THE 3RD CASPIAN CORRIDOR CONFERENCE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (EBRD) 12 MARCH 2015 London
BUILDING A SECURE, DIVERSIFIED ENERGY AND ECONOMIC CORRIDOR FROM EUROPE TO ASIA
AGENDA 8.30-9.15 OPENING WELCOME
The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London Alan Yarrow Enzo Quattrociocche, Secretary General, EBRD Sir John Boyd, Chairman, Asia House Dr. Jahangir Hajiyev, Chairman, International Bank of Azerbaijan; Co-Chair, Britain Azerbaijan Business Council (BABC) Gary Campkin, Director, International Strategy, TheCityUK
9.15-9.25 SPECIAL GREETING TO THE CASPIAN CORRIDOR CONFERENCE
Lord John Browne, Executive Chairman, L1 Energy; former Chief Executive of BP
9.25-10.30 CASPIAN REGIONAL ENERGY KEYNOTES
The Energy Outlook Session will be delivered as separate keynote statements.
Riccardo Puliti, Managing Director for Energy, EBRD Charles Hendry MP, Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan; Former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Natig Aliyev, Minister of Energy, Azerbaijan Vladimir Shkolnik, Minister of Energy of Kazakhstan*
10.30–10.45 BREAK
10.30–11.30 CASPIAN ENERGY VISION
Ian Sutherland, Regional Vice President, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, BP H.E. Irfan Saddiq, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Azerbaijan Dr Urban Rusnák, Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat* Mehmet Öğütçü, Chairman, Global Resources Partners; Founder & Executive Chair,
Bosphorus Energy Club Chair: Riccardo Puliti, Managing Director for Energy, EBRD
11.30-12.30 TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE: THE NEW SILK ROAD BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA
Thomas Maier, Managing Director, Infrastructure, EBRD* Thierry de Longuemar, Vice President, Finance and Risk Management, Asian Development Bank (ADB)* Ahmed Calik, Chairman, Calik Holding* Fuad Akhundov, CEO, Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant JSC (Turkey) Chair: Michael Lawrence, CEO, Asia House
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-14.15 FRONTIER MARKETS AND FINANCIAL RULE OF LAW: KEYS TO SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, INVESTMENT AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
Sir David Wootton, Co-Chair, Kazakh-British Trade & Industry Council (KBTIC); former 684th Lord Mayor of the City of London Lord Timothy Clement-Jones, Managing Partner, London Office, DLA Piper Francis Fitzherbert-Brockholes, Partner, White & Case Chair: Lady Barbara Judge, Chairman, UK Pension Protection Fund; UK Business Ambassador, UKTI
14.15-15.00 FINANCING CASPIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Rt Hon The Lord Janvrin GCB KCVO PC, Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy for Turkey* Hakan Ateş, CEO, Denizbank* Zubaid Ahmad, Vice Chairman, Institutional Clients Group, Citigroup Global Markets Chair: Francis Malige, Managing Director, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, EBRD
15.00-15.15 BREAK
15.15-16.00 IT, INNOVATION & INDUSTRY: DIVERSIFYING FOUNDATIONS FOR GROWTH
Elmir Valizadeh, Deputy Minister of Communications and High Technology of Azerbaijan David Thomas, Partner, Global Head of Economics & Regulation, UK Head of Economics & Disputes, KPMG Dr. Siddharth S. Saxena, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University; Chair, Cambridge Central Asia Forum Chair: Danil Kerimi, Head of ICT Government Community, World Economic Forum USA*
16.00-17.00 NEW TRADE, OLD NEIGHBORS: PROSPECTS FOR IRAN, TURKEY, RUSSIA, CHINA, INDIA AND OTHER NEIGHBORS ALONG THE NEW SILK TRADE CORRIDOR
Oksana Antonenko, Senior Political Counsellor, EBRD Vahid Alaghband, Founder and Chairman, Balli Group H.E. Tahir Taghizadeh, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the UK Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy for Iraq Chair: Fadi Farra, Co-Founder and Partner, Whiteshield Partners
17.00–17.15 CLOSING REMARKS AND FAREWELL
The Rt Hon Baroness Elizabeth Symons, Former Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, Minister of State for the FCO and UKTI, Co-Chair, BABC
17.15-18.15 Transportation to Guildhall from THE EBRD for Champagne Reception & Concert
19.00 CASPIAN LIGHTS CONCERT AT GUILDHALL, ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
*To Be Confirmed