EU-EurAsia- China Business Summit - “Building bridges from East to West” 2017 | The Economist Newspaper Limited | 9 October 2017 | Athens, Greece, Agiou Nikolaou 10 Vouliagmeni, Athens 166 71

The Economist Events in cooperation with the Greek Eurasian Business Council have great pleasure in announcing the organisation of the EU-EURASIA-CHINA BUSINESS SUMMIT entitled “Building bridges from east to west”.
While the Eurasian Economic Union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia) unravels its potential as a factor of stability and prosperity in the broader Eurasian space, China develops its “Belt & Road” strategy to connect Far East, Central Asia, Middle East and Europe through new infrastructure networks and trade routes.

2017 Speakers

•John Andrews
Consultant editor, The Economist

Joan Hoey
Regional director, Europe, Economist Intelligence Unit

Prokopis Pavlopoulos
President of the Hellenic Republic

Valech Aleskerov
Chairman, FTZ special economic area next to the Alat seaport, ex-vice speaker of the Azerbaijan Parliament, ex. general director, SOCAR

Dimitris Avramopoulos
Commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, European Commission

Dimitrios Bakolas
President, Hellenic Russian Chamber of Commerce

Jean-Guy Carrier
Executive chairman, Silk Road Chamber of International Commerce (SRCIC)

Vladimir Chizhov
Ambassador, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Spyros Flogaitis
Director & president of the board of directors, European Public Law Organization (EPLO)

Arsen Ghazaryan
President, Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia

Konstantin Goncharov
Head, Russian-Greek Council for Co-operation and Investments, member of the board of management, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, general director, Novotrans

Jemal Inaishvili
Ηonorary chairman, Silk Road Chamber of International Commerce (SRCIC)

Kairgeldy Kabyldin
General director & member of the BoD, Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), Kazakhstan, ex chairman, Kazmunaigaz

Nonna Kagramanyan
Vice-president for International Affairs, All Russia Public Organization “Delovaya Rossiya”

George Katrougkalos
Alternate minister of foreign affairs, Greece

Laza Kekic
Independent consultant, fmr regional director for Europe & director for country forecasting services, Economist Intelligence Unit

Natasha Khanjenkova
Managing director for central Asia and Russia, EBRD

Elena Kountoura (acceptance in principle)
Minister of tourism, Greece

Spyros Kouvelis
President, Greek Eurasian Business Council

Zviad Kvatchantiradze
MP, chairman, Committee on Diaspora and Caucasus Issues, Georgia

Jianzhong Lu
Founding chairman, Silk Road Chamber of International Commerce (SRCIC)

Emmanuel Panagiotakis
Chairman & CEO, Greek Public Power Corporation

Nikos Pappas
Minister of digital policy, media and telecommunications, Greece

Mujtaba Rahman
Managing director, Eurozone, Greece, UK, Eurasia Group

Paolo Scaroni
Deputy chairman, Rothschild Group

Savvas Seimanidis
President, European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF)

Konstantin Simonov
Founder and director general, National Energy Security Fund, Russia

George Stathakis
Minister of environment and energy, Greece

Juerg Steffen
Chief operating officer, Henley & Partners

Boris Tadic
Former president, Serbia

Nicolas Vernicos
President, International Chamber of Commerce, vice-chair, Silk Road Chamber of International Commerce (SRCIC)

2017 SPONSORS

• GOLD SPONSORS
Henley & Partners

• BRONZE
Consolidated Contractor Company

• ONLINE COMMUNICATION SPONSOR
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