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Inserat_TradeEx_Statement_165x240.indd 1 30.11.2015 15:24:00 156541_1_EBRD-Invitation-brochure_Cover-AW.indd 1 14/01/2016 12:13 The EBRD will mark its 25th Anniversary at the Programme of Events 2016 Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors Introduction 1 We are pleased to invite you to the Today’s savvy business person knows the importance of networking in developing The Meeting of the Board of Governors 2016 Business Forum on the occasion 2 and nurturing business relationships. The of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting EBRD 2016 Business Forum 3 Business Forum is the perfect opportunity of the EBRD Board of Governors. not only for bilateral, informal meetings Discussions 4 Join us at our London Headquarters but also for the networking and social Investment Outlook Sessions 8 for what promises to be two days events that are so conducive to initiating those all-important business contacts. Networking Events 8 of stimulating discussions, thought- provoking events and unparalleled The City of London is one of the world’s EBRD Alumni Event 8 networking opportunities. greatest financial centres and I look forward Civil Society Programme 9 to meeting you here. Join us in the UK capital Our Headquarters building is the perfect setting for two days of stimulating discussion with Associated Events 10 in which to reflect on what has been achieved policy-makers and senior business people Carbon Neutral Initiative 11 since 1991 in our countries of operations. We from around the world. Meet the people will take a look back at both the successes and who are investing in the future and Information / Registration 12 setbacks in the transition from central planning influencing change across our region. Venue 13 to market economies, and we will look forward – to the challenges and opportunities facing the region in the next quarter century. Influencing Change – The Next 25 Years SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES is the overarching theme of the 2016 Business Forum. In the discussions, we If you would like to request further information Enzo Quattrociocche will examine some of the key issues and on sponsorship opportunities, please send an Secretary General challenges that will define the next quarter email to: [email protected] century: energy efficiency and security, climate We are pleased to announce that Raiffeisen change mitigation, private sector development, Bank International is the Flagship Forum sustainability, gender and inclusion. Partner of the EBRD 2016 Business Forum. Over the next 25 years, the EBRD’s activities in the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean region will assume greater significance and will also be a topic of discussion and debate in London. Influencing Change - The Next 25 Years 1 156541_1_EBRD-Invitation-brochure_Cover-AW.indd 2 14/01/2016 12:13 156541_1_EBRD-Invitation-brochure_Text-AW.indd 1 14/01/2016 12:08 The EBRD will mark its 25th Anniversary at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors We are pleased to invite you to the Today’s savvy business person knows the 2016 Business Forum on the occasion importance of networking in developing and nurturing business relationships. The of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Business Forum is the perfect opportunity of the EBRD Board of Governors. not only for bilateral, informal meetings Join us at our London Headquarters but also for the networking and social for what promises to be two days events that are so conducive to initiating of stimulating discussions, thought- those all-important business contacts. provoking events and unparalleled The City of London is one of the world’s networking opportunities. greatest financial centres and I look forward to meeting you here. Join us in the UK capital Our Headquarters building is the perfect setting for two days of stimulating discussion with in which to reflect on what has been achieved policy-makers and senior business people since 1991 in our countries of operations. We from around the world. Meet the people will take a look back at both the successes and who are investing in the future and setbacks in the transition from central planning influencing change across our region. to market economies, and we will look forward – to the challenges and opportunities facing the region in the next quarter century. Influencing Change – The Next 25 Years is the overarching theme of the 2016 Business Forum. In the discussions, we Enzo Quattrociocche will examine some of the key issues and Secretary General challenges that will define the next quarter century: energy efficiency and security, climate change mitigation, private sector development, sustainability, gender and inclusion. Over the next 25 years, the EBRD’s activities in the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean region will assume greater significance and will also be a topic of discussion and debate in London. Influencing Change - The Next 25 Years 1 156541_1_EBRD-Invitation-brochure_Text-AW.indd 1 14/01/2016 12:08 The Meeting of the Board of Governors EBRD 2016 Business Forum The Opening Session of the Board of Governors will take place in the morning of Wednesday 11 May, with addresses by a representative of the UK government, the Chair of the Board of Governors and the EBRD President. REFLECT EXPLORE The EBRD Business Forum will reflect on the Find out how the world’s most successful experience and achievements of the past 25 companies are defining and changing years and take a look forward to the future the investment landscape. challenges and opportunities for the region. For more information and regular updates visit: www.ebrd.com/am DISCUSS NETWORK Learn valuable information about investment Connect with old business contacts opportunities and exchange views with major and make new ones through our series investors and senior policy-makers from of networking and social events. around the world. 2 EBRD 2016 Annual Meeting and Business Forum Influencing Change - The Next 25 Years 3 156541_1_EBRD-Invitation-brochure_Text-AW.indd 2 14/01/2016 12:08 156541_1_EBRD-Invitation-brochure_Text-AW.indd 3 14/01/2016 12:08 EBRD 2016 Business Forum REFLECT EXPLORE The EBRD Business Forum will reflect on the Find out how the world’s most successful experience and achievements of the past 25 companies are defining and changing years and take a look forward to the future the investment landscape. challenges and opportunities for the region. DISCUSS NETWORK Learn valuable information about investment Connect with old business contacts opportunities and exchange views with major and make new ones through our series investors and senior policy-makers from of networking and social events. around the world. Influencing Change - The Next 25 Years 3 156541_1_EBRD-Invitation-brochure_Text-AW.indd 3 14/01/2016 12:08 Discussions OPENING OF THE BUSINESS FORUM IN THE WAKE OF COP21 THE CRYSTAL BALL GENDER EQUALITY A Tale of Two Finance Ministers: A Conversation with Lord Nicholas Stern, Gazing into the Next 25 Years of Globalisation Why it Matters? Challenges Past and Present President of the British Academy Professor Ian Goldin is an expert in predicting This panel will look at how gender equality A conversation with two finance ministers, Following the historic Paris agreement the future. He is Director of the Oxford Martin has fared over the past 25 years in the one currently in office and the other formerly on climate change, we consider the many School. As a former Vice-President of the World EBRD’s countries of operations, the in office during the early days of the transition challenges facing the global economy with Bank, Professor Goldin led collaborations implications and what still needs to be done process. This will help us recall the beginnings Lord Stern, leading expert on the economics of with the UN on global development strategy to make more progress in the next 25 years. of the transition journey but also connect to the climate change. We will look at the implications and was an adviser to the late President The types of issues to be discussed include: present day debate – while the “shock therapy” of the Paris agreement, the environmental and Nelson Mandela. Through the Oxford Martin Why is progress on this issue so important, of the 1990s might not be all that different from economic consequences of continued inaction, School’s programme of research, collaboration what policies are needed and what can be the austerity of today, the wider political and and the means by which national and global and education, he is powering new, cross- done at the corporate level to ensure improved institutional context has changed dramatically. markets can be effectively harnessed to disciplinary thinking about global problems from opportunities and equality for women and men? This dialogue will therefore help set the scene reduce carbon emissions. the near and far future. During his audio-visual The panel will be followed by a ceremony for the discussions that follow. session, Professor Goldin will be looking ahead to present the Awards for the Promotion to the challenges that the EBRD countries and of Gender Equality.