The ceremony was opened by Irina Karelina, Director-General of the Leontief Centre, and Sergey Vasiliev, Chairman of the Public Committee on Awarding at the Leontief Centre, Deputy-Chairman of the State Corporation “The Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)”, Research Advisor of the Leontief Centre, the laureate of the Leontief Medal “For Achievements in Economy” (2003).
As a tradition for the yesteryear International Leontief Medal laureates the honorary lecture "New Russia: the Past and the Future" was delivered by Eugeny Yasin, Academic Supervisor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the laureate of the International Leontief Medal “For Contribution to Economic Reform”( 2007)
After the greetings and honorary lecture the International Leontief Medal "For Contribution to Economic Reforms" was awarded to the laureates 2017 (Mart Laar was awarded in absentia) and the laureates’ lectures were presented.
The 2017 Laureates of the International Leontief Medal «For Contribution to Economic Reforms» are:
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Mart Laar, Medal # 37 |
Dmitry Vasiliev, Medal # 38 |
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Role of Democracy in the Economic Reforms |
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Andrey Zaostrovtsev, Member of the Awarding Committee, presented some fragments of Mart Laar’s lecture |
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Ceremony Hosts (Awarding Committee)
Mart Laar was awarded the medal on June 5, 2018 at the premises of the Bank of Estonia (Tallinn).
The presentations and lectures are posted here: http://www.leontief-readings.ru/eng/program2018.html