Opening Panel - High Level Dialogue

Nouriel Roubini

Professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business

Nouriel Roubini is a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is also CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, a global macroeconomic consultancy firm in New York, as well as Co-Founder of Rosa & Roubini Associates based out of London. At a 2006 address to the International Monetary Fund, Roubini warned of the impending recession due to the credit and housing market bubble. His predictions of these upside-down balance sheets became a reality in 2008, with the bubble bursting and reverberating around the world into a global financial crisis - a recession we’re only recently rebounding from after a decade climb.

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Giorgi Gakharia

Prime Minister of Georgia

On September 8, 2019, the Parliament of Georgia approved Giorgi Gakharia’s nomination for the Office of Prime Minister.

Prior to his current position as a Prime Minister of Georgia, he served as a Vice Prime Minister of Georgia, Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia (2017-2019), additional to this he also ran as secretary of the National Security Council.

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Maya Tskitishvili

Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia

Maya Tskitshvili is a Vice Prime Minister and the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia. Mrs. Tskitishvili is overseeing the major infrastructure and regional development projects and is a great supporter of cross-regional connectivity enhancement.

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Tigran Avinyan

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Tigran Avinyan is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia since May 2018. He is a board member of the Civil Contract party since 2016.

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Li Hui

Government Special Envoy in Eurasia Region of the People's Republic of China

Mr. Liu Hui, Government Special Envoy in Eurasia Region of the People’s Republic of China.

In 2019 Mr. Liu Hui was appointed as a Government Special Envoy in Eurasia Region of the People’s Republic of China.

In the period of 1975-1981 he worked at the Department of the USSR and Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. He was an attaché, third secretary and second secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the USSR, (1981 -1985). From 1985 to 1990 he was a second secretary, Deputy Head of the Department of the USSR and Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC.

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Elyor M. GANIEV

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Mr. Ganiev was holding the position of Deputy Prime-Minister during various years; at the same time, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs (2010-2012) and Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade (2009-2010), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005), Chairman of the Agency of Foreign Economic Relations (2002 – 2005).

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SHIXIN CHEN

Vice-President (Operations 1) Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Mr. Shixin Chen is the Vice-President (Operations 1) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He joined ADB on 12 December 2018. Mr. Chen is responsible for operations in the South Asia Department and the Central and West Asia Department. Prior to joining ADB, Mr. Chen headed the Department of International Economic and Financial Cooperation at the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

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