The 8th WIEN Group meeting on the topic "Energy problems of Europe and issues of Russian-Ukrainian cooperation"

The 8th meeting of the WIEN Group on the topic «Energy problems of Europe and issues of Russian-Ukrainian cooperation», organized by the Institute for Energy and Finance, was held on December 6 and 7 in Kiev (Ukraine). The first day was organized in the format of a closed expert round table, which is traditional for these meetings. On the second day, a conference with the participation of representatives of the media, government and business took place. The Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Yu. Boyko, Deputy Secretary of the National Defense and Security Council D Vydrin, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine and the special representative of the Russian President for development of trade and economic relations with Ukraine M. Zurabov spoke at the conference, which was attended by over 50 Russian and Ukrainian media.

The opinion of the international expert community on the issues discussed was presented by the following members of the WIEN Group: Leonid Grigoriev, President of the Institute for Energy and Finance; Simon Pirani, Senior Researcher at the Oxford Institute for Energy Research); Andrey Konoplyanik Consultant to the Gazprombank Management Board / Professor of the Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin; Valeria Kryukova, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the RAS Siberian Branch; Tatyana Mitrova, Head of the Center for Study of World Energy Markets at the Institute of Energy Research of RAS; Osten Noreng, Professor of the Norwegian School of Management; Alexandra Averchenkova, Senior Advisor on Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, UNDP in the Russian Federation; Arilda Moe, Deputy Director of the F. Nansen Institute; Svetlana Melnikova, Analyst at the Center for Energy Markets Research.

List of participants and the conference program (pdf).