7^th Yalta Annual Meeting – September 30 — October 3, 2010 Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine

Ukraine and the World: Re-Thinking and Moving On

 Thursday, September 30

20:30

Welcome Reception

 

Friday, October 1

09:00 — 09:30	Conference Opening
Welcoming remarks: Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES
Moderator: Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor-at-Large, Reuters News

 

09:30 — 10:15	Ukraine in a Changing World
Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine

 

10:15 — 11:00	Europe’s Future in a Time of Challenges
Bronislaw Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland

 

11:30 — 12:40	The New Global Order and Its Key Players
Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy (opening remarks) Alexander Babakov, Deputy Speaker, State Duma of the Russian Federation Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Javier Solana, fmr. High Representative of the EU for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Member of the Board of YES Wang Jisi, Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University

 

12:40 — 13:00	Euro 2012 — A Chance for Business to Contribute to Ukraine’s Modernisation: Kharkiv as a Case Study
Alexander Yaroslavskiy, General investor and coordinator of Kharkov for Euro 2012, Owner and President of DCH, President of FC Metalist

 

14:20 — 15:30	The Crisis and Economic Re-Building
Alexei Kudrin, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation (opening remarks) Iryna Akimova, First Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Olivier Descamps, Managing Director, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, EBRD Andrey Kostin, President, VTB Bank

 

15:30 — 16.00	What Happened to Our Economies and How To Avoid It Happening Again? (TV Link)
Martin Wolf, Columnist, Financial Times and Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute of International Economics

 

16:00 — 17:00	Climate Change — A Global Threat Ignored in Ukraine
Kofi Annan (opening speaker, via TV link) Inger Andersen, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank Nikolai Dronin, Moscow State University Andriy Klyuev, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Joschka Fischer, Adviser, Nabucco Project

 

17:00 — 17:30	How to Overcome the Crisis and Build Sustainable Economies (TV Link)
Larry Summers, Director, National Economic Council of the United States

 

20:00 — 20:45	Speech: The United States and the Global Shifts of the 21st Century
William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States

 

Saturday, October 2

09:00 — 10:00	The Global Economy and Ukraine
Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

 

10:30 — 11:15	Building High-Tech Economies — an Eastern Silicon Valley and Wall Street?
Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman, Renova Group; Coordinator, International Innovation Center “Skolkovo” Alexander Voloshin, Head of the Working Group on Creating an International Financial Center in the Russian Federation

 

11:15 — 12:00	Modernising Ukraine — From Strategy to Implementation
Borys Kolesnikov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladislav Kaskiv, Head of Working Group for National Projects, Committee on Economic Reforms Kirill Dmitriev, President, ICON Private Equity

 

12:00 — 13:00	Ukraine: Should it Move East And/Or West?
Elmar Brok, MEP, Foreign Policy Spokesman of the EPP in the European Parliament Sergei Glaziev, Secretary General, EurAsEc Customs Union Commission Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005) Marek Siwiec, MEP, Member of the Board of YES

 

15:00 — 16:00	The Energy Challenge
Yuri Boyko, Minister for Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Leonid Grigoriev, President, Institute for Energy and Finance, Moscow Alan Riley, Professor, City University of London

 

16:00 — 17:00	Paths to Ukraine’s Future — What Change Do We Need?
Carl Bild, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Volodymyr Lytvyn, Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine Serhiy Tyhypko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenyi Yatseniuk, MP, Leader of “Front of Change”

 

17:00 — 17:30	Concluding Session
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES

 

Video 1, Video 2.