International Interregional Cooperation: Economy of Opportunities
In today's world, it is difficult to overestimate the importance of interregional ties and urban diplomacy, which act as new drivers of international relations. These elements play a key role in overcoming foreign policy contradictions at the interstate level, opening new horizons for global cooperation. In 2050, according to the average UN forecast, 68.6% of the world's population will live in cities. Urbanization continues to drive global growth, with cities playing an increasingly important role in business development and becoming more interdependent. The exchange of knowledge and experience in the field of smart cities, modernization of transport infrastructure and tourism development between megacities and cities of countries allows bringing cooperation between countries to a new level. One of the promising directions is the creation of a network of sister cities, which could become platforms for the implementation of joint projects and exchange of best practices in the field of urban management. How can cooperation between cities in the field of urbanism and infrastructure modernization be deepened? How can the experience of tourism development in one region be adapted and used in other regions? What examples of successful cooperation in the field of smart cities already exist between cities?
Moderator
Alexander Ivlev,
Co-Chairman of the Executive Committee, Foreign Participants Coordinator, The Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC); Advisor, B1 Group
Panellists
Ali Babacan,
Chairman, Democracy and Progress Party of the Republic of Turkey; Deputy Prime-Minister of the Republic of Turkey
Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia,
Governor of the Province of Cebu of the Republic of Philippines
Irina Guseva,
Co-chairman, All-Russian Association for the Development of Local Self-Government; Member of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Local Self-Government
Vladislav Loginov,
Mayor of Krasnoyarsk
Evgeniy Naumov,
Head of the Municipal Formation of the City of Krasnodar
Dmitry Polikanov,
Deputy Head, Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo)
Sergey Cheremin,
Minister, Government of Moscow; Head of the Department for External Economic and International Relations of Moscow
Kadiatu Allie,
First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Sierra Leone
Front row participants
Igor Bailen,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to the Russian Federation
Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the Russian Federation
Shobin Li,
President, Financial and Business Association of Euro-Asian Cooperation