May 8th, 2015

Venue

Registration

9:00 – 9:30

Conference Opening

9:30 – 9:45

Agata Stremecka (President, Civil Development Forum)

Tomasz Szapiro (Rector, Warsaw School of Economics)

Marek Tatala (Executive Board Member, Civil Development Forum – FOR) 

Panel 1 – Ukraine – how to grow under fire? Polish, EU and global perspective

9:45 – 11:00

Moderetor

Grzegorz Cydejko (Forbes) 

Keynote

Leszek Balcerowicz (Board Chairman, Civil Development Forum)

panelists

Rafal Antczak (Board Member, Deloitte Business Consulting)

Pawel Kowal (Assistant Professor in Institute of Political Studies, in 2009-2014 Member of the European Parliament)

Richard Rahn (Senior Fellow, CATO Institute, Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth)

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:15 

Panel 2 – To grow or not to grow? From secular stagnation to robust recovery.

11:15 – 12:15

Moderator

Lukasz Pawlowski (Kultura Liberalna) 

keynote

Enrico Colombatto (IREF, University of Turin)

speakers

Aleksander Laszek (Chief Economist, Civil Developemtn Forum – FOR)

Barbara Kolm (Director, Austrian Economics Center)

Dan Mitchell (Senior Fellow, CATO Institute)

Coffee Break

12:15 – 12:30

Panel 3 – Entrepreneurship and its enemies. How to set our creative energy free?

12:30 – 13:40

Moderator

Pawel Budrewicz (Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research & Education – PAFERE)

Keynote

Deirdre McCloskey (Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden)

Panelists

Adam Martin (Assistant Professor, Political Economy Research Fellow, Free Market Institute)

Michał Niemczycki (Vice President of New Media Ventures and Co-founder of Freebee)

Marcin Nowacki (Vice President at the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers – ZPP)

Ryszard Wojtkowski (Co-founder and Managing Partner at Resource Partners)

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