EASTWEST INSTITUTE
Bridging New Divides
AFTER THE ELECTIONS
MAKING THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY COMPETITIVE
27 April 2004
9:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Equitable Building Conference Auditorium
787 Seventh Avenue
(Between 51st and 52nd Streets)
New York, NY
(Agenda as of 14 April 2004)
Tuesday, April 27
Conference Co-Chairmen: Donald M. Kendall, Former Chairman
and CEO of PepsiCo; George F. Russell, Jr., Chairman Emeritus,
Russell Investment Group and Russell 20-20; Vagit Alekperov,
President, LUKoil
0815-0850
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
0900-0910
WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS
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0910-0920
Donald M. Kendall, Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo; Chairman
Emeritus, EastWest Institute (confirmed)
KEY FINDINGS OF THE COMPETITIVENESS STUDY OF RUSSIA – A Project of
The Kendall-Russell Centre for Corporate Competitiveness
(Copies of the Competitiveness Study’s Executive Summary will be made
available to conference participants)
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0920-0930
George F. Russell, Jr., Chairman Emeritus, Russell Investment Group
and Russell 20-20; Co-Chairman, EastWest Institute (confirmed)
RESPONSE TO THE KEY FINDINGS OF THE COMPETITIVENESS STUDY
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Vagit Alekperov, President, LUKoil (confirmed)
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0930-1045
SESSION I: COMPETITIVENESS AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN RUSSIA,
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: Armen Sarkissian, Advisor to the Chairmen of BP and Alcatel;
Former Prime Minister of Armenia; Director, Eurasia Research Programme,
University of Cambridge (confirmed)
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1045-1200
Vagit Alekperov, President, LUKoil (confirmed)
Sergei Leontiev, President, Probusiness Bank (confirmed)
Alexei Mordashov, Chairman of the Board, SeverStal; Director-General,
SeverStal-Group (confirmed)
Mikhail Zadornov, Deputy of the Russian State Duma; Former
Minister of Finance in Russia; (confirmed)
SESSION II: RESPONSES AND QUESTIONS FROM THE WESTERN BUSINESS
COMMUNITY
Moderator: Francis Finlay, Chairman and CEO, Clay Finlay, Inc. (confirmed)
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Patricia M. Cloherty, Chairman and CEO, The U.S.-Russia Investment
Fund (confirmed)
Dr. László Kapolyi, System Consulting RT, Budapest (invited)
Alexander Landia, Country Managing Director for Russia, Accenture
(confirmed)
I. Martin Pompadur, EVP, News Corp., Chairman, News Corp. Europe;
President and CEO, RP Companies and RP Coffee Ventures (confirmed)
Henrik Torgersen, Executive Vice President – International Operations,
Telenor (confirmed)
Matthias Warnig, President, Dresdner Bank ZAO (confirmed)
Bengt Westergren, Senior Representative – President, AIG Central Europe
& CIS (confirmed)
1200-1210
CONCLUDING REMARKS
1210-1245
MEET AND GREET WITH THE CONFERENCE PANELISTS AND AUTHORS OF
THE COMPETITIVENESS STUDY
1300-1430
LUNCHEON WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Alexei Kudrin, Finance Minister of
the Russian Federation (confirmed)
We would like to extend our special appreciation to Citigroup for sponsoring this event.
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