On September 29 – October 8, 2020, 47th regular plenary meeting of the International Business Elite Forum, organized semiannually under the auspices of the RAND Business Leaders Forum rotating between Russia and the U.S. since 1997, is being held online.
On September 29 – October 8, 2020, 47th regular plenary meeting of the International Business Elite Forum, organized semiannually under the auspices of the RAND Business Leaders Forum rotating between Russia and the U.S. since 1997, is being held online.
CEOs and managers of key Russian, European, and American corporations, investment funds, consulting centers, international financial institutes, think tanks, and NGOs take part in the Forum regularly. Russian International Affairs Council has been taking part in the Forum since 2012.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Sergey Rogov, Academic Director of RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN), RIAC Member; Igor Yurgens, RIAC Member, President of the All-Russian Insurance Association, Member of the Management Board, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; as well as a number of RIAC experts will address the meeting. Participants in the 47th plenary session are discussing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the global economy, the situation in the global energy markets, the state and future of the sanctions policy, political dynamics in the leading countries of the world, the upcoming presidential elections in the United States, and the prospects for relations between Russia and the West.
