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11:00-12:40

Open Leaders Discussion

Regional and global economic action policy panel: the need for a stronger 

policy response to raise global growth

The global economy is on the threshold of a new world - tectonic and 

fundamental shifts are happening in its development.

The World 2016 faced with a number of complex challenges in geopolitics, 

economy and financial system. We have seen a sharp decline in the growth of 

BRICS countries and emerging markets, the fragile growth of world economy, the 

end of super cycle of commodities prices, slowdown of global trade, rising risks 

of  financial  crisis  and  big  recession  in  emerging  markets,  series  of  currencies 

depreciations, tensions around Brexit and its implication on the European 

union  and  the  world,  great  volatility  in  financial  markets  and  the  period  of  low 

investments and the capital outflow from EMs and developing countries. 

The idea is to discuss under an overarching theme of the End of 

Hyperglobalisation, the groundbreaking shifts shaping our regions and respective 

countries in terms of economic and geopolitical risks and their impact on the 

sustainable growth. We will pay particular attention to policy options to mitigate 

spillovers and how we can benefit from the new developments and trends.

Moderator:

 

Tigran Sargsyan, Chairman, EEC, Prime-Minister (2008-2014) and Governor of 

Central Bank of Armenia (1998-2008) 

 

Speakers:

Dariga Nazarbayeva, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Sergey Glazyev, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Minister of 

External Economic Relations (1992-1993), member of the State Duma of the 

Russian Federation of 3 convocations

  

Herman Gref, Chairman, Sberbank, Minister of Economic Development and 

Trade (2000-2007), Russian Federation 

Francois Fillon, Prime Minister of France (2007-2012) 

Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy (1996–1998, 2006–2008), President of the 

European Commission (1999–2004) 

Alfred Gusenbauer, Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2007-2008) 

Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005) 

Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel (1999-2001), Minister of Defense of Israel 

(2007-2013)

Djoomart Otorbaev, Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (2014-2015)

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26 May

10:45-12:15

Palace of 

Independence, 

Premium Hall 2, 

1 floor

EURASIAN TRANSIT AND WATER POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE 

DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL ECONOMY

Organized by:

Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences; 

Science and Technology Center “Parasat”;

International Secretariat “G-Global”.

Key questions: 

• 

Discussion of the scientific and technical bases to maximize the Eurasian transit, including water transport 

transit through the territory of Kazakhstan;

• 

Discussion of the scientific bases of rational use of surface and groundwater in Kazakhstan.

Moderator:

Nurtay Abykayev, Chairman,  International Programme Committee WSEC – 

2017, President, Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences

Welcome speech:

Erlan Sagadiev, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Lida Ivanitskaya, First Vice-President, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences 

Speakers 

Anatoly Spitsyn, Professor, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy 

and Public Administration, Director, Institute of Strategic Research of Integration 

Problems EurAsEC, Vice President, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

Cui Weihong, Secretary-General, China Science Center of International 

Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Institute of Remote Sensing and 

Digital Earth, CAS 

Viktor Koksharov, Rector, Ural Federal University named after the first President 

of Russian Federation B.N.Yeltsin (Russia).

Nuraly Bekturganov, First Vice President of the Kazakhstan National Academy 

of Natural Sciences

 

Wang Zhong Pan, Director General, Kazakhstan branch, Sinohydro Corporation 

Limited

Farida Akiyanova, Director, Branch of Geography Institute in Astana

Arasha Bolaev, Senior Consultant Analyst for infrastructure projects, Non-profit 

Partnership “Association of Professional Hydrotechnicians” (Russia)

Damir Ryskulov, member of International Informatization Academy, author of 

project “Trans-Asian Corridor of Development”

Akhmetkal Medeu, Director, Institute of Geography of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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