MGIMO at World Policy Conference 2017

3.11.17

By MGIMO University

The Founder and Chairman of the World Policy Conference, IFRI President Thierry de Montbrial, the Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 1st and the Chairman the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat all gave welcome speeches to the audience.

This year, MGIMO organized a round table entitled «Russia in Twenty Years» which was moderated by Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development (Russia) and comprised as speakers Alexander Dynkin, President of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (Russia), Donald Johnston, Chair of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Former Secretary-General of the OECD and Yaroslav Lissovolik, Chief Economist at the Eurasian Development Bank. MGIMO was represented at this session by its Vice-Rector for General Affairs Artem Malgin and the Head of the Department of Diplomacy Alexander Panov.

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