Program

REGISTRATION

OPENING CEREMONY

Yerkin TUKUMOV – Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Murat NURTLEU – Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan

GENERAL SESSION

Speakers:

Erzhan KAZYKHAN – Deputy Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Special Representative of the President for International Cooperation

Vladimir VORONKOV – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office

Kairat SARYBAY – Secretary General of CICA

Natalia GHERMAN – Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)

Terhi HAKALA – EU Special Representative for Central Asia (Belgium)

Moderator: Narushige MICHISHITA – Vice President of the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies of Japan (Japan)

PANEL SESSION 1: “KAZAKHSTAN AND THE GLOBAL CHANGES”

Speakers:

Elvira AZIMOVA – Chair of Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Sayasat NURBEK – Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Roman VASILENKO – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Andrey BYSTRITSKY – Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club (Russia)

Hussein BAGCI – Professor of the Middle East Technical University, Director of the Institute of Foreign Policy (Türkiye)

BAIK Joo Hyun – Vice-Chairman of the Eurasia 21 Foundation, Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Republic of Kazakhstan

Moderator: Yulia KUCHINSKAYA – Member of the Committee on foreign affairs, defense and security of Mazhilis Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan

PANEL SESSION 2: “ASIA IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION: A VISION OF THE FUTURE”

Speakers:

Mohammad Hassan SHEIKHOLESLAMI – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, President of the Institute of Political and International Studies of the Iranian Foreign Ministry (Iran)

Ashok SAJJANHAR – Former Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan, President of the Institute for Global Studies (India)

Alexander DYNKIN – President of Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) (Russia)

LI Xing – Director of the Institute of Eurasian Studies of the Center for International Legal Training and Cooperation for the SCO (PRC)

Mukhittin ATAMAN – Editor-in-chief of Insight Turkey (Türkiye)

Yerkin TUKUMOV – Director of the KazISS under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Moderator: Askar NURSHA – Advisor to the Director of the KazISS under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

PARALLEL SESSION 1: “THE FUTURE OF INSTITUTIONS AND NEW FORMS OF ASIAN INSTITUTIONALIZATION”

Speakers:

David CHIKVAIDZE – Chef de Cabinet of the Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva, Vice President of the Swiss Forum for International Relations

Doulat KUANYSHEV – Expert in the Military-Political Dimension of CICA

Ebtesam AL-KETBI – President of the Emirates Policy Center (UAE)

KIM Bumsoo – Director of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Dean of the College of Liberal Studies, Professor of Political Science at Seoul National University (South Korea)

ZHANG Ning – Head of Central Asian Studies, Institute of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (PRC)

Moderator: Togzhan KASENOVA – Senior Fellow at the International Security, Trade, and Economic Governance (PISCES) Project at the Center for Policy Studies (USA)

PARALLEL SESSION 2: “THE NEW CONTINENTAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF EURASIA: THE MIDDLE CORRIDOR AND THE DIALOGUE OF INTEGRATIONS”

Speakers:

Yayan Ganda Hayat MULYANA – Head of the Foreign Policy and Strategy Agency of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry (Indonesia)

Renat BEKTUROV – AIFC Governor

Alizan MAHADI – Director of Research at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Malaysia)

Vladimir NOROV – Founding CEO of Silk Road Advisory (Uzbekistan)

Raffaello PANTUCCI – Senior Research Fellow, The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Moderator: Sultan AKIMBEKOV – Director of the Institute of Asian Studies (Kazakhstan)

REGISTRATION

PANEL SESSION 3: ASIA’S GLOBAL SECURITY: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Speakers:

Begz DAVAADORJ – of the Institute for Strategic Studies under the National Security Council (Mongolia)

Raashid Wali JANJUA – Director of Research Islamabad Policy Research Institute (Pakistan)

Mehran KAMRAVA – Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University in Qatar, Head of Iranian Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (Qatar)

Yerlan BAIDAULET – Director General of Islamic Organization for Food Security

Gevorg MELIKYAN – Former Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Armenia

Moderator: Raffaello PANTUCCI – Senior Research Fellow, The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

PANEL SESSION 4: “GLOBAL COMPETITION FOR INNOVATION AND BRAINS: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND HUMAN CAPITAL”

Speakers:

Shu CHEN – Yale World Fellow at Yale University, Former Managing Director of Public Policy at Meta Corporation (PRC)

Azizjon AZIMI – Founder and CEO of Zypl.AI (Tajikistan)

Aziza UMAROVA – Coordinator of the Delivery Unit of the Agency for Strategic Reforms under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan)

Togzhan KASSENOVA – Senior Fellow, Project on International Commerce, Security, and Economic Statecraft at the Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany (USA)

Moderator: Rustem BIGARI – CEO of Digital Government Support Center

PARALLEL SESSIONS

PARALLEL SESSION 3: “NEW NORMS, VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATION IN ASIA”

Speakers:

Zulfiya SULEIMENOVA – Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources

Narushige MICHISHITA – Vice President of the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies of Japan (Japan)

Kunsulu ZAKARYA – President of the National Academy of Sciences under the President of thу Republic of Kazakhstan

Sujan CHINOY – Director General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (India)

Ferhat PIRINCCI – Associate Research Fellow, SETA Foundation (Türkiye)

LI Dong – Deputy Director and Research Professor of Institute of Eurasian Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (PRC)

Moderator: Zhanbulat USENOV – Presenter, author of the international review “World” on the TV channel “Khabar24”

PARALLEL SESSION 4: “REGIONALIZATION OF CENTRAL ASIA: IN SEARCH OF A NEW MODEL”

Speakers:

Eldor ARIPOV – Director of the Instituteof StrategicandRegional studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Khairiddin USMONZODA – Director of the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan

Kanatbek AZIZ – Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic

Sultan AKIMBEKOV – Director of the Institute of Asian Studies (Kazakhstan)

Javid VALIYEV – Head of Department of the Center for the Analysis of International Relations (Azerbaijan)

Erdenetsogt DORJPALAM – Senior Fellow at Institute for Strategic Studies under the National Security Council (Mongolia)

Moderator: Sanat KUSHKUMBAEV – Deputy Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies   under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

PARALLEL SESSION 5: “THE RISE OF ASYMMETRIC THREATS: HOW TO COPE WITH THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE?”

Speakers:

Seyed Kazem SAJJADPOUR – Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran,  Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Political and International Studies of the MFA (Iran)

Aigul ZABIROVA – Professor of Sociology at the University of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Minhyeon JEONG – Associate Research Fellow, New Northern Policy Department, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (Korea)

Nozima DAVLETOVA – of the Board of Trustees of the Mass Media Foundation (Uzbekistan)

ZHANG Ning – Head of Central Asian Studies, Institute of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (PRC)

Moderator: Alua ZHOLDYBALINA – Deputy Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

SUMMING UP THE RESULTS OF THE FORUM