PARTICIPANTS 3 - - - Kazakhstan Madina Abylkassymova Vice Minister of Economy and Budget Planning of Economy and Budget Vice Minister In September 2011 she was appointed Deputy Minister of Economy and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In September 2011 she was appointed Deputy Since March 2008 she worked as Deputy Director of the Center for Strategic Studies and Analysis of the Presidential Ad Center for Strategic Studies and Analysis of the Presidential of the 2008 she worked as Deputy Director Since March ministration. In February 2006 she was appointed Deputy Head of the Socio-Economic Department of the Office of the Prime Minister of of the Socio-Economic Department of the Office Head In February 2006 she was appointed Deputy the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 2004 to 2006 worked as the Director of the Department of Public Policy Analysis of JSC “Center for Marketing and of the Department to 2006 worked as the Director 2004 From Analytical Research”. From 1999 to 2003 worked at the Agency for Strategic Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan, at the Ministry of Economy to 2003 worked at the Agency for Strategic Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1999 From and Budget Planning. national Economic Relations”. In 2002 she graduated from Columbia University with a Master’s degree in International Rela degree with a Master’s Columbia University In 2002 she graduated from national Economic Relations”. Kennedy School of Government, J.F. of Economic Policy”. She also graduated from tions with specialization in “Management as MA in Public Administration. University Harvard Madina Abylkasymova was born in 1978. Graduate from the Kazakh State Academy of Management with a degree in “Inter a degree State Academy of Management with the Kazakh was bornMadina Abylkasymova from in 1978. Graduate 4 PARTICIPANTS journalistic, andliterarypublications,haswrittenmorejournalistic, than500piecesofmusic. holds aDoctorateinEconomics.HehasalsotrainedtheUnitedStatesandSouthKorea. Hehasmore than500scientific, Russian AcademyofNationalEconomy, andtheKingstonBusinessSchool(UK),receiving honorsfrom eachinstitution.He He hasstudiedatMoscowStateUniversity, theInstituteofWorldRelationsUSSR, EconomyandInternational with theRussianChamberofAccountsandPublicChamber. Executive Committee. He also consults with the Russian Ministries of EmergencySituations, Education, andCulture, along Public CounciloftheChairmanMilitary-IndustrialCommission,ExpertCouncilsUnionState,andCIS President’s EconomicIntegration;”theRussian Economic Council,specializinginthefieldof“DevelopmentInternational He isapartoftheCoordination Councilonforecasting oftheRussianAcademySciences;workinggroup ofthe Sciences, theEuropean AcademyofNaturalSciences,theWriters’ Union ofRussia,andtheRussianUnionJournalists. two magazines:“EconomicStrategy”and“PartnershipofCivilizations.”HeisamembertheRussianAcademyNatural Nuclear University, and director general of the Pitirim Sorokin/Nikolai KondratieffInstitute. He is Chief Editor of International He isalsoPresident AcademyforFuture oftheInternational Studies,headofthebusinessfacultyNationalResearch Mr. Ageeviscurrently theDirector GeneraloftheInstituteEconomicStrategiesatRussianAcademySciences. Sciences, RussianAcademyofSciences Director General,InstituteofEconomic Strategies, DepartmentofSocial Alexander Ageev Russia PARTICIPANTS 5 -

United States Theodore Ahlers Theodore Economist; Former Director, Strategy and Director, Economist; Former Operations for the ECA Region, World Bank the ECA Region, World Operations for versity, Fletcher School. versity, sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last 25 years, he held numerous economist and senior management positions at the World at the World and senior management positions economist Over the last 25 years, he held numerous sub-Saharan Africa. (2002- Director Department & Central Asia (2007-12), Maghreb for Europe Director Bank, including Strategy and Operations Uni Tufts Economics from for Africa (2000-02). He holds a PhD in Development 07), and Strategy and Operations Director Theodore Ahlers is an economist with extensive experience in Europe & Central Asia, the Middle East & North Africa, and Asia, the Middle East & North Africa, & Central with extensive experience in Europe Ahlers is an economist Theodore 6 PARTICIPANTS Centre oftheRepublicKazakhstansinceJune2012. oftheGovernment to theDeputyPrimeMinisterofRepublicKazakhstan.ShehasbeenChairpersonatNationalAnalytical Synergy, RelationsandGeopoliticalResearches International institute,andStatisticsAgency. Shehasservedasanadvisor sectors. Amongthemareis fluentinEnglishandItalian.Ms.Aitzhanovahasservedboththeprivategovernment LLC novation, entrepreneurship policies review, long-termstrategicplanning,economicresearch She andcorporategovernance. completed studiesinPoliticalScienceattheUniversitàCattolicadelSacro Cuore inItaly. Hermainareas ofexpertiseare in ManagementwithspecializationinentrepreneurshipKingdom, sheholdsMScinInternational andinnovation.Shehasalso in1985.AgraduateoftheEurasianNationalUniversityandExeter UniversityintheUnited Aktoty Aitzhanovawasborn Aktoty Aitzhanova National AnalyticalCenter Deputy CEO, Kazakhstan - PARTICIPANTS 7 Kazakhstan World Bank World Sebnem Akkaya Sebnem Country Manager for Kazakhstan, Country Manager Bilkent and Middle East Technical Universities in Turkey. Bilkent and Middle East Technical Economic Social Research and Training Center based in Ankara, Turkey. Ankara, Turkey. Center based in and Training Economic Social Research University and studied for PhD in Economics in Middle East Technical from in Economics Degree Sebnem holds a Master’s growth and poverty, trade, public finance, and provision of social services. trade, public finance, and provision poverty, and growth Statistical, the at career her of years in the early a researcher as served Akkaya Ms. in 1989, Bank World the joining Before Group of Europe and Central Asia region. and Central Asia region. Europe of Group economic on including of issues, variety on has written and formulation policy economic in extensive experience has She Sebnem took up the position in mid-2010, after serving as a Lead Economist for several Mashreg countries in the Social after serving as a Lead Economist for several Mashreg Sebnem took up the position in mid-2010, during 2006-2010. Prior to this, her work of Middle East and North Africa (MNA) region and Economic Development Group Balkans and Central Asia in Poverty Reduction and Economic Management focused on transition economies in the Western reform agenda for the country, including managing the delivery of the Joint Economic Research Program, and overseeing the Program, Economic Research managing the delivery of the Joint including agenda for the country, reform quality and delivery of the work program. Sebnem Akkaya is World Bank’s Country Manager for the Republic of Kazakhstan, providing leadership on the overall policy overall the on leadership providing Kazakhstan, of Republic the for Manager Country Bank’s World is Akkaya Sebnem 8 PARTICIPANTS Deputy ManagerofKazakhstanrailstation,cashier, stationoperatoronduty:1989–1993 Deputy Director ofTransportation DivisionofUralbranchWest-Kazakhstan railways:1993–1997 Road commercial inspectorofWest-Kazakhstan railways: 1997-1998 First DeputyDirector, Director ofAktobebranchCenterforFirmTransportation Service:1998– Director ofAktobetransportationbranch:1998–1999 Director ofKaztransservice(subsidiarycompanyKazakhstanRailways):1999–2002 Director oftheTransportation DepartmentatJSCKazmunaigazTrade Home:2003–2006 Private business:2006–2008 President ofKedentransservice,JSCin2008-2011 Work experience: Currently aPhDcandidateatRussianAcademyofCivilServicethePresident oftheRussianFederation tion inFinancialEconomics. In 2013graduatedwithhonorfrom theRussianAcademyofCivilServicePresident oftheRussianFederationwithspecializa Education: DiplomawithHonor, CandidateofSciences,AlmatyInstituteRailTransport, 1987-1992. Chairman, SupervisoryBoard of Talgat Aldybergenov “Kaspii” CommodityExchange Kazakhstan - PARTICIPANTS 9 - Georgia Alex Aleksishvili Former Minister of Finance Former Minister Chairman of the Board, Policy and Policy and the Board, Chairman of Management Consulting Group (PMCG); Consulting Group Management In April, 2011 Mr. Aleksishvili was elected as a First Vice of Georgia. Since Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce In April, 2011 Mr. (PMCG). at Policy and Management Consulting Group Board 2007, he has served as Chairman of the Mr. Aleksishvili was elected as a Chairman of UN Commission for Sustainable Development in 2005-2006. During his chair his During 2005-2006. in Development Sustainable for Commission UN of Chairman a as elected was Aleksishvili Mr. climate energy for sustainable development, in the areas: focused on progress manship, the 14th session of the UN CSD change, air pollution, and industrial development. was the highest in its history and exceeded 9 percent in each consecutive year (2005 - 9.6 percent, 2006 - 9.4 percent and 2006 - 9.4 percent percent, in each consecutive year (2005 - 9.6 9 percent was the highest in its history and exceeded 2007 - 12.3 percent). tax burden from 45 percent to 27 percent of GDP, while increasing tax compliance rate from 13 percent to 25 percent. In to 25 percent. 13 percent tax compliance rate from while increasing of GDP, to 27 percent 45 percent from tax burden in Georgia, policy reforms of comprehensive As a result one of the simplest tax systems in the region. addition, he introduced 2005 to 2007 rate from growth GDP USD in 2007. Georgia’s 250 million USD in 2004 to 2,100 million from FDI has increased place to 18th on the World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” index. “Ease of Bank’s place to 18th on the World 22 to 7 and reducing from the number of taxes reducing and Customs reforms, As Minister of Finance, he conducted Tax While working as Minister of Finance of Georgia, he successfully conducted a series of reforms in Public Finance, Tax and and Tax Finance, in Public reforms series of conducted a successfully he of Georgia, Finance of Minister as working While Bank’s ranked by the World and Liberalization. Georgia was Deregulation, Customs Policy and Administration, Economic 132nd from improved Georgia 2007, to 2004 From 2005-10. in country reformer #1 world’s the survey Business” “Doing official, responsible for budgetary and financial policy, tax and customs policy reform, simplification of doing business, and reform, simplification tax and customs policy financial policy, responsible for budgetary and official, the investment climate. improving Mr. Aleksishvili has 15 years of working experience in public finance and economic development as a high-level government and economic development as a high-level of working experience in public finance Aleksishvili has 15 years Mr. 10 PARTICIPANTS country firms in international valuechains;andenvironmentalcountry firmsininternational andnatural resource management. organizations, the privatesector,states, international markets;developing andcivilsociety;characteristicsofinternational national trade and the WTO; multilateral and regional economic agreements; the respective roles of, and interactions among, Asia. Hisareas ofinterest includetheprocess ofglobalization;inter ofdevelopmentinaglobalizedworldand thegovernance at theUnitedNations,hehasconductedresearch andimplementedprojects all around theworld,inparticularAfricaand He holdsaBAinEconomicsfrom DartmouthCollege,andaPhDfromBerkeley. theUniversityofCalifornia, Duringhistenure Least DevelopedCountries,heldinIstanbul2011. Research Centre (GIAM).HewastheTurkey’s nationalcoordinator onsubstantive issuesfortheFourthUNConference on politicaleconomy. andinternational governance HecontinuestoserveasanactivememberoftheUniversity’s Economic Economics atGalatasarayUniversity, Istanbul,teachingcoursesanddirecting research theses,mostlyrelated toglobal diversification andenvironmental issues.Between2007andmid-2013hewasProfessor Relationsand ofInternational trade,agricultural products,member andthenasHeadoftheCommoditiesBranch,coveringinternational naturalresources, 1972 to1982.Hespentthebulkofhiscareer attheUnitedNationsConference onTrade andDevelopment,firstasastaff He startedhiscareer asanAssistantProfessor ofEconomics attheFacultyofPoliticalSciences,AnkaraUniversity, from tions. assistance toLeastDevelopedCountries.HeactsasanadvisortheTurkish MinistryofForeign Affairs andtheUnitedNa Studies (EDAM)inIstanbul.HeisalsoafoundingmemberofSenDeGel,civilsocietyorganizationproviding development Since 2007,Mr. Arda hasbeenanExecutiveBoard Memberoftheprestigious Centre forEconomicsandForeign Policy MehmetArda Professor andMemberofExecutive Board, Centre forEconomicsand Foreign PolicyStudies(EDAM)

Turkey - - PARTICIPANTS 11 Russia Central Asia, ErnstCentral Asia, & Young Ksenia Babushkina Partner, Advisory Services Leader for Advisory Services Partner,

and implementation of regulatory compliance and internal controls programs (FCPA, UK Bribery act, SOX, etc) and anti-fraud (FCPA, compliance and internal programs controls and implementation of regulatory well as advising on risk and corporate governance. as regimes She specializes in managing co-sourcing and full outsourcing internal audit projects ranging from initial function set-up to day initial function internal ranging from audit projects and full outsourcing She specializes in managing co-sourcing for Internal quality assurance reviews audit functions oversight. She provides to day operational management and project of expertise include development other areas Ksenia’s communication and operational processes. and advises on improving Prior to joining EY, Ksenia had worked for over 8 years in Risk Practice of a global consultancy firm in Toronto, Canada. Toronto, consultancy firm in Ksenia had worked for over 8 years in Risk Practice of a global Prior to joining EY, in Risk Management, Internalin Risk Management, Audit and Corporate Governance and Compliance Services. Kazakhstan. 2012 and is based in Almaty, She joined EY in March Ksenia Babushkina leads EY’s Advisory Practice in Central Asia. She is Risk Compentency Leader for the region, specializing for the region, Asia. She is Risk Compentency Leader Advisory Practice in Central EY’s Ksenia Babushkina leads 12 PARTICIPANTS also provides strategicintelligenceandadvicetoinvestorsgoingbeyondusualchannelsofinformation. risk assessment, and analysis of regulatory andcommercial factorscrucialto investment decisions in the Caspianregion. Antares Antares StrategyLLCprovides uniqueexpertiseindeveloping tailored marketentrystrategiesforbusinesses,politicalandbusiness Relationsfrom Affairs,in International theElliottSchoolofGeorgeWashington University. She holdsaPh.D.inResource Economicsfrom theInstituteofEconomics,RussianAcademySciencesanda Master’s degree &Young,Ernst Enereco Spaandmanyothers. beni Energy, COSMOPetroleum Gas,theKubotaCorporation,PriceWaterhouse, BCEOM,TRACTABEL, LouisBergerInternational, the EU, the EBRD, theUNDP, JETRO, theJapan Association for Trade with Russia & NIS (ROTOBO), Nippon Petroleum Gas, Maru service,she workedasaprojectFollowing hergovernment leaderandanadviserforarangeofmajorinstitutionsfirms,including interstate tradeandenergycommissionsintheFormerSovietUnion. As along-timeofficial ofthe sheheldseveral Turkmenistan government, responsiblepositionsandservedonanumberofhighlevel Tokyo, andattheEuropean Research CenteroftheGeorgeWashington UniversityBusinessSchool. TradeShe servedasasenioradvisorattheInstituteofDevelopingEconomiesJapaneseExternal Organization(JETRO)in Universities. She isatwo-timeSeniorFulbrightScholarintheUnitedStates,atJohnsHopkins,GeorgeWashington, andthePenState Harvard andOxford Universities,andattheForeign ServiceInstituteoftheDepartmentState. Affairspean studiesattheElliottSchoolofInternational GeorgeWashington University. Shehasalsolectured atColombia, Dr. BadykovahastaughtcoursesonthegeopoliticsofEurasianenergy, contemporaryCentralAsia, andRussianEasterEuro ConsultingLLCandInfratransGroup.viser forIPInternational Caspian region. ShealsohasaBlanketPurchase Agreement asasenioreconomistwithUSAIDandservesenergyad She isExecutiveDirector oftheconsultingfirmAntares StrategyL.L.C.basedin Washington, DCwithlocal representation inthe relations.government Dr. Badykovahaslongprofessional experienceinareasenergy, ofinternational tradeandinvestment,businessintelligence Najia Badykova Antares StrategyLLC Executive Director, Turkmenistan - - - PARTICIPANTS 13 - - Armenia Former Minister of Finance Former Minister Chief Advisor, AVAG Solutions; Solutions; AVAG Chief Advisor, Levon Barkhudaryan Supervisory Board of Armimpexbank CJSC (2001-2008). Prior to that, he had worked for another 10 years in the Govern of Armimpexbank CJSC (2001-2008). Prior to that, he had worked for Supervisory Board Economy (1990-1993) and as a Minister of Finance (1993-1997 and 1999-2000). ment of Armenia as a Deputy Minister of enue Committee of the Republic of Armenia. enue Committee of the Vicethe the of of Chairman positions and the (2010-2011) held University he Economic State Armenian of Rector Previously, Levon Barkhudaryan is a chief advisor of the AVAG Solutions consultancy and an advisor to the Chairman of the State Rev Solutions consultancy and an advisor to is a chief advisor of the AVAG Levon Barkhudaryan 14 PARTICIPANTS and multilateral(UN)security-related (NATO) matters.ShespeaksFrench, English,German,andRussian. d’Administration in 1984.Throughout hersuccessive assignments she hasfocusedonEuropean Unionissues,CIScountries, Service. Shereceived herdegrees from l’Institutd’étudespolitiques(SciencesPo)inParis1979andl’EcoleNationale Mrs Bouchez served first at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then as a member of the European Action External Ambassador Aurélia BouchezhasbeenHeadoftheEUDelegationtoKazakhstansince2011.Forprevious twentyyears, Head, European UnionDelegationto Aurelia Bouchez Kazakhstan France PARTICIPANTS 15

Kazakhstan Yerbolat Dossayev Yerbolat Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Minister of Economy He is a graduate of the Almaty Energy Institute and the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. and the Bauman Moscow State Technical He is a graduate of the Almaty Energy Institute Kazakhstan. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Chairman of of Directors of the Board Kazakhstan. He has also served as a member and Deputy Chairman of JSC of Competition, Regulation and Protection the Agency on Regulation of Natural Monopolies Bank.” “BTA His financial background includes time spent as Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction of Development in Bank for Reconstruction includes time spent as Governor of the European His financial background and the Development Bank of Bank,” KazInvestBank, JSC “ATF of of Directors Kazakhstan and as Chairman of the Board Prior to this, he has held numerous minister-level positions, including Minister of Economic and Development and Trade, of Economic and Development and Trade, positions, including Minister minister-level held numerous Prior to this, he has He has also served as an advisor to the Prime Minister and ViceMinister of Health, and Minister of Finance. Minister of and Trade. Industry, Finance and of Energy, Mr. Dossayev has served as Minister of Economy and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan since January 2013. of the Republic of Kazakhstan since as Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Dossayev has served Mr. 16 PARTICIPANTS EU foreign andsecuritypolicies. 1996); SeniorResearch FellowattheLondonSchoolofEconomics,1996-1998.Numerous publicationsonEUintegration, 1996, includingpositionsofEconomicAdvisertothePresident (RoyJenkins),andofEUambassadortoMoscow(1991- bourhood policies. A graduate of Balliol College, Oxford. Career: OECD, Paris, 1966-1973; European Commission, 1973- British (1940),since1998isAssociateSeniorResearch FellowatCEPS,workingonEuropean foreign, securityandneigh Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Michael Emerson Policy Studies(CEPS) Belgium - PARTICIPANTS 17 Argentina Monetary Fund (IMF) Monetary Fund Jose Fajgenbaum Former Deputy Director, Western Western Director, Former Deputy Hemisphere Department, International Hemisphere National University of Cuyo, Licenciado en Economia, 1972 Education University of Chicago, completed studies for PhD in economics, 1979 University of Chicago, MA in economics, 1978 National University of Cuyo, Argentina Economics Department, 1972–1976 and Professor, Researcher World Bank World in the Economic Development Institute, 1981 Economist/lecturer Assistant and Advisor to an Executive Director, 1979–1980 Assistant and Advisor to an Executive Director, Deputy Division Chief, Exchange and Trade Relations Department, 1987–1988 Deputy Division Chief, Exchange and Trade Division Chief, WHD, 1982–1986 Economist, Senior Economist, and Deputy Advisor, Division Chief and Assistant Director, WHD, 1989–1995 Division Chief and Assistant Director, Advisor, Deputy Director, European Department, 2003–2004 European Deputy Director, African Department, 1995–2002 and Deputy Director, Assistant Director Deputy Director, Western Hemisphere Department (WHD), 2004–2009 Western Hemisphere Deputy Director, to surveillance countries, such as Brazil, Israel, Russia, and South Africa, as well as to countries with economic programs Israel, Russia, and South Africa, as well as to countries with economic programs to surveillance countries, such as Brazil, and the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Malawi, Peru, and Trinidad such as Brazil (early 1990s), supported by the IMF, Tobago. International Monetary Fund included leading missions Key roles economist to Deputy Director. from Served at the IMF for some 30 years, progressing Employment 18 PARTICIPANTS June 1981GeneralUniversityMaturity, Helene-Lange-GymnasiumFürth(HighSchool) inprofessional Nachrichten 1981 -1983Journalist training,Nürnberger Nachrichten(Nuremberg Nürnberger News),Nuremberg,1983 -1984Journalist, Germany 1985 Freelance intheUSA journalist 1985 -1987Undergraduatestudent,UniversityofBamberg,Germany, History, Philosophy, SlavonicStudies Ages 1987 - 1989 Graduate student, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, East European History, Philosophy, History of the Middle Comparison”, received the1991 Award oftheGermanSocietyforEastEuropean Studies phy, M.A.thesis: “Total War andTotalitarian System.TheSovietUnionandtheThird ReichinWorld War II.ASociohistoric June 1989 Master’s degree (Magister Artium), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, EastEuropean History, Philoso 1990 Research studies,Centre ofRussianandEastEuropean Studies,BirminghamUniversity, UK search inMoscow, SovietUnion/RussianFederation 1991 Research scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),assigned to theAcademyofSciences for re State ofBavaria,Germany 1989 - 1992 PhD studies on Soviet history and economics; supported by a scholarship for post-graduate studies of the Free 1992 -1993Attachée,DiplomaticAcademyoftheFederalForeign Office, Bonn 1993 -1995PoliticalandPress Officer, GermanEmbassyAlmaty, Kazakhstan 1927 -1933”,publishedbyDuncker&Humblot,Germany, 1995 entitled “TheSovietUnionduringtheGreat Depression. Foreign Trade, Foreign EconomicRelationsandIndustrialization, January 1995Dr. phil.,UniversityofErlangen-Nuremberg, EastEuropean History, Economics,Philosophy;PhDdissertation 1995 -1996MasterofPublicAdministration(MPA), Harvard KennedySchoolofGovernment, University, USA Republic ofGermanytotheUnitedNations 1996 -2000PoliticalOfficer, mainly responsible fortheThird CommitteeoftheGeneralAssembly, Mission oftheFederal 1998 -2000ChairpersonoftheUnitedNationsCommissiononStatusWomen Session oftheGeneralAssembly“Women 2000” of theCommission on theStatusofWomen1999 –2000Vice-Chairperson acting asPreparatory Committee fortheSpecial 2000 –2002PoliticalOfficer, ParliamentandCabinetDivision,PoliticalStaff oftheFederalForeign Office, Berlin 2002 –2006Director, ParliamentandCabinetDivision,PoliticalStaff oftheFederalForeign Office, Berlin 2006 –2010AmbassadoroftheFederalRepublicGermanytoGeorgia,Tbilisi public ofGermany, Berlin 2010 -2012Ambassador, Europe, SpecialEnvoyforEastern Caucasus andCentralAsia,Foreign Office oftheFederalRe July 2012-European UnionSpecialRepresentative forCentralAsia, Brussels European UnionSpecialRepresentative Patricia Flor for CentralAsia Belgium - - - PARTICIPANTS 19 - Uzbekistan Independent Expert Independent Bahodir Ganiev Bahodir Mr. Ganiev has authored or contributed to a number of publications on regional economic cooperation and integration in economic cooperation publications on regional or contributed to a number of has authored Ganiev Mr. in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and Southeast Asia. Central Asia and on economic developments Prior to joining the ADB, Mr. Ganiev worked as a staff member and consultant for the resident missions of the World Bank of the World missions member and consultant for the resident Ganiev worked as a staff Prior to joining the ADB, Mr. State University. and the Internationalat Tashkent Monetary Fund in Uzbekistan and taught economics From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Ganiev worked for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as an economist. He was the team leader Ganiev worked for the Asian to 2010, Mr. 2002 From and poverty in Central cooperation in trade, transport and transit, remittances for the ADB studies on Central Asian regional and Vietnam. country economist for Azerbaijan as ADB’s Asia and the South Caucasus. He also served Tashkent State University of Economics (Uzbekistan). He teaches economics at Westminster International University in Tash He teaches economics at Westminster University of Economics (Uzbekistan). State Tashkent kent and works as an consultant on international economic issues. Mr. Ganiev holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University (USA) and a Ph.D. in Economics from (USA) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in International from degree Affairs Ganiev holds a master’s Mr. 20 PARTICIPANTS Mr. Gerhaeusser holdsaPh.D.inEconomicsandpost-graduatedegree inBusinessAdministration. team workingonArgentinaduringthe1994–1995debtcrisis. nomic andstructuralpolicyissuesintheMiddleEastWestern Hemisphere Departments,andwaspartoftheIMF’s Taipei,China. PriortoADB,Mr. MonetaryFundinWashington GerhaeusserworkedattheInternational DConmacroeco in thePeople’s RepublicofChinaandMongolia,aswellADBrelations withHongKong,China,RepublicofKorea, and ment Department;andpreviously, asDirector GeneraloftheEastAsiaDepartment, withresponsibility forADBoperations FinanceandTradetor forGovernance, inSouthAsia;DeputyDirector GeneraloftheRegionalandSustainableDevelop Mr. Gerhaeusser hasbeenworkingforADBsince1996invariouscapacitiesincludingasSeniorEconomistIndia;Direc rigation infrastructure, energy, urbanservicesandfinancialsector, andfinancial management reforms. Republic, Pakistan,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, andUzbekistan.Thesectororindustryworkrevolves around transportandir The departmentoperatesandhasoffices in10countries:Afghanistan,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Georgia,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyz public managementandfinancialsector;portfoliosafeguards. operation andstrategic/economicresearch; transportand logistics; energy;environment, naturalresources andagriculture; ness plan, as welltheday-to-daymanagement of operations in sevendivisions/units.Theyare responsible forregional co assumed office inApril2012.Mr. Gerhaeusseroverseesthedefinitionandexecutionofdepartmentalstrategybusi Klaus GerhaeusseristheDirector GeneralofCentralandWest AsiaDepartment oftheAsianDevelopmentBank(ADB).He Department, AsianDevelopmentBank(ADB) Director General,CentralandWest Asia Klaus Gerhaeusser Philippines ------PARTICIPANTS 21

Austria Alfred Gusenbauer Alfred Former Federal Chancellor of Austria Former Federal Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria since April 29th 2000 Jan 2007 to Dec 2008 Chancellor of Austria from Leader of the Social Democratic Group in the Austrian Parliament since February 2000 Leader of the Social Democratic Group Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Austria from November 1999 till February 2000 General of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Austria from Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party of Austria in February 2000 Secretary Chairman of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe 1995 - 1998 Committee of the Council of Europe Affairs Chairman of the Social, Health and Family Chairman of the Committee for development cooperation of the Austrian Parliament 1996 - 1999 Chairman of the Committee for development since 1991 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Member of the Austrian Delegation to the Member of the Austrian Parliament since March 1991 March Member of the Austrian Parliament since Senior research fellow in the economic policy department of the chamber of labour from 1990 – 1999 the chamber of labour from fellow in the economic policy department of Senior research in the district Melk (Lower Austria) since 1990 Chairman of the Social Democratic Party Vice president of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) from 1985 till 1989 (IUSY) from of the InternationalVice Union of Socialist Youth president From January 1981 till September 1990 was executive secretary for Youth of the Social Democratic Party of Austria of the Social Democratic Party for Youth 1981 till September 1990 was executive secretary January From 1984 to 1990 (SJ) from Federal Chairman of the Socialist Youth Studied political science, philosophy and law at the University of Vienna (Dr. phil. 1987) law at the University of ViennaStudied political science, philosophy and (Dr. Born (Lower Austria) on February 8th, 1960 in St. Pölten 22 PARTICIPANTS Development standardinternational for shopfitting and was translated into Russian with the title rean, andRussiantongue.TheChineseversionisunderpreparation. Hisbook“EuroShop” (German/English)becamean intertwine betweencommerce andculture. Hisbook“Culture andHistoryofCommerce” ispublishedintheGerman,Ko His publicationscoverthemesofmacro-economics aswellamicro-economics especiallyintrade,buthealso coversthe public ofMoldovaawarded Prof.Dr.Hallier thetitle“HonoraryMember oftheMoldavianAcademicCooperativeCommunity”. YearIn 2012withintheframeworkofInternational ofCooperativesdeclared bytheGeneralAssemblyofUN-Re attended bytheNobelLaureates Prof.Dr. AumannandProf. Dr. Maskin. Economic Youth Forum.In2012itwaslabelledattheAstanaConference intotheIWorld EconomicYouth Forum-being In 2011Mr. Hallier wasawarded withthe“StarofEurasia”andtitle“HonoraryAmbassadorPeace”byEurasian Laureats JohnNash(1994), SirJamesA.Mirrless(1996)andasaNobelLaureat (2006) forChemistryRogerD.Kornberg Dr. R.A.Mundell (1999),Prof. Dr. F. E.Kydland(2004)and Prof. Dr. R.Y. Aumann(2005)andadditionallyin2011theNobel ofEconomics:Prof.tana EconomicForuminKazakhstan.Amongitsspeakers2010hadbeenthree NobelPrizeWinners tists. Thisorganizationwasestablishedin2008bythepresident ofKazakhstanN.NazarbayevandisbackingtheannualAs In Kazakhstan in 2010 Mr. Hallier was appointed as a member of the Association of the Eurasian Economic Club of Scien Beside hisactivitiesinPraguehehadalsosupportedBudweisUniversityasavisitingprofessor from 2006-2009. he traveledandlectured inallcontinents oftheworld. experience due totraineeshipsinTurkeyduring hisstudies he gainedinternational ,Israel,SouthAfrica,Japan,China.Later man Trade Institute (DHI)andthenin1993intotheEuropean Trade Institute(EHI)todaylabeledasEHIRetailInstitute.Already In 1985hebecameheadoftheInstituteforSelf-Service(ISB)inCologne/Germanywhichfirsttransformedinto Ger 1979 and1982(Hallier, B.,OrganisationundMarktstrategieimTabakwarenfachgroßhandel, Göttingen,1983). cigarette-sales viavendingmachines(includedinhisthesis)couldbeseenasafirstECR-project appliedalready between tech-innovation inwholesale/retail versustherelationship betweentradeandconsumer-products industry. His analysisof cigarette company. Duringthattimeadditionallyasapart-timestudenthewrote hisPhDthesisabouttheresponse tohigh- He thenworkedindistributionwhere hebecameassistanttotheBoard andKey-account-managerofaninternational degree inEconomics. Hallier,Bernd atJuly28,1947inHamburg,Germany. born HestudiedatHamburgUniversityandgraduatedwithaMA President, European RetailAcademy;Director- . General, European Commerce Institute Bernd Hallier Bernd Germany

Modern Stores: a History of Technical a History Stores: Modern - - - - - PARTICIPANTS 23 - - - Austria Peter Havlik International Economic Studies Staff Economist, Vienna Institute for Economist, Vienna Staff . Hermine Vidovic), 2012, Vienna, “Economic Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe: Any Lessons for the Arab Spring?”, in Central and Eastern Europe: Hermine Vidovic), 2012, Vienna, Transitions “Economic 2013, Tokyo. tiveness and cooperation” (2009, Brussels, EU DG Enterprise, together with W. Urban), “European energy security in view energy security Urban), “European W. together with Enterprise, (2009, Brussels, EU DG tiveness and cooperation” Opportunities and Challenges – Neighbourhood Vienna),(2010, “European prospects” integration and economic Russian of and Stöllinger Roman Richter, Sándor Mara, Isilda Hunya, Gabor Holzner, Mario Astrov, Vasily (with Competitiveness” EU for Among his recent publications are “Economic Restructuring and Integration in Eastern (Nomos, Baden Baden, “Economic Restructuring Europe” publications are Among his recent competi Havrylyshyn), “EU and BRICs: Challenges and opportunities for European 2008, together with R. Grinberg and O. OECD, the World Bank, the European Commission, the Czech and Slovak governments Commission, the and a number of private compa Bank, the European OECD, the World chief economist at the Russian- and the University in Tokyo at the Hitotsubashi a visiting professor nies. He was previously in Moscow. TACIS) Center for Economic Policy (RECEP, European held the position of Deputy Director at WIIW for more than 20 years. He currently serves as the Staff Economist at WIIW and serves as the Staff 20 years. He currently than at WIIW for more held the position of Deputy Director and Eurasian to European on issues related focuses research scholar at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria. His as a guest research developments in Former Soviet Union. Peter Havlik has also consulted with the integration, competitiveness, and economic and sociology in Prague, Moscow and Vienna. He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Sociology, part of the Czechoslo at the Institute of Sociology, Moscow and Vienna.and sociology in Prague, as a researcher He worked post-graduate studies at the Institute for Advanced completed to Austria in 1980, he After moving vak Academy of Sciences. at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW). He Studies in Vienna and started to work as a researcher Peter Havlik was bornwas Havlik Peter sciences computer statistics, economic economics, studied He 1950. in Czechoslovakia, Prague, in 24 PARTICIPANTS University ofBasle. a memberoftheBasleBusinessCycleResearch Group (BAK). Mr. Hermannreceived adoctorate ineconomicsfrom the Mr. HermannwasavisitingscholarattheFederalReserveBankofSt.Louis.PriortojoiningSwissNationalhe sistance. Heservedinseveralgroups Settlements(BIS). attheBankforInternational Werner HermannisaDirector oftheSwissNationalBank.Currently Research heisHeadofInternational andTechnical As Director, SwissNational Bank Werner Hermann Switzerland - PARTICIPANTS 25

China Biliang Hu President, Emerging Markets & Emerging President, International Development Institute He received his Doctorate of Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Witten/Herdecke the School University in his Doctorate of Economics from He received Kennedy School. His main academic at Harvard program and he conducted a two and half year post-doc research Germany, analysis. and Chinese macroeconomic development economics, institutional economics are interests twice won the Sun Yefang Economic Prize which is the highest economics research award in China. He also won Zhang in China. He also award highest economics research is the Economic Prize which Yefang the Sun twice won in 2009. Peigang Development Economics Award His latest publications include Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) Routledge, York: New and (London China in Development Rural and Institutions Informal include publications latest His 2007). His works Panich Press, (Bangkok: Thai Watana Model Chayanov’s and A Village Economy in Central Thailand: Testing representative of the company in Beijing for four years. Before his investment bank experience, he worked with the World World the with worked he experience, bank investment his Before years. four for Beijing in company the of representative taught Economics of Development in the Chinese Academy of years. He also as an economist for three Bank Beijing Office Social Sciences for some years. a Professor of Economics at Beijing Normal University and the Dean of School of Economics and Resource Management Management School of Economics and Resource Normal University and the Dean of of Economics at Beijing a Professor company – outsourcing IT offshore a Delaware-based he co-founded his professorship, of the University in China. Before he was the chief China economist of SG Securities Asia, as well as the chief that, Inc.; before DoubleBridge Technologies Biliang Hu is the President of the Emerging Markets and International Development Institute in China. Previously he was the Emerging Markets and International of Previously Development Institute in China. Biliang Hu is the President 26 PARTICIPANTS graduate oftheExecutiveDevelopment Program jointlysponsored byHarvard, Stanford UniversitiesandINSEAD. Economics from BostonUniversityreceivingStudentAward International foroutstandingacademicachievement.Heisa Dr. Husainreceived Collegeandwasatthetop ofhisclassandPh.Din hisM.A.inDevelopmentEconomicsfrom Williams appointed bythePresident ofPakistanin2003. and Mahbub-ul-Haq Centre for Human Development. He was a member of the Steering Committee on Higher Education versity, the Senate of Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Board National School of Public Policy of Governors, is alsotheChairman,HECSocialSciencesCouncil.Hecurrently servingontheBoard ofTrustees oftheAgaKhanUni Dr. HusainisHigherEducationCommission’s (HEC)Distinguished NationalProfessor of EconomicsandPublicPolicy World Bank,IMF, UNagencies,research institutions,thinktanks.Hehassofarattended100such events. Conferences/chairperson atInternational Seminars/Workshops indifferent partsofthe World heldundertheauspicesof Press are widelyread inandoutsidePakistan.Heisregularly invitedasaspeaker, resource person,discussant,panelistor The Economyofanelitiststate”and“EconomicManagementinPakistan:1999–2002”publishedbytheOxford University books, contributorof15chaptersineditedbooksandmore than25referred articles.Two journal ofhisbooks“Pakistan: Dr. Husainhas maintainedanactivescholarlyinterest indevelopmentandglobalizationissues.Heistheauthorofadozen ofSindhuntil1979. Government policy makingpositionsinBangladesh(thenEastPakistan)andtheFinance,PlanningDevelopingDepartments Dr. IshratHusain wasselectedtotheeliteCivilServiceofPakistanin1964andservedfieldalsoheldmid-level national FinanceandResidentRepresentative, Nigeria. Department; ChiefEconomist,EastAsiaandPacificRegion;AfricaRegion.DivisionChief,DebtInter the positionsheoccupiedatBankwere CountryDirector forCentralAsianRepublics;Director, PovertyandSocialPolicy For overtwodecades,between1979–1999,heservedinvariouscapacitiesattheWorld BankinWashington DC.Among achievement award in2006. of London declared of the year for Asia in 2005. He received him as the Central Bank Governor the Asian Banker Lifetime vices hewasconferred the prestigious award of“Hilal-e-Imtiaz”bythePresident ofPakistanin2003.TheBankerMagazine recognized by the World BankandIMFtobe among thebest in developingcountries.Inrecognition ofhis meritorious ser mented amajor program ofrestructuring ofthe Central Bankandsteered thereforms of thebankingsector, whichare now Dr. ofPakistan’s IshratHusainbecametheGovernor CentralBankinDecember, 1999.Duringthenextsixyears,heimple policies. a comprehensive report onthere-organization oftheGovernment’s structure, processes andhumanresource management (NCGR) inthePrimeMinisterSecretariat atIslamabad,withthestatusofFederalMinister. Inthatcapacityhecompleted 2008. Immediatelybefore thathehadbeenholdingtheoffice Reforms ofChairman,NationalCommissionforGovernment Dr. IshratHusaintookoverastheDeanandDirector oftheInstituteBusinessAdministration(IBA),KarachionMarch 12, Administration; FormerGovernor, Director, Instituteof Business State BankofPakistan Ishrat Husain Pakistan - - - - PARTICIPANTS 27 - - Kazakhstan Development Fund Development Lyazzat Ibragimova Lyazzat Chairperson, Damu Entrepreneurship Damu Entrepreneurship Chairperson, port of small and medium enterprises, publishing more than 30 scientific publications and 3 training manuals. Independent than 30 scientific publications and more port of small and medium enterprises, publishing Holding “Kasipkor” JSC. of the non-profit of Directors Member of the Board Director, and Corporate Development of the Entrepreneurship Development Fund “Damu” JSC. Since January 2009, she has worked has she 2009, January Since JSC. “Damu” Fund Development Entrepreneurship the of Development Corporate and on Management of Financial Institutions within the Directorate of Special Programs, as the Chief Manager of the Department sup state of 2003, she has studied the effectiveness Since JSC. Samruk-Kazyna” the “NWF of Institutions Development and She began her career in 1995 as a professor in the Economics Faculty of the Gumilev Eurasian State University. In 2004 she Faculty of the Gumilev Eurasian State University. in the Economics in 1995 as a professor She began her career in Kazakhstan. From Programme with the UN Development development projects worked as a National Expert on economic and Consulting, the Departments of Analysis and Strategy Development, Training August 2004 to January 2009, she headed April 2011. In 1994, she graduated from the Akmola Agricultural Institute with honors, majoring in Economics and Manage and Economics in majoring honors, with Institute Agricultural Akmola the from graduated she 1994, In 2011. April graduate work at the Eurasian Humanitarian Institute. In 2003, she completed ment and focusing on agro-industry. Lyazzat Ibragimova has served as Chairwoman of the Board of the “Entrepreneurship Development Fund “Damu” JSC since of the “Entrepreneurship has served as Chairwoman of the Board Ibragimova Lyazzat 28 PARTICIPANTS Diplomatic rank–AmbassadorExtraordinary andPlenipotentiary of theRepublicKazakhstan”JubileeMedal. Republic ofKazakhstan”Medal,“10Year AnniversaryofAstana”JubileeMedaland“20Years AnniversaryofIndependence Medal, “Astana”Jubilee“10yearsoftheConstitutionKazakhstan”Parliament Decorated withthe“Kurmet”and“Parasat”Orders, “10yearsofIndependencetheRepublicKazakhstan”Jubilee On September28,2012wasappointedMinisterofForeign Affairs oftheRepublicKazakhstan. America withconcurrent accreditation totheFederalRepublicofBrazil. Since July2007–Extraordinary andPlenipotentiaryAmbassadoroftheRepublicKazakhstantoUnitedStates Kingdom ofSweden,TheNorwayandtheRepublicIreland. of Great Ireland, BritainandNorthern Extraordinary andPlenipotentiaryAmbassadoroftheRepublicKazakhstanto Since June2002–Extraordinary andPlenipotentiaryAmbassadoroftheRepublicKazakhstantoUnitedKingdom of Kazakhstan. Foreign Affairs ofForeign oftheRepublicKazakhstan,FirstVice-Minister Affairs, MinisterofForeign Affairs oftheRepublic Foreign Affairs oftheRepublicKazakhstan,AssistantPresident oftheRepublic ofKazakhstan,FirstDeputyMinister partment ofAmericatheMinistryForeign Affairs oftheRepublicKazakhstan,Ambassador-at-large oftheMinistry Mr. Idrissovhasheldpostsof1stSecretary ofPermanentMissiontheRepublicKazakhstantoUN,HeadDe eign EconomicRelationsbranchesoftheMinistryForeign Affairs ofthe RepublicofKazakhstan. Has beenondiplomaticservicesinceJuly1985inConsularService,Protocol andPolitical,Press andInformationFor Speaks English,Hindi,Urdu, French languages. tions), DiplomaticAcademyoftheMinistryForeign Affairs ofUSSR(historyforeignrelations). politicsandinternational economicrela onApril28,1959,graduatedfrom Relations(International Born the Moscow StateInstituteofInternational Minister ofForeign Affairs Erlan Idrissov Kazakhstan - - - PARTICIPANTS 29 Kazakhstan Studies “Strategy” Gulmira Ileuova Gulmira President, Center for Social and Political Center for President, Republic of Kazakhstan, Center for Communication Technologies “Reputation”. Technologies Republic of Kazakhstan, Center for Communication on social and political agenda. based on sociological projects research of her activity – scientific The main sphere Previously worked as a teacher in tertiary education, in the Ministry of Information and Public Accord of the Republic of Public Accord worked as a teacher in tertiary education, in the Ministry of Information and Previously of the Studies of the President Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Research, Kazakhstan, Central Asian Agency for Political degree of science with thesis “Social Aspects of Formation and Development of Political Elite of Kazakhstan” (1997). of Political Elite of Kazakhstan” “Social Aspects of Formation and Development of science with thesis degree of the Center for Social and Political Studies “Strategy”. – President 2011 till present June From Born in 1967. Graduated from Department of Philosophy of Saint Petersburg State University as a sociologist. Obtained her Petersburg State University as a sociologist. Department of Philosophy of Saint Born Graduated from in 1967. 30 PARTICIPANTS Democracy vs. Modernization: ADilemma forRussiaandtheWorldDemocracy vs.Modernization: ,waspublished byRoutledgeinJune,2012. as Profile, Vedomosti, NezavissimayaGazeta,and BusinessWeek (Russia)from 2004to2009.Hismost recent volume, et del’Unioneuropéenne andEuropean EnergyReview).Hewasaregular columnistinRussian weeklymagazinessuch LeDebat),Germany, Courrierinternational, internationale, (RevueduMarché Holland,andsomeEU-widejournals commun theUS(NationalInterestin Russia(allmajoracademicjournals), andForeign Policy),theUK(Prospect), France(Politique Since 1991hehasauthored 14 books, translatedintoEnglish,French andChinese,more than 250articlespublished Advisory Board andregularly contributingtoitfinancially. Serguei KaraganovandFyodorLukianov)theRussiainGlobalAffairs servingthere journal, astheChiefofScientific monthly presenting different viewsonecological,culturalandpoliticalissues.In2002,heorganized (togetherwithMrssrs. Krugman, andmore were publishedbytheCentre. From 2003to2011,theCentre publishedtheSvobodnayaMysl,a 20 volumesbyDanielBell,UlrichBeck,HenryKissinger, Fareed Zakaria,ZygmundBauman,ImmanuelWallerstein, Paul 11 peopleandspecializinginorganizingconferences onglobaleconomicissuesandpublishingvariousbooks.More than In 1996,hefoundedtheCentre forPost-Industrial Studies,anindependent,not-for-profit institutioncurrently employing Green Alliance,anewlyestablished Russianecologicalparty. under theauthorityofPresident Dmitry Medvedev. SinceJune2012,hehasbeenamemberanddeputyChairmanofThe bank from 1999to2002.In 2011,heservedastheDirector-General oftheGlobalPoliticalForumannuallyheldinYaroslavl principal shareholder oftheMoscow-Paris Commercial Bank,incorporatedinMoscow1994.HeservedasCEOofthe From 1993to1996heacted asanentrepreneur andbusinessmanagerinvariousbanks, andbecameafounder the official publicationofthe CentralCommitteeofSovietCommunistParty, andlaterbecameanindependentjournal. From April1991toSeptember1993,heworkedasajunioreditorintheKommunistmonthly, whichuntilAugust1991was at variousuniversities,includingMoscowStateLomonossovUniversity, MGIMOandtheHigherSchoolofEconomics. the InstituteofWorld RelationsoftheRussianAcademySciences.Sincethen,Ihavetaught EconomyandInternational courses, obtaininghisPhDineconomics1994.In1999hewrote aseconddissertationandobtainedProfessorship at he wasservedasChairmanoftheUniversity’s StudentScientificSociety. From 1989to1992,heenrolled inpostgraguate Lomonossov UniversityDepartmentofEconomics,from whichhegraduatedwithdistinctionin1989.In1989and1990, Mr. onOctober10,1968inNizniyNovgorod Inozmetsevwasborn inRussia.In1984.heentered theMoscowState Vladislav L.Inozemtsev

Director, Centre forPost-Industrial Studies Russia PARTICIPANTS 31 Analysis Kazakhstan Oraz Jandosov Director, “Rakurs” Center for Economic “Rakurs” Director, He graduated from Moscow State University as an economist-cybernetician in 1987. He graduated from Bank of Kazakhstan, and President of JSC KEGOC. He has served as an assistant to the President, a member of the Higher of JSC KEGOC. He has served as an assistant to the President, Bank of Kazakhstan, and President Akzhol, for Sustainable Development, and as co-chairman of Akzhol and True Economic Council and National Council Kazakh political parties. He has held a number of prominent roles in Kazakhstan throughout his career, including Chairman of the Agency for Natural his career, throughout in Kazakhstan roles of prominent He has held a number of of Air Kazakhstan, Chairman of Directors of the Board of Competition, Chairman Monopolies Regulation and Protection Minister of Finance, Chairman of the National of Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan, Deputy Prime Minister, the Board of the Board of Association of Economists of Kazakhstan; and Advisor to the Board and member of the Presidium of the and member of the Presidium to the Board Economists of Kazakhstan; and Advisor of Association of of the Board “Atameken Union.” National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan Mr. Jandosov is currently the director of the RAKURS Center for Economic Research, serving in this role since 2008; Chairman since this role serving in Center for Economic Research, of the RAKURS the director Jandosov is currently Mr. 32 PARTICIPANTS development. over theyearsanumberofkeynoteaddresses, policystatementsandwrittenarticlesonissuesgermanetoAfrica’s He alsoservesontheadvisorypanelsofanumberorganizationsinvolvedinAfrica’s developmentandhasdelivered theprivatesector,between theECAandgovernments, civilsociety, andnational,regionalorganizations. andinternational for shared developmentobjectives. Inthisregard, hehasbeenabletocultivatestrong partnershipsatthehighestlevels striving toenhancepartnership-buildingforAfrica,asanecessaryvehiclemobilizesupportandbuildinclusiveness Review Mechanism(APRM),ascriticalinitiativesforachievingtheMillenniumDevelopmentGoals.Mr. Jannehhasbeen and thesuccessfulimplementationofNewPartnershipforAfrica’s Development(NEPAD), includingtheAfricaPeer resources management.Mr. Jannehremains particularlyinterested intheinstitutionaltransformationofAfricanUnion eradication, trade,financingfordevelopment,ICTs, climatechange,thefight against HIV/AIDSandnatural governance, his leadership,ECAhastakensignificantstepstosupportAfricancountries inthearea of regional integration,poverty been astrong advocatefordevelopment efforts thatrespond effectively toAfrica’s nationalandregional priorities.Under Secretary oftheUnitedNations CapitalDevelopmentFund(1990–1993).AsaseniorUNmanager, Mr. Jannehhas Coordinator andResidentRepresentative inGhana(1996–1999) andNiger(1993–1996),aswellDeputyExecutive of over1,500staff. Priortothat,heheldanumberofseniorpositionsinUNDPanditsaffiliated funds,includingResident capacity, hemanagedUNDP’s largestRegionalBureau, covering45countriesinsub-SaharanAfricawithacomplement served asAssistantSecretary-General andUNDPRegionalDirector for Africafrom June2000toOctober2005.Inthat articulation oftheECABusinessPlan2007–2009tooperationalizenewstrategicvision.Before joiningECA,Mr. Janneh to strategicallyre-position theorganizationtobettersupportAfrica’s developmentagenda.Hehasalsooverseenthe for Africa(ECA).ECAistheregional armoftheUnitedNationsinAfrica.SinceMr. JannehjoinedECA,hehastakensteps Mr. AbdoulieJannehwasUnder-Secretary-General andExecutiveSecretary oftheUnitedNationsEconomicCommission FormerExecutiveSecretary, UN Executive Director, MoIbrahimFoundation; Economic CommissionforAfrica(UNECA) President, Institute; AfricanGovernance Abdoulie Janneh Senegal PARTICIPANTS 33 Kazakhstan World Bank World Saroj Kumar Jha Saroj Regional Director, Central Asia, Regional Director, Mr. Jha speaks Hindi, English, Arabic, French, Maithili, Oriya, Urdu. Maithili, Oriya, speaks Hindi, English, Arabic, French, Jha Mr. in various countries of the world. He has since held various positions of increasing responsibility in the World Bank. in the World responsibility since held various positions of increasing in various countries of the world. He has India. (IIT) Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology in civil engineering and development economics from He holds dual degree Network, after significant experience with the GovernmentNetwork, after significant experience with UNDP as a senior executive in the field of public of India and and sustainable management, natural disaster prevention, resources financing, natural sector management, infrastructure mechanisms cooperation, social safety nets, and grievance redressal for innovations in regional He is credited environment. has led international response to many catastrophic disasters around the world. disasters around to many catastrophic has led international response Development Specialist in the Sustainable as a Senior Infrastructure Bank in 2005 an Indian national, joined the World Jha, Mr. Head of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). He played a major role in establishing disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). He played a major role Head of the Global Facility for Disaster Jha worked with donors, governments, UN, and civil society organizations to establish risk management global practice. Mr. operations. He and post-disaster recovery largest global fund for disaster prevention GFDRR in 2006 which is now world’s in Almaty, Kazakhstan. in Almaty, Risk Management Practice and Global Manager for Disaster Bank’s Jha has worked as the World Prior to this position Mr. Saroj Kumar Jha took up the position of the World Bank Regional Director for Central Asia on February 1, 2012. He is based for Central Asia Bank Regional Director position of the World Kumar Jha took up the Saroj 34 PARTICIPANTS Nationality: Finnish Education: Ph.D.,UniversityofMichiganin1982 at HelsinkiSchoolofEconomics,andresearch advisorattheBankofFinland. Prior tojoiningtheIMF, in1982–86workedasassistantprofessor atNewYork University, associateprofessor andprofessor and more recently GermanyandRussia,reviewing IMFworkonsome50countriesrepresenting allcontinents. emerging marketcountriesinAsia(Japan,Singapore, Poland,Thailand),headingIMFmissionstoAlbania,Bulgaria,Turkey, and European Departments.Pastassignments include periodasresident representative inIndia,workonadvancedand Previous positions:IntheIMFsince1986.Haspreviously workedintheResearch, Asian,PolicyDevelopmentandReview, ment’s workonEgyptandtheCCA(CaucasusCentralAsia)countries. Current position:Deputydirector, MiddleEastandCentralAsiaDepartment,IMF, sinceMarch 2012.Overseesthedepart Deputy Director, MiddleEastandCentral Asia Department, International Monetary Asia Department,International Juha Kahkonen United States Fund (IMF) - PARTICIPANTS 35

Kazakhstan Shigeo Katsu Regional Vice President, World Bank World President, Regional Vice President, Nazarbayev University; Former Nazarbayev President, Advisor to the Managing Directors of the World Bank, and retired from the Bank in December 2009. from Bank, and retired of the World Advisor to the Managing Directors of Regional Director for Operations in 1999 where his responsibilities broadly consisted of assisting in the management of broadly his responsibilities for Operations in 1999 where of Regional Director In August 2003, he became corporate center. operations, and serving as the Regional Liaison with the the ECA Region’s capacity for six years. He subsequently took on an assignment as Special of the ECA Region, serving in this Vice President Policy Analysis Department. Between 1992 and 1995, Mr. Katsu served as the World Bank’s Principal Operations Officer for Principal Operations Officer Bank’s Katsu served as the World and 1995, Mr. Policy Analysis Department. Between 1992 appointed was subsequently and Region, Pacific & Asia East Department, China Division, Operations Energy & Industry the the position Katsu assumed Mr. Regional Mission in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. of the Bank’s Chief, and then Country Director, Department as an economist, first in the Energy, Water & Telecom Division, and later in the Water Supply & Urban the Telecom Division, and later in Water & economist, first in the Energy, Department as an Fall From until Fall 1989. Benin in Representative Resident Bank’s the appointed was he 1985, In Division. Development of the Country Economic Director Katsu worked at the Export-Import Bank of Japan as Deputy 1989 to the end 1991, Mr. Shigeo Katsu joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1979, and soon moved to the Western Africa Projects moved to the Western Africa Projects in 1979, and soon Professional Bank as a Young the World Shigeo Katsu joined 36 PARTICIPANTS bilateral developmentinstitutions.Mr. KohliisaFoundingDirector andtheChiefExecutiveofEmergingMarketsForum. and multilateral and corporations, governments, Reforms. Its clients include major international Systems and Governance Corporate StrategyforEmergingMarkets;FinancialSector, Energy, Infrastructure andUrbanDevelopment;Procurement five companies,includingsubsidiariesinAsiaandLatinAmerica.Itsworkisfocusedon:EconomicPoliticalResearch; He hasbeenamajorshareholder, President andCEOoftheparent companysinceitsinception.Thegroup nowconsistsof based inWashington, D.C.,specializinginemergingmarkets. work inprivateparticipationinfrastructure. Mr. KohlistartedtheCentennialGroup in1998,astrategicadvisorycompany Maghreb countriesandIran. Between1994and1998,hewasSeniorAdvisor, EastAsiaandPacific,whenheledtheBank’s Europe andtheMiddleEast. In1993,hebecametheDirector responsible forcountry strategyandalllendingdecisionsfor become theDirector ofthe Technical DepartmentthathousedseniortechnicalexpertswhoadvisedallBankborrowers in mail amongstnon-technologycompaniesandbuiltanaward winningnewheadquartersbuilding.In1990,hewentonto neered theconceptofuniversal accesstopersonalcomputersforallstaff, becamethelargestcorporateuserofelectronic While Mr. Kohli was in this latter position, the Bank created one of the first global corporate communications networks, pio velopment; andtheInformation,Technology andFacilitiesDepartment—asoneoftheBank’s youngestdirectors. the Group responsible forformulatingandoverseeingtheBank’s policyandstrategyonIndustrialFinancialSectorsDe Division responsible forthe Bank’s worldwideoperationsinthechemicals,fertilizers,refining andpetrochemicals industries; relations responsibilities and worked inover50countries in allcontinents of theworld.Thesepositionsincludedleading: ing his26-yearcareer atthe Bank,heheldaseriesofseniormanagerialpositionsinvolvingtechnical,strategicandcountry After graduatingfrom Harvard, hejoinedtheWorld BankatitsWashington DCheadquartersasaYoung Professional. Dur to studymanagementandfinance. Union CarbideIndiawhere heworkedinitschemicalsandmetalsdivisionbetween1967–1970.In1970,cametotheU.S. Mr. Kohlistartedhiscareer asaproduction engineeratPrestolite, anautomobilecomponentsmanufacturer before joining tion from Harvard Universityin1972,withaMaster’s inBusinessAdministration. in1945,HarinderKohlistudiedMechanicalEngineeringatthePunjabUniversity(India)and graduatedwithhighdistinc Born Chief Executive,EmergingMarkets Forum; President andCEO, Harinder Kohli Centennial Group

United States - - - - PARTICIPANTS 37 - - - Finland Finland in Kazakhstan Henna Kosonen Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Deputy Head Desk Officer for Tanzania, Ruanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo, Department of Africa and Tanzania, Ruanda, Burundi for Desk Officer Legal Service, MFA Attaché (International Criminal Courts), Unit for Public International Law, University of Joensuu/University of Eastern (Law and Legal Linguistics), Finland and Researcher Teacher Embassy of Finland in Nicosia, Cyprus Trainée, of Joensuu University Department of Law, Coordinator, International Affairs Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Finland in Astana, Kazakhstan Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy Master of Arts (Linguistics and Literature), University of Eastern Finland Master of Arts (Linguistics and Literature), University of Joensuu Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics and Literature), Master of Sciences (Law), University of Joensuu Finnish, English, French, Swedish Finnish, English, French, Language Skills oikeustieteellisiä julkaisuja 22, Joensuu 2008. p. 30-33. Ostiensis, TiedettäKosonen, Henna: Oikeuskielen kiemuroita. ja tutkimusta Joensuun yliopistosta 2/2008. dencija - Jurisprudence 2010, 2(120). kansainvälisessä rikosoikeusavussa. p. 79- kehittyminen Syyttäjistön roolin murroksessa? Kosonen, Henna: Syyttäjän rooli yliopiston Matti (ed.): CONSILIO MANUQUE. Yhtenäinen syyttäjälaitos 10 vuotta. Joensuun 99. In Ohisalo, Jussi - Tolvanen, pean Law Publishers, Munchen 2011. Rights: Defence Liability and Effective Criminal of Realization Effective between Balancing Matti: Tolvanen, Henna - Kosonen, Jurispru 233-256. Article in p. Criminal Procedure, Finnish in Lawyer Defence and of Prosecutor Roles the and Tasks The Ervo, Laura - Kosonen, Henna - Nystén-Haarala, Soili - Romppanen, Seita - Suhonen, Onerva-Aulikki: Scandinavian Coun Ervo, Laura - Kosonen, Henna - Nystén-Haarala, Euro Sellier, Law. Iglesias, José Luis - Palao, Guillermo (ed.): Application of Foreign tries, p. 327-344. In Esplugues, Carlos - Academic publications 2006-2010 Spring 2006 2005-2006 2011-2012 the Middle East, MFA 2010-2011 Main Working Experience Main Working 2012- 2005 2010 2006 Academic Education 38 PARTICIPANTS Career: MinistryofEconomyandBudgetPlanning;Finance. Place ofwork:ChairmantheAssociationYoung Entrepreneurs ofKazakhstan. Republic ofKazakhstanin2009. received amaster’s degree from inStateandLocalGovernment theAcademyofPublicAdministrationunderPresident ofthe Education: Graduatedfrom theH.A.Yasavi Kazakh-Turkish International Universityin2005with a degree inEconomics.Healso Place ofbirth:SouthKazakhstan Date ofbirth:20January1984 Chairman, AssociationofYoung Maksat Kozhambek Entrepreneurs Kazakhstan PARTICIPANTS 39 - Poland Former President of Poland Former President Aleksander Kwasniewski Aleksander Hussein. A long–standing supporter of Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty, Aleksander Kwasniewski inspired the international the Kwasniewski inspired Aleksander independence and sovereignty, Hussein. A long–standing supporter of Ukraine’s in Ukraine to prevail. during the Orange Revolution, helping the young democracy mediation efforts Aleksander Kwasniewski was one of the leading figures in European Politics. He is an author of numerous local and regional ini local and Politics. He is an author of numerous in European figures Aleksander Kwasniewski was one of the leading to the war against Saddam to send Polish troops and backed the decision on terror tiatives; he decisively joined the global war He is a great advocate of Poland’s membership in both NATO and the European Union. It was under his leadership that Poland finally Union. It was under his leadership and the European membership in both NATO advocate of Poland’s He is a great proponent door” policy and a strong in 1999. He is an active supporter of further alliance enlargement under the “open joined NATO in 2003, and saw Poland Union accession treaty of the European integration, Kwasniewski campaigned for approval of European become a member on May 1st 2004. Democratic Party of the Republic of Poland. He won the presidential elections for the first time in 1995, running against Lech Walesa. for the first time in 1995, running against Lech elections He won the presidential Democratic Party of the Republic of Poland. of Poland, which he signed into law on July 16th, 1997. He is co-author of the new democratic constitution 1954 in Białogard, Poland. 1954 in Białogard, peaceful transition of Poland, and the the negotiations in Poland that finally brought He participated in the famous “Round-Table” the Social chairman of He is a co-founding member and first communism to democracy. from whole Central and Eastern Europe, Aleksander Kwasniewski is the former President of the Republic of Poland (1995 – 2005). He was born on the 15th of November, was bornthe Republic of Poland (1995 – 2005). He of the 15th of November, on is the former President Aleksander Kwasniewski 40 PARTICIPANTS Breaking theStalemate(Brookings, 2007). Central AsiaHumanDevelopmentReport(December2005).Heedited(withColinBradford) Reform: GlobalGovernance and onculturalheritagepreservation. During2004-5Mr. LinnalsoservedasProject LeaderandLeadAuthorfortheUNDP ontransitionissuesinCentralandSouth-EastEurope,global governance, theCISandTurkey, ontransatlanticrelations, From July1,2005,Mr. LinnservesasSeniorFellowatBrookings. Hehasbeenengagedinresearch andadvisorywork on September 2003toJune2006,Mr. FellowattheBrookings LinnwasaVisiting Institution. Transition Years –ReflectionsonEconomicReformandSocialChangeinEurope andCentralAsia(World Bank,2004).From Presidentof theBank‘sVice forEurope and CentralAsia(ECA).Acollectionofhisspeecheswere publishedunderthetitle for IDAandtheGlobalEnvironment Facility(GEF).From January1996through September 2003,Mr. Linnheldtheposition management of the World Bank (IBRD and IDA) and in charge of mobilizing capital resources for IBRD and donor resources for Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization. In that capacity, he was in charge of overall financial policies and prudential and asDirector ofitsCountry EconomicsDepartment.In1991,Mr. LinnwasappointedtheWorld President Bank‘sVice Economic AdvisorintheBank‘sDevelopmentEconomicsStaff, astheDirectorEconomicsDepartment ofitsInternational 1988 whichdealtprincipallywithissuesofpublicfinanceindevelopment.Betweenand1991,heservedasSenior of EastAsia”(World Bank Discussion PaperNo.27).In1987/88,Mr. LinnwasStaff Director ofWorld DevelopmentReport In 1988, he published, with Amarendra Bhattacharya, a study entitled “Trade and Industrial Policyin the Developing Countries East AsiaRegionalStaff. ster, Germany, as a visiting researcher. Subsequently he served as country economist and economic advisor in theBank‘s Finance inDevelopingCountries(Oxford UniversityPress, 1992). In1978,Mr. LinnspentsixmonthsattheUniversityofMun World: PoliciesforTheirEquitableandEfficient Growth (Oxford UniversityPress, 1983)and(withRoyBahl)UrbanPublic he publishedvariousarticlesonurbandevelopmentandpublicfinance,alsotwobooks:CitiesinDeveloping 1973. For nine years he worked in the Bank‘s research wing on issues of urban development policy. Based on his research, University,England (BA, 1968), and at Cornell USA (PhD, 1972). Heis a German National. Mr. Linn joined the World Bank in Mr. LinnstudiedlawattheFree University, Berlin,Germany. Hereceived histrainingasaneconomistatOxford University, Regional VicePresident, World Bank Emerging MarketsForum;Former Senior ResidentFellow, Johannes Linn Germany - PARTICIPANTS 41 - Argentina Visiting Fellow, Visiting Fellow, Claudio Loser Claudio Inter-American Dialogue Inter-American at the George Washington University. He has published in many journals, He mostly on Latin American economic issues. He University. at the George Washington of Chicago the University his Masters of Arts and PhD from the University of Cuyo, Argentina and received graduated from in 1967 and 1971, respectively. Cooperation, and with a number of other financial corporations, dealing with developments in Latin America and the evolving financial corporations, dealing with developments in Latin America and the evolving Cooperation, and with a number of other a Washington-based Dialogue, He is a Senior Fellow at the Inter-American between these countries and the IMF. relations international He teaches economics and finance affairs. Hemisphere on Western and policymakers for opinion leaders forum Monetary Fund he held many senior positions, including Director of the Western Hemisphere Department. Under his lead his Under Department. Hemisphere Western the of Director including positions, senior many held he Fund Monetary activities. in a wide range of surveillance, technical assistance, and research ership, the Department was actively involved of Latin American G-24, the Andean Finance Corporation (CAF), the Rio Group Recently he has worked closely with the Claudio Loser is a well-known authority on Latin American economies and institutions. During his career at the International at the and institutions. During his career authority on Latin American economies Claudio Loser is a well-known 42 PARTICIPANTS the Government of Kazakhstan and of the National Jury of Ernst &Young ofKazakhstanandtheNationalJuryErnst the Government Entrepreneur oftheYear Kazakhstanaward. Council oftheRepublicKazakhstan.From 2008to2012,shewasamemberoftheCouncilEconomicAdvisersunder She isaco-founderoftheAssociationEconomistsKazakhstanandmemberExpertCouncilunderSecurity and oilrevenues. She haspublishedmore than 100articlesonvariousdimensionsofeconomicpolicy, reforms, budgetandlocalgovernment the World Bank,theOECD,andEuropean CommissionDelegation toKazakhstan. She has worked on projects in Kazakhstan and greater Central Asia with the Asian Development Bank, UNESCAP, UNDP, fiscal governmental relations. honors). In2000sheattainedherPhDinEconomicsfrom theKazakhStateAcademyofManagementwithafocusoninter Administration under thePresident oftheRepublic of Kazakhstan with apostgraduatediplomainPublicAdministration(with from theFacultyofPhysicsKazakhStateUniversity. In1997,shegraduatedfrom theNationalHigherSchoolofPublic Meruert MakhmutovaisDirector ofthePublicPolicyResearch Center(PPRC)inAlmaty, Kazakhstan.In1985,shegraduated Director, PublicPolicy Research Center Meruert Makhmutova Kazakhstan - PARTICIPANTS 43 University Kazakhstan Maksat Mamashev Executive Vice President, Nazarbayev Nazarbayev President, Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Corporate Social Development Fund. of the Corporate Social of Trustees Chairman of the Board Since 2010, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Medical Holding and Vice President of the of the National Medical Holding and Vice President of Directors the Board Since 2010, he has been a member of of the Kazakhstani Geographical Society and of Trustees a member of the Board Nazarbayev Fund. Since 2012, he has been Department of Methodology and Public Assets Management of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He has Management of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He has Department of Methodology and Public Assets Adviser for Corporate Development, Executive Director Financial Director, also held the following managerial-level positions: for Development at KEGOK, JSC. to the President Mr. Mamashev worked as a chief expert of the Division of Social and Economic Analysis of the Administration of the President of the President of the Administration Economic Analysis and Social of the Division of expert chief as a worked Mamashev Mr. of the Accounting and Audit; and Director of the Department of Methodology, of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Director financial relations and Gumilev Eurasian National University as a lawyer. He holds a Master’s degree from Anglia Polytechnic Anglia Polytechnic from degree He holds a Master’s Eurasian National University as a lawyer. relations and Gumilev financial studies at Duke University’s University‘s Department of International UK. He currently Business Economics in Cambridge, an MBA. towards Fuqua School of Business, progressing Mr. Mamashev graduated from the Kazakh State Academy of Management as a specialist in international currency and as a specialist in internationalthe Kazakh State Academy of Management currency from Mamashev graduated Mr. 44 PARTICIPANTS French. from Harvard UniversityandtheHarvardShespeaksTurkish, KennedySchoolofGovernment. Armenian,English,and Conference onTrade andDevelopment.ATurkish national,Ms.ManuelyanAtinchasundergraduateandgraduatedegrees Before joiningtheBank,she workedinGenevaattheGeneralAgreement onTrade andTariffs andtheUnitedNations in Yaounde. Shewasalsoaco-authorofthe2006World DevelopmentReportonEquityandDevelopment. China. IntheAfricaregion, she workedforeightyearsasCountryEconomistCameroon andGuinea,includingthree years Development, SectorManagerforthePovertyReductionandEconomicManagementNetwork,SeniorEconomist on East AsiaandthePacific region inanumberofpositionsduring13-yearperiod,includingActingDirector forHuman Asia region forfouryearsandservedasamemberoftheBoard oftheRomaEducationFund(REF).Sheservedin In herprevious assignments,Ms.ManuelyanAtincwasDirector forHumanDevelopmentintheBank’s Europe andCentral many globalfora,includingasamemberoftheScalingUpNutrition(SUN)LeadGroup. work intheareas ofeducation,health,nutrition,populationandsocialprotection, andlabor. Sherepresented theBankin Presidentvarious capacitiessince1984.Inherlastposition,shewasVice forHumanDevelopment,overseeingtheBank’s Tamar Manuelyan Atinc is a visiting scholar at Brookings on leave of absence from the World Bank, where she has worked in President, HumanDevelopment,World Bank Visiting Fellow, Brookings; FormerVice Tamar ManuelyanAtinc United States PARTICIPANTS 45 - - - Kazakhstan Karim Massimov Head, Presidential Administration Head, Presidential tation and Communications, as an aide to the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as Minister of Economics and Bud Minister of Kazakhstan, as the Republic of to the president an aide as and Communications, tation of Kazakhstan since January He has been the Prime Minister of the Republic getary Planning, and as Deputy Prime Minister. 2012. Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan since September 2007 and head of the Presidential Academy of Management, he studied Chinese at the Beijing Institute of Languages and Culture and completed further stud further completed and Culture and Languages of Institute Beijing the at Chinese studied he Management, of Academy He is a specialist in international law, University and at Columbia University. ies at the Institute of International Law of Wuhan Transpor of Minister as served has Massimov Mr. Arabic. and Chinese English, in fluent is he economics; in doctorate a with Karim Massimov was bornKarim Massimov was University and Kazakh State Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship in 1965. A graduate of the 46 PARTICIPANTS development. IamseekingnewchallengesinthepublicandprivatesectorsasaSr.ernment, Consultantinfinancialsector policyand After more thanthirty-five yearsofprofessional experienceatthe World Bank, IMFandColombianCentralBankGov independence, professionalism and integrity. areas offinance,payment systems,riskmanagementandcountryadvisoryservices,aswell recognized track record of I havestrong quantitative and managerialskillswithadvancedstudiesinEconomics,alongrecord ofpublicationsin member ofBoard ofDirectors ofpublicly-ownedbanksandstatecompanies. atthetime)andUnder-Secretaryest civilservantjobintheGovernment ofFinance.InthelattercapacityIchaired orwas Before joiningtheWorld ofColombia’s BankIwasDeputyGovernor CentralBank,AdvisortotheMonetaryBoard (thehigh policy, crises managementandlendingintheLatinAmericaRegion,includingdealingwithMexicoArgentinacrises. to clientcountriesintheECARegion.PriorthisassignmentIwas,forfouryears,SectorManagerchargeoffinancial Department andprovide leadership intheareas ofpolicyadvice,economicsectorwork,technicalassistance,andlending opment DepartmentoftheEurope around andCentralAsiaRegion.Iwascompetitivelyselectedtothepositionturn the Before joiningtheIMF, Iwasfor oversixyearsDirector attheWorld Bankinchargeof theFinanceandPrivateSectorDevel assessing IMFprograms incrisiscountries(UkraineEx-PostProgram Evaluation). (Peru, Mexico,PolandandUruguay),reviewing multipleFSAPsandotherMCMproducts, reviewing ArticleIVreports, and nancial OversightDivision)involvedincrisisand distressed countries (Ireland andHungary),leadingseveralFSAP Missions During 2010-2012IworkedattheIMFasSr. FinancialSectorExpertStaff (MonetaryandCapitalMarketsDepartment,Fi of assignmentsbelow). I retired from theIMFinDecember, 2012.SincethenIhavebeendoingconsultingfortheWorld BankandtheIMF(seelist Development ECARegion,World Bank;Former Deputy Governor, CentralBankofColombia Former Director, Finance&PrivateSector Fernando Montes-NegretFernando United States - - - - PARTICIPANTS 47 - Russia Yury Moseykin Yury Economics and Business Economics and Director, Institute of Global Institute of Director, Economic and Management Schools. In the past, he has served as a Russian-Spanish and Russian-Portuguese interpreter. He is also Vice President of the Rus He is also Vice President and Russian-Portuguese interpreter. In the past, he has served as a Russian-Spanish Chair of the Internationalsian Association of Business Education and Commission of the Association of Leading Cooperation professor at the People’s Friendship University of Russia, teaching courses focusing on the Russian national economy, social economy, courses focusing on the Russian national Friendship University of Russia, teaching at the People’s professor sustainability. and environmental economics, Latin American management, and planning strategic economic forecasting, and Regulation and Planning Division. Macroeconomic in charge of the University’s He is currently Yuri Moseikin has been director of the Institute of Global Economics and Business since 1999. Since 1989 he has been a and Business since 1999. Since 1989 of the Institute of Global Economics been director Moseikin has Yuri 48 PARTICIPANTS 2008) workedinKazynaFundasDeputyChairmanoftheExecutiveBoard, CorporateSecretary, ManagingDirector. He has held several positions in the Administration of the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan. During two years (2006- Council, EconomicResearch Institute. Republic of Kazakhstan as an assistant to theMinister, the Agency forStrategicPlanningandReforms,NationalSecurity Mr. Mukhanovstartedhiscareer asateacherinsecondaryschool,thenworkedtheMinistryofIndustryandTrade ofthe Administration ofthePresident oftheRepublicKazakhstanin1997. Graduated from KazakhStatePedagogicalUniversitynamedafterAbaiin1991andNationalHigherSchoolofPublic President oftheEconomicResearch Institutefrom 2011 President, EconomicResearch Institute Maksat Mukhanov Kazakhstan

PARTICIPANTS 49 - Philippines Rajat Nag Managing Director General, Managing Director Asian Development Bank (ADB) Asian Development firm before joining ADB. He holds engineering degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and the University of Delhi and Technology, the Indian Institute of from joining ADB. He holds engineering degrees firm before Saskatchewan the University of in Business Administration from degrees Masters He also obtained (Canada). Saskatchewan The London School of Economics. and in Economics from Special Advisor to the President on Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration. Special Advisor to the President at the Bank of Canada and held senior positions in a leading international consulting career began his professional Nag Mr. poor people being left behind. Southeast Asia Department and post, he was head of ADB’s Prior to his current He has held several top positions in ADB. Mr. Nag’s work has given him wide-ranging insight into several issues and challenges relevant to Asia, including infrastruc insight into several issues and challenges relevant work has given him wide-ranging Nag’s Mr. to enhance is in working integration. His particular interest regional economic public-private partnerships and financing, ture economies and the millions of thriving and integration in Asia and bridge the gap between the region’s cooperation regional that it achieves its mission of helping its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their improve poverty and developing member countries reduce that it achieves its mission of helping its operations of ADB. people. He also oversees the risk management for more than two decades and assumed his current position in December 2006. assumed his current than two decades and for more to ADB, so strategic and operational direction in providing Nag plays a critical role Asia, Mr. With experience across broad Mr. Rajat M. Nag is the Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has been with the institution Bank (ADB). He has been with the institution General of the Asian Development Director Rajat M. Nag is the Managing Mr. 50 PARTICIPANTS from Brazil,Chile,andFrance. Dr. Nofalhasauthored severalpublications(includingbooks)inArgentina,Brazil,andUSA.Shehasreceivedhonors international December 1999untilFebruary2002.ShewasManagingDirector ofArthurD.LittleinArgentinafrom May1999toDecember2000. as aMemberoftheHouseRepresentatives inArgentinaandaMemberoftheMercosur InterparliamentaryCommissionfrom Argentina. Shewasalsotheeditorofaquarterlypublicationcalled“Mercosur from Journal” 1995to2000.Dr. Nofalalsoserved role in the openingof the economy and in the formulationandnegotiation of theEconomic Integration Program betweenBrazil and She wasUndersecretary ofIndustryandTrade intheMinistryofEconomyArgentinaduringfrom 1986to1988,playingamain American DevelopmentBankandtheWorld Bank. consultanttotheInter-Dialogue, acounseloroftheCentro (CARI),andanexternal Argentino para lasRelacionesInternacionales Advisory Board oftheGraduateSchoolBusinessUniversityChicago.Dr. NofalisalsoamemberoftheInter-American toral Program attheCatholicUniversityofArgentina.Since2007,shehasservedasMemberAmericasCabinetGlobal and aboard memberonIWF’s GlobalCouncil.Since2005,shehasbeenaprofessor intheAppliedEconomicsMaster’s andDoc Director ofBusiness&DevelopmentKPMGArgentina,President ofArgentina’s Women ChapteroftheInternational Forum(IWF), She isatpresent President ofEco-Axis,aneconomic consultingfirmshefoundedspecializinginMercosurtrade, andinternational of themainexpertsonMercosur, trade,anddevelopmentissues. Paris, France(1977)andtheInstituteofSocialStudies,Hague,Netherlands(1976).Presently, Dr. Nofalisconsidered tobeone She received postgraduatediplomasindevelopmentplanningfrom theÉcoledesHautesÉtudesenSciencesSociales,Universityof Dr. Nofalreceived herPh.Dfrom JohnsHopkinsUniversityin1983,withaspecializationdevelopment economicsandplanning. for SouthAmericaintheDirective CommitteeoftheWorld AssociationofInvestmentPromotion Agencies(WAIPA). tions (OECD,World Bank,UNCTAD), andherpeersinotherinvestmentagencies,beingelectedre-elected asregional Director recognitionterms ofinvestmentattraction.Theworkdonewonwideinternational amongtheprivatesector, organiza international Agency, withtherankofSecretary ofState.Underherleadership,theAgencyProsperAr wasbuilt, generating significant results in Dr. BeatrizNofal was, from October 2006 until the end of August 2010, HeadofArgentina’s NationalInvestmentDevelopment International Women’sInternational Forum(IWF) President, Eco-Axis;Director, Beatriz Nofal Argentina - - PARTICIPANTS 51 - - Kazakhstan Deputy Prime Minister Deputy Prime Yerbol Orynbayev Yerbol Prime Minister’s Office. Office. Prime Minister’s Starting in 1996, Mr. Orynbayev has held various positions with the Kazakhstani civil service. These positions included, Orynbayev has held various positions with the Kazakhstani civil Starting in 1996, Mr. (Governor)Akim Deputy others, among Re and Planning Strategic for Agency the at head division Kazakhstan, South of of the Agency for Civil Service, Vice Minister of Economy and Budget Planning, and Head of the forms, Department Director ceived his LL.B from Moscow State University in 1993 and his MA in International Development Policy from Duke University International Duke State University in 1993 and his MA in Moscow from Development Policy ceived his LL.B from in 2002. Mr. Orynbayev has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan since October 2007. Mr. Orynbayev re Orynbayev Mr. of Kazakhstan since October 2007. as Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Orynbayev has served Mr. 52 PARTICIPANTS In 2011-2012heworkedasthemanagingdirector ofSamrukKazynaFund. Since 2010tillpresent Mr. OshakbayevisheadoftheSocialFoundation“AssociationEconomistsKazakhstan”. Kazakhstan. In 2009-2011 he led the Analytical Center for Economic Policy in Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of in Kazakhstan.In2004-2008workedasageneraldirector ofaprivatefirm. In 2003Mr. OshakbayevheadedtheProject oftheWorldFinancialCorporationondevelopmentleasing BankInternational Board. Director, DeputyChairmanoftheExecutiveBoard forcredit andleasingoperations,since2002– ChairmanoftheExecutive Mr. Oshakbayev started hiscareer at Kazagrofinance, JSCas chiefaccountant,andthenwasappointedtobetheManaging Lomonosov. in1976EastKazakhstanregion.Born Graduatedfrom DepartmentofEconomyMoscowStateUniversitynamedafter Deputy Chairman,NationalEconomic Rakhim Oshakbayev Chamber (Atameken) Kazakhstan PARTICIPANTS 53 - France Elsa Pilichowski Deputy Head, OECD Eurasia Deputy Head, Competitiveness Programme Competitiveness ternational Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC (USA). She teaches at a joint graduate programme on DC (USA). She teaches at a joint graduate programme ternational Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, intervenes in graduate courses regularly Nantes and Sciences Po Lille (France), and public financial management at Audencia Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA). University La Sorbonne and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, OECD in 2000, Ms. Pilichowski worked at the World Bank on issues related to public governance in Africa and East Asia. Bank on issues related the World OECD in 2000, Ms. Pilichowski worked at In d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (“Sciences Po”) and of the School of Advanced Elsa Pilichowski is a graduate of the Institut Governance Review of France entitled “An International France” (2012), the Perspective on the Review of Public Policies in Management in Government: Brazil” (2010), “The State of the Public Service” (2008), OECD “Reviews of Human Resources the joining and “The Challenges of Managing Government of an Aging Publication” (2007). Before Employees in the Context Ms. Pilichowski has worked at the OECD for twelve years as a specialist in public governance.Ms. Pilichowski has worked at the OECD During her twelve years at and government on the management of public employees programme agencies. the OECD, she has led the OECD work employment and public agencies, including the OECD Public many OECD papers on public and coordinated She has wrote operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. In addition to her programme responsibilities, she is also in charge of charge in also is she responsibilities, programme her to addition In France. Paris, in (OECD) Development and operation Regulations and Institutions.” Better “Kazakhstan Sector Competitiveness through the project Elsa Pilichowski is Deputy Head (a.i.) of the Eurasia Competitiveness Programme at the Organisation for Economic Co- at the Organisation for Economic Programme Head (a.i.) of the Eurasia Competitiveness Elsa Pilichowski is Deputy 54 PARTICIPANTS of theUnitedNations-AfricanUnionHigh-levelPanelforPeacekeepinginAfrica. world”, developingandoffering newproposalscontext.In2008,heservedasChairman ofcooperationintheinternational President oftheFoundation forWorldwide Cooperation,whoseobjectiveistotackle“social,cultural,politicalissuesinthe teaching positionsatBrown UniversityandattheChina-Europe BusinessSchool.Hecontinuestoserveas International After servingasthePrimeMinister, Mr. Prodi diplomacy. continuedtoworkinacademiaandinternational Heheldacademic served asItalianMinisterofIndustry(1978-1979)andheadtheInstituteforIndustrialReconstruction. Europe,countries from and Southern and the treaty Central, Eastern establishing a Constitution for Europe. Earlier, Mr. Prodi pean Commissionfrom 1999to2005,overseeingtheintroduction oftheeuro, theenlargementofEuropean Uniontoten served asPrimeMinisterofItalyfrom 2006to2008andfrom 1996to1998.Mr. Prodi also servedasPresident oftheEuro Mr. Prodi hasanextensivecareerdiplomacy, ininternational organizations.He academiaandatthehelmofinternational Former PrimeMinisterofItaly; President, European Commission Romano Prodi Italy - PARTICIPANTS 55 - Bolivia Jorge Quiroga Former President of Bolivia Former President

Jorge Quiroga holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering Summa Cum Laude from Texas A&M University and an MBA from St. and an MBA from A&M University Texas Engineering Summa Cum Laude from holds a B.S. in Industrial Jorge Quiroga and speaks some basic Por He is fluent in Spanish and English, 4 children. He is married with Texas. University, Edwards’s tuguese. policy; constitutional, legal, and institutional reforms; private and official external debt restructuring and relief; programs to relief; programs and externalrestructuring private and official debt reforms; legal, and institutional policy; constitutional, and Latin American economic policy in general. and cocaine production; trafficking drug reduce public policy foundation. of expertise include the management of international aid and cooperation for developing countries; macroeconomic His areas de Madrid,” as a Board Member of the “Inter-American Dialogue” and “Results for Development-R4D” in Washington D.C., in Washington Dialogue” and “Results for Development-R4D” Member of the “Inter-American de Madrid,” as a Board capacities on the “Global as a member of the International Club; and in different Advisory Council of the China Economic 2002, a Bolivian over FUNDEMOS since others. He has presided and many Iberoamericano,” Adaptation Institute,” the “Foro 97), with Mintec in the mining sector in Bolivia (1989-90), and as a Systems Engineer with IBM in Texas (1981-88). (1989-90), and as a Systems Engineer with IBM in Texas 97), with Mintec in the mining sector in Bolivia internationalmany and sector “Club private of the in active Viceas serving including organizations, President currently is He (2006-10), Woodrow Wilson Scholar (2002-03), President of Bolivia (2001-02), Vice President and President of Congress of Congress and President Wilson Vice of Bolivia (2001-02), President Scholar (2002-03), President (2006-10), Woodrow Vice(1992), and Finance of InternationalMinister and (1997-2001), Investment Public for Planning of Minister Cooperation Member of a large private bank in La Paz (1993- and Board he has worked as Vice President (1990-92). In the private sector, Jorge Quiroga is a former President of Bolivia. His public sector experience includes serving as Leader of the Opposition serving as Leader of the Opposition Bolivia. His public sector experience includes of is a former President Jorge Quiroga 56 PARTICIPANTS stan”; Vice Presidentstan”; Vice oftheChamberCommerce andIndustry. Social activities:ChairmanofthePresidium oftheUnionLegalEntities“AssociationYoung Entrepreneurs ofKazakh rochemical Industries. Place ofwork:ChairmantheBoard ofJSCSAT &Company, memberoftheBoard ofDirectors ofJSCKazakhstanPet BusinessSchoolofOxfordeconomist, International SaïdBusinessSchool(2007). Education: Kazakhstan State Academy (2000), the Kazakh Economic University named after T. (2002), lawyer, Ryskulov Place ofbirth:Almaty Date ofbirth:July14,1979 Chairman, Board ofDirectors, Kenes Rakishev SAT &Company Kazakhstan - - PARTICIPANTS 57 Switzerland Mauro Reina Mauro Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan Ambassador Deputy Chief of Mission - Embassy of Switzerland in Rome Deputy Chief of Mission - Embassy of Switzerland First Secretary in charge of Cultural Affairs - Embassy of Switzerland in Buenos Aires - Embassy of Switzerland in charge of Cultural Affairs First Secretary in Geneva - Permanent Mission of Switzerland at WTO and EFTA Responsible for EFTA - Embassy of Switzerland in Madrid Adviser for Political Affairs – FDFA Deputy Chief of Protocol Diplomatic Collaborator at the General Secretariat – FDFA Diplomatic Collaborator at the General Secretariat – FDFA at the Political Direction for international policy on refugees Collaborator under the Coordinator joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), traineeship in Bern, traineeship in Geneva and London (FDFA), Affairs joined the Federal Department of Foreign 2009 of Switzerland in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan and Plenipotentiary Ambassador Extraordinary 2013 - Present 2006 1998 2002 1996 1992 1994 1990 Date of Birth: March 2, 1964 Date of Birth: March 58 PARTICIPANTS for theHurriyetDailyNewsandRadikal. until 2006,where finance,and publiceconomics.Sakcurrently hetaughtbanking,international writesoneconomicissues project in1991-92.Sakservedasaprofessor ofpublic economicsattheFacultyofPoliticalSciencesAnkaraUniversity social securityreform projects in1995and1999, wasamongtheleadersofTurkish capitalmarketmodernization Bank ofTurkey, where memberbetween2001-2005.Hehasheldprominent heservedasanexternal positionsintheTurkish and anM.A.from theUniversityofEastAnglia.SakwasafoundingmemberMonetaryPolicyCouncilCentral the TOBB University of Economics and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Economicsfrom the Middle East Technical University Güven Sakisthemanagingdirector oftheEconomicPolicyResearch FoundationofTurkey (TEPAV) andvice-president of Managing Director, EconomicPolicy Research Foundation(TEPAV) Guven Sak Turkey PARTICIPANTS 59 - Kyrgyzstan Ulan Sarbanov Ulan National Bank of Kyrgyzstan National Bank Head of Project Department, Department, Head of Project EurAsEC Anti-Crises Fund, Eurasian EurAsEC Anti-Crises Development Bank; Former Governor, Bank; Former Governor, Development He received a PhD in Economics from the Russian University of Management in 2001 and attended Georgetown University the Russian University a PhD in Economics from He received Fellowship in 1997. on a Pew Economic Freedom In addition to his primary work, he has also served as a Member of the Board at the American University of Central Asia, a Asia, Central of University American the at Board the of Member a as served also has he work, his primary to addition In at the Novosi at JSC Ecobank, and a researcher of Directors Chairman of the Board Kyrgyz National University, at lecturer branch of the Russian/USSR Academy of Sciences. Engineering of the Siberian birsk Institute of Economics and Industrial this position since 2011. He has also served as a Board Member of the Demir Kyrgyz International Member of Bank and as Governor He has also served as a Board this position since 2011. of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic. and Chairman of the Board Mr. Sarbanov is Head of the Project Department of the EurAsEC Anti-Crises Fund at the Eurasian Development Bank, holding at the Eurasian Development Bank, Department of the EurAsEC Anti-Crises Fund the Project Sarbanov is Head of Mr. 60 PARTICIPANTS posiums, andround tablesindifferent countries,regarding EurasianstudiesinUSA,Great Britain,Kazakhstan,andRussia. (2005). Sheisaffiliated with CambridgeUniversityintheUK.Dr. Shahidihasparticipatedinnumerous conferences, sym Dr. Shahidihas received fellowshipsattheSwedishInstitute(1996),MaisondeScienceL’Homme (Paris,2004),andEHESS institutions inthatspace. Great Britain, Japan, Malaysia and other countries. She has also been involved in Eurasian studies, cooperating with various ture” (2005)andnumerous otherarticles,publishedindifferent specialissuesandcollectivemonographsinTajikistan, Russia, (translation ofSaidAbdulVahid’s, withcommentaryandglossary, 1984),“TheIdeaofPeacebuidinginTajik-Persian Litera she isanauthorofanumberbooks,including“IbnSinaandDante”(1986),“ArtOutlookMuhammadIqbal” of OrientalStudiestheAcademyScienceUSSRinMoscow. Asaspecialistinthefieldofcomparativeliterature, of theDepartmentForeign LanguagesoftheTajik NationalPedagogicalUniversity, andreceived herPh.D.attheInstitute peace anddevelopmentviaculture andartsthrough thelast twodecadesofindependenceTajikistan. Sheisagraduate Dr. Foundation,NGO(1992),organisation,whichworksfor MuniraShahidiisthefounderofZiyodulloInternational Director, Z.Shahidi MuseumofMusical Culture; Chair, Z.ShahidiInternational Munira Shahidi Foundation forCulture Tajikistan - - PARTICIPANTS 61 - Russia Deputy Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Sergey Shatalov Eurasian Development Bank Eurasian Development PhD in Economics December 2010 and supervises the Bank’s Shatalov coordinates of the EDB. Dr. Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Management Board management of the EurAsEC Anti-crisis Fund February 2010 of the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund Department Appointed Managing Director 2006 - 2010 Country Manager for Kazakhstan Bank World porting governments in the formulation and implementation of sustainable macroeconomic and fiscal policies and developing and fiscal policies and developing porting governments macroeconomic in the formulation and implementation of sustainable public finance institutions 1991 - 2006 some countries in Eastern and Central Asia, and the Middle East and Africa, sup expert in most of Europe Asia, Bank World 1989 - 1991 of Sciences). the Center for Global and Strategic Studies of the Africa Institute (Russian Academy of Director Career: 1978 - 1989 of Sciences) fellow of the Africa Institute (the USSR Academy research and senior officer Research Education: 1973 - 1978 Moscow State University, Economics Moscow State University, Education: 1973 - 1978 Academic degree: Date and place of birth: October 3rd ,1957, Moscow October 3rd Date and place of birth: 62 PARTICIPANTS Research oftheFoundation provides from afeedbacktothegovernments expertcommunity. ence ondecision-makingandformationofpublicopinion. expertise principle.Intotalmore than1,000expertsfrom 80countriestookpartintheresearches. Theseexpertshaveinflu researchesDuring theperiodofitsexistenceFoundationhasconductedanumberinternational onthebasisofglobal foreffectivegovernment anti-crisesdecision-making. The activity of the Foundation is aimed at promoting a dialogue between expert and businesscommunities,civilsociety, ness Solidarity”,CenterforDevelopmentofStockExchange. at theinitiativeofseveral eminent Russian organizations: Public Opinion Foundation, Centerfornon-profit partnership“Busi From 2009–ExecutiveDirector ofthe“Post-crisisWorld” Foundation–anindependent analyticalcentercreated inMoscow ment. From 1998 to 2009 headed a number of commercial organizations and projects in research, information, and social develop ence, aswellconductingresearch projects andconsultingprojects forvariousorganizations. From 1984 to 1998 worked in Russian Academy of Sciences, specializing in psychology of teams working in arts and sci Social PsychologyChair. in1962Moscow.Born In1984graduatedfrom theDepartmentofPsychologyLomonosovMoscowStateUniversity, Director, Post-Crisis World Institute Ekaterina Shipova Russia - - - - PARTICIPANTS 63 - India Former Minister of Former Minister Arun Shourie Telecommunications, Telecommunications, Commerce and of Privatization Commerce how they do not stand up to scrutiny; and explains why his own experience in serving his spastic child for 35 years has led explains why his own experience in serving his spastic child for 35 years has how they do not stand up to scrutiny; and teaching. him to the Buddha’s He has written 26 books on a variety of topics ranging from constitutional law, to modern Indian history, religious fundamen religious to modern Indian history, constitutional law, ranging from He has written 26 books on a variety of topics Refutes Heart? How Suffering His 26th book, “Does He Know a Mother’s talism, governance in India, and national security. texts; shows in the basic religious in 2011. It examines explanations for suffering Religions” was published by HarperCollins is widely regarded as the father of investigative journalism Vienna, Institute, in India. The International acclaimed him as Press is widely regarded last half-century. in the of the press whose work has sustained freedom Heroes” Freedom Press one of 50 “World He is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the Magsaysay Award and one of India’s highest and one of India’s including the Magsaysay Award national and international awards, of numerous He is the recipient He Bank, and Editor of the Indian Express. the Padma Bhushan. He has been an economist with the World civilian awards, Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet. He was acclaimed as a “Star of Asia” by Business Week in 2002 and as “The Business “The as and 2002 in Week Business by Asia” of “Star a as acclaimed was He cabinet. Vajpayee’s Bihari Atal Mr. by The Economic Times work on privatization. In a poll of Indian CEOs, he for his pioneering and dogged Leader of the Year” Government in early 2004. Vajpayee’s Minister” of Mr. was acclaimed as “The Most Outstanding he studied at St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and then obtained his doctorate in Economics from Syracuse University, USA. Syracuse University, his doctorate in Economics from College in Delhi and then obtained he studied at St. Stephen’s Technology in and Information of the Minister of Disinvestment, Communications Among other portfolios, he held the office Arun Shourie is among India’s best known commentators on current and political affairs. Born in Jalandhar, Punjab (1941), Born and political affairs. in Jalandhar, on current best known commentators India’s Arun Shourie is among 64 PARTICIPANTS Kazakhstan: Path: Chronics of Independence (2011) and Riding Out the Storms of Time (2013). Kazakhstan: Path:Chronics ofIndependence(2011)andRidingOuttheStormsTime tions, energypolicy, andKazakhstanipoliticshistory. Hehascreated historyof twodocumentaryfilmsdevotedtothemodern and Techniques andPoliticalAnalysisForecasting attheRussianAcademyofPublicService.Hespecializesincomputersimula of thePresident oftheRepublicKazakhstan..HestudiedPhysicalandMathematicalSciencesatMoscowInstitutePhysics He isalsoEditor-in-Chief ofKazakhstan’s PoliticalNewsAgencyandaProfessor emeritusatthe AcademyofPublicAdministration Mr. Project SolozobovworksastheInternational Director oftheInstituteRussianNationalStrategy, specializinginpoliticalanalysis. Institute ofRussianNationalStrategy Director, Projects, International Yury Solozobov Russia - PARTICIPANTS 65 - - Russia Commission Timur Suleimenov and Financial Policies, Eurasian Economic Policies, Eurasian Economic and Financial Member of the Board; Minister of Economy Minister of Board; Member of the Fluent in Kazakh, Russian and English. Timur Suleimenov graduated from Pavlodar State University as BA in Management and BA in Law, Robert H. Smith School Smith Robert H. Timurin Law, BA and in Management BA as University State Pavlodar from graduated Suleimenov as MBA in Finance. of Business at the University of Maryland Mr. Suleimenov started his career at Ernst&Young audit company. After that he worked as the director of Department for tax After that he worked as the director company. audit at Ernst&Young started his career Suleimenov Mr. the largest national of subsidiary company in the JSC, Production, and Exploration at Kazmunaigas planning and accounting sector. enterprise of Kazakhstan in the oil and gas public policy for regulation and development of the internal and externalpublic policy for regulation trade. 2010 served as Vice-Minister and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan. of Economy 2009 to March March From Previously, from March 2010 to February 2012 worked as the Vice-Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Re 2010 to February 2012 worked as the Vice-Minister of Economic Development and Trade March from Previously, including international for international relations, economic integration, responsible public of Kazakhstan. At this position was At present Timur Suleimenov ensures implementation of the Commission’s functions in the following spheres: business cli business in the following spheres: functions Timur of the Commission’s implementation At present ensures Suleimenov labor migration; financial markets; currency of the intellectual property; and investment; protection mate for entrepreneurship custom duties for import; and taxation policy. exchange policy; banking; securities; insurance; Alexander Lukashenko, and Nursultan Nazarbayev accordingly to be suprational official – Member of the board (Minister) for (Minister) board the of Member – official suprational to be accordingly Nazarbayev Nursultan and Lukashenko, Alexander Economic Commission. economy and financial policy of Eurasian In February 2012 Mr. Suleimenov was appointed by the Presidents of Russia, Belorussia, and Kazakhstan Dmitry Medvedev, Medvedev, Belorussia, and Kazakhstan Dmitry of Russia, was appointed by the Presidents Suleimenov In February 2012 Mr. 66 PARTICIPANTS PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPSANDAFFILIATIONS tion ofamixedeconomyintheKazakhstan(1999),etc. corporate andsmallbusiness(2007),improving oftheEconomicMechanismSmallBusinesses(2000),strategyforma (2007-2009), thecooperation of small business (2006-2008), building effective implementation mechanisms of property in Post-Soviet Institutionalism: the Authority and Business (2005-2006), the Effectiveness of State Support Small Businesses (2011), waysofimproving publicservice(2009),centralandlocalstatebodiesactivityassessmentsystem(2009); TQM forStateBodies:opportunityandperspectivesofimplementation(2011),HRsysteminCivilServiceKazakhstan RESEARCH PROJECTS: RESEARCH: EconomicGrowth, SMEs,HRMCivilService Expert oftheInstitutePostcrisesDevelopment(Russia)–2008-present days AssociationofInstitutionalresearchMember oftheInternational –2006-present days of PublicAdministrationthePresident Administration Modernization, Academy Administration Modernization, Gulimzhan Suleymenova Director, Instituteof Public Kazakhstan - PARTICIPANTS 67 Belarus Yury Tsaryk Yury Head, Belarusian Development Group Head, Belarusian Threat to International Peace and Security (2010), Sovereign Development of Belarus (2010-2013), the Right to Development to Right the (2010-2013), Belarus of Development Internationalto Sovereign (2010), Security and Peace Threat (2013). Europe New Central and Development of the International Law (2011-2013), and Towards (Moscow, Russian Federation). (Moscow, in Afghanistan as a Geopolitics of Belarus (2010), Drug Production projects: is the leader of the following research Tsarik Yuri Mr. Tsarik worked for the Information-Analytical Center of the Administration of the President of Belarus, Ministry of Information Center of the Administration of the President worked for the Information-Analytical Tsarik Mr. Russian state bodies, think tanks, with number of analytical, PR and GR projects of the Republic of Belarus. He also ran a Migration and Regional Development fellow at the Institute for Demography, research and civil movements. He is a non-staff Mr. Tsarik studied International Law at the Faculty of International and is now a Relations in the Belarusian State University Tsarik Mr. PhD student in International Public Law. Communications Department in Zvyazda Publishing House and is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Center for of is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board in Zvyazda Publishing House and Communications Department Policy Studies, an independent non-partisan think tank in Minsk, Belarus. Strategic and Foreign Yuri Tsarik is a political analyst and leader of the Belarusian Development Group. He works as the head of the Internet He works as Belarusian Development Group. is a political analyst and leader of the Tsarik Yuri 68 PARTICIPANTS Economic Integration. Affairs. HeservesasEditor-in-Chief oftheannualEDB EurasianIntegrationYearbook ofEurasian andthequarterlyJournal ket Studies,Post-CommunistEconomies,European UrbanandRegionalStudies,Voprosy Ekonomiki,andRussiainGlobal He has published numerous research Political Economy, papers in the Review of International of Common Mar the Journal Soviet Integration” (with A. Libman), and “Eurasian Integration: Challenges ofTranscontinental Regionalism” (with A. Libman). Russia: ChallengesofIntegration”(withK.MalflietandL. Verpoest), “Holding-Together Regionalism:20 Years ofthePost- continent. Evgeny Vinokurov has authored a number of monographs,including“ATheory of Enclaves,”“TheEU,CIS,and His current research focusesonintegrationprocesses spanningnotonlythepost-Sovietspace,butalsowholeEurasian regional integration. director oftheEDBCentre forIntegrationStudies,anapplied Russianthinktankspecializinginquantitativeresearch on macro- andmicroeconomic analysis,aswellthe bank’s research program. Since2011,hehasservedasthe founding Economic AnalysisDivisionoftheEurasianDevelopmentBankfrom itsinceptionin2006.Hewasresponsible fordeveloping experience inappliedeconomicresearch projects inGermany, Belgium,France,andChina,hehasworkedas headofthe Institute oftheWorld RelationsoftheRussianAcademyScience.Followingseveralyears EconomyofInternational aPh.D.fromEvgeny Vinokurov earned Pierre Mendes-FranceUniversity(Grenoble II)andaPhD(doktornauk)from the Studies, EurasianDevelopmentBank Director, Centre forIntegration Evgeny Vinokurov Russia - PARTICIPANTS 69 Japan Agency (JICA) Tetsuya Yamada Tetsuya Director, Central Asia and the Caucasus Division, East and Central Asia and the Caucasus Central Asia and the Caucasus Division, East Director, Private Sector Investment Officer, Private Sector Partnership Division, and Investment Director, for Private Sector Partnership, JICA Finance Division, Office Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Uzbekistan Establishment of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) of the merger between OECF and EXIM Bank of Japan. *JBIC was established as a result Fund (OECF) Joined Overseas Economic Cooperation and Asia Central in operations loan ODA of charge in a department in officer loan as a *Assigned City and Regional Planning, Cornell University Graduate School The University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, Department, Japan InternationalDepartment, Cooperation Director, East and Central Asia and Caucasus Central Asia and Caucasus East and Director, Power, Transportation, Water Supply, Education etc.) in Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as private sector investment Education etc.) Supply, Water Transportation, Power, finance operations. Caucasus and Pakistan. and Caucasus (Electric projects ODA loans for infrastructure much of the work was dedicated to the career, the professional Throughout April 1994 April 2000 – June 2002 October 1999 Feb 2012 – Present Department April 2010 –Feb 2012 April 1990-March 1994 April 1990-March Aug 1996 - May 1998 EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: EDUCATION 70 PARTICIPANTS diversification, improvement ofthe businessclimate,andnationaleconomiccompetitiveness. He istheauthorofmore than 250booksandarticlesoneconomicreform processes. Hismajorresearch interests are Economic Forecasting fortheCapital Developmentthrough 2030. of Territorial Development,SmallCitiesIndustrial-InnovationStrategy, AstanaCityDevelopmentStrategy and policies in1998and2008.Hetookpartdevelopmentofanumberbedrock policydocuments,suchastheConception He leddevelopmentoffree economiczonesinKazakhstanandparticipatedthedevelopmentofcrisismanagement and economicliberalization,managementoffiscalpolicy, anddevelopmentofmajorjointprojects, suchas Tengiz-Chevron. He helpedauthorandguidethe1990transitiontoamarketeconomy, implementationofthenationalcurrency, privatization of EconomyandBudgetPlanning. Institute. HehasservedasanadvisortotheChairofMajilisChamberParliamentMr. OspanovandlatertotheMinister statistics databases.From 1984to1996andfrom 1999 to2002heworkedwithandthendirected theEconomicResearch the Kazakh Soviet SocialistRepublic State Planning Center (“Gosplan”). Healsoworkedtoestablish Kazakhstan’s trade Mr. Yessentugelov graduated asaneconomist-mathematicianfrom KazakhStateUniversityandformanyyearsworkedin Arystan Yessentugelov isaKazakhstanieconomistwithmore than50yearsofprofessional experience. Arystan Yessentugelov Member, Board ofDirectors, National AnalyticalCenter Kazakhstan PARTICIPANTS 71 - - - Kazakhstan Vladislav Yezhov Yezhov Vladislav CEO, National Analytical Center CEO, National Analysis and Mid-Term Planning Division and the Deputy Director of the Department of Budget Policy and Planning. Planning Division and the Deputy Director Analysis and Mid-Term State Academy of Management located in Almaty. the Kazakh graduated as an economist from Vladislav Yezhov positions of Economist; Senior Economist; Chief Economist for Budget Planning; Head of Budget Execution Analysis; Deputy Economist for Budget Planning; Economist; Chief of Economist; Senior positions Execution Analysis; and Head of the Analytical Division of the State Budgeting Head of Budget Planning, Reporting and of Economy and Budget Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan as head of the Department. He also served at the Ministry ment for Durable Goods Analysis, and later as the Deputy CEO of the Center. ment for Durable Goods Analysis, and later the he subsequently held Kazakhstan, where Republic of of the of Finance the Ministry at his career He originally started national budgeting, National Fund policy, and public administration reforms. national budgeting, National Fund policy, the head of the Depart first as of Marketing and Analytical Researches, worked at the Center Yezhov In 2003 and 2004, Mr. From 2004 to 2007, he was the lead expert and then the deputy head of the Social and Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Analysis Division of head of the Social and the deputy and then lead expert the he was 2007, to 2004 From for the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy, of the Republic of Kazakhstan, responsible Administration of the President based budgeting, and social policy. In 2011 and 2012 Mr. Yezhov held the position of Adviser to the Chairman of the Execu held the position of Adviser Yezhov In 2011 and 2012 Mr. based budgeting, and social policy. Vladislav Nazarbayev University, and Center Analytical National the at work his to Prior University. Nazarbayev of Council tive of the Prime Minister. Monitoring Division in the Office Program Analysis and served as head of the Macroeconomic Yezhov From 2008 to 2011, he served as the National Analytical Center’s Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board. He was respon Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board. to 2011, he served as the National Analytical Center’s 2008 From performance- of public administration reforms, the spheres in activity consulting of the Center’s sible for the coordination Vladislav Yezhov is currently the Chairman of the Executive Board of the National Analytical Center of Nazarbayev University. of the National Analytical of the Executive Board the Chairman is currently Vladislav Yezhov 72 PARTICIPANTS Belarus Counsellor, EmbassyofBelarusinKazakhstan Oleg Morozov Kyrgyzstan Asia of PublicPolicyandAdministration, UniversityofCentral Senior Research FellowandProject Coordinator, Institute Roman Mogilevskii Russia Community Secretary-General, EurasianEconomicCooperation Tair Mansurov Germany Kazakhstan Head ofOperations,European UnionDelegationin Rene Mally Finland Consultant, McKinsey&Company Jukka Maksimainen Russia Relations International Professor ofPoliticalScience, MoscowStateInstituteof Kirill Koktysh Russia Partner, McKinsey Sergey Kiselev Kazakhstan CooperationAgency(JICA) Japan International Program Coordinator (Technical Cooperation/ODA Loans), Asyel Karatayeva Japan CooperationAgency(JICA) Japan International Expert, Project FormulationAdvisor inKazakhstan, Okazaki Hiroyuki Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Communications,BG President, andInternal Vice External Zarina Bakenova Kazakhstan President ofKazakhstan Rector, AcademyofPublicAdministrationunderthe Bolatbek Abdrassilov & Company

Participants withoutProfiles Kazakhstan Cluster Chairman, SupervisoryBoard, Intellectual andInnovation Member, Board ofTrustees, NazarbayevUniversity; Aslan Sarinzhipov Kazakhstan Deputy ResidentRepresentative, UNDP Ekaterina Paniklova Kazakhstan Exchange Chairman, AdvisoryBoard of“Kaspii”Commodity Yelnar Nadyrgaliyev Kazakhstan Development Bank(ADB) Country Director, KazakhstanResidentMission,Asian Matthew Westfall Kazakhstan Delegation Head, Political,Press andInformation Section,EU Kamen Velichkov Kazakhstan (UNDP) Representative, UnitedNations DevelopmentProgramme Resident Coordinator, UnitedNations;Resident Stephen Tull Germany Director, MunichOffice, McKinsey&Company Martin Stuchtey

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