Kopaonik Business Forum on March 3-6, 2019 – Organizers expect more than 1,500 attendees

The upcoming 26th Kopaonik Business Forum will be held from March 3 through 6, 2019, at the Congress Center of Hotel Grand Kopaonik. As the organizers announce, the central topic of this event is “Serbia Ten Years after the Great Recession: The Imperative of the Robust Growth”.

The program of the forum and the list of speakers have already been prepared, and application begins on January 8, 2019. The special guest on the first day of the forum will be Gary Jacobs, CEO of the World Academy of Art and Science.

The 26th Kopaonik Business Forum is expected to bring together over 1,500 attendees, professors, state officials, diplomatic corps members, business people, local and foreign investors and representatives of international finance organizations. In addition to representatives of the Serbian government, the official program will feature representatives of the most important global economic institutions, such as Linda Van Gelder, Country Director for the Western Balkans Region of the World Bank (WB), Dubravka Negre, Head of Regional Representation for the Western Balkans of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Sebastian Sosa, Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Belgrade.

In addition to key developments in Serbia between two KBFs, the topic include startups as the engine of digital Serbia, the regional economic development of the Western Balkans, powering digital economy and recommendations for business development in the Balkans. Traditionally, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic will address the attendees on the last day of the forum.

– As the organizer of the Kopaonik Business Forum, the Serbian Association of Economists strives to maintain and foster cooperation between all relevant participants, thereby offering an interactive platform for the sharing of opinions and well argued, constructive discussion, looking at the key reform challenges from various angles: political and economic, micro and macro economic, from the angle of the real and the financial sector, local and foreign investors, private and public enterprises, theory and practice – the organizer says in a press release.

The Serbian Association of Economists is organizing the forum in partnership with Mastercard, and the conceptual patron of this important economic event, as in the past ten years, is the prime minister of Serbia.

Savez ekonomista Srbije Beograd

Predstavništvo Mastercard Europe Beograd

Vlada Republike Srbije

Evropska investiciona banka EIB

Međunarodni monetarni fond-MMF Beograd

Mastercard

Kopaonik Business Forum

Serbia Ten Years after the Great Recession The Imperative of the Robust Growth

World Academy of Art and Science

World Bank

EIB

IMF

startups

digital economy

Gary Jacobs

Linda Van Gelder

Dubravka Negre

Sebastian Sosa

Ana Brnabic