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7th YALTA ANNUAL MEETING
September 30 – October 3, 2010
Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine
Ukraine and the World: Re-Thinking and Moving On
THURSDAY, September 30 20:30 Welcome Reception and Dinner at Oreanda Hotel FRIDAY, October 1 09:00 – 09:30 Conference Opening Welcoming remarks: Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES Moderator: Chrystia Freeland, Global Editor-at-Large, Reuters News 09:30 – 11:00 Ukraine in a Changing World. Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine Europe’s Future in a Time of Challenges. Bronislaw Komorowski, President
of the Republic of Poland 11:00 – 11:30 Conference Photo and Coffee Break 11:30 – 12:40 The New Global Order and Its Key Players Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy (opening remarks) Alexander Babakov, Deputy Speaker, State Duma of the Russian Federation Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Javier Solana, fmr. High Representative of the EU for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Member of the Board of YES Wang Jisi, Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University 12:40 – 14:20 Lunch 13:15 – 13:45 Lunch Speech: Euro 2012 - A Chance for Business to Contribute to Ukraine’s Modernisation: Kharkiv as a Case Study Alexander Yaroslavskiy, General investor and coordinator of Kharkiv for Euro 2012, Owner and President of DCH, President of FC Metalist 14:20 – 15:30 The Crisis and Economic Re-Building Alexei Kudrin, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation (opening remarks) Iryna Akimova, First Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Ukraine Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Olivier Descamps, Managing Director, Turkey, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, EBRD Andrey Kostin, President, VTB Bank 15:30 – 16.00 What Happened to Our Economies and How To Avoid It Happening Again? (TV Link) Martin Wolf, Columnist, Financial Times and Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics 16:00 – 17:00 Climate Change – A Global Threat Ignored in Ukraine Kofi Annan (opening remarks, via TV link) Inger Andersen, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank Nikolai Dronin, Moscow State University Joschka Fischer, Adviser, Nabucco Project Andriy Klyuev, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine 17:00 – 17:30 How to Overcome the Crisis and Build Sustainable Economies (TV Link) Larry Summers, Director, National Economic Council of the United States 19:45 – 24:00 Dinner at Livadia Palace 20:30 – 21:15 Dinner Speech: The United States and the Global Shifts of the 21st Century William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States SATURDAY, October 2 09:00 – 10:00 The Global Economy and Ukraine Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:15 Building High-Tech Economies – an Eastern Silicon Valley and Wall Street? Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman, Renova Group; Coordinator, International Innovation Center “Skolkovo” Alexander Voloshin, Head of the Working Group on Creating an International Financial Center in the Russian Federation 11:15 – 12:00 Modernising Ukraine - From Strategy to Implementation Borys Kolesnikov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladyslav Kaskiv, Head of the Working Group for National Projects, Committee on Economic Reforms Kirill Dmitriev, President, ICON Private Equity And 12:00 – 13:00 Ukraine: Should it Move East Or West? Elmar Brok, MEP, Foreign Policy Spokesman of the EPP in the European Parliament Sergey Glaziev, Secretary General, EurAsEc Customs Union Commission Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005) Marek Siwiec, MEP, Member of the Board of YES 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:30 The Energy Challenge Leonid Grigoriev, President, Institute for Energy and Finance Alan Riley, Professor, City University London 15:30 – 16:30 Paths to Ukraine’s Future – What Change Do We Need? Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Volodymyr Lytvyn, Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine Sergiy Tigipko, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenyi Yatseniuk, MP, Leader of “Front of Change” 16:30 – 17:00 Concluding Session Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES 19:30 Nemiroff BBQ Party at Oreanda Hotel SUNDAY, October 3 12:00 Arrival to Kyiv. International departures 
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