10:00 - 11:30 Moderator: VOLATILITY OF OIL PRICES AND Hall I ECONOMIC GROWTH: RECIPES FROM • Nikolay Korzhenevsky, TV presenter on the " 24" THE DUTCH DISEASE channel Stability and predictability of main macroeconomic indicators Speakers: is a critically important condition when creating a favorable environment for investments and economic growth • Amund Holmesen acceleration. But when domestic economic and financial Deputy Minister of Finance of conditions are highly dependent on the unpredictable and Norway volatile price dynamics of oil quotes, it is difficult to talk about the predictability of business conditions. Therefore, the • Vladimir Kolychev ambitious challenge to reach more dynamic growth rate Deputy Minister of Finance of requires efforts to eliminate the most important obstacle to the Russian Federation development – the economy's dependence on shocks at the oil market. • Gabriel Di Bella Head of the IMF Permanent What mechanisms, minimizing the impact of oil price volatility Mission in the Russian on domestic macroeconomic conditions, are available? Federation

• Jeffrey Currie Head of the analytical unit for energy commodities at Goldman Sachs

• Ksenia Yudaeva First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

10:00 - 11:30 Moderator: PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: UNSOLVED Hall IV PROBLEMS AND NEW CHALLENGES • Anton Getta, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, member of the The contractual system appeared in 2014, replacing the law on public procurement (94-FZ). The new system was Committee on Security and supposed to allow controlling the procurement process from Anti-Corruption planning to using the purchased goods, the work or service rendered; increasing competition and simplifying business Speakers: access to trading. It is currently possible to sum up the first results of the • Aleksandr Shamrin implementation of the contract system instruments, including First Vice-Rector, Member of the achievement of the set goals with the introduction of the Academic Council of the treasury control, procurement planning, acceptance of Federal State Autonomous contracts and its’ payment. Higher Educational Institution Together with of the effectiveness of the use of existing mechanisms for the legal regulation of procurement, the "National Research University issues of the transfer of procurement procedures into the "Higher School of Economics" electronic form, as well as the cataloging of the goods, works • Anna Katamadze and services, are actively discussed. Deputy Head of the Federal Have the planned results of the procurement system reform Treasury been achieved? What challenges is it facing? What are the • Valery Alekseev ways to address them? Will the introduction of additional mechanisms help to achieve the objectives? Head of the ONF project "For Fair Procurement"

• Vladimir Simonenko Head of the Expert Department of the President of the Russian Federation

• Gennady Degtev Head of the Moscow City Department for Competition Policy

• Rachik Petrosyan Deputy Head of the FAS of Russia

• Tatiana Demidova Director of the Department of Budget Policy in the Contract System of the Russian Ministry of Finance

10:00 - 11:30 Moderator: INTER-BUDGETARY RELATIONS: Andrey Makarov, Chairman, Hall II YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW. • Committee for Budget and CHOICE OF WAYS OF DEVELOPMENT Taxes of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Are inter-budgetary transfers an effective tool for the Russian Federation development or reduction of poverty in the regions? Regional cooperation experience. "Horizontal" inter- Speakers: budgetary transfers. Synergy of the regions' efforts for addressing large-scale tasks. • Viktor Tolokonskiy International experience: is it possible to extend it to the Governor of Krasnoyarsky relationships between the Russian Federation and its subjects? Krai International experience in combating inefficient debt policy of • Ekaterina Trofimova the regions. CEO of Analytical Credit Structural problems of the regions' expenditures: is the Rating Agency growth of the debt burden caused by the growth of investment expenditures? • Leonid Gornin Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

• Natalya Sergunina Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations

• Nikolay Lyubimov Interim Governor of the Ryazan Region

• Pavel Kadochnikov President of the Center for Strategic Research

10:00 - 11:30 Moderator: NEW QUALITY OF PUBLIC Hall II ADMINISTRATION AS A FACTOR OF • Vladimir Mau, Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy ECONOMIC GROWTH of National Economy and Public Administration Innovative potential, nation's health, macroeconomic stability, business climate, state and development of any public Speakers: institutions depend on the quality of regulatory impact. Adequacy of the methods and forms of public administration • Aleksander Shokhin is of key importance in the discussion of the problems of the President of the All-Russian state's economic growth and financial stability. Today, public Association of Employers administration technologies should not only conform, but be in advance of the civil society development, as well as be a "Russian Union of driver of its self-renewal. Industrialists and Entrepreneurs" What should the society of the future be like and which architecture of public administration is characteristic for it? • Aleksey Komissarov What are the main components in achieving the goals? Vice Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Director of the Higher School of Public Administration

• Aleksey Kudrin Chairman of the Council of the "Center for Strategic Research" Foundation – Deputy Chairman of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation

• Viktor Kharitonin Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Joint Stock Company "Pharmstandard"

• Minister of the Russian Federation

• Svetlana Orlova Governor of the Vladimir Region

10:00 - 11:30 Moderator: HUMAN CAPITAL ASSETS AS A Hall VI FACTOR OF ECONOMIC • Philipp Sterkin, Deputy editor- in-chief. «Vedomosti» DEVELOPMENT: THE STATE'S ROLE newspaper Human capital assets development is one of the priorities of Speakers: state policy in Russia. In 2016, "social" expenditure items in the budget of the enlarged government accounted for about • 20% of GDP or more than 54% of expenses of the budgets of Deputy Minister of Finance of all levels. Nevertheless, nowadays the level of human capital the Russian Federation development in Russia is lower than in developed countries. A significant negative impact is made by low level of health of • Vitaliy Omeliyanovskiy Russians, as well as the insufficient degree of social Director of the Center for integration and mobility of society, especially among socially Health Technology vulnerable categories of the population. Certain Assessment of the Russian improvements are also possible in the field of education, labor market regulation, migration and other issues. As a Presidential Academy of result, the improvement of these areas may become a new National Economy and Public source of Russia's economic growth. Administration (RANEPA)

Discussion issues: human capital assets and economic • Vladimir Gimpelson growth: cause and effect; Priority areas of public investment Director of the Center for in human capital assets; Pension system: how to secure a Labor Studies at the Higher dignified retirement; Social support system: a burden or a School of Economics source of economic growth; Areas of future health care reforms; Education: past, present, prospects. • Vladimir Nazarov Director of the Federal State As a part of the panel session, the award ceremony for Budgetary Institution laureates in the following nominations will be held: "Scientific and Research

Financial Institute" (NIFI) - Young professionals. • Ian Colebourne CEO, Deloitte, CIS • Ivan Yashchenko Director of the Center of Excellence, Member of the Presidential Council for Science and Education, the Grantor of the Talent and Success Foundation

• Mikhail Kotyukov Director of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FASO Russia)

• Yaroslav Kuzminov Rector of the Higher School of Economics

10:00 - 11:30 Moderator: INVOLVEMENT OF NON- Hall VII GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN • Galina Karelova, Deputy Chairman of the Federation THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC AND Council of the Federal MUNICIPAL SERVICES Assembly of the Russian Federation One of the important tasks faced by the Government of the Russian Federation is to increase the accessibility and quality Speakers: of public and municipal services rendering to the citizens in such spheres as education, health care, population social • Aleksei Lavrov servicing, sport, culture. Deputy Minister of Finance of To address this problem, it is necessary to develop the Russian Federation mechanisms that create real motivation for budgetary and autonomous institutions to improve the quality of public • Aleksei Sidnev services, increase labor productivity, improve overall Director-General of LLC organization, and increase the efficiency. It is necessary to Senior Group, Chairman of the give a new impetus to the development of public services. Board of the Nonprofit From the standpoint of best practices, opening of the market Partnership for Improving the of public services for non-governmental organizations shall Life of the Elderly "Older become such an impetus. Is it possible to ensure real competition between Generation's World" governmental and non-governmental organizations within the • Elena Topoleva-Soldunova existing legal framework? What problems do non- governmental organizations face when entering the public Director of the autonomous services market? non-profit organization "Social Are the risks of involvement of non-governmental Information Agency", member organizations into the provision of socially significant public of the Public Chamber of the services justified? Will the consumer win if the market of Russian Federation public services is opened? • Lev Yakobson As a part of the panel session, the award ceremony for First Vice-Rector of the Higher laureates in the following nominations will be held: School of Economics

- Ensuring the access of non-state organizations to the • Liubov Dukhanina provision of state (municipal) services in the social sphere Deputy of the State Duma of - Support of socially-oriented non-profit organizations the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

• Olga Kuznechevskikh Vice-Governor of the Tyumen Region

10:00 - 11:30 Moderator: INTRODUCTION OF INTERAGENCY Press- ELECTRONIC INTERACTION IN ORDER • Aleksey Moiseev, Deputy Conference Minister of Finance of the Hall TO ENSURE JEWELLERY TURNOVER Russian Federation TRANSPARENCY Speakers: In connection with the adoption of the Federal Law No. 111- • Aleksander Markin FZ dated 02.05.2015 the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and its subordinate governmental agencies were Head of the State Treasury vested with supervisory powers. Institution Russian State Exercise of the powers entrusted on the Ministry of Finance Assaying Chamber of the Russian Federation highlighted the need to create the unified automated analytical platform. • Aleksey Moiseev Implementation of the proposed project will allow creation of Deputy Minister of Finance of the accounting system for the jewelry circulated in the the Russian Federation territory of the Russian Federation. It will contribute to reduction of counterfeit and contraband production in the • Andrey Yurin market, improvement of the system of forming objective and Head of the State Institution comprehensive sectoral statistical reporting, as well as on Formation of the State reduction of the impact on business by simplifying procedures Fund of Precious Metals and of information return and entering a special register. Precious Stones of the

Why is it expedient to switch to the new pattern of control and Russian Federation, Storage, supervision within the Reform of control and supervisory Release and Use of Precious activity? How will the database created help to reduce Metals and Precious Stones shadow economy of precious metals and stones market? (Gokhran of Russia) Who will have access to the database? What information is expedient to be integrated from the • Arkadiy Trachuk existing departmental electronic systems (General Prosecutor General Director of the Joint of the Russian Federation, Federal Customs Service of Stock Company Goznak Russia, and Federal Tax Service of Russia)?

12:00 - 13:15 Moderator: Plenary Session Plenary FINANCIAL SYSTEM OF THE XXI • Guy Johnson, TV presenter of Sessions CENTURY COMPETITIVE ECONOMY OF the "Bloomberg" TV channel Hall THE 21ST CENTURY: CHALLENGES Speakers:

AND SOLUTIONS • Minister of Finance of the WELCOME SPEECH OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE Russian Federation RUSSIAN FEDERATION, D.A. MEDVEDEV • David Lipton Relatively low growth rates persist even despite the First Deputy Managing unprecedented stimulus measures from the monetary Director of the International authorities. De facto negative interest rates supported the financial markets, but they only slightly contributed to the Monetary Fund economic growth, as the reasons are of a structural nature. • Sergey Sobyanin What are these reasons and challenges? (1) Negative Mayor of Moscow demographic trends and slowing down of the productivity growth. (2) Freezing of the globalization processes and • Cyril Muller growing isolationism: until 2008, world trade had been Vice-President of the World growing by one and a half times faster than the world Bank for the Europe and economy growth, while now it is slower. (3) Inequality in the distribution of wealth and income of the population in the Central Asia Region largest economies. (4) Failure of the state and social • Elvira Nabiullina organization to prepare for a fast technological breakthrough Head of the Central Bank of (automation / robotization). What configuration of the economic and financial system can the Russian Federation take advantage of new opportunities and level out risks? How should the toolkit of the economic policy of states change so as not to remain in the wake? 15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: Plenary Session Hall II DIGITALIZATION OF ECONOMY AND • Torrey Clark- IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC FINANCE: Shirnina, Moscow Bureau Chief for Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND DOMESTIC FEATURES Speakers: • Vitor Gaspar The era of digits transforms the world economy structure and Director of the International social life in each country. For the public finance, digitalization can both open up vast opportunities to improve Monetary Fund's Fiscal the efficiency of the tax system and budget expenditures, and Department create additional risks and threats. • Herman Gref

What policies and specific measures and tools will allow CEO, Chairman of the taking advantage of the opportunities that are opening up and Executive Board of Sberbank level out the associated risks? • Martti Hetemäki

As a part of the Plenary session, the award ceremony for Permanent Secretary (First laureates in the following nominations will be held: Deputy Minister) of the - Best financial management practice Ministry of Finance in Finland - Open budget of the region - Management of municipal finances • - For high quality of regional finance management Head of the Federal Tax - For effective organization of inter-budgetary relations at the Service regional level - Use of open government financial data - For contribution to the development of the public finance system . 15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: TAX POLICY – OPPORTUNITIES AND Hall II ALTERNATIVES • Andrey Makarov, Chairman, Committee for Budget and Taxes of the State Duma of The tax system is a critical economic regulator. The budget deficit calls for a strategic approach to the tax policy the Federal Assembly of the adjustment as taxes are the main source of income for all Russian Federation budgets of the budget system. Objective indicators that characterize the level of tax burden Speakers: in Russia, taking into account the level of economic development, do not allow raising the question of increasing • Aleksander Shokhin the tax burden on the economy in the near future. In addition, President of the All-Russian medium-term forecasts of the enlarged government's budget Association of Employers do not allow discussing the issue of tax cuts either. "Russian Union of In such conditions, the issues of the feasibility of tax Industrialists and payments and the fairness of taxation in general, as well as the possibility of attraction of additional revenues to the Entrepreneurs" budget through tax maneuvers, are important. • Vladimir Mau

Rector of the Russian How to maintain stability and predictability of tax conditions? How often will the tax legislation be changed? What is the Presidential Academy of general strategy of legislators? What changes in the tax National Economy and Public system should be expected in the near future? What tax Administration innovations will stimulate economic and investment growth? • Vladislav Korochkin As a part of the panel session, the award ceremony for Senior Vice-President, All- laureates in the following nominations will be held: Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and -Young professionals. Medium-Sized Businesses Opora Russia

• Gennady Kamyshnikov Managing Partner, Government Relations, Deloitte, CIS

• Ilya Trunin Deputy Finance Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

• Marina Belyakova EY partner

• Mikhail Mishustin Head of the Federal Tax Service

• Mikhail Orlov partner in Russia and the CIS

• Natalya Sergunina Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations

• Sergey Belyakov President of the Association of Non-Governmental Pension Funds

• Sergey Ezhov Chief Economist of VYGON Consulting

• Frank Schauff CEO of Association of European Business

15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: NATIONAL MARKET OF Hall IV • Aleksander Kudrin, Director of GOVERNMENT SECURITIES – the Sberbank CIB PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT Administration

Intermediate results of public borrowing and peculiarities of Speakers: functioning of the government securities market in 2017 Alexey Okhlopkov • First results and plans for the placement of government President of the Non- bonds for individuals. Governmental Pension Fund Khanti-Mansiysky Strengthening of the role of management companies and pension funds in the government debt market. • Valeriy Zhondorov Finance Minister of the Sakha Bond market as a source of borrowed funds of the Russian Republic (Yakutia) Federation subjects. • Vladimir Yarovoy Managing Director of the Sberbank CIB Global Markets Department

• Konstantin Vyshkovsky Director of the Department of Public Debt and Public Financial Assets of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

• Nikolay Kashcheev Director of the Promsvyazbank Analytical Department

• Sergey Drobyshevsky Director for Research at the Gaydar Institute of Economic Policy

• Sergey Shvetsov First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia

15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND Hall I SOCIAL POLICY OF THE FUTURE • Vladimir Nazarov, Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Scientific and One of the circumstances which determines the scale of poverty in Russia has been and still is an income inequality. Research Financial Institute" In national statistical surveys, it was recorded that regional (NIFI) inequality is the key factor in differentiation of household incomes. Over the past quarter-century, uneven development Speakers: of the regions has been playing a growing role among the causes of inequality. "High inequality hampers sustainable • Ana Revenga economic growth," many economic experts consider. On the Deputy Chief Economist, basis of this thesis, the aim of the panel discussion is to World Bank discuss how this relationship is reflected nowadays at the global, regional and local levels, which factors primarily • Natalya Zubarevich determine inequality in transition economies and what social Director of the regional policies can be like today to combat efficiently with the growth program of the Independent of inequality and cope with its negative consequences for the Institute for Social Policy microeconomics of households. Discussion issues: inequality and economic growth today: • Olesya Feoktistova Russia and international context; Contribution of uneven Head of the Social Finance territorial development and interregional differences to social Center, NIFI inequality; Effectiveness of social policy and targeted social support for the reduction of poverty and social inequality. • Robert Joyce Associate Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies of Great Britain

• Ruslan Yemtsov Leading Economist in the field of Social Protection, World Bank

• Svetlana Gashkina Director of the Department of Budget Policy in the Social and Science Sectors of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

• Filip Novokmet Economist, Leading Officer, Paris School of Economics

15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: OPEN BUDGET AND INITIATIVE Hall VII BUDGETING AS TOOLS FOR • Mikhail Abyzov, Minister of the Russian Federation IMPROVEMENT OF BUDGET EXPENDITURES EFFICIENCY Speakers: • Aleksei Lavrov Over the past ten years, Russia has managed to achieve Deputy Minister of Finance of significant results in increasing of openness of the budget system budgets. Along with the rapid development of citizen the Russian Federation involvement into the initiative budgeting mechanisms, this • Vladimir Vagin opens up new opportunities for the implementation of public Head of the NIFI Initiative control, practical use of open budget data and prioritization of Budgeting Center of the budget expenditures, taking into account the population's Ministry of Finance of Russia opinion. • Dmitry Azarov How to contribute to improvement of the efficiency of public Chairperson of the Council of and municipal finance management through an open budget the Federation Committee on and proactive budgeting? the Federal Structure,

As a part of the panel session, the award ceremony for Regional Policies, Local Self- laureates in the following nominations will be held: Governance and Affairs of the North, Chairman of the - Budget for citizens Council of Local Self- - Development of proactive budgeting. Government - Young professionals. • Elena Zyabbarova Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Moscow Department of Finance

• Kirill Nikitin Partner, PwC in Russia, Chairman of the Committee on Tax and Budget Policy of the All-Russian Public Organization "Business Russia"

• Larisa Kalinchenko Deputy Chairman of the Government - Minister of Finance of the Stavropol Territory

• Rustem Mardanov Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Bashkortostan

15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: TREASURY SUPPORT AS A KEY Hall V ELEMENT OF THE NEW FINANCIAL • Aleksandr Demidov, Deputy Head of the Federal Treasury CONTROL PARADIGM

Speakers: In modern conditions, the state financial control is facing a task to promote the achievement of state policy in different • Alexey Sizov spheres.. This requires a paradigm shift in the objectives of Senior Manager, Treasury and the state financial control, a transition from punishment to a Commodity Advice, PwC in result. Treasury support is a new tool which allows to solve Russia this problem. • Gulnaz Kadyrova Types and models of treasury support. Separate accounting, Deputy Minister of Industry cost structure and treasury control as new elements of and Trade of the Russian treasury support improvement. Prospects of legal regulation Federation of treasury support. Place of treasury support in the budget monitoring. • Evgeny Danchikov Head of the Main Control Department of Moscow

What approaches and algorithms are used in treasury • Oleg Krylov support? Should the rate of profit of the state order executor Deputy Director of the Federal be transparent for the state? How to achieve the balance of Service for Financial interests of business and those of the state? Monitoring

As a part of the panel session, laureates in the following • Roman Artyukhin nominations will be awarded: Head of the Federal Treasury

- Young professionals. • Tatyana Blinova Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation

• Yury Berestnev Member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation, Managing Partner of the NP "Legal Systems Development"

15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: OSAGO (THIRD PARTY LIABILITY Hall VI INSURANCE) - THE TIME OF CHANGE. • Aleksey Bobrovsky, head of the economic news service of BALANCED INTERESTS OF INSURANTS the "Russia 24" TV channel, AND INSURERS IN THE NEW MODEL economic analyst

The analysis of trends in legal relations arising between road Speakers: users indicates the need for a comprehensive reform of the OSAGO system (compulsory motor TPL insurance). • Aleksey Moiseev Problems of accessibility of OSAGO services, settlement of Deputy Minister of Finance of losses on the occurred insurance events, as well as a the Russian Federation number of other challenges of the recent years, have predetermined the need for a set of legislative measures • Aleksey Yanin aimed at stabilization of the situation in the stated market. Managing Director for Insurance Companies What innovations does the near future hold for the OSAGO Ratings, Expert RA JSC system participants? What are the main changes that will be entailed by the adoption of bills concerning the improvement • Anatoly Aksakov of the accidents registration procedure in accordance with the Chairman of the Committee on European protocol, improvement of the OSAGO billing the Financial Market of the system, as well as of the draft law of the Supreme Court of State Duma of the Federal the Russian Federation on the introduction of a pre-trial order for settlement of disputes between the insurers on direct Assembly of the Russian damages? How will the adopted and discussed changes in Federation the OSAGO legislation affect all the participants in this • Igor Zhuk system? What are the advantages of the new OSAGO model for insurants and insurers? Will the balance of interests of the Director of the Insurance OSAGO system participants be ensured as a part of the Market Department of the ongoing reforms? Bank of Russia

• Igor Yurgens President of the All-Russian Union of Insurers, President of the Russian Union of Car Insurers, President of the self- regulatory organization in the insurance market, President of the National Union of Liability Insurers

• Mikhail Chernikov Head of the Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

• Nikolay Asaul Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

• Nikolai Zhuravlev First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Financial Markets of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

• Nikolay Tiurnikov Director- General of LLC GlavStrakhControl, President of the Association for the Protection of Insurers

• Sergey Kanaev Head of the public movement "Federation of Russian car owners"

15:30 - 17:00 Moderator: CREATION OF THE TRACEABILITY Hall III SYSTEM FOR GOODS TURNOVER – • Alexey Repik, the President of All-Russia Business BALANCE OF STATE, BUSINESS AND Association “Delovaya CITIZENS’ INTERESTS Rossiya” (“Business Russia”)

In 2016, the territory of the Russian Federation saw the Speakers: implementation of a pilot project for the labeling of fur products as a part of the Agreement between the EAEC • Andrey Baturkin countries. In 2017, an experiment on labeling of the drugs Deputy Head of the Federal was begun. A number of initiatives to expand the list of Tax Service of Russia goods, the control of which is proposed to be implemented using a marking system, are being considered now. • Veronika Nikishina member of the Board Who is the beneficiary of the product labeling? How to (Minister) for Trade of the achieve the goals of labeling? What should the labeling Eurasian Economic legislation regulate? What activities are required to create a Commission product labeling system? Features of labeling and traceability of certain goods. Goods labeling system as an instrument of • Viktor Evtukhov modern tax administration. First results of labelling. State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry of the Russian Federation

• Vugar Isaev member of the ACORT Presidium, president of the Snow Queen Company

• Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Health Care

• Tatyana Nesterenko First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation