czech Republic (2003-2013)

Experts:
Jorge Braga de Macedo, Director, the Centre for Globalization and Governance, the NOVA School of Business and Economics
Franz Fischler, President, the European Forum Alpbach; EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries (1995-2004)
Daniel Gros, Director, the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Jean-François Cope , Mayor of Meaux; Deputy for the 6th Constituency of Seine-et-Marne (France)

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Moderator:
Ksenia Yudaeva, First Deputy Governor, Bank of the Russia

Keynote report:
Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, JP Morgan Chase International; Chairman, the Board of Trustees, the Group of Thirty; Chairman, the Bank of Israel (1991-2000)

Participants:
Marek Belka, Prime Minister of Poland (2004-2005); President, the National Bank of Poland (2010-2016)
Vitor Gaspar, Director, the Fiscal Affairs Department, the International Monetary Fund
Kairat Kelimbetov, President, the Astana International Financial Center; President, the National Bank of Kazakhstan (2013-2015)

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Issues for Discussion:

• Relations between the EU and Russia
• Russia and Spain: history of dialogue
• Intercultural interaction between Russia and Spain: development prospects

Moderators:
Igor Ivanov, President, the Russian International Affairs Council
Igor Bartsits, Director, the Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service at RANEPA

Keynote report:
Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, President, the Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies

Participants and experts:
Alexey Meshkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Francisco Javier Ruperez Rubio, Consul General of the Kingdom of Spain to the US Midwest (2007-2011), Executive Director, the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate of the United Nations (2004-2007)
Dmitry Guzhelya, Deputy Head, the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and for International Humanitarian Cooperation
Joan Romero González, Professor, Interuniversity Institute for Local Development and Department of Geography, University of Valencia
Veniamin Kaganov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Yuri Korchagin, Russian Ambassador to Spain
Álvaro De La Riva, Counsellor, the Embassy of Spain in Moscow
Alexey Gromyko, Director of the Institute for Europea, the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Orlov, Director, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO
Sergey Henkin, Head of Hispanist Section, the Russian Association of International Studies
Olga Pirozhenko, Director, the Russian-Spanish Education and Cooperation Center, RANEPA

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Russia's financial markets have strengthened considerably over the past twenty-five years, with lessons learned and institutions emerging to regulate and stabilize during crises and create positive conditions for investment during good times. The work of these experts on Russia's financial institutions shows their influence on corporate development and regulations

Issues for Discussion:

• How strong are Russia’s financial institutions?
• How do financial regulations affect institutional development?
• How does corporate finance contribute to national financial institutions?
• What is the role of financial institutions in current economic growth?
• Is the financial system a public good?

Moderator:
Carol Leonard, Professor, Director, Center for Russian Studies, Institute of Social Science, RANEPA

Participants:
Maxim Buev, Head, Department of Economics, Central European University of St Petersburg
Laurence Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University
Michael Khromov, Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Structural Studies, RANEPA
Dmitry Makarov, Associate Professor, International Institute of Economics and Finance, the National Research University Higher School of Economics
Katharina Pistor, Walter E. Meyer Research Professor in Law & Social Problems; Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law; Columbia Law School
Michael I. Sovern, Law Professor, Law School at the Columbia University; Director of the Center for Global Legal Transformation of the Law School
Sergey Romanchuk, Head of FX&MM; at Metallinvestbank; President, ACI Russia
Oleg Shibanov, Professor, the Russian Economic School
Koen Schoors, Professor, Department of General Economics, Ghent University

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The perceptions of migration processes occurring today in Russia and in the world, are often based not on verifiable facts, but on unverified information and explicit myths. If at the level of everyday consciousness this situation is quite typical, but, at the expert community level, for obvious reasons, it is unacceptable. The objective of this section is to clarify the situation in the global mobility, with a particular focus on Russia.

Issues for Discussion:

• Is it true that the immigration inflow to Russia is represented mainly by bad educated and low-skilled people?
• To which extent, the common judgements occurring in the press about emigration from Russia (both in quantitative and qualitative terms) correspond to the reality?
• What do the migration processes - immigration and emigration - look like in the most developed countries of the world?

Moderator:
Vladimir Malakhov, Director, Center for Theoretical and Applied Political Science, RANEPA

Participants:
Mikhail Denisenko, Head, the Demography Department, the National Research University Higher School of Economics
Yulia Florinskaya, Leading Researcher, the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting, RANEPA
Mark Tolts, Senior Research Associate, Hebrew University
Nikita Mkrtchyan, Leading Researcher, the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting, RANEPA
Irina Tsapenko, Head, the Social-and-Economic Development and the Migration Center, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, the Russian Academy of Sciences

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In October 2017, according to the results of the competitive selection, there was formed a list of 11 innovative clusters - participants of the priority project of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development “Development of innovative clusters - the leaders of investment attractiveness of the world level”. Clusters-winners are based on the recognized innovation-driven growth points, and in recent years they have made real progress in building innovative business models oriented to foreign markets and embedding in the global research-and-production chains. Herewith, communication with overseas clusters and territories-leaders was subsequently developing to adapt the most effective management practices. Success story appeared - creation of innovative, world-class infrastructure, exit to highly competitive foreign markets, etc.

As a result, despite the unstable economic situation and sanctions, cluster leaders on many crucial indicators managed to keep positive dynamics advancing the other Russian regions. However, the management structures and methods largely do not meet the very ambitious goals that clusters set themselves in the mid-term, as well as new challenges to their development, including resource constraints. In particular, non-market management models focused on budget funding have become consolidated in recent years. Management teams do not have sufficient experience and qualifications for competition at the international level. Traditionally, insufficient attention has been given to such an important direction of promoting on foreign markets, as brand development in the region.

Thus, in the short term it is necessary to take the next step in improving quality of management of the clusters development, including on the basis of intercluster dialogue.

Issues for Discussion:

• How one can grow several clusters-global champions for the next 3-5 years? What are the ingredients of success?
• Which Russian cluster is better ready to move internationally and has succeeded in this lately?
• What to do?! Priority activities, low growing fruits, strategic objectives.
• How to attract to clusters the most qualified  and highly motivated staff who able to compete internationally?
• How to involve the maximum number of stakeholders in the development of clusters (both within clusters and beyond)?
• How can the state effectively support cluster development in view of the extremely ambitious goals and hard budget constraints?

Moderator:
Oleg Fomichev, State Secretary - the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Participants and experts:
Andrey Antonov, Deputy Governor, the Tomsk region
Aleksey Shchedrov, Head, Department of innovation and industrial policy, Lipetsk region
Alexander Smekalin, Chairman of the Government of the Ulyanovsk region
Dmitriy Sharonov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government, the Republic of Bashkortostan
Artem Zdunov, Minister of Economy, the Republic of Tatarstan
Alexander Kobenko, Vice Governor, Minister for Economic Development, Investment and Trade, the Samara Region
Olga Molchanova, Deputy Dean for complementary education, Faculty of Economy, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Nataliya Ryazantseva, Deputy Chairman of the Government, the Krasnoyarsk Territory
Vladimir Popov, Deputy Governor, the Kaluga Region
Denis Butsayev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investments and Innovations, the Moscow Region
Alexander Sedov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Science and New Technologies, the Republic of Mordovia
Artem Shadrin, Director of Strategic Development and Innovations, Ministry of Economic Development, the Russian Federation
Igor Agamirzian, Vice President, the National Research University Higher School of Economics
Maxim Shereykin, General Director, the Agency for Technological Development
Sergey Polyakov, General Director, Innovation Promotion Fund
Ivan Fedotov, Director, the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia

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Existing exchange control requirements create barriers, both for individuals and for business, discriminate positions of national entrepreneurs as compared with foreign partners, reduce domestic export. In addition, foreign exchange control limits foreign investors to do business in Russia.

The control system is very bulky and heavy administered. Herewith, existing foreign exchange restrictions today are no longer justified, because they do not contribute to achieving the macroeconomic objectives of ensuring stability of the national currency and stability of the domestic foreign exchange market.

Russia is a member of many international agreements, which allow today to use international cooperation mechanism for raising capital on the territory of Russia, while reducing the administrative burden on business and citizens.

Issues for Discussion:

• Why is exchange control needed in Russia in the absence of requirement of mandatory sale of foreign currency proceeds?
  
• Is the exchange control the restriction for entrepreneurial activity of Russian business abroad and a barrier to foreign direct investment in Russia?
  
• Directions of improvement of exchange control and introduction of modern international instruments of interaction, including OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)

Moderator:
Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev, Rector, Russian Foreign Trade Academy

Participants:
Alexey Moiseev, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
Elena Gushchina, Assistant to Senior Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mr. Igor I. Shuvalov
Antonina Levashenko, Head, the Center of Competence and Analysis of OECD standards, RANEPA
Vladimir Chikin, Partner, Goltsblat BLP
Artem Toropov, Senior Lawyer, Baker & McKenzie
Alexey Kharin, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, GUTA Holding Company
Tatyana Grekova, Economic Adviser to the Department of Financial Monitoring and Currency Control, Bank of Russia
Dmitry Volvach, Head, Department for Standards and International Cooperation, Federal Tax Service
Natalia Plotnikova, Expert, Center for Strategic Developments

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The wave of illegal mass immigration in the European Union affects the lives of hundreds of millions of Europeans. As we take it extremely seriously, we will consider this explosive topic with full attention in this brief and clear book. Its main purpose is to challenge the pervasive propaganda for refugees and to show that the current mass migration is a phenomenon that is distinctly negative, fraught with huge risks for some European countries, for the situation in the EU and for the migrants themselves.

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The formation of modern innovative management knowledge is where leading business schools have achieved success in. Meanwhile, they learn to channel the knowledge and skills to improve business practices; to develop legislation; to support social initiatives, useful and applicable for business, public administration and society. 

The future success of business schools in the modern world largely depends on how effectively they can act as unifying leaders. 

There are numerous examples of how the unifying efforts of the business schools form the ground for positive changes, initiate a transformation of the university management system, improve the regional and national educational environment, introduce new quality standards, set examples of social responsibility and multifunction management approaches. All this brings tangible results, contributing to the development of business, state and society.

Issues for Discussion:

• What approaches and methods do the leading business schools use to increase the positive impact at the university, regional and national level?
• What are the examples of successful “uniting leadership” in the practice of business schools?
• How do the “unifying efforts” affect the development of the business school, the quality and content of the program portfolio, improving the qualifications of faculty, possibility of the practical implementation of research results?
• How does it help business schools meet the challenges of the digital revolution?
• What directions are considered the most important for the development of “unifying leadership” in the future?

Moderators:
Sir Paul Judge, President, AMBA International
Sergey Myasoedov, Vice-Rector, Director, Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA; President, the Russian Association of Business Education

Participants:
Tim Mescon, Senior Vice-President, AACSB
Olivier Oger, Director General, EDHEC
Michael John Page, Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Bentley University
Eric Cornuel, CEO, EFMD
Andrey Sharonov, Rector, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Yulia Chupina, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank of Russia

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The business environment is rapidly changing. This results in dramatic changes of the whole management education market landscape. There is growing dissatisfaction on the side of the business community with the level of provision of educational services. The business community criticizes universities and business schools for education that is overly academic, distant from practice and the present day needs.

In contrast, the importance of corporate universities is growing that flexibly and quickly react to the business needs. The leading business schools in Russia and all over the world are looking for ways to enhance cooperation with the business community, in parallel trying to retain the fundamental nature of educational programs and dramatically increase their relation with the business needs.

The roles of players in the management education market are strongly influenced with breakthrough technologies; besides, the trend for education virtualization is accelerating.

Issues for Discussion:

• How will the role of business schools and corporate universities change in the management education market in 10 years?
• What market niches will they try secure for themselves? How will the academic program portfolio be distributed between them in a decade?
• What are the ways and opportunities available for development of mutually beneficial cooperation between major players in the management education market, creation of the synergistic effect from combining their knowledge and skills?
• What joint projects could be used as examples to follow?
• How do business schools and corporate universities respond to the threats and use opportunities of “breakthrough technologies” and education virtualization?

Moderators:
Sir Paul Judge, President, AMBA International
Ashot Seferyan, Director, the Executive MBA program, Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA

Participants:
Stuart Lawson, Executive Director, Head of UK Business Center, EY
Andrew Main Wilson, CEO, AMBA International
Charles Iacovou, Dean, Babcock Business School at Wake Forest University
Vitaly Podolsky, Managing Partner, FMF Capital, Member of the Board of Directors, PJSC Cherkizovo Group
Andrey Afonin, CEO, Sectoral Advanced Training Institute; Head, Roscosmos Corporate Academy
Boris Shcherbakov, General Manager, Dell Russia

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