XV Anniversary International Conference «Russian Regions in the Focus of Changes»

15:22, October 12, 2020

Founding partner of Vinciamo Consulting, former Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal will be a keynote speaker

Paulo Portas, a Portuguese politician, former Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal. Currently he is Vice-President of Portugal’s Confederation of Commerce and Industry, founding partner of Vinciamo Consulting.

The politicial has confirmed his keynote speech at the plenary session «The Coronavirus Economic Impact in Russia and Beyond. Recovery Tools« at the biggest economic conference of Ural Federal University «Russian Regions in the Focus of Changes». The session is taking place on November 12th online. 

The conference is organised by UrFU Graduate School of Economics and Management, Analytical Center Expert and Expert Ural Business Magazine.

Among the keynote speakers this year:

• Paulo Portas, Vice-President of Portugal’s Confederation of Commerce and Industry, founding partner of Vinciamo Consulting, former Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal.
• Valery Fadeev, Advisor to the Russian President
• Amber Alvarez, Chief Innovations Office at Highered EFMD Shared Career Services
• Tim Mescon, Vice President of AACSB
• Shlomo Weber, President of New Economics School
• Sergey Myasoedov, Director of Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA, President of Russian Association of Business Education and others

Registration is open!

Reference

On November 10-14, 2020, UrFU Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, in cooperation with Analytical Center Expert and Expert Ural Business Magazine are organising the XV Anniversary International Conference «Russian Regions in the Focus of Changes».

This year, the conference events reasonably focus on the context of the coronavirus pandemic, its influence on the economy, and the recovery tools after current economic downfall, which is unprecedented in its nature and scale. The new normal led us to update the XV conference format to the combination of online and offline events with most of the sessions available online fostering global expert discussion. Tentative programme of the conference is attached to the letter. The English track focuses on top-notch topics of global higher education in business and management.