Dear Governor Dukakis, dear President Levits, dear Speaker Norlen, and all the distinguished guests. I’m so honored and happy to be here today, and to address to the Boston Global Forum. For 65 days, you see how Ukraine is defending itself from a brutal enemy. For 65 days Ukraine fights for our houses, for our homes, for our people, for our lands, but also for freedom and democracy. We fight for their rights to be who we are, to live peacefully in our country, and to decide how we want to live in our country.
For 65 days, we have seen unbelievable destruction of our country. We have seen ceaseless attacks from the sky, from east, north, and from south. We have seen some of the cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv and Tserkva destroyed to the ground. We have seen attacks on civilian orchards and hospitals and schools. We have seen destruction of universities which were there, some of them for more than 200 years, and even the World War II did not destroy them. We experience unimaginable losses. More than 4.5 million people had to flee Ukraine, and many are women and children, to save their lives. More than 7 million people are internally displaced in Ukraine. More than 10 million people, as we speak today, live under brutal conditions under occupation, without water, without food, without the basic needs for medical supplies.
But also for the 65 days, we have shown to the world an example of bravery, starting with our unbelievably great president, Volodymyr Zelensky, not only when this phase of the war started, and I want to remind you that this war is in Ukraine for the past eight years. Russia attacked us in 2014. But during the first 65 days, as soon as Russia started its full-fledged attack and invasion in this phase of the war, President Zelenskyy came out, and he said, “The president is here. I’m here, and stay in Kyiv. We will not surrender. We will not give up. We will defend what we love and what we believe in. And this is what we are doing. And this is the whole nation fighting: Our brave armed forces, our National Guard, our rescuers. But every Ukrainian center is doing what our president has said we would do, and we will not give up. Ukrainians love [to] build things. We love [to] grow wheat. We love to initiate startups. But today we all had to postpone what we were doing in our ordinary lives, and we all have to defend our country. And we’re very grateful to all of our strategic friends and allies and especially to the United States for all the support, with weapon, with sanctions, with financial and energy support to Ukraine. Because this fight is so much more than you think. This fight is about the global situation. This fight is about whether Europe and in general the democratic world can feel safe, whether you can make the civilisational choice to be democratic, to be free, to be sovereign and not be attacked by the brutal enemy.
On behalf of my president and all Ukrainians, firstly, great thank you. And our deepest gratitude for this act of support and for the World Leaders Award for Peace and Security. I agree with you that nobody deserves it better than our president, who has shown an outstanding example of leadership under the dire circumstances. I would like to also thank you for this event and for the efforts that all of your professors and all of the distinguished guests have taken in order to help us to already brainstorm and say, how are we going to deal with things? Because for us, the number one goal, of course, is to win in this war. And as we are certain not to surrender, we are certain that with the help of all of our friends and allies, we will win this war, and peace will return to Ukraine, and then we will build back Ukraine better. We will build a new innovative Ukraine 2022.0., which will be the most efficient, the most democratic, the most innovative. And we would be able to see all of our friends and allies to participate in this new endeavor. So with that, let me again thank you for this award. Thank you for inviting me to speak at the beginning of this conference. I wish you very fruitful discussions today. And we need all the prayers and all the weapons that anyone can provide to us and present all of us, democratic people. People who love freedom and who are ready to fight for it will win.
Governor Michael Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Zaneta Ozolina
Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Sandy Pentland, David Silbersweig, Mats Karlsson, Jim McManus
As Russia’s war against Ukraine continues, global leaders and diplomatic observers have turned their attention to two distinct agendas to help resolve the conflict. The first is to provide immediate support for Ukraine as it endures unprecedented attacks by Russia conducted with modern weapons and massive military power. The second involves planning for the prevention of unprovoked aggression through the adoption of values and standards that will ensure peaceful relations worldwide.
Short Term Strategies to Support Ukraine
Most immediate are the actions to support Ukraine and demonstrate the extent of global opposition to such aggression with indiscriminate violence. Bombing of urban civilian areas — apartment buildings, hospitals, schools and farms — violates international law and norms of warfare agreed upon by the international community.
Participants in the Boston Global Forum Conference April 29, 2022 proposed the follow steps to assist Ukraine at this critical time of immense need:
Provide humanitarian and other support to address the war-related health crisis in Ukrainian cities and towns. This includes medical supplies, health care providers, equipment, temporary hospitals and all related assistance;
Deliver advanced weapons, offensive and defensive, to compensate for uneven scales in the war;
Share all intelligence information with the Ukrainian Government — including contributions by NATO and European nations– pertaining to Russian troop movements, tactical weapons locations and battle plans;
Sustain existing economic sanctions and impose sanctions to energy resources, which at the present moment is the main financial source supporting Russia’s war machinery
Support and engage in the debate on limitation and exclusion of Russia from the UN Security Council, as a country which does not respect the UN Charter and its founding principles.
Provide strategic military advice to help in the fight against Russian air, ground and naval forces;
Assist Ukrainian students and children, in the country who face shortages of basic needs such as food, shelter and medical care. Assist in sustaining, where possible, educational institutions. Call on Ukrainian students outside the country to find ways of helping and rebuilding Ukraine.
Call for organizing a High-Level International Conference on Peace, Security and Territorial Integrity for Ukraine, with participation of leaders from Russia, Ukraine, United States, and the European Union, to be held in Paris, Riga, or Stockholm.
Future Strategies to Support Ukraine
The Ukraine invasion is a painful lesson for the world that compromise with dictators and authoritarian regimes only feeds aggression. In response, speakers at the Boston Global Forum focused on the advantages of promoting development of a competitive economy, in conjunction with a flourishing democratic political system.
Above all, the war on Ukraine has highlighted ways in which the leaders of Russia deceive the public through their messages and actions, and the use of their propaganda systems. They promised to create “humanitarian corridors” to allow civilian non-combatants to leave areas under attack, only to renege on those promises. Russia has not made any serious attempt to engage in peace talks. All evidence so far is of hollow commitments.
Speakers at the conference underscored the need to address Russia’s aggression and its unprecedented disinformation by adopting specific steps:
Promote shared democratic values through multilateral organizations, NGOs, universities, business entities, and academic centers; Comprehensive multinational and new form of Marshall plan is needed for Ukraine ensuring fast reconstruction and recovery from the war. It will serve as a coordinated and efficient platform for economic development, social assistance and human empowerment.
Develop legal and humanitarian standards as foundation for 21st century international relations. For example, the Social Contract for the AI Age and the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment provide invaluable guidance for rational rule-making in the Age of Digital and AI.
Encourage the formation of a New Alliance to protect rational standards and the security of countries that support them.
Discussion Leaders: Governor Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan
Advisor: Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor
Contributors: Professors Alex Sandy Pentland, Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, David Silbersweig, Francesco Lapenta, former Vice President of the World Bank Mats Karlsson, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, former President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga, father of Internet Vint Cerf, Assistant Secretary of Massachusetts Government Nam Pham, EY Global Tax Innovation Leader Jeff Saviano
The Ukrainian people are currently enduring an unprovoked war that has resulted in tens of thousands of combatant and civilian deaths. Many cities and towns have been utterly destroyed by indiscriminate Russian bombing. The free, Democratic nations of the world have rallied around Ukraine to provide military and humanitarian assistance.
The focus of the Boston Global Forum is to help coordinate and call on world leaders, distinguished thinkers, innovators, governments, companies, organizations is on helping to end the war and provide for the basic needs of the Ukrainian people who remain in the country and those who have fled the fighting. When the war ends, there is an opportunity for Ukraine and its allies to rebuild the nation as a model of peace, stability and prosperity. The Boston Global Forum is starting to build strategies and programs for Rebuilding Ukraine.
Strategies for Rebuilding Ukraine
Following hostilities, as Ukraine turns its attention to rebuilding the nation and society, it is imperative to apply standards, norms and common values outlined in the Social Contract for the AI Age and pioneering ideas and concepts contained in the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” with contributions by distinguished leaders and thinkers.
The book “Remaking the World” advances pioneering ideas that could help reshape the world as the United Nations progresses toward its centennial in 2045, and addresses the standards that should govern the development and use of AI and digital technology.
These ideas and standards have been the subject of several recent conferences, including the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Labs on September 16-18, 2020 and September 7-9, 2021, as well as the Riga Conferences in 2020 and 2021.
Goals
Building a smart democracy, smart cities with high-quality smart schools, where citizens are directly involved in the political decisions of the country. A nation where institutions and structures promote kind, humane, civilized, creative, innovative policies and practices. Where the rule of law protects equality of opportunities for all people, openness, transparency, and engagement with civic institutions. And, the system of taxation is transparent, equitable, and provides sufficient certainty to citizen taxpayers to aid in Ukraine’s recovery.
To apply these concepts to rebuild Ukraine, strategies discussed at the recent conferences include:
Rebuilding cities and infrastructure
Building AI World Society (AIWS) City for Ukraine:
Apply model concepts of AIWS City to rebuild Ukrainian cities as smart cities.
AIWS City is a smart digital city with distinguished communities.
Connect historical, traditional cities as Boston, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Rome, Athens, Vienna, Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Edinburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague, Dubrovnik, Zurich, Geneva, Jerusalem, Tokyo etc. to the AIWS City for Ukraine.
Build a digital platform and components of AIWS City for Ukraine: Digital Home, Art and Cultural Institutions, Smart Digital and AI University, Innovation Ecosystem, Smart Healthcare Centers, Markets.
Infrastructure:
Solutions to reconstruct infrastructures of Ukrainian cities:
Combine rebuilding cities to optimal and maximize resources, costs.
BGF connects and calls cities, governments, companies, foundations to support Ukrainian government and cities to reconstruct cities and transportation system of Ukraine.
Projects and Programs for Rebuilding Ukraine:
Phase 1: Civic and Social Engagement
Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows for Ukraine
Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
Develop and support young Ukrainian leaders
AIWS Leadership for Ukraine
Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
Educate leaders to lead and rebuild Ukraine
AIWS University for Ukraine: support Ukrainian students and universities
Build “Online Center of Knowledge for Innovation” to support Ukraine, build online resources to help connect and guide Ukrainian refugees so that they can quickly rebuild their lives
Applying AIWS Rewards to recognize contributions of students and scholars to Ukrainian students and universities
Led by Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson, Professor Francesco Lapenta, Former Japanese State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, Bui Thanh Nhon, Coordinators
Creating and building global brand names for Ukraine
Advise and help promote PR high quality products and services of Ukraine become global brand names.
Professor John Quelch and Nguyen Anh Tuan, Coordinators
Building a Digital and AI Platform for Ukrainian cities (AIWS City for Ukraine)
Every citizen has one digital home, bring gem cities of the world to Ukraine
Bringing solutions to reconstruct infrastructure of Ukrainian cities
BGF connects and calls cities, governments, companies, foundations to support
Ukrainian government and cities to reconstruct cities and transportation system of Ukraine
Led by Governor Michael Dukakis, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija and BGF CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, Coordinators
Phase 2: AIWS Government for Ukraine
Build a “smart” government aided by AI and Digital technologies, guided by concepts of AIWS Government
Develop the next generation digital public infrastructure, modeled after Estonia and other leading digital government nations
AIWS Citizen and Information Ecosystem for Ukraine
Ukraine Community Innovation Ecosystem, including new distributed systems for greater national resilience
AIWS Financial System, with a reimagined set of tax policies that encourage future growth and prosperity for Ukraine
Led by Jason Furman, Mats Karlsson, Alex Sandy Pentland, Jeff Saviano
Resources for Support of Ukraine
AIWS Network of distinguished leaders, thinkers, innovators (AIWS.net), AIWS.city and call on companies, universities, foundations, for support
Connect and invite top universities from across the globe
Honoring President Zelensky and all Ukraine people with the World Leader for Peace and Security Award
Conference “Laurel for Peace and Security in Ukraine”
Loeb House, Harvard University, April 29, 2022
Good morning and welcome, distinguished guests and speakers who have gathered today here at Harvard University, and online from around the world, for this important forum to discuss current events and potential future pathways for Ukraine.
I am pleased to announce that this year’s recipient of the Boston Global Forum’s World Leader for Peace and Security Award is Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine and all Ukrainian people. This prestigious Award is given to honor individuals who demonstrate a fierce commitment to peace and justice. In that spirit, we present the award to the Ukraine people who are courageously fighting to preserve their country’s sovereignty.
Trained as a lawyer, though he never practiced law, President Zelensky entered politics from a career in television, winning the presidency in 2019 with 73 percent of the vote. He ran on an anti-corruption platform and promised to bring a negotiated end to the conflict in eastern Ukraine resulting from the Russian takeover of the region in 2014.
He persuaded the Ukrainian parliament to enact laws stripping members of Parliament of legal immunity and banning oligarchs from contributing funds to political candidates. His efforts to get Russia to agree to a just settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine did not succeed, but he brokered a ceasefire in 2019 that sharply reduced the violence and tension in the region.
President Zelensky’s finest hour began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine two months ago. Using the power of the presidency and through the brilliant use of social media, he has with his words and personal courage inspired Ukrainians against all odds to resist the invasion. No leader in recent times has spoken more powerfully than when President Zelensky, upon being offered safe passage out of the country, said, “The fight is here. I need ammunition, not a ride.”
President Zelensky has been a tireless defender of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, petitioning nation after nation to provide the humanitarian and military assistance that Ukrainians need to save their country.
He has inspired Ukrainians, and people around the world, with his proud defense of his country against tyranny.
He does not come to oversee for his safe, he stands in his country. He inspires Ukrainian people and the world.
Russia claims that it invaded Ukraine to root out its “neo-Nazis.” Ironically, the man who, above all others, has stood in its way is Jewish, with close relatives who perished in the Holocaust. President Zelensky is not only Ukraine’s first Jewish president, he’s the first elected Jewish head of state and head of government of any country, save for Israel.
President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people have made momentous contributions to peace and security in the world in their opposition to the ambitions of Russia’s Putin. Their courageous stand against imperialism and extremist nationalism will give pause to authoritarian leaders in the future.
President Zelensky embodies the desire for peace and security that resides within the heart of so many, and yet would be denied by authoritarian leaders. It gives me great pleasure to be honoring him and all Ukrainian people today with the Boston Global Forum’s World Leader for Peace and Security Award. Honoring President Zelensky and Ukrainian people, BGF has conceived and coordinated today’s program with distinguished leaders, thinkers, innovators to contribute ideas and counsel for the rebuilding of Ukraine.
In the special report “Rebuilding Ukraine with Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” BGF present applying AIWS City model and concepts to rebuild Ukrainian cities as smart cities after the war.
BGF will:
Connect historical, traditional cities to AIWS City for Ukraine.
Build components of AIWS City for Ukraine: AIWS Home for Ukrainian People, AIWS Concert Hall, AIWS Museum, AIWS Gem Town, AIWS University, AIWS Innovation, AIWS Healthcare as a smart healthcare system, AIWS Market.
Professor David Silbersweig, Harvard Medical School, Board Member of BGF, will lead the initiative “Addressing the war-related health crisis and re-building a smart healthcare system for the future,” a part of AIWS Healthcare System for Ukraine.
Governor Michael Dukakis and BGF call distinguished professors, universities, innovators, companies, foundations, and governments to contribute for “Rebuilding Ukraine”.
We welcome students to work with us in this special project.
Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of BGF, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-founder and CEO of BGF, Harvard and MIT professors who are Board Members of BGF Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Pentland, David Silbersweig will present two special reports:
Solutions for peace, security, and territory integrity in Ukraine
Rebuilding Ukraine with “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Along with 2 special reports are features and highlights:
Message of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Keynote Speech of Ambassador of Ukraine to the US Oksana Markarova
Latvian President Egils Levits
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor Jason Furman
On April 29, 2022, the Boston Global Forum will honor all Ukrainian people and President Zelensky with the 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and present the Strategy and Plan to rebuild Ukraine.
From pain and destruction, building a beautiful, civilized Ukraine, springing up with vitality
Children shall be educated in quality schools, within an advanced society with kindness, humanity civility, creativity, innovation, equality of opportunities for all people, openness, transparency, intelligence, without corruptions in the government and manipulation of the oligarchs.
Applying the Social Contract for the AI Age and pioneering ideas, concepts of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment to “Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment,” we shall rebuild Ukraine to become an exemplary nation of the Age of Global Enlightenment.
The distinguished contributors of the book include President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen, Governor Michael Dukakis, Father of the Internet Vint Cerf, professors Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, Alex Pentland, Judea Pearl, Joseph Nye, Minister Taro Kono, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Ramu Damodaran.
Governor Michael Dukakis and BGF call upon distinguished professors, universities, and innovators, companies, foundations, governments to contribute for “Rebuilding Ukraine”.
We welcome students to work with us in this special project.
On Thursday, April 21st, the Boston Global Forum and the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) co-hosted the High-Level Dialog: Cyber Defense: From the Russia-Ukraine Battleground to Cyberwarfare with Authoritarian Regimes. Part of a series of events intended to foster ongoing and sustained dialogue through interactive forums in response to the systemic challenges confronting contemporary geopolitics.
This dialogue brought together distinguished experts to discuss the current challenges of global political affairs with the goal of developing a coordinated strategy to counter foreign and domestic cyberthreats, as well as effectively devising countermeasures to systemic and state-sponsored hybrid threats that may affect human rights and democratic processes, and to discuss strategies for the development of international cyber peace and security principles.
Participants agreed that current global challenges such as the pandemic, global warming, the impending energy crisis, and the global dynamics surrounding the war in Ukraine are rapidly solidifying the realization that we may have reached an turning point in modern history. After decades of global success, liberal democracy faces an uncertain future due to overlapping challenges in global systems and geopolitics that may have far-reaching consequences. Several internal and foreign challenges are threatening liberal democracies. Heightened internal social contrasts and polarisation in the US, a rise in internal and foreign threats to the European project, the war in Ukraine and an increasingly powerful pushback to globalisation and the democratic model in many areas of the world. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is hastening trends that were already underway and posing a systematic challenge to the basic foundations of international relations, international law and the UN Charter. Vladimir Putin’s military campaign in a democratic country and his use of digital channels and infrastructure to spread disinformation and cyberwarfare threaten global security and stability. They are setting the stage for a systemic challenge.
These confluence of events has re-established national security as a top global priority, with an increasing operational impact on the ratio of commercial to military technological investments, as well as an increasingly unstable and confrontational global geopolitical environment that is exacerbating disinformation, increasing separation and national resilience efforts in digital infrastructures and services, amplifying the threat of cyber confrontations, and the development of novel forms of cyber warfare fuelled by AI innovations that will undoubtedly constitute the technological challenge of the future.
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), new challenges and questions will arise regarding their role in preserving democratic institutions and ideals, enhancing national and international security, and challenging the definition of democracy itself. The war in Ukraine created the perfect storm for a potentially epochal transformation that could undermine decades of liberal and democratic globalisation efforts.
Security and military infrastructure, elections, the global economy and governments foreign policies could all potentially be transformed.
The current complex crisis necessitates immediate responses from liberal democracies, which must work to reconcile their differences and forge the newfound unity required to face modern challenges. Considerations about the new long-term role that cybersecurity and cyberwarfare may play are no longer optional, but rather necessitate coordination. In response to the growing cyberthreats, NATO and other allies should prioritize a strong technological response, including the development of countermeasures to systemic and state-sponsored hybrid threats. Furthermore, other international law-abiding organizations promoting global peace and legal accord, such as the UN, should negotiate a new coordinated strategy to adapt and strengthen their role in the pursuit of human rights, democratic processes, international peace, and the global order based on international law and global peace and security principles and stability.
Moderator:
Francesco Lapenta, Director of the Institute of Future and Innovation Studies at John Cabot University, and member of the “Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG)” Initiative.
Participating to the debate
Corrado Giustozzi founder and senior partner at Rexilience, Former Information and cyber security expert at Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale, and Former member (2010-20) of the Advisory Group at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).
Andrea Gilli, Senior Researcher, NATO Defence College and Affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.
Walter Dorn, Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and the Canadian Forces College (CFC).
Giovanni Sembenini. Deputy Director – NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation.
Mats Karlsson, Former Vice President of the World Bank
Closing Remarks: Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum and coordinator of the event.
Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
What: The conference will address the situation in Ukraine, and work to provide solutions for Peace, Security, Territory Integrity and Rebuilding Ukraine.
At the event, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) will honor President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people as the 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security.
BGF will be honoring President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people through assistance and application of the concepts from “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” to rebuild Ukraine in becoming an exemplary nation.
In this event, BGF will present ideas and suggestions from BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award’s recipients to Laurel for Peace and Security in Ukraine Initiative.
Where: Loeb House, Harvard University
When: 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT / 15:30 – 18:30 EEST // April 29, 2022
Who: World Leaders, Scholars of Harvard University and MIT, Members of Boston Global Forum
Co-organizers: Boston Global Forum and Latvian Transatlantic Organization
Agenda
Session 1, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT, 15:30 – 17:00 EEST
Honor President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian People as 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security and Solutions for Peace, Security and Territory Integrity of Ukraine
8:30 a.m. Introduction, Harvard professor, Co-founder of Boston Global Forum, Thomas Patterson
Remarks to honor President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum
Message of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (pre-recorded video of text)
Keynote Speech of Ambassador of Ukraine to USA Oksana Markarova (online)
Latvian President Egils Levits (online)
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen (online)
A leader of US State Department (online)
Senior Fellow of Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Brigadier General Kevin Ryan
MIT professor Nazli Choucri (online)
Discussion:
Moderator: Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlantic Organization (LATO), Professor of International Relations, University of Latvia, Zaneta Ozolina
Session 2, 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM EDT / 17:00 – 18:25 EEST
Rebuild Ukraine: From devastation by War to an Exemplary Nation with Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
Leaders of Boston Global Forum: Governor Michael Dukakis, CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, MIT Professor Alex Pentland, Harvard professors Thomas Patterson, David Silbersweig
Ukrainian former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (online)
Discussion: Strategies to rebuild Ukraine
Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor Jason Furman
Latvian former President Vaira Vike-Freiberga (online)
Bosnian-Herzegovina former Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija (online)
Former Vice President of the World Bank, Representative of BGF in London and Stockholm Mats Karlsson (online)
Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade, Government of Massachusetts, Nam Pham
EY Global Tax Innovator, Jeffrey Saviano
11:30 am: Closing Remarks, Governor Michael Dukakis
Delegates and Discussants: Consuls-General in Boston: Arnaud Mentré (France), Peter Abbott OBE (UK), Nicole Menzenbach (Germany), Stratos Efthymiou (Greece), Leonard Kopelman (Finland), Jonathan Sun (Taiwan), Marek Leśniewski-Laas (Poland), Elizabeth T Lesniewski-laas (Romania) and Distinguished Scholars, Innovators who are members of AIWS.net supporting Ukraine, and honor guests.
Please register to attend the conference by sending an email to [email protected]
