THURSDAY 14 MARCH 2002
08.30

PLENARY SESSION
Chairman's Introduction & Welcome

Eugene K. Lawson, President
US-Russia Business Council

08.35 The Political and Economic Outlook
Dimitri K. Simes, President
The Nixon Center
08.55 Keynote Speaker – Russian Reform Programme
Boris Nemtsov, Leader, The Right Wing Forces Faction
The Russian Federation State Duma
09.15 Soverign Ratings Overview
Helena Hessel, Director
Standard & Poors
09.30 Russia and International Debt Capital Markets
Adel Kambar, Director Debt Capital Markets EEMEA & CIS
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
09.50 Russian Banking Sector Overview
Alex Knaster, CEO
Alfa Bank
10.10 The Russian Corporation - Financing Growth
Alex Rodzianko, Managing Director Global Corporate Finance
Deutsche Bank
10.30 Bank Assurance as a Model for the Financial Services Sector Development in the Russian Federation
Maarten Pronk, Chief Executive Director
NIKoil Financial Corporation
10.50 BREAK
Chairman:
Robert Langer, President
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
11.10

Russian Issuers Return to the Capital Markets - Legal Issues
Vladimir Lechtman, Partner
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP

11.20 MDM Bank
Vladimir Rashevsky, CEO
11.40 Russian Local Debt Market
Alexey Panferov, Head of Investment Banking, Member of the Board
Bank Zenit
12.00

Outlook for the Oil & Gas Sector
Stephen O’Sullivan, Head of Research
United Financial Group

12.20

YUKOS
Bruce Misamore, CFO

12.40

TNK
Iosif Bakaleinik, Senior Vice President

13.00 Lunch
 

Chairman:
Andrew Somers
, President
American Chamber of Commerce in Russia

14.15 Experience of US Corporate Direct Investment
Andrew Somers, President
American Chamber of Commerce in Russia
14.35 Private Equity Investing
Michael Calvey, Managing Partner
Baring Vostok Capital Partners
14.55 Equity Market Overview
William Browder, Managing Director
Hermitage Capital Management
15.15 Corporate Governance
Sergey Generalov, Chairman
The State Duma Supervision over the Investors Rights
15.30 -
18.30

COMPANY PRESENTATIONS
SURGUTNEFTEGAS
Vladimir Bogdanov, President

RUSSIAN ALUMINIUM
Alexander Boulygine, COO

NORILSK NICKEL
Leonid Rozhetskin , Deputy Chairman of the Management Board

ALROSA
tbc

RAO UES
Viatcheslav Sinyugin, Deputy COB

Electric Utility Sector Introduction
Andrei Roudenko, Head of Research
Alfa Bank

LENENERGO
Andrei Likhachev, General Director

INTERNATIONAL BANK OF ST. PETERSBURG
Sergey Bazhanov, President

18.30

COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Sponsored by:
ALFA CAPITAL MARKETS (USA) INC

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