KEF-2017: Conference videos
Conference opening, November 2
Dr. Vasily Matyushevsky, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus
Andrea Wiktorin, Head of the EU Delegation to Belarus
Dr. Satu Kähkönen, World Bank Country Director for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine
Dr. Athanasios Arvanitis, Deputy Director, IMF European Department
Keynote speeches: Shaping the global context
Chair – Dr. Alexander Zaborovsky, Chief Advisor to the Governor of the National Bank of Belarus
The Economics of Globalization and Inequality
Shamik Dhar, Chief EconomistandDirector for Economics at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Sustaining growth. Focus on the transition region
Dr. Artur Radziwill, Director for Country Economics and Policy, former Deputy Minister of Finance in Poland
Panel 1. In what we trust? Values and policies
Moderator: Dr. Viktor Khrul, associate professor at the Moscow State University
Trust in numbers: Values and impressions in a comparative European perspective
Dr. Paul Dekker, Professor of civil society at Tilburg University, Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research
Dynamics of happiness and life satisfaction in post-soviet Russia: The role of value systems
Prof. Eduard Ponarin, Head of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the Higher School of Economics
Cultural, economic, and financial “codes” of Belarusians: A sociological perspective
Dr. Irina Lashuk, Deputy director of the Institute of Sociology at the National Academy of Sciences
Discussion panel. Who will find Russia (at least on its way to sustainable growth)?
Moderator – Henry Foy, Financial Times correspondent in Moscow
Dr. Natalia Zubarevich, professor at the Moscow State University
Dr. Mikhail Krutikhin, partner in the independent consulting agency “RusEnergy”
Oleg Zasov, director of the Department of macroeconomic policy and cluster analysis of Vnesheconombank
Evening panel. The quest for reforms: 25 years of the IMF’s mission in Belarus
Moderator – Henry Foy, Financial Times correspondent in Moscow
Dr. Pavel Kallaur, Governor of the National Bank of Belarus
Dr. Bas Bakker, Senior Regional Resident Representative for Central and Eastern Europe of the IMF
Dr. Peter Dohlman, IMF Mission Chief for Belarus
Day 2. Openning, November 3
Viktor Chaychits, MP, Chair of the Belarusian Republican Attorneys’ Bar Association
Fionna Gibb, British Ambassador to Belarus
Viacheslav Shelegeiko, Head of Programme, UNDP in Belarus
Alexander Chubrik, Director of the IPM Research Center
Discussion panel. Minsk Consensus: Revision of the post-transition agenda
Moderator – Balázs Jarábik, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, non-resident scholar
Dr. Ben Slay, Senior Advisor at the Regional Service Centre for Europe and CIS, UNPD
Pavel Daneyko, CEO of the Institute for Privatization and Management
Dr. Bas Bakker, Senior Regional Resident Representative for Central and Eastern Europe of the IMF
Dr. Karlis Smits, Senior Economist, Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Belarus and Ukraine
Panel 2. The light in the darkness of ignorance: Secondary education for knowledge-based society
Dr. Rashed Mustafa Sarwar, UNICEF Representative in Belarus
Moderator – Dmitry Bochkov, Deputy Chairman of the Board, ONT (All-National Television, Belarus)
Ways to make more efficient and equitable investments in education: Evidence from comparative research
Dr. Dominic Richardson, Senior education officer at UNICEF Innocenti Research Center
The role of education in a knowledge-based society – Estonian case
Birgit Lao, CEO and Member of the Board of the Foundation Innove, Estonia
Secondary education in Belarus: The main challenges
Dr. Ihar Marzaliuk, Professor, MP, Head of the Standing Commission on Education, Culture and Science of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus
Panel 3. The rule of what? How to reconcile law and economy
Moderator – Dr. Timur Sysouev, SBH Law Office
The impact of law enforcement practice on economic situation and business development in Belarus
Viktor Chaychits, MP, Chair of the Belarusian Republican Attorneys’ Bar Association
The rule of law as a driver of economic growth
Dr. Birgit Grundmann, former State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of Justice, Attorney at Law
Rule of law and access to justice in the age of the internet and social media
Amitabha Mukherjee, Lead Public Sector Specialist in the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice