SPIEF 2012 Brings Together Over 5,000 of the World's top Business, Finance, Government, Technology and Media Leaders Under the Theme "Leadership that Works"

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SPIEF 2012 Brings Together Over 5,000 of the

World's top Business, Finance, Government,

Technology and Media Leaders Under the

Theme "Leadership that Works"

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ST PETERSBURG, Russia, July 2, 2012

ST PETERSBURG, Russia

,

July 2, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Three presidents, two prime ministers and dozens of senior ministerial officials,

over 75 Fortune 1000 top executives, and over 400 Russia's leading business

and finance figures were among the 5,000 all gathered at the Sixteenth St.

Petersburg International Economic Forum from

June 21-23

to discuss, debate

and network what it takes to have "Leadership that Works."

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Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin delivered the opening plenary

speech, and four other heads of states attended this years Forum: Finnish

President Sauli Niinisto, Kyrgyz Republic President Almazbek Atambayev,

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila

Amolo Odinga.

In a broad ranging official program that emphasized interactions amongst the

global leaders and encompassed key economic, political and technology issues

shaping the global agenda, participants could chose from more than one

hundred hours of plenary sessions, 28 panel interactive debates, 4 sectoral

breakfasts and lunches, 10 roundtables, 7 presentations and other events

involving politicians and businessmen from different countries. The Forum

business programme included a total of 77 events (up from a total of 63 in

2011).

The SPIEF 2012 programme was built around four key content pillars:

Securing

the Future

,

Realizing

Russia

's Potential

,

Responding to Impact

Technologies

,

Leadership in Focus

.

The consensus amongst participants of the key issues facing

Russia

and the

world included the European financial crisis, leadership changes in key

economies, political instability in the

Middle East

, the volatility of energy prices,

increased demand from coming from emerging markets, technological

innovations and their impact on business and governance, new models of

commercial cooperation in the energy sector, and the growing role of

emerging economies in shaping regional and global agendas.

Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin outlined a broad foreign and

domestic agenda in his major plenary speech, noting that he considered his

main task ahead is the implementation of large-scale transformation for the

country's political economy.

As per tradition, the Global Energy prize was awarded, with the jury

commemorating developments in energy equipment for space. The recipients

of the prize were the academics Boris Katorgin, Valery Kostyuk and UK scientist

Rodney John Allam, with Ruble 33 million prize divided equally among the three

recipients.

SPIEF 2012 expanded its televised debate series this year, involving both

domestic and international broadcasters. Russia Today co-produced "European

Crossroads: Post-Crisis Scenarios" and addressed the key measures that are

need to be taken to strengthen confidence in the Euro Zone. Debates organized

in cooperation with CNBC channel focused on the theme "Banking in the 21

st

Century: New Models for a New Era" while Bloomberg focused on "New

Emerging Finance Centers". CNN co-hosted a debate on "BRIC Demand", while

Caixin Media televised a debate on

China's

changing economic model,

"Evolution or Disruption". And finally Reuters TV helped produce a session on

the shifts in investment strategy to emerging market in the session "Identifying

Alpha".

A series of one-on-one discussions entitled "Conversations to Make a

Difference" were introduced as part of the SPIEF 2012 business programme

which included respected Russian and foreign leaders in politics, business,

finances and technology such as Henry Kissinger, Yevgeny Primakov, Gerard

Lopez, Lloyd Blankfein, Oleg Deripaska, and others.

Agreements worth 360 billion rubles signed at SPIEF 2012, number of

participants exceeds 5,300 people

The 2012 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum proved to be more

fruitful in terms of agreements and contracts than in previous years. A total of

84 agreements were signed as part of SPIEF 2012 with 9 contracts having a

combined value of more than 360 billion rubles, as well as 4 loan agreements

for 164.4 billion rubles.

SPIEF 2012 was relatively balanced between Russian and international

participants with 1,018 representatives from Russian businesses and 942

executives from international businesses. The participants in the official Forum

programme included more than 157 chief executives of major multinational

companies and 447 top executives from Russian companies. 290 government

dignitaries and representatives of official delegations from 77 countries

attended SPIEF in 2012.

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