04.04.2014

The Fifth Northern Dimension Forum was held 3 April 2014 in Saint Petersburg. Over 250 participants attended the event this year.

Public-private partnerships as instrument for the development of the regional infrastructure as well as vocational education and training were chosen as the focus by the organizers of the Forum: the Northern Dimension Business Council (NDBC) and the Association of European Businesses (AEB).

The speakers of the Forum included high ranking Russian and European government officials, NGOs and business community, including Vladimir Bulavin, Plenipotentiary Presidential Representative in the North Western Federal District; Esko Aho and Paavo Lipponen, former Prime Ministers of Finland; Sven-Olov Carlsson, Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to the RF; Aleksey Meshkov, Deputy Minister, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Sergey Belyakov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russian Federation and others.

On the photo: Tapio Kuula, President and CEO of Fortum Corporation and Co-Chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council (speaking) and Alexey Mordashov, CEO of OAO Severstal and Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council.

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