Policy, business-models and human capital for bioeconomy: identifying opportunities
EFI, in collaboration with Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, brought together European and Russian representatives to discuss the opportunities of bioeconomy in policy, business, human capital development in a recent event.
Currently, the concept of bioeconomy is not so well known in Russia. International cooperation and the exchange of best practices could help create the conditions for a sustainable and consistent development of bioeconomy in Russia.
This high level event was opened with speeches by Andrei Sharonov, President, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Sergei Ivanov, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport and Esko Aho, Ex-Prime Minister of Finland, Strategic Advisor, European Forest Institute. Esko Aho also moderated the whole event with 90 participants representing public authorities, national and international business community, academia and universities, relevant NGOs and associations.
The event featured the views of business representatives as well as three keynote speeches. The presentations are available below.
Presentation by Kamil Zakirov, President, Segezha Group (in Russian)
Presentation by Anatoliy Frishman, CEO, Sveza Group (in Russian)
Presentation by Natalia Malashenko, Corporate Communications Director, UPM-Kymmene (In Russian)
The full agenda of the event as well as speaker information is available here .
Photos by Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.
