Minsk, 29-30 September 2016

MARRIOTT, Minsk (Belarus)

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The main objective of the forum is to stimulate public dialogue between international financiers, international investors, Belarusian authorities, local business circles and the expert community on the subject of investment cooperation, to attract attention of international investors to Belarus as prospective project site. The Forum is designed to elaborate a joint action plan that will enhance country’s economic institutions, and thus promote the public and private sectors of the Belarusian economy through the attraction of finances and investments.

International financial institutions, investment and equity funds and foreign investors, funds and technical assistance programs which are either providing funding for Belarusian economy, or considering working in Belarus, government of the Republic of Belarus, Belarussian business cycles, expert community and will take part in the forum.

GOAL OF THE FORUM:

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UNITER Investment Company – leader in M&A, financial and corporate consulting in Belarus

National Agency of Investment and Privatization of the Republic of Belarus – Investment Promotion State Agency

Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies – country’s leading independent think-tank

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Place: MARRIOTT MinskDate: 29-30 September 2016

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Program of the first day of the forum comprises the following topics:

› What is the current state of the affairs with regard to the financing of projects in Belarus by international financiers and investors?

› What are the advantages of investment cooperation with the Republic of Belarus: invest-ment climate and investment opportunities of Belarus?

› What are the perspective areas of investment activities in Belarus?

› The presentations of investment projects of the Republic of Belarus

› What explains insufficient activity in respect to the financing of projects in Belarus?

› What are the main barriers to an increase of financial and investment cooperation?

› What measures should be adopted to increase the amount of funds invested in Belarus?

› What directions for investment/financing do financiers consider as the most promising ones?

› What can the EU, EEU, USA, Chinese financial institutions, and other stakeholders do for Belarus from the financing and developmental perspective?

› What opportunities does not Belarus miss in regards to the financial cooperation with the USA?

Second day of the forum entitled “Institutional changes – ways to improve the game rules” concentrates on practical issues:

› What pathways for institutional change will suit Belarus’ development the best?

› What sectoral reforms are needed mostly and what exactly needs to be done?

› What ways of institutional changes would be best perceived by international community and how can the external actors assist Belarus’ development?

8.30-9.30 Participants registration9.00 Arrival of official delegations

9.30-10.30 OPENING OF THE FORUM

Nikolai Snopkov - Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration

Johannes Hahn (tbc) - European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations

Prof. Dr. Klaus Mangold (tbc) - Chairman of bord of directors at number of european companies

Giovanni Salvetti - Managing director (Head of CIS) at Rothschild

Thomas Mirow (tbc) - President (2008-2012) EBRD

Mikhail Gutseriev (tbc) - Chairman of bord of directors at Rusneft

Alain Pilloux (tbc) - Acting Vice President, Policy and Partnerships at EBRD

Drew J. Guff (tbc) - Managing Director Siguler Guff & Company

10.30-12.00 The investment potential of the Republic of Belarus: Opportunities and Perspective areas of cooperation

Natallia Nikandrava - Director of the National Agency of Investment and Privatization

Sergei Roumas (tbc) - Chairman of the Management Board at Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus

Philipp Brunner - CEO Stadler Minsk

Representative of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Representative of Ministry of finance of the Republic of Belarus

Representative of Ministry of economy of the Republic of Belarus

Representative of National Bank of the Republic of Belarus

Representative of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry of the Republic of Belarus

Representative of the Ministry of the Republic of Belarus of housing and communal services

Vladimir Majorov - CEO JSC “Gazprom transgaz Belarus”

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break

PROGRAM OF THE FORUM

First day

preliminary

20.15 – 22.00 Night owl sessions (Chatnam house rule)

Scope of activities of international financial donor organizations in Belarus: cooperation terms and conditions, expectations, prospects.

13.00 - 15.00 Presentation of existing funding programs (investors, financial institutions, funds)

Satu Kahkonen (tbc) - Country Director for Belarus, Ukraine amd Moldova at the World Bank

Tomasz Telma - Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, IFC

Marjo Harri - Financial institutions & SMEs at NIBAlistair Clark - Managing director, ecological and sustainable growth department at the Northern Dimension Environmental PartnershipVitaly Artyushchenko - Chief Investment Adviser in CIS countries at Nefco

Ingrid van Wees (tbc) - Senior Director, Corporate & Funds at KFW deg

Gunilla Nilsson (tbc) - Senior Investment Manager at Swedfund International AB

15.00-16.00 The ways of broadenning opportunities to increase financing for Belarus - round table (practical discussion)

Ron Kopicki (tbc) - Representative of the World Bank

Igor Kovtun - Chief Representative Russia and Belarus at NIB

Xinghong Hua - Managing Director, Head of China at Cerberus Capital Management LP

Daniel Quadbeck - Project Manager at OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme

László Baranyay (tbc) - Vice-President of the EIB

Marck Wengrzik - Managing direcor at AKA Bank

Elena Melnikova - Head CIS Desk Export and Trade Finance at AKA Bank

Bozena Trydos (tbc) - Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG

16.00-16.15 Coffee break

16.15-18.00 Consultants, professional participants about the capital and financial market of Belarus

18.15 – 20.00 Cocktail dinner

PROGRAM OF THE FORUM

First day

preliminary

Pathways of Institutional Developments : Improving the Rules of the Game

9.30 – 11.00 Panel discussion (А)

Attraction of FDI in Belarus

Panel discussion (В)

Improving the quality of human capital assets: education, labor market, migration

11.00 – 12.30 Panel discussion (C) Effective management of the state property

Panel discussion (D)

Improving the inbound tourist sector

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break

9.00 – 9.30 Registration (Welcome-break)

PROGRAM OF THE FORUM

Second day

Robert Kirchner - Berlin Economics GMBH

Bjorn Vogle - Berlin Economics GMBH

Evgenij Terekhov (tbc) - Managing Director Private Equity, SBD Global Fund

Leonid Grigoriev - Principal Counsellor of director at the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation

Yaroslav Kuzminov - Chancellor of Higher School of Economics

Magyar Balint - Minister of education of Hungary (1996-1998, 2002-2006)

Wolfgang Sender - representative of Konrad-Adenauer fund

Galina Yaschenko - representative of McKinsey

Representative of State Committee on Property

Galymbek Mamrayev (tbc) - Deputy director at Kazakh Corporation of Development

Dmitri Reshetnikov - representative of Belarusian State University (International tourism department)

Sergey Plytkevich - Director at International Fund of support wild nature “Krasny Bor”

Marina Borovko - Deputy chairperson at Association of European Businesses

Representative of Belavia Company

Representative of National Tourism Agency

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13.30 – 15.00 Panel discussion (E) Developing innovative economy and IT

Panel discussion (F)Developing economic infrastructure: banks / insurance market / stock market and securities

15.00 – 16.30 Panel discussion (G) Improving the legal environment: antitrust law, property right protection, bankruptcy law, competition law

Panel discussion (H)

Improving the environment for non-profit organizations

CLOSING OF THE FORUM / COCKTAIL

PROGRAM OF THE FORUM

Second day

George Prokopchuk - Techno science director at research and counsulting center of Internet of Things

Arkadij Dobkin (tbc) - Chairman of bord of directors at EPAM Systems

Yuri Gurskij (tbc) - IT-entrepreneur, project founder (Viaden Media, Sport.com), project mentor - Maps.me

Vladimir Basko - CEO at the scientific and technological association “INFOPARK”

Dirk Ahlborn(tbc) - CEO and founder at HYPERLOOP

Steven A. Crown (tbc) - Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft

Tatjana Ignatobskaya - Lawer at “Stepanovski, Papakul and partners”

Maksin Znak - managing partner at «Borovtsov and Saley»

Sofie Bedrord - UPPSALA University

Laurent Vinatier - UPPSALA UNIversity

Yuri Chausov - Assembly of NGOs

Irina Lukjanova - Belarusian State economic university

Aleksei Kudrin (tbc) - Chairman of the board at Center of strategic research

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