Speakers

   

       Irina Akimova

Director Bureau for Economic and Social Technologies (BEST)

 

       Anders Åslund

Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA; Chairman of the CASE Advisory Council.

 

       Leszek Balcerowicz

Former President of the National Bank of Poland; Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland. Member of the CASE Supervisory Council.

 

       Ray Barell

Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Economics and Social Research [NIESR].

 

       Abdur Chowdhury

Director, Technical Cooperation Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland.       

                                                             

       Marek Dabrowski

Chairman of the CASE Supervisory Council, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the CASE Ukraine in Kiev and the member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for the Economy in Transition.

 

       Sergey Drobyshevsky

Director of the Department for Macroeconomics and Finance Institute for the Economy in Transition (IET).

 

       Michael Emerson

Associate Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium.

 

       Refik Erzan

Professor of Economics, Director, Center for Economics and Econometrics, Bogazici University, Istanbul.

 

       Paolo Garonna

Deputy Executive Secretary,United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland. 

                                                                                                  

       Alan Gelb

Director, Development Policy, Development Economics Vice President's Office, The World Bank.

 

       Stephen P. Groff

Deputy Vice President for Operations and a member of senior executive management team, Millennium Challenge Corporation.

 

       Daniel Gros

Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium; advisor to European Union countries and former advisor to Russia and other CIS countries. Member of the CASE Advisory Council.

 

       Jürgen von Hagen

Professor of Economics, University of Bonn, Indiana University, and CEPR.

 

       Paul G. Hare

Professor of Economics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Founder of Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation (CERT), research centre on the transition economies, in 1990; and currently working on institutions and development in the framework of a five-year research programme on 'Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth.'

 

       Sebastien Jean

Research Director, INRA, UMR INRA-AgroParisTech Economie Publique.

 

       Anna Kolesnichenko

Associate member of CASE Ukraine. 

      

       George Kopits

Member of the Monetary Council at National Bank of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.

 

       Keun Lee

Professor of Economics at the Seoul National University.

 

       Matthias Lücke

Senior Economist, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. University Lecturer, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences and Institute for Social Science, Kiel University.

                        

       Georges de Menil

Professor of Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; Adjunct Professor, New York University, USA.

       Jock Mendoza-Wilson

Director of International and Investor Relations, System Capital Management.

  

       Peter Mihalyi

Head of Department, Department of Finance, University of Veszprém. Visiting Professor, Economics Department, Central European University. Research Associate, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

 

       Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Division Chief, Research Department, International Monetary Fund. Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research [CEPR].

 

       Roman Mogilevsky

Executive Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Social and Economic Research CASE-Kyrgyzstan.

       Lucjan Orlowski

Professor of Economics and International Finance, Department of Economics and Finance, Sacred Heart University. Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn. Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute (WDI). Research Professor, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Member of the CASE Advisory Council.

       Wojciech Paczynski

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Social and Economic Research [CASE].

 

       Vladimer Papava

Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS). Member of the Parliament of Georgia (Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Finance and Budget). Member of the Board of Directors of CASE Transcaucasus.

 

       Jean Pisani-Ferry

Director of Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (Bruegel) and Professor of economics at Université Paris-Dauphine. Former Executive President of the French Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. Member of the European Commission's Group of Economic Policy Analysis (GEPA).

 

       Leonid Polishchuk

Associate Director, IRIS Center, Department of Economics at the University of Maryland-College Park, USA

 

       Samir Radwan

Ex Managing Director, Economic Research Forum 

 

       Jacek Rostowski

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics at the Central European University in Budapest. Member of the CASE Supervisory Council.

 

       Susan Schadler

Deputy Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF).  

 

       Oleksandr Savchenko

Deputy Governor, National Bank of Ukraine.

 

       Lucio Vinhas de Souza

Head of the Russia/Belarus Desk, DG-ECFIN, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Formerly held the position of Associate Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Secretariat. 

 

       Jan Svejnar

The Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Director of the International Policy Center and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Member of the CASE Advisory Council.

 

       Milica Uvalić

Professor of Economics, University of Perugia, Italy; Former President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES). 

 

       Chia Siow Yue

Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.  Former Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore, Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and  Regional Coordinator of the East Asian Development Network. Research consultant to several international and regional organizations.

 

       Krassen Stanchev

Chairman of the Board, Institute for Market Economics, former member of Bulgarian parliament.

 

       Jacob von Weizsacker

Research Fellow at the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (Bruegel).

 

       Jonathan White

Program Officer, the German Marshall Fund of the United States. 

                                                                      

       Martin Wolf

Associate editor and chief economics commentator of the "Financial Times".

 

       Wing Thye Woo

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Professor of Economics, University of California at Davis, USA; Chang Jiang Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China; Director of the East Asia Program within the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Member of the CASE Advisory Council.

 

       Wei Zhang

University Lecturer and Director of Cambrdige Reserch Centre on Chinese Economy, East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.