Closed-door Roundtable on Export Finance for Ukraine’s Reconstruction

Proponent
International Chamber of Commerce, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, Kyiv School of Economics
Dimension
Business Dimension
Date & Time
Wednesday, 9 July, 11:00-12:30 PM
Location
ICC Italia Office (Via Barnaba Oriani, 34 – 00197 Rome) OR
LUISS Guido Carli (Viale Romania, 32 – 00197 Rome)
The roundtable will bring together senior representatives from the private sector (including members of the ICC Export Finance Working Group), ECAs, DFIs / PDBs, MDBs, and international organizations for a candid, solution-oriented exchange, aimed at identifying persisting barriers to the deployment of export finance in support of Ukraine’s reconstruction and ways to tackle them.
Topics for discussion will include:
1) Sharing best practices and lessons learnt from public and private sector providers of export finance for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
2) Increasing ECA coverage and strengthening claims processes to mitigate private sector risks in Ukraine.
3) Enhancing collaboration between MDBs and ECAs on procurement requirements and guarantee structures.

Programme

The discussion will be formally opened by representatives from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (tbc), the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine (Deputy Minister Andrii Teliupa), and ICC (Secretary General John W.H. Denton AO).
Officials from the Kyiv School of Economics will present a mapping of ECA products supporting Ukraine, developed jointly with the Ukraine Donor Platform and its Business Advisory Council. The session will be moderated by an ICC representative.
This will be followed by short (3-5 minutes) remarks by representatives of ECAs; PDBs / DFIs / MDBs; Supranational and International Organisations; commercial banks; and other businesses.
ECAs
Berne Union  
Yuichiro Akita, President
Paul Heaney, Secretary General  
BPI France – TBD  
EIFO – Mariane Søndergaard-Jensen, Senior Director, International Regulation and Policy and Chair, Participants to the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits (tbc)
Euler Hermes – Sophia Schultz-Renz, Department Head, Underwriting Division
KUKE
Katarzyna Kowalska, Deputy CEO
Jan Rekiel, Deputy Head of Strategic Clients
SACE – Paola Valerio, Head, Institutional Relations; and Chair, OECD Export Credit Group  
UKEF (UK) – TBD
Ukraine ECA – Ruslan Hashev, Chairman of the Management Board   
PDBs / DFIs / MDBs
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) – Enrico Petrocelli, Head of International Institutional Relations (tbc)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Arvid Tuerkner, Managing Director Ukraine & Moldova (tbc)
Henry Fletcher, Director, Regional Network, SME Finance and Development (tbc)
European Investment Bank (EIB)
Matteo Rivellini, Head of Division, Ukraine, Moldova and South Caucasus (tbc)
Lionel Rapaille, Director – Lending Operations in EU Neighboring Countries (tbc)
FinDev Canada – Brigid Shea, Director of Partnership (tbc)
World Bank Group (WBG)
Alfonso García Mora, Vice President for Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, IFC (tbc)
Lisa Kaestener, Country Manager for Ukraine, IFC (tbc)
Supranational and International Organisations
European Commission (EC) –
Gabriel Blanc, Head, Directorate General for Enlargement and Eastern Neighborhood (tbc)
Orest Tokač , Policy Officer (tbc)
International Trade Center (ITC) – Escipión J. Oliveira-Gomez, Director, Division of Enterprise Competitiveness and Institutions (tbc)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – Silvia Gavornikova, Export Credits and Competitition Division (tbc)Ukraine Donor Platform – Simon O’Connor, Head of the Secretariat (tbc)
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) – Massimo Meloni, Senior Economist, National Investment Policies Expert (tbc)
UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) – Stefan Sikars, Senior Coordinator for Ukraine
Additional businesses
Confindustria – Barbara Cimmino, Vice President for Export and Investment Attraction (tbc)
Logistics Plus – Derek Berlin, Senior Vice President, Global Government Solutions
TheCityUK – Nicola Watkinson, Managing Director, International  
Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) – Gennadiy Chyzhykov, President   
International Chamber of Commerce – Davide CICHERO, Chief of Staff