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The V-th Astana Economic Forum
April 25, 2012, Astana. The V-th Astana Economic Forum (hereinafter - AEF, the Forum) will be on May 21-24, 2012 in Astana. The Forum will be devoted to challenges and perspectives of world economic development in conditions of global transformation.
The Forum’s open discussions will be attended by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev and the leaders and ex-leaders of 5 states, 11 prime-ministers and ex-prime-ministers, 25 active and former ministers as well as 40 heads of transnational corporations and business, 12 Nobel laureates and eminent scientists of our time.
Among them, Francis Gurry - Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Ming Zhu - Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Sha Zukang - UN Deputy Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, Jorge Quiroga - Vice-President of the Madrid Club, Ex-President of Bolivia (2001-2002), including the Nobel prizewinners in Economics – R.Mundell, R.Aumann, K.Pissarides; politicians: Wim Kok - President of the Madrid Club, ex-Prime-Minister of the Netherlands (1994-2002), Romano Prodi – ex-Prime-Minister of Italia, Tony Blair – ex-Prime-Minister of Great Britain; representatives of business: P.Voser, Chief Executive Officer of the Concern «Royal Dutch Shell», L.Nyberg, President «TeliaSonera», J.Frenkel - Chairman of the Corporation «JPMorgan Chase International».
Total program of the Forum includes 35 events in various formats with participation of more than 5,000 delegates from more than 80 countries.
One of the most exclusive events of the Forum will be a "Dialogue of the leaders: new financial and economic policy," where the interactive debate on global development issues will be attended by the most senior figures from the spheres of economy, business, politics and mass media.
The next important events will be a permanent conference of finance ministers of CIS countries and the conference "Crisis of existence of an international financial architecture", which will focus on counteractions to regional recessions, as well as development of new mechanisms of financial and economic stability.
In addition, the panel session "Practical application of public-private partnership in the economy of Kazakhstan" will take place. Leading experts from the Great Britain, Japan, Russia, international financial institutions and world consulting agencies have been invited for discussion of a wide range of issues on development of a public private partnership in the field of reconstruction and construction of infrastructure.
The Scientific Congress on a future energy which will focus on development of alternative energy sources There will be during the V-th AEF. "Energy Future" is the theme proposed by Kazakhstan for holding of the EXPO 2017 in Astana which will help the republic to attract new technologies for this sector.
The main outcome of the Forum will become traditionally the Open Letter to G-20 countries with recommendations for improvement and development of world economy which will be sent to the organizing committees G-8 and G-20, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Everyone can participate in the development of recommendations for «G-20" countries on the site of the communicative platform «G-Global» of the Astana Economic Forum www.g-global.aef.kz.
Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists’ Executive Body, a representative of the Forum’s organizing committee Karimsakov Murat Ratovich commented the up-coming event as follows: "Increasing of an interest to AEF from the international community has been noted annually. The Astana Economic Forum has received wide international recognition and from year to year expands the geography of the participants. Each of the held four AEF had its main direction and has remembered by interesting recommendations for improvement of the global economy. The up-coming anniversary Forum is ready to accept all guests and with interest discuss the important issues of the world economy at the heart of Eurasia. "
The programme of V-th Astana Economic Forum and the list of confirmed speakers and registration at the Forum are available on the official website www.aef.kz.
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Reference:
Organizers of the V-th Astana Economic Forum- Association "Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists", 13 Ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan, National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, National Wealth Fund "Samruk-Kazyna", United Nations, World Intellectual Property Organization, Reinventing Bretton-Woods Committee, Madrid Club, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and others.
Communicative platform G-Global is an international virtual project oriented to discussing and development of mechanisms to overcome the global financial crisis, initiated by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A.Nazarbayev. G-Global is an invitation to cooperation and collaboration of all states, intergovernmental and non-governmental entities of the world politics, as well as individual politicians, public figures, experts and scientists. The AEF has become a working platform for G-GLOBAL. Today the communicative platform G-Global has joined hundreds of thousands of visitors from 134 countries of the world. According to the data of the Executive Body of the Association "Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists", the site www.gglobal.aef.kz is daily visited more than 7 thousand people. It is on the second place after the internet-resource of Davos meetings in the rating of economic and analytical sites, and it passes ahead all economic forums by the searching index.