Eastern Partnership Investment Summit

This plenary event will bring together the heads of state and/or high-level representatives of the governments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine to discuss the prospects for investment in their countries. A particular focus will be the role of the state in attracting private investment and the current status of reforms in improving the investment climate. The session is an opportunity for leaders to showcase not only the existing and potential areas for foreign investment in their own countries, but also to discuss how best to forge convergence, through both public and private investments, in the Eastern Partnership region. 

• How healthy is the investment climate in the region and what has been the progress over the last decade?
• How can countries in the region increase FDI flow and attract investors? 
• What are the potential risks and what are the tools to mitigate them?
• What is the future outlook for investment in the region?

Suma Chakrabarti

@ebrdsuma
Suma Chakrabarti has been the President of the EBRD since 2012.  Before joining the Bank, Suma was Permanent Secretary at the British Ministry of Justice and was its most senior civil servant. Prior to this, from 2002, he headed the UK’s Department for International Development  where he worked closely with economies undergoing substantial reform in eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East and North Africa. In the late 1990s Suma worked in the UK Treasury. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford and holds a Masters in Development Economics from the University of Sussex.

Christian Danielsson

@DanielssonEU
Christian Danielsson is the Director General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG-NEAR) at the European Commission in Brussels. Since joining the Commission in 1995, Christian has held several positions including Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Verheugen and Director in DG Enlargement. Before joining the European Commission, he worked for the Swedish diplomatic service. He is a graduate in Business Administration and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Fabienne Demol

Fabienne Demol is Executive Vice-President-Global Head of Business Development and a Member of the Executive Committee for Total EREN, where she supervises wind and photovoltaic projects around the world, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin and Central America, and more recently eastern Europe and Central Asia. Fabienne has nearly 30 years experience in the energy sector, first with Alstom Gas Turbines and Wärtislä France and then as Executive Vice-President for International Business Development at EDF Renouvelables. She holds a Diploma in Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne.

Johannes Hahn

@JHahnEU
Johannes Hahn has served as EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations since November 2014. He previously served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 2010 to 2014. Before joining the Commission, Hahn held various management functions in different sectors of the Austrian economy and industry, including as CEO of Novomatic AG. He was also a Member of the Regional Parliament of Vienna from 1996 to 2003, and served as Federal Minister for Science and Research between 2007-2010.

Pierre Heilbronn

@HeilbronnPierre
Pierre Heilbronn is EBRD Vice President, Policy and Partnerships. He has extensive experience in policy-making in the domestic, European and broader global context. Before joining the EBRD in 2016 his previous posts included Deputy Chief of Staff for France’s Minister of Economy and Finance, and the European Adviser to the French Prime Minister. He coordinated the French Presidency of the European Union of 2008, led the French engagement with the G20, the European Council and the Eurogroup/ECOFIN. He is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA). He also holds a Master of Economics from Cambridge University and a Master of European studies from the College of Europe of Bruges.

Beata Javorcik

@BJavorcik
Beata Javorcik is the EBRD Chief Economist, advising the Bank on economic issues of strategic or operational relevance to its regions. She is on leave from the University of Oxford, where she holds a Statutory Professorship in Economics. Beata is also a member of the Royal Economic Society’s Executive Committee and a Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she focused on research, lending operations and policy advice. She holds a PhD in Economics from Yale and a BA in Economics (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Rochester.

Lenna Koszarny

@HorizonCapital
Lenna Koszarny is Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Horizon Capital, a leading private equity firm focused on Ukraine and the near region with over $850 million in AUM via four funds, and a member of its Investment Committee. She is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) and also a Member of the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN). Lenna is also a Board member and Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress representing over 20 million Ukrainians worldwide. Born in Canada, she has lived and worked in Ukraine for over 25 years, is a CPA and received her HBA at the Ivey School of Business in Canada.

Matteo Patrone

@MatteoPatrone3
Matteo Patrone is EBRD Managing Director, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Based in Kiev, he is responsible for the Bank's operations and engagement in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Matteo was previously EBRD Country Director for Serbia (2012-2015) and EBRD Regional Director for Romania and Bulgaria (2015-2018). He holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MS degree cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Genoa University.

Lilyana Pavlova

Lilyana Pavlova is the new Vice-President and Member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank (EIB). She took up her duties on 1 November 2019. Lilyana is the first Bulgarian national to join the EU bank's Management Committee. Prior to her appointment, she held various public functions in Bulgaria, both in government and parliament, such as Minister of Bulgaria’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. She is a Doctor of Economics and holds a Master of Public Administration and European Integration and a Bachelor in International Economic Relations.

Natalia Pokinska

Nataliya Pokinska is Managing Director of Kronospan UA and CFO of Kronospan East Holding (Ukraine, Belarus and Russia). Kronospan is an international company that manufactures and distributes wood-based panels which are used in applications including flooring, furniture and timber-framed houses. Nataliya began her career in the financial sector in 1997 before moving to a senior role at Korund Scientific Products. Between 2005 and 2006, she served as Finance Director of Kronospan UA. Currently, she combines her duties as Managing Director of Kronospan with those of CFO of Kronspan’s factories in Belarus (Kronospan FLLC, Smorgon and Kronospan OSB LLC, Mogilev) and Russia.

Karl Robb

Karl Robb is a Supervisory Board Member of EPAM, a global provider of software engineering and IT consulting services. In 2015, Karl retired from his full-time responsibilities as the Executive Vice President of EPAM and the President of EPAM Systems Europe. Karl joined EPAM in 2004 when Fathom Technology, a Hungarian software development outsourcing company he co-founded, was acquired by EPAM Systems. Prior to co-founding Fathom Technology in 2001, Karl served as Vice President of Softtek, Latin America’s largest and most successful IT Outsourcing provider, where he built and ran the “Software & e-Business Practice” for North America.

Stefan Weiler

@jpmorgan
Stefan Weiler is Managing Director, JP Morgan and is Head of Debt Capital Markets for CEEMEA (Central and eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa). He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Finance from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University.