St. Petersburg Symposium
DAY 1: The New Geography of the Global Economy
Opening Remarks
February 9, 2021
Igor Maksimtsev, Rector, Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON)
Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC)
Henning Voepel, Director, Hamburg Institute for International Economics (HWWI)
Jacob Frenkel, Chairman, Frenkel-Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics, Chairman Board of Trustees G30
How Covid-19 is changing the World Economy?
February 9, 2021
Chair: Jacob Frenkel, Chairman, Frenkel-Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics, Chairman Board of Trustees G30
Andrei Klepach, Chief Economist, State Development Corporation “VEB.RF”
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Director of the Cañada Blanch Center, the Princess of Asturias Chair, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Richard Koo, Chief Economist, Nomura Research Institute
Qiao Yide, President, Shanghai Development Research Foundation
Jacques Sapir, Research Supervisor, The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Director, CEMI
BRICS Сountries at 20- Prospects for Acceleration?
February 9, 2021
Chair: Sofia Rekord, Professor, Head of the Department of World Economy and International Economic Relations, Saint- Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON)
Michael Buchanan, Head Portfolio Strategy&Risk Group, Macro Strategy, Temasek International Private Limited
Yaroslav Lisovolik, Head of Research, Sberbank
David Daokui Li, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics, Director, Center for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University
Logan Rangasamy, Academic Director and Adjunct Professor, Wits Business School
Alexander Losev, Director General, JSC “Management company Sputnik – capital management”
Eurasia: Economic Outlook and Accelerating Regional Integration
February 9, 2021
Chair: Stefan Fule, Former European Commissionner for Enlargement
Jihad Azour, Director Central Asia and Middle East Department, International Monetary Fund
Igor Maksimtsev, Rector, UNECON, Chairman of the IPA CIS Economic Expert Council
Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor, Astana International Financial Centre, Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Aleksander Liberov, the President of Siemens AG to the Russian Federation
Mengya Li, Director of Global Affairs, Shenzhen Thousand Cities Strategic Algorithms Cloud Technology Co., Ltd (TCSA)
Qi Wenhai, Professor, Director of Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of Development, Heilongjiang University, China
Natalya Volchkova, Senior Lecturer, New Economic School; Director, Center for Economic and Financial Research, Vice-rector, Russian Foreign Trade Academy
The Future of International Finance and Trade Architecture Post-COVID 19
February 9, 2021
Chair: Carsten Mumm, CFA, is chief economist at DONNER & REUSCHEL AG
Yakov Mirkin, Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of International Capital Markets, Institute of World Economy and International relations RAS
Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Elina Ribakova, Deputy Chief Economist, Institute for International Finance
Oleg Solntsev, Head of the division for analysis and forecasting of macroeconomic process, Center for macroeconomic analysis and short-term forecasting
Alfonso Iozzo , Vice Chairman, Triffin Foundation
DAY 2: A Future Reimagined: Birth of Positive Outcomes
Central Bank Digital Currencies, The Digitalisation of Money and its Meaning for the International Monetary System
February 10, 2021
Chair: Ousmene Mandeng, Senior Advisor, Accenture
Elina Sidorenko, Head of the Working Group on Estimated Risk of Cryptocurrency, State Duma of the Russian Federation
Chuanwei David Zou, Chief Economist of Wanxiang Blockchain, China
Binur Zhalenov, Advisor to the Governor of National Bank of Kazakhstan
Mikhail Khazin, Economic Research Foundation MH
Global Connectivity Agenda
February 10, 2021
Chair: Ekaterina Kozyreva , President, IEC International
Xavier Wanderpepen, Director of Development, The New Silk Road for Railway Freight Forwarding activities of Forwardis, the subsidiary of SNCF Group
Leslie Maasdorp, Chief Financial Officer, New Development Bank
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Honorary Director General, International Union of Railways (UIC)
Richard Morton, Secretary General, International Port Community Systems Association
Gennady Bessonov, Secretary General, CCTT – Coordinating Council on Trans-Eurasian Transportation
Livable Cities
February 10, 2021
Chair: Dmitry Vasilenko, Vice-rector for International Relations, UNECON
Keynote speech: Carlos Moreno, Chair “ETI, Entrepreneurship, Territory, Innovation” at IAE-Paris, University Panthéon Sorbonne
Followed after with the session
Nigel Jollands, Associate Director, EBRD
Pekka Timonen, Mayor of Lahti, European Green Capital 2021
Anjes Tjarks, Senator of Ministry of Transport, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Xuejin Zuo, Research Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Rudiger Ahrend, Head of Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities
Pathways to a Low Carbon and Sustainable Economies
February 10, 2021
Chair: Henning Voepel, Director, Hamburg Institute for International Economics(HWWI)
Keynote Speech, Jeffrey Sachs, Earth Institute
Ding Yifan, Associate Dean, Hainan Green Finance Research Institute
Rae Kwon Chung, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Chairman of the International Award Committee of Global Energy Prize; Professor Emeritus, Incheon National University
Cheng Lin, Deputy Director, Research Center of Green Finance Development, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
Andy Calitz, FutureEnergy/ Secretary General Elect, the International Gas Union
Boris Porfiriev, Scientific Director, the Institute of Economic Forecasting, the Russian Academy of Sciences