Silk Value Chains: CAREC's Role in Enhancing International Value Chains Along the New Silk Road

What are the 'low hanging fruits', and what policy actions must be prioritized to enhance global and regional value chain linkages in CWA region?
What are the binding constraints for ease of crossing borders and efficient connectivity across the region?
Value chain “green” corridors for selected products: which product groups can be prioritized for cross-border production sharing and vertical specialization for value-added products across the region?

Richard Pomfret

Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Adelaide

Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Adelaide and Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center. He has acted as consultant to international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, the OECD, the UNDP and the World Bank. . In 1993 he was seconded to the United Nations for a year, advising the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union on macroeconomic policy.

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Roberta Casali

Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Ms. Roberta Casali is the Vice-President for Finance and Risk Management of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She assumed the position in January 2022.

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Irakli Nadareishvili

Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia

Irakli Nadareishvili, currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, is an alumnus of Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, specializing in International Economic Relations, and he furthered his education by obtaining a Master's degree in International Real Estate from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

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Oxana Sorokina

CEO and founder of SEVENR LOGISTICS LLP

Oxana Sorokina is the CEO and founder of SEVENR LOGISTICS LLP in Kazakhstan. She has been in the logistics industry for over 22 years. Prior to this, Oxana was working at the M&M Militzer and Munch Kazakhstan AG, the ART Logistics LLP from 2005-2007, Kuehne-Nagel Ibrakom, Kuehne-Nagel Ibrakom, and the Rhenus Intermodal Systems. She has also provided consulting services for the GIZ and DAI.

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Alkis Drakinos

Director, Regional Head of Caucasus, EBRD

Alkis graduated from Athens University in 1985 (BA Economics). Continuing his studies, he obtained an MSc in Regional Development from Pantion University, Athens, and an MBA from Manchester Business School in 1992 with scholarship from Onassis Foundation. In 2005, he completed the London Business School Corporate Finance Programme.

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Prakash Kejriwal

Director, Indorama Group

Prakash Kejriwal is Director at Indorama Group. Based in Singapore, his current responsibilities include expanding the Group's business interests in the Eurasian Region.

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Muzaffar Razakov

CEO & Co-Founder of Global Textile Group of companies

Muzaffar Razakov is CEO and Co-founder of Global Textile group of companies, one of the leading cotton and textile clusters in Uzbekistan. Global Textile is a vertically integrated group of companies, which started its activity in 2017. As of today, the textile cluster has about 15 enterprises, starting from seeding the cotton to garment production and enrolls more than 6.5 thousand employees.

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Zukhra Kemelbekova

Owner of apparel production “Zulya”

Zukhra Kemelbekov is the founder of the “Zulya” manufacturing company that has its operations running since 2005. A teacher by education, but an entrepreneur in heart, she opened her first production line with only 3 sewing machines with the same number of personnel.

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