Round Table Discussion
„ Riga Forum 2006: Investment in the
Baltic Metropolitan Regions”

24 August, 2006
Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel, Riga, Latvia

12.30 – 14.00 Gauja Hall, 2nd  Floor

Moderator: Igors Graurs - Deputy Director of City Development Department, Head of Economic Board, Riga City Council, Latvia

Issues of the Round Table Discussion:

Effective Collaboration of City and Business – an Important Condition to Increase Activity of Investment and Development of City’s Economical and Social Infrastructure ● How Can City Stimulate the Private Sector to Develop Business in Regions with the Biggest Economical Potential? ● Public-Private Partnership and the Economic Value of Corporate Social Liability ● What is Necessary for PPP Principle to Act at Full Blast in the Baltic Metropolitan Regions? ● Experience, Risks and Trends in PPP Project Implementation in the Baltic Markets of Real Estate and Transport Sector

The Following Persons are Invited to the Discussion:

•    *to be confirmed
Aino – Maija Luukkonen – Mayor of Pori City, Finland

•    Public - Private Partnership: Experience of Riga City
Almers Ludviks – Vice - Mayor of Riga City, Latvia

•    *to be confirmed
Jaanus Mutli - Vice - Mayor of Tallinn City, Estonia

•    Effective Collaboration of City and Business – an Important Condition to Increase Activity of Investment and Development of City’s Economical and Social Infrastructure
Gediminas Pavirzis - Vice – Mayor of Vilnius City, Lithuania

•    How Can City Stimulate the Private Sector to Develop Business in Regions with the Biggest Economical Potential?
Vytautas Juskus – Mayor of Siaulia City, Lithuania

•    *to be confirmed
Valentin Ivanov – First Deputy Mayor of Pskov City, Russia

•    *to be confirmed
Aleksandr Kovalsky – Deputy of Kaliningrad City Council, Russia

•    Public-Private Partnership and the Economic Value of Corporate Social Liability
Andris Jaunsleinis– Chairman of the Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments, Latvia