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PROGRAMME OF IV ASTANA ECONOMIC FORUM “NEW DECADE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES”

3-4 May, 2011, Astana Palace of Independence

May 3 FIRST DAY

08:00-09:30 Registration

10:00-12:30 OPENING CEREMONY Great Hall PLENARY SESSION Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 3000 people “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association, “Economic Research Institute” JSC 10.00-10.10 Moderator: Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, Publisher, International Herald Tribune (to be confirmed) 10:10-10:30 Opening speech: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN Speakers: 10:30-10:40 Robert Mundell Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics “for the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”, 1999, Canada 10:40-10:50 Stepan Mesich Ex-President of Croatia (to be confirmed) 10:50-11:00 Jorge Quiroga Ex-President of Bolivia, Member of the Club de Madrid 11:00-11:10 John Nash Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics ”for the analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”, 1994, USA 11:10-11:20 Roger Kornberg Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry "for the studies of the 1

process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA", 2006, Professor of Stanford University, Co- chairman of the Skolkovo innovation center, USA 11:20-11:30 Noeleen Heyzer Under - Secretary-General, United Nations (UN), Executive Secretary, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) 11:30-11:40 James Mirlees, Sir Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics "for the fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information", 1996, UK 11:40-11:50 Jacques Diouf Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 11:50-12:00 Herman Gref Chairman and CEO, JSC Sberbank, Russia (to be confirmed) 12:00-12.30 Other speakers are under consideration

12:30-13:30 PRESS-CONFERENCE Ceremonial hall Auditorium: Organizers: 100 people Eurasian Media-Forum Moderator: (to be confirmed) May 3 Panel Session 14:30-19:00 THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM: NEW The Great Hall CONFIGURATION OF THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY POWER”

Auditorium: Organizers: 600 people Reinventing Bretton-Woods Committee, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Robert Mundell, “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association 14:30-14:45 Welcome speech: (to be confirmed)

14:45-16:00 SESSION I: DIVERGENT PATHS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Key issues: -The West Economic Challenges; -Emerging Economies and the prospects of dealing with new cycles; 2

-Historical perspective. Speakers: 14:45-14:50 Moderator: Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton- Woods Committee, France Speakers: 14:50-14:55 , CEO, “Sovereign Wealth Fund “Samruk-Kazyna” JSC, Kazakhstan 14:55-15:00 Jorge Quiroga, Ex-President of Bolivia, Member of the Club de Madrid 15:00-15:05 Cheng Si Wei, Chairman, International Finance Forum, China 15:05-15:10 Il Sakong, Chairman, Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, South Korea (to be confirmed) 15:10-15:15 Domingo Cavallo, Chairman, DFC Associates LLC, Ex- Minister of Economy of Argentina, Ex-Chairman, Central Bank of Argentina 15:15-15:20 Arnab Das, Managing Director, Roubini Global Economics, USA 15:20-15:25 Edmond Alphandery, Chairman of the Board, “CNP Assurances” corporation; Ex-Minister of Finance, France 15:25-15:30 Gustavo Franco, Founding Partner and Executive Director, Rio Bravo Investimentos; Ex-Governor, Central Bank of Brazil (to be confirmed) 15:30-15:35 Gazi Erçel, President, Ercel Advisory Group; Ex- Chairman, Central Bank of Turkey 15:35-16:00 Discussions 16:00-16:15 COFFEE-BREAK 16:15-17:30 SESSION II: THE DOLLAR ERA 16:15-16:20 Moderator: (to be confirmed) Speakers: 16:15-16:25 Richard Cooper, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Ex-Deputy Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, USA 16:25-16:35 Sven Arndt, Professor of Economics, Director, Claremont College; President, The Commons Institute for International Economic Studies, USA (to be confirmed) 16:35-16:45 Jacob Frenkel, Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International; Ex-Vice-President, AIG; Ex-Chairman,

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Central Bank of Israel 16:45-16:55 Herbert Grubel, Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University, Canada 16:55-17:05 James Dean, Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University , Canada 17:05-17:15 Arystan Esentugelov, Professor, Honorary President of Economic Research Institute, Kazakhstan 17:15-17:25 Songzuo Xiang, Editor-in-Chief, “World Business and Finance” magazine, Non-executive director, China Digital TV Holding Co. Ltd and AirMedia Group,Inc. 17:25-17:30 Discussions 17:30-18:45 SESSION III: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW RESERVE CURRENCY AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE EUROZONE 17:30-17:35 Moderator: (to be confirmed) Speakers: 17:35-17:40 George von Furstenberg, Professor of Economics, Indiana University, USA 17:40-17:45 Miranda Xafa, Senior Investment Strategist and Member of the Advisory Board, IJ Partners SA; Ex-Member of the Board, International Monetary Fund, Greece 17:45-17:50 Niels Thygesen, Professor of International Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 17:50-17:55 Ousmène Mandeng, Head of Public Sector Investment Advisory, Ashmore Investment Management Ltd., Germany 17:55-18:00 Peter Bofinger, Professor of Monetary and International Economics, Würzburg University; Expert of the Council for a political consulting in economics of the German Government (to be confirmed) 18:00-18:45 Discussion May 3 Panel session 14:30-19:00 ECONOMIC PECULIARITIES OF TOURISM Ceremonial hall IN THE MODERN WORLD Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 200 people Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan 14:30-14:35 Moderator: Temirkhan Dosmukhambetov, Minister of Tourism and Sport of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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14:35-14:45 Welcome speech: Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Speakers: 14:45-15:00 Dai Bin, Professor, Academy of Tourism, China 15:00-15:15 Victor Wee, Chairman, Malaysia tourism promotion board 15:15-15:30 Gael de la Porte, President, Interface tourism, France 15:30-15:45 Bruce Wilson, Managing Director, PBN Company Kazakhstan 15:45-16:00 Denis Zanon, General Director, Visitors and convention Bureau of Nice, France 16:00-16:15 Discussion 16.15-16.30 COFEE-BREAK 16:30-16:45 David Airey, Professor of the University of Surrey, UK 16:45-17:00 Karsten Palme, General manager, “Compass” Consulting Company, Germany 17:00-17:15 Karl Baypakov, Director of Archeology Institute named after A. Margulan, Kazakhstan 17:15-17:30 Rolf Freitag, President, IPK International, Germany 17:30-17:45 Yelena Tarassenko, Deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan 17:45-18:00 Ardjan Langedijk, Director, Kazachstan Reizen, Netherlands 18:00-18:15 Discussion

18:15-18:45 Signing of agreements, memorandum

May 3 Panel session 14:30-18:00 ENSURING FOOD SECURITY IN CENTRAL ASIA Oval Hall Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 100 people Analytical Center of Economic Policy in Agricultural Sector, "National holding "KazAgro" JSC, “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association 14:30-14:40 Moderator: Giorgio Ponzi, Member of the Board of Directors, "National holding "KazAgro" JSC; President, Agrotecnica S.R.L., Italy 14:40-15:00 Welcome speech: Akhylbek Kurishbayev, Minister of Agriculture of the

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Republic of Kazakhstan 15:00-15:20 Jacques Diouf, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Speakers 15:20-15:35 William Meyers, Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri, USA “Diversity of agricultural policies in Emerging Market Countries; effects on grain trade” 15:35-15:50 Charles Riemenschneider, Director of the Investment Centre, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Co-report: Eugenia Serova, Senior Advisor of Investment Centre, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 15:50-16:05 Sagit Ibatullin, Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Fund for saving the Aral Sea (EC IFAS) “Water resources and food security in the Central Asia” 16:05-16:25 Discussion 16:25-16:45 COFFEE-BREAK 16:45-17:00 Konstatinos Karantininis, Professor of the Economics of Agribusiness, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 17:00-17:15 Stanley Johnson, Professor of Iowa State University; Ex-Director, Center of Agricultural and Rural development (CARD); Assistant to the Dean, University of Missouri, USA 17:15-18:00 Discussion 18:00-18:30 Summary May 3 14:30-19:00 EURASIAN BUSINESS CONGRESS Picture Gallery 2 Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 150 people “Atameken” Union” National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan 14:30 - 14:35 Moderator: Timur Kulibayev, Chairman of the Presidium of “Atameken” Union” National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan, Chairman of “KazEnergy” Kazakhstan Association of Oil-Gas and Energy Sector Organizations “Establishment of Eurasian Business Congress” 14:35-14:50 Agreement Signing Ceremony 14:50-15:00 Welcome speech: 6

Asset Issekeshev, Deputy Prime-Minister, Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) Speakers: 15:00-15:10 Anatoliy Kinah, Chairman of the Industrialists and Entrepreneurs International Congress Board, President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs “EABC work principles” 15:10-15:20 Azat Peruashev, Chairman of the Board of “Atameken” Union” National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan “Actual matters of economic cooperation and investment interaction of EABC members” 15:20-15:30 Alexandr Murychev, Vice-President of the Russian Union of industrialists and Entrepreneurs 15:30-15:40 Xu Kuangdi, Chairman of China Federation of industrial economics (to be confirmed) 15:40-15:50 İlker Aycı, President, Agency on Recruitment and Support of Foreign Investments under the Prime Minister of Turkey 15:50-16:00 Jose de Venecia, Honorary President, Philippines’ Oil Association; Ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congress of the Philippines 16.00-16.20 COFFEE-BREAK 16:20-16:30 Mushahid Hussain, Secretary General, Pakistan Muslim League 16:30-16:40 Tiit Vahi, President, Association Entrepreneurs in Estonia Asian-European goods turnover 16:40-16:55 Presentation Mushtaq Hussain, Head of Trade Section, Delegation of the European Union to Kazakhstan Ines Sanchez, Representative of the General Directorate for Trade, European Commission in Brussels 16:55-17:05 Dmitry Oleinik, President, Federation of Employers, Ukraine "Protecting the legitimate rights and lobbying for the interests of employers in the field of social work and related economic relations" 17:05-17:15 Richard Schenz, Vice-President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber 17:15-17:30 Discussions 17:30-17:40 Summarizing 7

Announcing memorandum, to be signed at the Closing Ceremony 17:40-19:00 Memorandum Signing ceremony Final press-conference

May 3 14:30-19:00 INNOVATIVE CONGRESS Picture Gallery 1 Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 300 people “National Innovational Fund” JSC Moderator: 14:30-14:35 Roger Kornberg, Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry "for the studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA", 2006, Professor of Stanford University, Co-chairman of the Skolkovo innovation center, USA 14:35-14:45 Welcome speech: , Deputy Prime-Minister, Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan SESSION I: ANALYSIS OF CURRENT INTEGRATION NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM Speakers: 14:45-14:55 Sergei Korotkov, Director Center of international industrial cooperation in Russian Federation, UNIDO (to be confirmed) “International Innovative cooperation: UNIDO regional progect on development of investments and technology transfer system promotion in EurAsEC countries” 14:55-15:05 Victor Hwang, Co-founder and Managing Director, T2 venture Capital, Consultant on venture capital and innovative policy, World Bank, USA “Innovative policy of World Bank: view of global integrator” 15:05-15:15 Charles Wessner, National Academy Scholar and Director of the Program on Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, USA “North American model of scientific integration: USA, Canada, Mexico” 15:15-15:25 Robert-Jan Smits, European Commission, Directorate- General for Research, Innovation and Scienc, Director- 8

General (to be confirmed) “Topic of speech: European innovative integration: Innovative Union – 2020” 15:25-15:35 Igor Finogenov, Chairman of Board, Eurasian Development Bank (to be confirmed) “Eurasian Innovative System – integrated platform for economic development” 15:35-15:45 June Seung Lee, President of Korea Institute of S&T evaluation and planning (to be confirmed) “Asian integration: innovative cooperation model of ASEAN countries” 15:45-15:50 Summary of session 15:50-16:00 COFFEE-BREAK SESSION II: THE EXPERIENCE OF SPECIFIC COMPANIES AND INSTITUTES' ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CONDITIONS OF INTEGRATED NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS 16:00-16:05 Moderator: Burghard Scheel, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Fraunhofer IFF, Germany 16:05-16:15 Lee Jae-Ku, President, Daedeok Innopolis, South Korea “Daedeok Innopolis as integrated innovative cluster – way to knowledge economy” 16:15-16:25 Olivier Darrason, President, European Company of Strategic Intelligence CEIS, France 16:25-16:35 Robert Sanders, Head of International Projects, European Business and Innovation Center Network (Belgium) “Innovative centers in Europe – experience and prospects in the frames of joint innovative system” 16:35-16:45 Albina Nikkonen, CEO, Director, Russian Association of Direct and Venture Investment, Russia “Perspectives for development of joint venture space of Custom Union countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus)” 16:45-16:55 Rainer Goertz, Country Director, GIZ Kazakhstan 16:55-17:05 Klara Oren, Chief Executive Officer, L.N innovative technologies, Israel 17:05-17:15 Peter Heydebreck, Managing director, Inno AG, Germany “Small and medium business within joint European innovative system” 9

17:15-17:20 Summary of session 17:20-17:30 COFFEE-BREAK SESSION III: PROSPECTS OF APPEARANCE OF NEW INTEGRATION NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS Moderator: 17:30-17:35 Nurmukhamed Abdibekov, Vice-Minister of industry and new technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan Speakers: 17:35-17:45 Renzo Tomellini, Head of Unit “Nanoscience and nanotechnologies” of the European Commission (Belgium) “Integration of innovative systems – open innovations (European aspect)” 17:45-17:55 Nuket Yetis, President, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey “TUBITAK” “Scientific and Technological Integration of Turkic states – bases and perspectives development” 17:55-18:05 Suk Joon Kim, President of Science and Technology Policy Institute, South Korea “Asian tigers” programme of innovation development: new vectors of innovative policy and prognoses (Kazakhstan and countries of South-East Asia)” 18:05-18:15 Oleg Figovsky, Academician of European Academy of Sciences and two Russian Academies (RAASN and REA), Director R&D INRC Polymate and Nanotech Industries, Inc, Editor-in-chief the SITA-journal and OCJ, Israel “Creation of joint scientific space as the base for creation of new innovative systems” 18:15-18:25 Alexander Galitsky, Managing partner “Almaz Capital Partners”, Member of Advisory board of regional organization “Internet-technologies center”, President of Russian Tech Tour, Member of advisory board of “Skolkovo” foundation, Russia “Regional integration of innovative systems and technological competitiveness” 18:25-18:35 Mathias Rauch, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe (MOEZ), Germany (to be confirmed) «Innovative entrepreneurship in integration conditions: Eurasian aspect» 10

18:35-18:45 Alexander Idrissov, Managing Partner, Strategy Partners, President of the Union of investment and financial analysts of Russia “Innovative entrepreneurship in integration conditions” 18:45-18:50 Summary of session 18:50-19:00 Aidyn Kulseitov, Chief Executive Officer, “National Innovation Fund” JSC, Kazakhstan “Adoption of the congress’ resolution” May 3 Roundtable 15:30-17:30 MODERNIZATION OF QUASI-STATE SECTOR AS A Ethnography CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC museum 1 POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (the Program is under consideration) Auditorium: Organizers: SWF ”Samruk-Kazyna” JSC 50 people Moderator: Kairat Kelimbetov, CEO, “Sovereign Wealth Fund “Samruk-Kazyna” JSC, Kazakhstan Welcome speech: Asset Issekeshev, Deputy Prime-Minister, Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan Speakers: James Mirlees, Sir, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics "for the fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information", 1996, UK Olivier Descamps, Managing Director of EBRD for Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (to be confirmed) Lee Rouge, President and Chief Executive Officer, Export-Import Bank of China (to be confirmed) Tim Moody, Managing Director, Rio Tinto, Italy Nicholas Zalonis, Special advisor of Managing Director for Finmeccanica’s business in Kazakhstan Richard Ewans, Independent Director, Member of the Board of Directors of the SWF ”Samruk-Kazyna” JSC, UK Herman Gref, Chairman and CEO, JSC Sberbank, Russia (to be confirmed) Discussions Summary

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May 4 SECOND DAY

May 4 Panel session 09:30-18:00 THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM: The Great Hall NEW CONFIGURATION OF THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY POWER” (continuation) Auditorium: Organizers: 600 people Reinventing Bretton-Woods Committee, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Robert Mundell, “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association 9:30-11:00 SESSION IV: REGIONAL MONETARY ARRANGEMENTS – WHERE IS ASIA HEADING? 09:30-09:35 Moderator: (to be confirmed) Speakers: 09:35-09:45 Miranda Goeltom, Ex-Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Indonesia 09:45-09:55 Li Ruogu, President, Export Import Bank, China (to be confirmed) 10:05-10:15 Yada Reddy, Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India (to be confirmed) 10:15-10:25 Jin Liqun, Chairman of Board Supervisors, China Investment Corporation (to be confirmed) 10:25-10:35 Serik Akhanov, Chairman of the Financiers Association of Kazakhstan 10:35-10:45 Yung Chul Park, Professor and Director, Center of International Commerce in Korea 10:45-11:00 Discussions: 11:00-11:15 COFFEE-BREAK 11:15-12:45 SESSION V: REGIONAL MONETARY ARRANGEMENTS IN EURASIA 11:15-11:20 Moderator: (to be confirmed) Speakers: 11:20-11:25 Al Suwaidi Bin Nasser Sultan, Governor, Central bank of UAE 11:25-11:35 Anvar Saidenov, Chairman and Member of the Board,

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BTA Bank, Kazakhstan 11:35-11:45 Herman Gref, Chairman and CEO, Sberbank, Russian Federation (to be confirmed) 11:45-11:50 Baktygul Zheyenbayeva, Chairman, National Bank of Kyrgyzstan (to be confirmed) 11:50-11:55 Petr Prokopovich, Chairman, National Bank of Belarus (to be confirmed) 11:55-12:00 Grigory Marchenko, Chairman, National Bank of Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) 12:00-12:05 L. Purevdorj, Governor, Central bank of 12:05-12:10 Shaukat Aziz, Ex-Prime-Minister, Pakistan (to be confirmed) 12:10-12:15 Suman Bery, Director-General, National Council for Applied Economic Research, India 12:15-12:30 Discussions 12:30-14:30 LUNCH 14:30-16:00 SESSION VI: ISLAMIC FINANCE AND ITS ROLE IN GLOBAL FINANCE 14:30-14:35 Moderator: (to be confirmed) Speakers: 14:35-14:45 Muhammad Al-Jasser, Governor of Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (to be confirmed) 14:45-14:55 Zeti Aziz, Governor, Central Bank of Malaysia (to be confirmed) 14:55-15:05 John Nash, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics ”for the analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”, 1994, USA 15:05-15:15 Ng Nam Sin, Assistant Managing Director on Development, Monetary Authority of Singapore (to be confirmed) 15:15-15:25 Arken Arystanov, Chairman of the Agency on regulation of activities of the Regional Financial Centre of Almaty city, Kazakhstan 15:25-15:35 Jihad Azour, Senior Executive Advisor, Booz & Company; Ex-Minister of Finance, Lebanon 15:35-16:00 Discussion 16:00-16:20 COFFEE-BREAK 16:20-18:00 SESSION VII: PROPOSALS FOR REFORM AND THE NEW

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CONFIGURATION OF THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY POWER Moderator: 16:20-16:25 Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton- Woods Committee, France Speakers: 16:25-16:35 Robert Mundell, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics “for the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”, 1999, Canada 16:35-16:45 Paul Volcker, Counsellor to the President of the USA, Ex-Chairman, Federal Reserve Board (to be confirmed) 16:45-16:55 , Minister of the Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan 16:55-17:05 Warren Coats, Governor, Authority Cayman Islands, Consultant and Ex-Deputy director, International monetary fund (IMF) 17:05-17:15 Wei Benhua, Chairman, Council Safe and Foreign Exchange Magazine (to be confirmed) 17:15-17:25 Judy Shelton, Senior Fellow, Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Co-Director, Sound Money Project 17:25-17:35 Gerardo della Paolera, President, Global Development Network, france (to be confirmed) 17:35-18:00 Discussions May 4 Panel session 09:30-14:30 GREEN GROWTH – PROSPECTS OF POST-KYOTO Picture Gallery 1 Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 200 people “Nur Otan” NDP High Party School, National Orhus Center Moderator: 09:30-09:35 Bakhyt Yessekina, Director of ‘Nur Otan’ NDP High Party School, Kazakhstan Welcome speech: 09:35-09:50 Nurgali Ashimov, Minister of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan SESSION I: GREEN ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE Speakers: 09:50-10:05 Noeleen Heyzer, Under - Secretary-General, United Nations (UN), Executive Secretary, Economic and Social

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Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) “Promotion the concept of Green Growth” 10:05-10:20 Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, 2007, “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”, USA 10:20-10:35 Olga Ponizova, President, Center for Environment and Sustainable Development «Eco-Accord», Russia “International trade and sustainable development” 10:35-10:45 Bulent Senay, President, Islamitische Stichting, Counsellor for Turkish Embassy in the Hague, Netherlands “From Ecocide to Ecoethics: Sophiapolis in the context of Post-Kyoto Prospects” 10:45-10:55 Uraz Baimuratov, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Director of the Research Institute for Financial and Banking Management 10:55-11:05 Renat Perelet, Academician at the Russian Ecology Academy, Member of the Supreme Environmental Council of the State Duma of the Russian Federation 11:05-11:15 Discussion 11:15-11:30 COFFEE-BREAK SESSION II: REALIZATION OF ASTANA INITIATIVE “GREEN BRIDGE” AND LOW-CARBON DEVELOPMENT Moderator: 11:30-11:35 Kanat Baigarin, Vice-Principal on academic issues, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Speakers: 11:35-11:45 Video message to the participants of the session ''Green growth - prospects of Post Kyoto" Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2007, shared with Albert Gore, «for efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change», Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), India 11:45-12:00 Kuanysh Aitakhanov, Secretary of the Committee on Agriculture and Environment of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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«Low-carbon economy: a new growth point of the global economy of the future» 12:00-12:15 Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (to be confirmed) 12:15-12:30 Rae Kwon Chung, Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) “Low carbonic economy” 12:30-12:45 Aida Karazhanova, Environmental Affairs Officer at UN ESCAP “Partnership program – “Green bridge” Lyudmila Shabanova, Head of the “Green bridge” office, correspondent of “Ecology” Academy, Kazakhstan “Astana initiative «Green bridge» 12:45-13:10 Svetlana Mogilyuk, Chairman Public Association «EcoForum NGO», Kazakhstan « Green mechanisms in the extractive industries » 13:00-13:15 Discussions Summary May 4 Panel session 09:30-13:00 TNCs AND US: FRIENDS OR ENEMIES? Ceremonial Hall Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 200 people “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association, The Economist Conferences -Role of TNCs in innovation development -Corporate and social responsibility of TNCs -Improvement of policy of countries with emerging economy towards the foreign investors 09:30-09:35 Moderator: Dominic Ziegler, Asia Editor, The Economist 09:35-09:45 Welcome speech: , Minister of Oil and Gas of the Republic of Kazakhstan Speakers: 09:45-10:15 Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (to be confirmed) Tagi Sagafi-Nejad, Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M International University, USA 16

10:15-10:25 Gengshu Miao, President, China Council for International Investment Promotion 10:25-10:35 Zhandarbek Kakishev, Chairman of the Board, National Agency for Development of the local content «NADLoC», Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) 10:35-10:50 Discussion 10:50-11:05 Georg Kell, Executive Director, “UN Global Compact” initiative (to be confirmed) 11:05-11:15 Kairat Kelimbetov, CEO, “Sovereign Wealth Fund “Samruk-Kazyna” JSC, Kazakhstan 11:15-11:30 Discussion 11:30-11:40 William Veale, Executive Director, US-Kazakhstan Business Association, USA 11:40-11:50 Gerald Grandey, CEO, Cameco Corporation, Canada (to be confirmed) 11:50-12:00 Anne Lauvergeon, CEO, AREVA, France (to be confirmed) 12:00-12:10 Norio Sasaki, President and CEO, Toshiba Corporation, Japan (to be confirmed) 12:10-12:20 Mark Rollins, Senior Vice-President, Central Asia, BG Group, UK (to be confirmed) 12:20-13:00 Discussion Summary

May 4 Panel session 09:30-13:00 GLOBAL AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION – Ethnography NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH Museum 2 Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 200 people “Economic Research Institute” JSC 09:30-09:35 Moderator: Zhanar Aitzhanova, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan Welcome speech: 09:35-09:40 Umirzak Shukeyev, First Deputy Prime-Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) 09:40-10:10 SESSION I: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: FROM FREE TRADE ZONES TO POLITICAL UNION Speakers: 09:40-09:45 Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the EC for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (to be confirmed) 17

09:45-09:55 Karel De Gucht, European Commissioner for Trade (to be confirmed) 09:55-10:10 Hanon Barabaner, Rector, Institute of Economy ECOMEN, Estonia (to be confirmed) 10:10-10:30 SESSION II: INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE OF NAFTA: INTERACTION OF DEVELOPED AND EMERGING COUNTRIES 10:10-10:20 Peter Van Loan, Minister of international trade of Canada (to be confirmed) 10:20-10:30 Jeffrey Schott, Professor, Peterson Institute for International Economics, USA (not confirmed yet) 10:30-11:00 SESSION III: EXPERIENCE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: INTEGRATION AS A KEY TO DIVERSIFICATION 10:30-10:40 Kairat Kelimbetov, CEO, “Sovereign Wealth Fund “Samruk-Kazyna” JSC, Kazakhstan 10:40-10:50 Abdulla Ben Ahmed Zeynal, Minister of Trade and Industry of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 10:50-11:00 Paulo Guapindaia Joppert, Minister-Counselor and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Brazil in Astana 11:00-11:15 COFFEE-BREAK 11:15-12:05 SESSION IV: REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN EURASIA: RESULTS AND PERSPECTIVES 11:15-11:25 Tair Mansurov, Secretary General, Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) 11:25-11:35 Elvira Nabiullina, Minister of Economic development of Russian Federation (to be confirmed) 11:35-11:45 Kenzhegali Sagadiev, Deputy of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan 11:45-11:55 Orazaly Sabden, Director, Institute of Economy of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan 11:55-12:05 Oraz Zhandossov, Head of Center of Economic analysis “Rakurs”, Kazakhstan 12:05-13:00 Discussion Summary May 4 Panel session 14:30-18:00 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: CENTERS - REGIONS 18

Ethnography Museum 1 Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 95 people “Economic Research Institute” JSC, Akimat of Astana 14:30-14:35 Moderator: René Mally, Head of Operations Section of the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Kazakhstan 14:35-14:40 Welcome speech: Zhanar Aitzhanova, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) Social-economic development of regions: international experience and Kazakhstani vision Speakers: 14:40-15:00 , Akim of Mangystau Oblast, Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) 15:00-15:15 Jin Cheol Jo, Head of International Cooperation Group, Institute of Regional Development, South Korea (to be confirmed) “Balanced territorial development: Korean experience” 15:15-15:30 Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Deputy Minister of economic development and trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan New approaches towards regional policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan 15:30-15:45 Tom Pätz, Member of Management Board, Managing Director of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ GmbH, Germany “Sustainable support of underdeveloped regions in emerging countries” 15:45-16:00 Discussion 16:00-16:20 COFEE-BREAK Interbudget relationships in regions development 16:20-16:35 Theodore Ahlers, Director Strategy and Operations, Europe and Central Asia Region, The World Bank (to be confirmed) 16:35-16:50 Zhamilya Bopiyeva, Acting President, “Economic Research Institute“ JCS of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan 16:50-17:05 Iikka Korhonen, Head, Institute for Economies in Transition Bank of Finland (to be confirmed) 17:05-17:20 Alexander Kovalevskij, Managing Director, Institute for 19

Budget Decisions of Russian Federation 17:20-18:00 Summary

May 4 Panel session 14:30-18:00 SME AS ENGINE OF ECONOMY Ceremonial Hall Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 200 people "DAMU" Small Entrepreneurship Development Fund JSC Moderator: 14:00-14:05 Krassen Stanchev, International Expert, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Welcome speech: 14:05-14:20 Erbol Orynbayev, Deputy Prime-Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) Speakers: Kazakhstani and foreign experience of small and medium-sized enterprise development 14:20-14:35 Marat Kussainov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan 14:35-14:50 Lyazzat Ibragimova, Acting Chairman of the Board, "DAMU" Small Entrepreneurship Development Fund" JSC, Kazakhstan 14:50-15:05 Michael Glos, Member of the German Bundestag, Ex- Federal Minister of Economics and Technologies 15:05-15:15 Hernando de Soto, President, Peru’s Institute of Liberty and Democracy 15:15-15:25 Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, 2004 "for the contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" 15:25-15:35 Daniel Isenberg, Professor, Babson College, USA 15:35-16:00 Discussion 16:00-16:15 COFEE-BREAK Tools of small and medium-sized enterprises development Promotion of SME in top-priority spheres of the country 16:15-16:30 Aneta Wilmanska, Deputy CEO, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (to be confirmed) 16:30-16:45 Mustafa Kaplan, President, Small & Medium Enterprises Development Organization, Turkey (to be confirmed) 16:45-17:00 Tomasz Telma, Senior Manager for Central Asia, International Financial Corporation 20

17:00-17:15 Rainer Goertz, Country Director, GIZ Kazakhstan

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May 4 Panel Session 09:30-13:00 FORMING OF GLOBAL Picture Gallery 2 ENERGY-ECOLOGICAL STRATEGY FOR THE WORLD SUMMIT ON THE STABLE DEVELOPMENT “RIO-20 IN 2012” Auditorium: Organizers: The Kazakhstan National Academy of 100 people Natural Sciences, JSC “National Science and Technology Holding “Parasat 09:30-09:35 Moderator: Nurtay Abykayev, President of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences 09:35-09:45 Welcome speech: Kandeh Yumkella, Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (to be confirmed) Speakers: 09:45-09:55 Bakytzhan Zhumagulov, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan 09:55-10:05 Anatoliy Spicyn, First Vice-President of the International Academy of Investments, Director of the Institute of Strategic Research of Integration Problems EurAsEC 10:05-10:15 Ashimov Nurgali, Minister of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan 10:15-10:25 Oleg Kuznetsov, President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences 10:25-10:35 Yury Iakovets, President, International Institute named after P. Sorokin - N. Kondratyev, Russia 10:35-10:45 , President of the National nuclear company “Kazatomprom”, Republic of Kazakhstan 10:45-10:55 Anvar Zakhidov, Director, Institute of Nanotechnology, Texas University, USA “The current state and prospects of organic photo energy and photodiode equipment” 10:55-11:10 COFEE-BREAK 11:10-11:20 Oleg Pchelyakov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Physics of Semiconductors of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences 11:20-11:30 Khussain Valiyev, Senate member of the Republic of 21

Kazakhstan 11:30-11:40 Alex Ignatiev, Director of the Centre of Perspective Materials, Houston University, USA 11:40-11:50 Cui Weihong, Deputy Director of National Engineering Research, Center for Geomatics, China 11:50-12:00 Klaus Thiessen, Consultant, Vista Management, GMBH, professor, Germany 12:00-12:10 Valéry Kushlin, Head of department, Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation 12:10-12:20 Victor Bykov, President of “NT-MDT” Company, Nano technological equipment, Zelenograd, Russian Federation 12:20-12:30 Adoption of recommendations on forming Global energy- ecological strategy and to leaders of the countries G-20 Group 12:30-13:00 Signing of contracts May 4 09:30-17:00 “ASTANA INVEST 2011” Forum Great Hall Auditorium: Organizers: Akimat of Astana city 500 people

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May 4 Seminar 14:00-18:00 “COMPETITIVENESS QUESTIONS” Picture Gallery 1 Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 200 people World Economic Forum 14:00-14:10 Moderator: (to be confirmed) 14:10-14:30 Presentation: Margareta Hanouz, Director, Senior Economist, Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance, World Economic Forum “Central Asia’s competitiveness in an international context” 14:30-15:00 LUNCH 15:00-15:45 Discussion “Strategies for improving Central Asia’s competitiveness” 22

15:45-16:15 Discussion “Scenarios of Central Asia’s competitiveness future” 16:15-17:00 COFEE-BREAK 17:00-17:45 Discussion “Central Asia 2025: An economic powerhouse” 17:45-18:00 Presentations of groups 14:00-14:10 Summary

May 4 09:30-18:00 YOUTH CONFERENCE ENU named after Gumilev Auditorium: Organizers: Eurasian National University named after 120 people L.Gumilev Moderator: 09:30-09:35 Bakhytzhan Abdraim, Rector, Eurasian National University named after L.Gumilev Welcome speech: 09:35-09:45 Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan 09:45-09:55 John Nash, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics ”for the analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”, 1994, USA 09:55-10:05 Roger Kornberg, Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry "for the studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA", 2006, Professor of Stanford University, Co-chairman of the Skolkovo innovation center, USA Speakers: 10:05-10:15 Nuraly Bekturganov, Chairman of the Board, “National Science and Technology Holding “Parasat” JSC, Republic of Kazakhstan 10:15-10:25 Gulmira Abdirayimova, Head Department of the sociology and social work, Kazakh State University named after Al-Farabi, Sociology doctor, Professor, Chairman of the young scientists Association 10:30-13:00 Section 1: New financial World model as viewed by young people 10:30-13:00 Section 2: Customs Union: looking into the future 10:30-13:00 Section 3: Establishment of innovation corporation: youth business plan 13:00-14:00 Lunch 23

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May 4 DIALOGUE OF LEADERS 18:10-18:00 AND MAESTRO’S ADVICE Oval Hall Briefing Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 300 people “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association Moderator: 18:10-18:17 , Aide to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Coordination Council Chairman of the “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association Expert Group: Robert Mundell, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics “for the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”, 1999, Canada Norio Sasaki, President and CEO, Toshiba Corporation John Nash, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economicsfor ”the analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”, USA Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, 2005 “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis” Domingo Cavallo, Chairman of DFC Associates LLC, Former Chairman of the Central Bank of Argentina, Former Minister of Economy of Argentina Finn Kydland, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, 2004 "for the contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, 2007, “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”, USA James Mirlees, Sir, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, 1996, "for the fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information", UK Roger Kornberg, Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry "for the studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA", 2006, Professor of Stanford University, Co-chairman of the Skolkovo innovation

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center, USA Richard Cooper, Professor of Economics, Harvard University Key Speakers: 18:17-18:23 Asset Isekeshev, Deputy Prime-Minister, Minister of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Questions to maestros 18:23-18:27 Interactive discussion Format: question-answer, possible divergence of theory from practice, arguments and advice of maestro’s (different views) 18:27-18:33 Zhanar Aitzhanova, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Questions to maestros 18:33-18:37 Interactive discussion 18:37-18:43 Gulshara Abdykalikova, Minister of Labor and Social Protection of population of the RK, Achievements of Kazakhstan in this sphere. Questions to maestros 18:43-18:47 Interactive discussion 18:47-18:53 Peter Van Loan, Minister of International Trade of Canada. Questions to maestros 18:53-18:57 Interactive discussion 18:57-19:00 Discussion Summary

May 4 CLOSING CEREMONY 19:00-20:00 The Great Hall Auditorium: Organizers: Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1500 people “Economic Research Institute” JSC, “Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists” Association 19:00-19:05 Moderator: John Kirton, Director, G20 Research Center, University of Toronto Astana consensus: Recommendations for the G-20 Speakers: 19:05-19:10 , Prime-Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan (to be confirmed) 19:10-19:15 Ján Kubiš, Under - Secretary-General, United Nations (UN), Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE) 25

19:15-19:20 Carlos Westendorp, Secretary General, Club de Madrid; Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain 19:20-19:25 Tair Mansurov, Secretary General, Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) 19:25-19:30 Marc Uzan, Executive Director, Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (to be confirmed) 19:30-19:35 Daniel Schwanen, Special Advisor, Centre for International Governance Innovation 19:35-20:00 Conclusion

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