Provisional Agenda
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Galya Prokopieva, Editor-in-Chief, Capital Weekly
10:10 – 11:30 First Panel
Bulgaria in the Global Context - are we safe?
Sergey Stanishev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria
Discussion
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00– 13:30 Second Panel
Global trends that matter
How long will the global financial crisis last?
The world economy - how the expensive resources change the business?
Energy scenarios
New superpowers - is this the end of the monopolar world?
EU and Russia - how will the relations develop?
Participants:
Kristalina Georgieva, Vice-President and Director Strategy and Operations, World Bank
Warren Coats, Monetary policy advisor to the central banks of Afghanistan, Iraq, Kazakhstan and Libyia. Former IMF Assistant Director, head of the technical mission in Bulgaria during the introduction of the currency board
Fabio Ganzer, Senior Advisor Europe and Canada, Head of International Department, Shell International BV
Moderator:
Ivan Krastev, Program Director, Center for Liberal Strategies
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Third Panel
The financial crisis and Bulgaria
How does the crisis affects the economy?
Where are the risks?
How to react?
What emergency tools to add within the currency board context?
Participants:
Plamen Oresharsky, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Bulgaria
Apostol Apostolov, Chairman of the Financial Supervision Commission of Bulgaria
Pierre Mellinger, Managing Director, AIG Capital Partners, Head of Central and Eastern Europe Private Equity, AIG Investments, Warsaw
Asen Yagodin, Executive Director and Member of the Board, Post Bank
Moderator:
Ivo Prokopiev, Chairman of the Confederation of the Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria with the comments of Kristalina Georgieva and Warren Coats
16:00 Closing
Ivaylo Kalfin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister on Economic Matters
Sasha Bezuhanova, Deputy Chairmen of the Confederation of the Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria