European Commissioner for Neighbourhood, Moldovan leadership, international experts invited to MACRO Conference

Chisinau, 22 February /MOLDPRES/ - The MACRO Annual International Conference 2022 (tenth issue) in Chisinau will bring together, along with the Moldovan leadership, more European high-ranking officials, international and local experts, researchers and teachers from abroad. The event titled, Moldova: strengthening of the internal resilience in a changing global environment, will take place on 23-24 February, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.    

The conference will include sessions of discussions on subjects concerning the tendencies due to model the global environment, their impact on the economic growth of Moldova, as well as the priorities of the country’s development.   

Among the guests of the MACRO Conference, there are President Maia Sandu, Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, members of the cabinet: Deputy Prime Minister, Infrastructure and Regional Development Minister Andrei Spinu, Deputy PM for Digitalization Iurie Turcanu, Finance Minister Dumitru Budianschi, Economics Minister Sergiu Gaibu, Agriculture and Food Industry Minister Viorel Gherciu, Health Minister Ala Nemerenco, Education and Research Minister Anatolie Topala, Culture Minister Sergiu Prodan, Justice Minister Sergiu Litvinenco, Interior Minister Ana Revenco, Environment Minister Iuliana Cantaragiu.          

Special guests from abroad will be present at the event, along with national officials and experts, in order to present the international experience in the fields discussed:

Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, in charge of the relations with the neighbour countries of the European Union and of introducing the new long-term goals for the Eastern Partnership. Starting from 2015 till 2019, he held the office of Hungary’s resident representative at EU and Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador. Four years earlier, he acted as head of the unit competent with the industrial titles at the Directorate General of Internal Market and Services of the European Commission and the deputy resident representative of Hungary at the European Union.     

Ricardo Hausmann, teacher at the Kennedy School of the Harvard University, as well as founder and director of Harvard’s Growth Lab. Under his leadership, the lab became one of the most influential research centres as to the international development. Since the lab’s launch in 2006, Ricardo Hausmann has been chief researcher for over 50 research initiatives in almost 30 countries, thus contributing to policies of development, strategies of growth and agendas of diversification nationally and locally.       

Cass R. Sunstein, professor at the Harvard University, founder and director at the Programme on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy https://www.expert-grup.org/ro/macro-2022/agenda at the Law Faculty of the Harvard University, researcher in law, former manager of the White House’s  Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama Administration. He wrote a string of works with impact in the sector of constitutional law and the studies on legal publications showed that he is the most frequently read American researcher in the legal field.    

Ivan Miklos, former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Slovakia, experts of the European Union’s High Level Advisers Mission also in the cabinet of PM Natalia Gavrilita. He significantly contributed to the accession of Slovakia to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and started an extended and efficient fiscal reform. Ivan Miklos led the governmental agenda as to the economic reorganization and fiscal consolidation and the cabinet whose member he was during 2002-2006 was one of the most reform-oriented, due to a comprehensive programme of structural reforms, which he backed. Thanks to these reforms, Slovakia joined the Euro area in 2009.       

Ján Marušinec, expert in the public financial and public administration sector. He started his career in the associative sector and continued it at the Finance Ministry of Slovakia, where he took over the department of budgetary analysis, being directly involved in the reform of the management of public finances. In his capacity of international consultant, he focused on the reform in the management of public finances in the countries in transition. Marušinec has a rich experience in advising high-level civil servants of Slovakia and from abroad.  

The event will be held in hybrid format (offline and with LIVE broadcasting online) and will be able to be watched on the Facebook page MACRO Conference, government of Moldova, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Moldova Foundation, GIZ Moldova, Expert-Grup, as well as on the platform www.privesc.eu.  

More details about the MACRO Conference 2022 can be found by accessing www.expert-grup.org/ro/macro-2022/despre-eveniment or on the event’s official page: www.facebook.com/events/478372857254621.    

The MACRO Annual International Conference 2022 is organized in partnership by Moldova’s government, Expert-Grup Analytical Independent Centre and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, with the support of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Moldova.    

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