programme of wassily leontief’s centenary celebration in progress

Opening of a celebratory cycle of the actions devoted to Leontief’s centenary

The plenary session “Evolution of Institutions and Russia’s Economy Development”, held in Saint Petersburg, 21 January 2006 within the framework of the Seventh Annual Global Development Conference Institutions and Development: At the Nexus of Global Change, launched a series of 2006 celebrations in honour of Wassily Leontief. 

The plenary session was organized by Leontief Centre and was chaired by Sergey Vasiliev, Council of Federation Committee on Financial Markets and Currency Circulation Chairman and ICSER Leontief Centre Chairman of Academic Board.

The key-note speakers of the session were:

• Egor Gaidar, Director of Institute for the Economy in Transition with report “Recent Economic  History of Russia in the Context of Global Economic Trends”

• Vladimir Mau, Rector of Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, with report “Evolution of Modernization Conceptions and Economic Growth”

Among the lead participants of the session were:

• Andres Oslund, Senior Researcher at Institute of International Economics (USA)

• Johannes Lin, Executive director of Wulfenson Initiative, University of Brooklyn

By the end of the session the speakers received memorial diplomas with gratitude for personal contribution and participation in the Jubilee session “Evolution of Institutions and Russia’s Economy Development” (devoted to Leontief Centenary)