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FMRS Tbilisi
May 15, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Schedule
Registration & coffee
11:00 – 12:00
Opening and Welcome
12:00 – 13:00
- Paata Sheshelidze (President, New Economic School – Georgia)
- Arad Benkö (Ambassador of Austria)
- Antonio Bartoli (Ambassador of Italy) TBC
- Federico Fernández (Senior Fellow, Austrian Economics Center)
- Vakhtang Lejava (Rector, Free and Agrarian Universities of Tbilisi)
- Peter Bochmann (Director of the South Caucasus Office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom) TBC
Panel 1 – Legacy of Kakha Bendukidze – Georgia’s Achievements
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
Moderator: Anastasia Bendukidze (Partner and Director of the Knowledge Fund)
Keynote: Lado Gurgenidze (Chairman Liberty Bank, Former Prime-Minister of Georgia) TBC
Panelists:
- Kalman Miszei (Professor, Central European University)
- Gabriela von Habsburg (Prof., Free University of Georgia; Board of Directors, Austrian Economics Center)
- Vakhtang Lejava (Rector, Free and Agrarian Universities)
- Paata Sheshelidze (President, New Economic School – Georgia)
Questions & Answers
13:45 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45
Panel 2 – Where the world is heading
Time: 14:45 – 15:45
Moderator: TBA
Keynote: James Sproule (Chief Economist and Director of Policy for the Institute of Directors)
Panelists:
- Pierre Garello (Professor, Aix-Marseille University)
- Federico Fernández (Senior Fellow, Austrian Economics Center)
- Lorenzo Montanari (Executive Director, Property Rights Alliance, Americans for Tax Reform)
Questions & Answers
15:30 – 15:45
Presentation of the Students for Liberty
Time: 15:45 – 16:00
Final Remarks
16:15 – 17:00
- Gia Jandieri (Vice President, New Economic School)
- Federico Fernández (Senior Fellow, Austrian Economics Center)