Speakers 2019 

Parallel Side Event - Potential of New Silk Road for Tourism Tech Opportunities




Side Event: Jointly Building Belt and Road towards SDGs




OPENING CEREMONY



Giorgi  Gakharia
Prime Minister of Georgia
Nouriel Roubini
Professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business

Opening Remarks by H.E. Giorgi Gakharia Prime Minister of Georgia



Giorgi  Gakharia
Prime Minister of Georgia

Keynote Speech by Dr. Nouriel Roubini, Professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business.



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

Opening Panel - High Level Dialogue



Elyor  M. GANIEV
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Li  Hui
Government Special Envoy in Eurasia Region of the People's Republic of China
Maya  Tskitishvili
Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia
Nouriel Roubini
Professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business
SHIXIN  CHEN
Vice-President (Operations 1) Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Tigran  Avinyan
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Panel Discussion: Trade2Win



Arancha  González
Executive Director, International Trade Center
Aaron Heslehurst
Award Winning BBC World News TV Presenter
Genadi Arveladze
Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia
Ivan  Scalfarotto
Under-Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy
Sahar  Nasr
Minister of Investment and International Cooperation of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Yonov  Frederick Agah
Deputy Director General, WTO

General Meeting of the Association of Legal Entities "International Association "Trans-Caspian International Transport Route"




Parallel Panel Discussion: The Future of Energy - Emerging trends, Security and Sustainability of the Silk Road Energy Belt and beyond



Constantin  Cotzias
Director, Bloomberg Europe / Chair, Bloomberg London
Aida  Sitdikova
Director Energy, Eurasia, Sustainable Infrastructure Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
David  Tvalabeishvili
Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia
Mr. Wang  Lei
Vice President of China Tianchen Engineering Corporation (TCC)
Werner  E. Liepach
Director General Central and West Asia Department, Asian Development Bank
Yashar  Latifov
Vice President, The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)

Parallel Panel Discussion: Innovation driven growth - Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Silk Road



Marko  Marn
Senior Partner Solution Professional Data&AI, Microsoft CEE Multi Country
Rob  McCargow
Director of Artificial Intelligence, PwC
Armen  Abroyan
Deputy Minister of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia
Irakli  Beridze
Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics United Nations, UNICRI
László  György
Secretary of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation, Ministry for Innovation and Technology of Hungary
Nikoloz  Alavidze
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia
Nino  Enukidze
Rector, Professor, Business and Technology University

Parallel Side Event: Connecting to Europe – The development of the extended TEN-T (Organized by European Investment Bank)



Bagrat  Badalyan
Deputy Minister for Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of the Republic of Armenia
Elena  Perminova
Deputy Minister of Economy and the Republic of Belarus
Elmir Tofig oglu  Velizade
Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Flavia  Palanza
Director, European Investment Bank, Lending Operations in EU Neighbouring Countries
Irakli  Karseladze
First Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructures of Georgia, Chairman of Roads Department of Georgia
Lawrence Meredith
Director, European Commission DG NEAR Neighbourhood East
Libor Lochman
Executive Director, CER
Richard  Pomfret
Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Adelaide
Richard  Willis
Press officer, Communication Department, EIB

Parallel Panel Discussion: Transport Connectivity – Transformation along the Silk Road and beyond



Juliette  Foster
Founder and Managing Director, Magnus Communications; Former Sky News/BBC business presenter
Mehmet Cahit  Turhan
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Turkey
Natia Turnava
Acting Governor, First Vice-Governor of NBG
Ramin Namig oglu Guluzade oglu
Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Rossen  Jeliazkov
Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications of the Republic of Bulgaria
Umberto  de Pretto
Secretary General, International Road Transport Union (IRU)
Vladyslav  Kryklii
Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine
Yama  Yari
Minister of Transport of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Parallel Side Event : “Silk Road Knowledge Dialogue” Organized by the CAREC Institute



Akaki  Saghirashvili
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia
Iskandar  Abdullaev
Deputy Director, CAREC Institute
S. Sohail H. Naqvi Naqvi
Rector, University of Central Asia
SHIXIN  CHEN
Vice-President (Operations 1) Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Siddhart  Saxena
Chair of Central Asia Forum, Cambridge University
Sukhrob  Mirzozoda
First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan
Taleh Ziyadov
Director-General of Port of Baku, Azerbaijan
Tamar  Sulukhia
Director, ISET Policy Institute, International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University

Parallel Side Event : Improving Freight Transit and Logistics Performance of the Trans-Caucasus Transit Corridor



David  Peradze
General Director, JSC Georgian Railway (GR)
Pasha Karim
Regional Manager, Kerry/Globallink Logistics
Bernard  Aritua
Senior Infrastructure Specialist, The World Bank
Hendrik  Wehlen
General Manager Sales and Operations, InterRail Europe GmbH
Javid  Gurbanov
Chairman, Azerbaijan Railways CJSC (ADY)
Jiyi  Zhang
Chairman of China Railway Container Transport Corp.,Ltd.
Ming Li
Director of Smart City Department of China Center for Urban Development, National Development and Reform Commission
Victor  Aragones
Senior Transport Economist, The World Bank

Welcome Speech



Giorgi  Gakharia
Prime Minister of Georgia

Panel Discussion: Invest2Succeed Session I - Georgia Rising - Facilitating Impact Investment



Joe  Lynam
BBC's Senior Business Correspondent
William  Markstein
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Trammo
Alexander  Benard
Co-Head of Cerberus Frontier and Senior Managing Director, Cerberus (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Fatih  Guven
General Manager of ENKA Power
Irakli  Burdiladze
CEO of JSC m2 Real Estate
Natia Turnava
Acting Governor, First Vice-Governor of NBG

Session II - Silk Road: The New Landscape for Cross-Border Investment



Alexander  Maier
CEO, AE Solar Alternative Energy GmbH
Archil  Gachechiladze
CEO, Bank of Georgia
David  Saganelidze
CEO of JSC Partnership Fund
Joe  Lynam
BBC's Senior Business Correspondent
William  Tompson
Head of the Eurasia Division in the OECD Global Relations Secretariat
Abdulrahman Essa  Al-Mannai
CEO, Milaha Group (Qatar Navigation)
Robin  Jowitt
Partner at EY, Leader of capital transformation in Europe, Middle East, India, Africa / CESA

Parallel Side Event: Session of the working group of the Association of Legal Entities