Programme

BRICS BUSINESS FORUM

Panel Session
Pavilion 3, Amphitheatre

International business and government leaders will gather to discuss a broad agenda: the current state of cooperation in trade and investment between the BRICS countries and future prospects in this area, ways to stimulate economic recovery in the BRICS countries, building and strengthening inter-regional ties, establishing a favourable business environment, harmonizing trade regulations, and removing administrative barriers and bottlenecks.

Moderator:
Sergey Katyrin , President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Panellists
Paulo Nogueirga Batista , Executive Director, IMF
Sergey Vasiliev , Deputy Chairman, Member of the Management Board, State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)
Alexey Likhachev , Chief Executive Officer, ROSATOM State Atomic Energy Corporation
Andrey Nikitin , Acting Governor of Novgorod Region
Alexander Saltanov , Vice-President of International Relations and Foreign Economic Affairs, Russian Railways JSC
Didar Singh , General Secretary, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Rustem Khamitov , Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Dmitriy Shugaev , Deputy Chief Executive Officer, International Affairs, Rostec State Corporation
Ping Yu , Vice-Chair, Sherpa, B20 China

Front row participants
Anatoly Aksakov , Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Financial Markets; President, Association of Regional Banks of Russia (Association ‘Russia’)
Sergey Bednov , General Director, Expocentre
Natalya Komarova , Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area–Yugra
Sergey Korotkov , Director, UNIDO Center for International Industrial Cooperation in the Russian Federation
C.P. Ravindranath Menon , Chief General Manager, Export-Import Bank of India
Boris Titov , Presidential Commissioner of the Russian Federation for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights

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