Speakers

Natalia Baratiants
(LLM '92, Illinois) [confirmed]

Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Moscow

Sidney Bardwell [confirmed]

General Manager
John Deere Ag Holdings Russia

Bruce W. Bean
[confirmed]

Professor in Residence, Michigan State University Law School
Chair, Russian-Eurasian Law Committee, American Bar Association
Chair, American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow, 1998-2000

Edward Chow
[confirmed]

International business consultant
Former head of international external affairs, Chevron Corporation

William Davey
[confirmed]

Guy Raymond Jones Chair, College of Law
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Philip De Leon [confirmed]

Deputy Director, BISNIS
US Department of Commerce

Kelly Duffin-Maxwell
[confirmed]

Vice-President for Global Technology and Quality of Confections/Food
Kraft Foods

Robert Ebel
[confirmed]

Chairman, Energy Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC

Timothy Frye
[confirmed]

Professor of Political Science
Columbia University

Arthur George
[confirmed]

Partner
Baker & McKenzie, LLP, Chicago

Masha Gordon
[confirmed]

Executive Director, Co-Head of Emerging Markets Equity Strategy, Asset Management Division
Goldman Sachs, London

David Herman
[confirmed]

Former Vice President for Russia and the CIS, General Motors
Chairman of Strategy Committee, Golden Telecom Board of Directors
Member of the Board of Directors, Severstal-Auto

Rasma Karklins
[confirmed]

Professor of Political Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

Andrey Kortunov
[confirmed]

President
The New Eurasia Foundation, Moscow

Alena Ledeneva
[confirmed]

Reader in Russian Politics and Society, Department of Social Sciences
University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Author of How Russia Really Works (Cornell, 2006)

Frank Linden
[confirmed]

Director, Country Risk Management
Merrill Lynch, New York

Paul Magelli
[confirmed]

Director, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scholar in Residence, Kauffman Foundation

Peter Maggs
[confirmed]

Clifford M. and Bette A. Carney Chair, College of Law; REEEC faculty
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James Millar
[confimed]

Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University
Former Professor of Economics, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, 1965-89

Burkhard Schrage
[confirmed]

Assistant Professor of Management
Singapore Management University

Louis Skyner
[confirmed]

Expert, Energy, Environment and Development Programme, Chatham House, London
Associate Attorney, Wikborg Rein, Oslo
EC TACIS Legal Expert ‘Harmonisation of Energy Policies of Russia and EU’

John Slocum
(BA '84, Illinois)
[confirmed]

Director of Migration and Human Mobility; Co-Chair of Higher Education Initiative-Russia
MacArthur Foundation

Mark Steinberg
[confirmed]

Professor of Russian History; REEEC faculty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Editor of the Slavic Review

Helen Teplitskaia
[confirmed]

President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Vice President, IMNEX International, Inc.

Robert Thompson
[confirmed]

Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy, College of ACES; REEEC faculty
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

Michael Tokarz
('71, '73 MBA, Illinois) [invited]

Chairman, MVC Capital
Managing member, The Tokarz Group, LLC

Paul Vaaler
[confirmed]

Associate Professor of International Business; REEEC faculty
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Paulius Vilemas
[confirmed]

CEO & Co-owner of Baltic Coatings, Ltd; Owner of Energenas, Ltd, Lithuania
Former Advisor to the Prime Minister of Lithuania, 2001-06

Richard Vogen
[confirmed]

Director of Planning and Special Projects, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Vadim Volkov
[confirmed]

Professor of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg
Director, Analytical Center, Channel 5, St. Petersburg TV
Author of Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism (Cornell, 2002)

Dean, College of Communications; REEEC faculty
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Other corporate representatives expected.