east forum Berlin
| east forum Berlin | |
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| 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 |
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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]
References
- ↑ "east forum Berlin schafft neue Plattform für europäische Wirtschaftsdebatten". www.berlin.de. 2014-07-12. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
- ↑ "Beratergruppe Ukraine | Präsentation beim 2. east forum Berlin „Eastern Partnership countries between East and West: Perspectives and challenges“". www.beratergruppe-ukraine.de. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
- ↑ "Georgia participates in 3rd East Forum Berlin 2015". agenda.ge. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
- ↑ "Auftaktveranstaltung zum east forum Berlin am 17. und 18. April 2013". Magazin Am-Finanzplatz.de (in German). 17 April 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
- ↑ "General Information: east forum Berlin". Retrieved April 2015.