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FMRS Vilnius
May 20, 2017 @ 1:45 pm - 5:40 pm
The Free Market Road Show London is a joint initiative with the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe.
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Schedule
Registration
13:45 – 14:00
Opening and Welcome
14:00 – 14:15
- Barbara Kolm (President of the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute and Director of the Austrian Economics Center)
- Gabriele Pauliukaite (The Director of Vilnius SFL)
Opening Speech
14:15 – 14:30
Mark Adam Harold (City Councillor, Vilnius Municipality)
Keynote Speech 1 – The first hundred days of President Trump
14:30 – 14:50
- John Fund (National Affairs columnist and on-air analyst on the Fox News Channel)
Panel 1 – The End of the Free Trade Era? Companies’ Silence in the Face of Rising Uncertainty
Time: 14:50 – 16:00
Moderator: Ramūnas Vilpišauskas (Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University)
Panelists:
- Vytautas Žukauskas (Vice President, Lithuanian Free Market Institute)
- Povilas Stankevičius (Analyst, DNB)
- Richard Teather (Senior Lecturer in Tax Law at Bournemouth University and Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute)
- Barbara Kolm (President of the Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institute and Director of the Austrian Economics Center)
- Vaidotas Rūkas (Chief Investment Officer, Asset management group Invalda INVL)
Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30
Panel 2: Sharing economy – the impact of new trade era
Time: 14:50 – 16:00
Moderator: Ramūnas Vilpišauskas (Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University)
Panelists:
- James Sproule (Chief Economist and Director of Policy, Institute of Directors)
- Federico Fernández (Senior Fellow, Austrian Economics Center)
- Richard Rahn (Chairman of Improbable Success Productions and the Institute for Global Economic Growth
- Rūta Vainienė (Lithuanian economist)
- Daniel Kaddik (Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, South East Europe Office)
Closing Remarks
17:30 – 17:40
Ramūnas Vilpišauskas (Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University)