Business programme

The economies of Eurasia are facing some serious challenges: inflationary risks, issues concerning food and energy security, and growing geopolitical tensions. The climate agenda and the technological transformation that it entails are as important as ever. The daunting tasks that the countries and companies of Eurasia currently face must be solved by reformatting the traditional institutions of international trade and finance on which the global economy has been based for decades. Solutions are needed that will enable Eurasian nations to effectively respond to these challenges. This new reality only increases the importance of creating the Greater Eurasian Partnership, which will be comprised of separate sub-regional partnerships that are akin to building blocks of a future pan-Eurasian structure that is based on the common interests of its participants as well as mutual technological, logistical, and infrastructure proposals. The necessary solutions, many of which already began taking shape during the pandemic, involve strengthening regional integration, developing new tools for trade financing and settlements in national currencies, digitalizing trade and transport routes, solving problems related to technological sovereignty, and cooperative projects based on the best technologies. What sustainable development priorities can be addressed through partnerships in Eurasia? What is the potential for reducing risks associated with food and energy security through cooperation in Eurasia? Are the economies of Eurasia partners or competitors in the context of global technological transformation? Can partnerships in Eurasia make up for weakening multilateral mechanisms? What is needed to create sustainable infrastructure for regional cooperation?

Moderator
Andrey Slepnev, Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission

Andrey Slepnev

Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission

Born September 13, 1969 in Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region.
2005–2007: Head of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate
2007–2009: Deputy Minister of Agriculture
2009–2011: Member of the Trade Panel (Minister) of the Eurasian Economic Commission
February 26 – July, 2016: Assistant to the Prime Minister
July 5, 2016: appointed Deputy Head of the Government’s Executive Office and Director of the Projects Department of the Government of the Russian Federation. From May 2018 to February 2020, he was the CEO of JSC Russian Export Center. On March 2 2020 Andrey Slepnev took office as a member of the Board (Minister) for Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Panellists
Yahya Elwathik Bellah Abdelmoneim Ahmed, First Undersecretary – Head of the Egyptian Commercial Service, Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Alexander Galushka, Vice President, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
Mher Grigoryan, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
Alexey Overchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Bakhyt Sultanov, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Yahya Elwathik Bellah Abdelmoneim Ahmed

First Undersecretary – Head of the Egyptian Commercial Service, Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Alexander Galushka

Vice President, Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation

Не was appointed the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East in September, 2013.
Current responsibilities of the Ministry include coordination work on realization of state and targeted federal programmes, federal property management, supervising control over exercise of powers of the Russian Federation by local governmental authorities of federal subjects in the Russian Far East.
Alexander Galushka graduated from the Institute of Economy of the Moscow State Social University with a degree in “Economy and labor sociology” and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. He directed the "Center of Management of Assessment and Consulting" company.
From 2010 to 2012 he was the President of the All Russia Public Organization "Business Russia" and was a member of the Governmental commission on questions of social and economic development of the Russian Far East, the Republic of Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai and the Irkutsk region.
In 2013 he was elected co-chairman of the Central Staff of social movement "People`s front" for Russia" in 2013.
At present time he is a member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation.

Mher Grigoryan

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Date and Place of Birth
February 15, 1972, Ashtarak
Education
1989-1991, Lomonosov State University (Moscow), Law Department
1991-1994, YSU Law Department, qualification: jurisprudence
1997-1998, 6-month qualification course at Leeds University Business School
Work Experience
1994-1996, Private Entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation
1997-1999, Central Bank of Armenia, Head of Legal Department
1999-2005, Armimpexbank (now Ameriabank), Head of Legal Service, Operational Director
2002-2006, Advisory services provided to the World Bank
2004-2005, HSBC Bank Armenia, Legal Officer
2005-2007, Inecobank, Executive Director
2007-2011, VTB Bank Armenia, Deputy CEO
2006 - 2018, Member of Board of ArCa Credit Reporting
2011-2018, Chairman and CEO of Ardshinbank
2012-2018, Chairman of Board of Armenia Insurance Company
12 May, 2018, appointed the Deputy Prime Minister of RA
Following the resignation of the Government on October 16, 2018, became Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia
On January 16, 2019, was reappointed to the post of Deputy Prime Minister of RA

Marital Status
Married, with a son and a daughter

Alexey Overchuk

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born 9 December 1964 in Korostyshev, Zhitomir Region, Ukraine.

1986: Graduated from the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy with a degree in Economic Cybernetics. PHD in Economics.

1986–1993: Senior laboratory technician at the Economic Cybernetics Department, junior research fellow, research fellow, senior research fellow at the laboratory for economic mechanism improvement at the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

1993–1998: Chief specialist, deputy head of the International Cooperation Department of the Russian State Committee on Land Resources and Land Management.

April–July 1998: Head of the Department of State Registration of Real Estate Rights at the Russian State Land Committee.

July–December 1998: Head of the Information and Analysis Department at the Russian Ministry of Land Policy, Construction, Housing and Utilities.

1998–1999: Head of the Information and Analysis Department at the Russian State Land Committee.

1999–2000: Head of the Information and Analysis Department at the Russian Land Policy Committee.

August 2000: Appointed deputy head of the Russian Federal Cadastre Service.

April 2004: Acting deputy head, July 2004: Deputy head of the Federal Real Estate Cadastre Agency.

2007–2008: Deputy head of the Federal Agency on Special Economic Zones Management.

2008–2010: Held senior positions at UFG Asset Management Group.

2010: Advisor to the head of the Federal Taxation Service.

2011: Appointed deputy head of the Federal Taxation Service.

21 January 2020: Appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia by a Presidential Executive Order.

Bakhyt Sultanov

Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Front row participant
Andrey Tochin, Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy (RFTA) of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Andrey Tochin

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy (RFTA) of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation