Programm

9^th International Financial and Economic Forum, Vienna Wednesday, 12^th November, and Thursday, 13^th November 2003 House of Industry, Schwarzenbergplatz 4

Wednesday, 12^th November 2003

07.45 a.m.

Admisssion and security check

08.30 a.m.

Opening

Reinhard O.F. Hummel, Initiator and Chairman ifw®

Welcome

Dkfm. Lorenz Fritz, Secretary General, Federation of Austrian Industry

08.45 a.m.

1. Session

"Intercontinental tensions US versus EU: Can Europe achieve an economic policy breakthrough?"

Moderator:

Dr. Holger Schmieding, Co-Head of European Economics, Bank of America, Great Britain

Speaker:

Lord David Owen, Chairman, Yukos International, Great Britain; Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs W.L. Lyons Brown, US Ambassador to Austria Dkfm. Claus Raidl, Chairman of the Management Board, Böhler-Uddeholm AG, Austria Prof. Dr. Kurt J. Lauk; President, Economic Council to the Christian Democratic Party E.V., Germany Dipl. Ing. Gottfried Heller, Managing Director FIDUKA Depotverwaltung, Munich, Germany, Verwaltungsrat PMG Fonds Management AG, Zurich, Switzerland

10.30 a.m.

Coffee break

11.00 a.m.

2. Session

"The Russian financial market in international competition – for investors"

Moderator:

Dr. Friedrich Jergitsch, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Austria

Speaker:

Hubert Pandza, Business Group Director for Russia and Central Asia, EBRD, Great Britain Michel Perhirin, Chairman of the Board, ZAO Raiffeisenbank Austria, Russian Federation Dr. Max B. Gutbrod, International Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Russian Federation Reinhard Kohleick, Managing Director, Quadriga Capital, Russian Federation Laurence Carter, Manager, Financial Institutions, Central and Eastern Europe Departement, International Finance Corporation, The World Bank Richard Lowrie, Director Banking Strategy, EMEA, SAP, Great Britain S. Pakhomov, Chairman of the State Debt Committee of the City of Moscow Alisher A. Normatov, General Director, Stroymetresurs, Moscow

11.00 a.m.

Investment workshop

"Republic of Slovakia"

Moderator:

Dr. Borys Dackiw, Managing Partner, Baker & McKenzie v.o.s., Czech Republic

Speaker:

Lubomir Marek, Marek & Partner, Slovak Republic Dipl.Ing. Dr. Jozef Kollár, Chairman of the Board, L’Udová Banka a.s. - Volksbank AG, Slovak Republic Dr. Werner Behrens, President, European Institute for Standards of Investment Studies (EUSIS), Austria Karl Peter Wilhelm, Volkswagen Slovakia a.s., Slovak Republic

11.00 a.m.

Investment workshop

"Republic of Bulgaria"

Moderator:

Dr. Peter Kadletz, Managing Director Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Head of Syndication and Loan Markets

Speaker:

Dimitar Totev, Partner, Totev & Ivanov Law Firm, Bulgaria Andriana Tosheva, Executive Director, Bulgarian Industrial Business Association (BIBA)

01.15 p.m.

Buffet lunch

02.45 p.m.

3. Session

"Research and Development: Applied research as primer of the economic system"

Moderator:

Dr. sc. nat.Dipl.Chem. ETH Rainer Schaad, Chairman, Interman Consulting AG, Switzerland

Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Klaas Bergmann, Department of Physics of the University Kaiserslautern, Germany Prof. Dr. Helmut Rauch, Director, Atominstitute of the Austrian Universities Juris Lujans, Minister of Economics of the Republic of Latvia Dr. Nikolai Mugue, Head of Genetic Research, Kolzov Institute of Developmental Biology RAS, Russian Federation Dr. Krishna Nathan, Director, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Winfried J. Huppmann, Leiter Corporate Innovation Management, Hilti AG, Schaan, Fürstentum Liechtenstein Prof. Dipl. Ing. Dr. Ewald Benes, Leiter Arbeitsgruppe Sensoren und Ultraschall am Institut IAP, Wien

02.45 p.m.

2.1 Session

"Securitisation - International and in Russia"

Moderator:

Erwin Brunner, President, BrunnerInvest, Switzerland

Speaker:

Dimitry V. Budakov, General Director, Moscow Mortgage Agency, Russian Federation Marat Ametov, Vice-President, Rosbank, Russian Federation Oleg M. Ivanov, Coordinator of the Expert Council for elaboration of securities market legislation; Assistant to Deputy Chairman, Duma Financial Committee, State Duma, Russian Federation Tim Lassen, Business Sector, European Business, System-Marketing, Association of German Mortgage Banks, Germany Dr. Friedrich Jergitsch, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Austria

03.30 p.m.

2.2 Session

"Globalisation of financial market fields: WTO, Basel II, money laundering, insider trading, market associations"

Moderator:

Dr. Max Gutbrod, International Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Russian Federation

Speaker:

o. Univ. Prof. Dr.iur. Ewald Nowotny, Austria Dr. Peter M. Werner, Policy Director Europe, ISDA - International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Great Britain Dr. Stephan Ochsner, LL.M., Director, Due Diligence Unit, Principality of Liechtenstein Lucien Thiel, Director, Association des Banques et Banquiers Luxembourg (ABBL) Mag. Andreas Ittner: Director Financial Institutions and Markets

04.00 p.m.

Coffee break

04.00 p.m.

Investment workshop

"Republic of Kazakhstan"

Moderator:

Detlef-Ulrich Dubke, General Manager, PROMA Projektmanagement Detlef-Ulrich Dubke KEG, Austria

Speaker:

Dr. Rakhat M. Aliyev, Ambassador of Republic of Kazakhstan in Austria Essengaly K. Baimenov, Chairman of the Board, Mercur Holding, Kazakhstan Curtis B. Masters, Managing Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Kazakhstan Askar S. Smankulov, Generaldirektor, KasTransOil, Kasachstan

06.30 p.m.

End of first day

Thursday, 13th November

08.30 a.m.

4. Session

"European monetary policy - a model? Central banks Dollar and Euro strategies"

Moderator:

Dr. Martin Hüfner, Chief Economist and Managing Director of the Department Economics & FI/FX Research HVB Group, Germany

Speaker:

Dr. Klaus Liebscher, Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank Dr. Michael H. Moskow, , President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, USA; Member of FOMC Federal Open Market Committee Prof. Dr. Lucas Papademos, Vice-President, European Central Bank Matti Vanhala, Governor, Bank of Finland

10.45 a.m.

Coffee break

11.15 a.m.

5. Session

"Central and South-Eastern Europe – chances and risks for investors"

Moderator:

Mag. Franz Friedl, Senior General Manager, HVB Bank Bosnia & Herzegovina

Speaker:

Ivan Mikloš, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic Oltmann G. Siemens, Special Representative in Europe, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group Christian Schwarz, SAP, Austria Tatjana Divjak, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia Mag. Monika Leonhard, Human Resource Manager, Österreichische Volksbanken-AG, Austria Fuad Strik, Coca Cola BiH, Country General Manager George Bobvos, President of Management Board, Lafarge Beocinska Fabrika Cementa, Serbia and Montenegro

11.00 a.m.

Investment workshop

"Banks, capital market, stock exchange"

Moderator:

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger von Rosen, Managing Director, Deutsches Aktieninstitut e.V., Germany

Speaker:

Gagerin A. Tosunyan, President, Association of Russian Banks, Russian Federation Dimitry V. Budakov, General Director, Moscow Mortgage Agency, Russian Federation Eduard Zernin, Vice-President, Region Investment Group, Russian Federation Alexander S. Komarov, Bank of Moscow Dr. Albrecht Bürger, Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Börse AG

11.00 a.m.

Investment workshop

"Life Science Informatics"

Moderator:

Christian Schaad, Executive Vice President, Life Science Informatics, Interman Consulting AG, Switzerland Consulting AG, Schweiz

Speaker:

a.o.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Otto Doblhoff-Dier, Head, Technical Affairs and Autologous Vaccines, igeneon, Austria Ciro Römer, President of Synthes-Stratec Europe and Latin America Dr. Nikolai Mugue, Head of Genetic Research, Kolzov Institute of Developmental Biology RAS, Russian Federation

01.30 p.m.

Buffet lunch sponsored by

Investment workshop

"Republic of Serbia/Montenegro"

03.00 p.m.

Moderator:

Mladen Kasagic, Managing Director East & Southeast Europe, Neumann Group, Austria

Speaker:

Mihajlo Kovac, Ambassador of Serbia/Montenegro in Austria Richard Daničić, Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia and Montenegro Dipl.-Ing. Aleksandar Grgić, General Manager, Wurth d.o.o., Serbia and Montenegro Dr. Horst Ebhardt, Wolf Theiss

Investment workshop

"Leasing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe"

03.00 p.m.

Moderator:

Dr. Sergei Avramov, Member of the Expert Council for Securities Legislation and Securities Market, State Duma, Russian Federation

Speaker:

KR Claudius Lettmayer, Managing Director, VB Leasing International Holding GmbH, Austria Tom Hammack, Counsel, EBRD, Great Britain Mag. Helmut Horvath, Managing Director, Bank Austria Creditanstalt Leasing GmbH, Austria Boris Davidovich Shencis, Stellv. Leiter des Finanzdepartments im Ministerium für Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Handel der Russischen Föderation

Investment workshop

"Cross-boarder M&A throughout Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union"

03.00 p.m.

Moderator:

Paul G. Putz, Paul Putz & Partner Consultancy, Austria; Member of the Board of Directors, Region Investment Group, Russian Federation

Speaker:

Dr. Christian von Wistinghausen, Partner, Beiten Burkhardt Rechtsanwälte, Russian Federation Pavel Gourine, Member of the Board, Head of Investment Banking and Corporate Finance, ZAO Raiffeisenbank Austria, Russian Federation Georg Ruckenbauer, Director, CA IB Corporate Finance Russia Scott P. Lamb, CFA, Chief Executive Officer, EPIC Advisors Ltd., Russian Federation

04.15 p.m.

Coffee break

06.00 p.m.

End of the 9th ifw®

07.00 p.m.

Evening at a Heurigen in Grinzing, including music, € 30,00 A voucher can be obtained at the House of Industry on 12th and 13th November.