Programme Dr. Rakhat M. Aliyev Ambassador of Republic of Kazakhstan in Austria Marat Ametov Vice-President, Rosbank, Russian Federation Dr. Sergei Avramov Partner, Beiten Burkhardt Attorneys at Law; Member of the Expert Council for Securities Legislation and Securities Market, State Duma, Russian Federation Essengaly K. Baimenov Chairman of the Board, Mercur Holding, Kazakhstan Dr. Werner Behrens President, European Institute for Standards of Investment Studies (EUSIS), Austria Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Ewald Benes Director, Institute of General Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Prof. Dr. h.c. Klaas Bergmann Department of Physics of the University Kaiserslautern, Germany W.L. Lyons Brown Ambassador of the United States of America to Austria Erwin Brunner President, BrunnerInvest, Switzerland Dimitri Budakov General Director, Moscow Mortgage Agency, Russian Federation Dr. Albrecht Bürger Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Börse AG Richard Daničić Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia and Montenegro Dr. Borys Dackiw Managing Partner, Baker & McKenzie v.o.s., Czech Republic Tatjana Divjak President, American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia a.o.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Otto Doblhoff-Dier Austria Detlef-Ulrich Dubke General Manager, PROMA Projektmanagement Detlef-Ulrich Dubke KEG, Austria Dr. Horst Ebhardt Wolf Theiss, Austria Dkfm. Lorenz Fritz Secretary General, Federation of Austrian Industry Mag. Franz Friedl Senior General Manager, HVB Bank Bosnia & Herzegovina Pavel Gourine Member of the Board, Head of Investment Banking and Corporate Finance, ZAO Raiffeisenbank Austria, Russian Federation Dipl.-Ing. Aleksandar Grgić General Manager, Wurth d.o.o., Serbia and Montenegro Dr. Max B. Gutbrod International Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Russian Federation Tom Hammack Counsel, EBRD, Great Britain Mag. Helmut Horvath Managing Director, Bank Austria Creditanstalt Leasing GmbH, Austria Dipl. Ing. Gottried Heller Managing Director FIDUKA Depotverwaltung, Munich, Germany, Verwaltungsrat PMG Fonds Management AG, Zurich, Switzerland Reinhard O.F. Hummel Initiator and Chairman ifw® Dr. Martin Hüfner Chief Economist and Managing Director of the Department Economics & FI/FX Research, HVB Group, Germany Mag. Andreas Ittner Director Financial Institutions and Markets Prof. Dr. Winfried J. Huppmann Member, Chamber of Industry and Commerce Member, Corporate Management Group, Hilti AG, Principality Liechtenstein 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 Dr. Friedrich Jergitsch Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Austria Dr. Peter Kadletz Managing Director Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Head of Syndication and Loan Markets Mladen Kasagic Managing Director East & Southeast Europe, Neumann Group, Austria Reinhard Kohleick Managing Director, Quadriga Capital Russia GmbH & Co. KG, Russian Federation Mihajlo Kovac Ambassador of Serbia/Montenegro in Austria Dipl.Ing. Dr. Jozef Kollár Chairman of the Board, L’Udová Banka a.s. - Volksbank AG, Slovak Republic Tim Lassen Business Sector, European Business, System-Marketing, Association of German Mortgage Banks, Germany Scott P. Lamb CFA, Chief Executive Officer, EPIC Advisors Ltd., Russian Federation KR Claudius Lettmayer Managing Director, VB Leasing International Holding GmbH, Austria Prof. Dr. Kurt J. Lauk President, Economic Council to the Christian Democratic Party E.V., Germany Dr. Klaus Liebscher Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank Mag. Monika Leonhard Human Resource Manager, Österreichische Volksbanken-AG, Austria Juris Lujans Minister of Economics of the Republic of Latvia Richard Lowrie Director Banking Strategy, EMEA, SAP, Great Britain Curtis B. Masters Managing Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Kazakhstan Lubomir Marek Marek & Partner, Slovak Republic Ivan Mikloš Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic Dr. Michael H. Moskow President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, USA; Member of FOMC Federal Open Market Committee Dr. Nikolai S. Mugue Head of Genetic Research, Kolzov Institute of Developmental Biology RAS, Russian Federation Dr. Krishna Nathan Director, Zurich Research Laboratory, IBM Research, Switzerland Alisher A. Normatov General Director, Stroymetresurs, Russian Federation o.Univ.Prof. Dr.iur. Ewald Nowotny Austria Dr. Stephan Ochsner, LL.M. Director, Due Diligence Unit, Principality of Liechtenstein Lord David Owen Chairman, Yukos International UK B.V., Great Britain; Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Hubert Pandza Business Group Director for Russia and Central Asia, EBRD, Great Britain Prof. Dr. Lucas Papademos Vice-President, European Central Bank Michel Perhirin Chairman of the Board, ZAO Raiffeisenbank Austria, Russian Federation Paul G. Putz Paul Putz & Partner Consultancy, Austria; Member of the Board of Directors, Region Investment Group, Russian Federation Dkfm. Claus Raidl CEO, Böhler-Uddeholm AG, Austria o.Univ.Prof. Dipl-Ing. Dr. Helmut Rauch Director, Atominstitute of the Austrian Universities Georg Ruckenbauer Director, CA IB Corporate Finance Russia Christian Schaad Executive Vice President, Life Science Informatics, Interman Consulting AG, Switzerland Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Schaad Chairman & CEO, Interman Consulting AG, Switzerland Dr. Holger Schmieding Co-Head of European Economics, Bank of America, Great Britain Christian Schwarz SAP, Sector Director Financial Services Industry, Area Central & East Europe Oltmann G. Siemens Special Representative in Europe, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group Askar S. Smankulov CEO, A.S.Smankulov - KazTransOil, Kazakhstan Fuad Strik Coca Cola BiH, Country General Manager Lucien Thiel Director, Association des Banques et Banquiers Luxembourg (ABBL) Andriana Tosheva Executive Director, Bulgarian Industrial Business Association (BIBA) Gagerin A. Tosunyan President, Association of Russian Banks, Russian Federation Dimitar Totev Partner, Totev & Ivanov Law Firm, Bulgaria Prof. Dr. Rüdiger von Rosen Managing Director, Deutsches Aktieninstitut e.V., Germany Matti Vanhala Governor, Bank of Finland Dr. Christian von Wistinghausen Partner, Beiten Burkhardt Rechtsanwälte, Russian Federation Dr. Peter M. Werner Policy Director Europe, ISDA - International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Great Britain Karl Peter Wilhelm Volkswagen Slovakia a.s., Slovak Republic Eduard Zernin Vice-President, Region Investment Group, Russian Federation