

The Central & Eastern European Forum 2021
12-14 January 2021
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Event Overview
The agenda content is now available to view on-demand on our YouTube channel.
The 26th edition of The Central and Eastern European Forum was held virtually for the first time in its prestigious history. Once again, the event brought together issuers, investors, intermediaries, and policymakers with an interest in the region and to help set the agenda for the year ahead.
The event kicked off with an opening keynote address from Mairead McGuinness, the new commissioner for financial services at the European Commission who outlined the necessity of developing tools to recover from 2020. The next keynote was delivered by Odile Renaud-Basso, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) who stressed the importance of building back better. Following on, we were honoured to be joined by Ministers from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia and North Macedonia for informative and engaging keynote interviews on their country economic developments.
Additional highlights included a keynote interview with Lilyana Pavlova, Vice-President and Member of the Management Committee, European Investment Bank (EIB) and a keynote presentation from Alfred Kammer, Director of the European Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
For the esteemed Monetary policy session, we welcomed Central Bank Governors from several countries from across the region including Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Georgia, Albania and North Macedonia.
Overall, 18 sessions covered topics including macroeconomics, corporate finance, monetary policy, CEE banking, sustainable finance, and much more.
We would like to thank our sponsors for supporting the Forum this year. We very much look forward to convening again next year and too seeing you all in person again in the not-too distant future.
Our virtual platform offered the following features:
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Speakers



Keynote Speaker
Alfred Kammer
Director of the European Department
International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Keynote Speaker
Tadeusz Koscinski
Minister of Finance, Development Funds and Regional Policy
Republic of Poland


Keynote Speaker
Mairead McGuinness
European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union
European Commission


Keynote Speaker
Odile Renaud-Basso
President
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)







Alessia Berardi
Head of Global Emerging Markets and Strategy Research
Amundi Asset Management

Ingo Bleier
Chief Corporates and Markets Officer and Member of Management Board
Erste Group


Kristine Braden
Head of Europe and Chief Executive Officer
Citigroup Global Markets Europe







Karol Czarnecki
Director of the Public Debt Department
Public Debt Department, Ministry of Finance of Poland






Vera Economou
Sustainable Finance Expert, Coordinator of Corporate ESG Experts in Central and Eastern Europe
Raiffeisen Bank International



Fabio Fornaroli
Head of Corporate and Investment Banking Central and Eastern Europe
UniCredit

Axel Fougner
Policy Officer in DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
European Commission




Łukasz Januszewski
Board Member Markets and Investment Banking
Raiffeisen Bank International





Borislav Kostadinov
Director at Finance in Motion, advisor to the Green for Growth Fund
Green for Growth Fund and Finance in Motion


Frederik Kunze
Markets Strategy and Floor Research, Covered Bond Analyst, Director
NORD/LB





Dinko Lucić
President of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer
Privredna banka Zagreb






Ognjen Popovic
Advisor to the Minister
Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Serbia - Treasury





Wiebke Schloemer
Director for Europe and Central Asia
International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Ralf Schuster
Financial Institutions, Relationship Management Banks, Capital Markets
Helaba





Alexis Taffin de Tilques
Head of Debt Capital Markets CEEMEA, Global Markets
BNP Paribas

Niccolo’ Ubertalli
Co-Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Banking, Central Eastern Europe
UniCredit Bank




Alexander Zeidler
Vice President, Senior Credit Officer, Covered Bonds, Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service