east forum Berlin

east forum Berlin
Frequency Annually
Location(s) Berlin, Germany
Inaugurated 2013 by Achim Oelgarth and Rainer Lindner and since 2015 with Ivonne Bollow
Most recent April 2015
Participants 250 to 350 from 30 countries
Organised by UniCredit, METRO GROUP, Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Federal State of Berlin
Website
www.eastforum-berlin.de

Every year, the east forum Berlin brings together high-ranking opinion leaders from the political and business worlds in the East and the West to discuss challenges and opportunities faced by the economic area from Lisbon to Vladivostok and beyond. It was founded in 2013.[1][2]

The overall aim of the east forum Berlin is to facilitate dialogue in order to overcome barriers for prosperity, to exchange know-how and intensify networks. In addition, this international event is an opportunity to present Berlin as a vibrant location of political and economic debate.[3]

The upcoming east forum Berlin 2016 takes place during Germany's OSCE Chairmanship in the middle of new deadlocks and new dynamics that characterise the transforming economic and political realities in the region from Europe to Asia. The two opposing trends are embedded firstly, in new division lines leading to an unfamiliar status quo of alienation. And, secondly, they are surrounded by recently formed alliances consisting of as yet poorly known stakeholders, which create new spheres of influence. These dynamics offer fresh potential for growth but also involve geopolitical and geo-economic challenges for all stakeholders in the region.

List of speakers since 2013

Name Name Name Name Name Name
Mikhail Alekseev Dr Gernot Erler Andrzej Kopyrski Ara Nranyan Bakytzhan Sagintayev Dr Volker Treier
Chris Antonopoulos Joschka Fischer Prof Hans-Helmut Kotz Günther Oettinger Dr Harald Schwager Jérôme Vacher
Dr Anders Åslund Mark Frese Alena Kupchyna Dr Heinz Olbers Giuseppe Scognamiglio Prof Günter Verheugen
Dr Péter Balás Dr Ricardo Giucci Giorgi Kvirikashvili Marcus Osegowitsch Željko Sertić Dr Giuseppe Vita
Gianfranco Bisagni Alexey Grigoriev Iurie Leancă Djoomart Otorbaev Pavlo Sheremeta Carlo Vivaldi
Dr Wolf-Ruthart Born Alexei Gromyko Rasim Ljajić Gianni Franco Papa Igor Shuvalov Hristiyana Vucheva
Dr Karl Brauner Dr Azra Hadziahmetovic Kristjan Maruste Bill Pavleski Dmytro Shymkiv Dr Theo Waigel
Vasile Bumacov Dr Johannes Hahn Dr Hans-Jürgen Meyer Daniels Pavluts Andrei Slepnev Niko Warbanoff
Dr Erhard Busek James Hansen Frauke Mispage Gerhard Pfeifer Stephan Steinlein Siegfried Wolf
Fikret Čaušević Fadil Ismajli Lubomir Mitov Alain Pilloux Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier Klaus Wowereit
Sir Suma Chakrabarti Florin Nicolae Jianu Jan Mládek Dmitri Polyanskiy Ludwig Soukup Cornelia Yzer
Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser Guido Kerkhoff Dr Peter Mooslechner Friedrich A. Rather Dmytro Tabachnyk Dr Guido Westerwelle
Dr Eckhard Cordes Viktor Khristenko Michael Müller Dr Albert Rau Dr Johannes Teyssen Wolfgang Büchele
Lutz Diederichs Dr Thomas Kirchberg Dr Christian Nagel Johannes Regenbrecht Hashim Thaçi Witold Waszczykowski
Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis Olaf Koch Erik Nielsen Janusz Reiter Emmanuel Thomassin Ulrich Grillo
Mircea Ciopraga Dr Michael Diederich Niko Warbanoff Wang Dezhan Prof Dr Rainer Lindner Volker Treier
Vache Gabrielyan Elena Burmistrova Klaus Schäfer Zhecho Stankov Pieter Boone Philipp Rösler

Organization

The east forum Berlin has been founded by Achim Oelgarth, Rainer Lindner as well as Ivonne Bollow and is organized by UniCredit, Metro Group, and the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (Ost-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft) in cooperation with the Federal State of Berlin.[4] Since 2016 BDI and DIHK have joined as well. Media partners are eastonline and Ost-Ausschuss Informationen. Participation is by invitations only, which are extended to representatives from politics and business.[5]

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