The Conference has been opened at the Central Exhibition Hall “Manezh” by the Plenary session “World Energy Risks and Effective Governance” within the II International Forum “Russian Energy Week”. The Plenary moderator was Dr. Vladimir Feigin, President, Institute for Energy and Finance, Advisor to CEO of ROSNEFT. 

The First Vice-president of the Russian Risk Management Society, Head of LUKOIL Insurance Division Andrey Elokhin will pay special attention to the tasks to be performed while building the Corporate Insurance Coverage Program and optimizing the insurance program from decision-making position.
Also within the framework of the Round Table the issues of choosing an integrated risk management strategy through insurance, balance of interests between risk self-financing and transfer of risk to insurance, features of major losses settlement in energy will be discussed.

Detailed information and the updated draft program of the Conference are available at: www.epp-forumexpo.com/en/risks-2018-eng.html.

05/21/2018 // The Secretary General of BSEC PERMIS, Ambassador Michael B. Christides took part with an opening speech at the Plenary Session “World energy risks and effective governance” of the International Conference “Risk Management Leaders in Energy”

An interesting and timely International Conference under the title “Risk Management Leaders in Energy” took place in Istanbul on 15-16 May 2018. The event was organized by the “Institute for Energy and Finance“ (IEF) from Russia, in collaboration with the “Institute of Risk Management“ (IRM) from the UK and its Regional Group in Turkey, with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

The meeting devoted to preparing the International Conference "Risk Management Leaders in Energy" (Conference), May 15-16, 2018, Istanbul (Turkey) took place in the Russian Ministry of Energy on April 19 under the leadership of the Deputy Minister of Energy Anatily Yanovsky.

A proposal of Mr. Sulkhan Zumburidze, Chairman of the Management Board / Rehabilitation Manager of JSC "Georgian State Electrosystem" to hold in Istanbul the next regular round of negotiations between the heads of Energy Ministries from the countries-participants of the AGIR format (Armenia-Georgia-Iran-Russia ) with participation of the leading electric power companies from the AGIR member countries was discussed at the meeting.

Following the discussion, the proposal of the Georgian side was supported, and Mr. Yanovsky instructed to work out the issue of holding a meeting in Istanbul with participants in the AGIR format.

Mr. Margheri, Executive Vice President for Institutional Affairs of Edison will make a presentation at the Plenary Session “Risks in the morden world energy and govering them” on May 15.
In this capacity, he oversees Edison advocacy towards Italian, European and International Institutions, as well as stakeholders and opinion leaders. The Institutional Affairs Department is also responsible for sustainability policies and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Marco previously held various positions as Head of EU Affairs for Edison and in the Marketing & Sales Department, as Head of New Channel Development. Prior to joining Edison, Marco worked with General Electric Oil & Gas and with Cohn&Wolfe, now a WPP company.
Marco is the Chair for Italy of the WEC - World Energy Council (www.wec-italia.org), a Member of the Executive Committee of IAI – Istituto Affari Internazionali (www.iai.it), and a Council member of the ECFR - European Council on Foreign Relations (www.ecfr.eu).

Putin and Erdogan launched the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant on Tuesday. This power plant will be the first nuclear power plant built in Turkey. "The most advanced engineering solutions, economically effective and reliable technologies, applied by ourselves in Russia, will be used at constructing the station,"- the Russian President said at the inauguration ceremony. http://tass.ru/politika/5092541

President Putin and President Erdogan are expected to meet in Turkey in the first week of April. The two leaders will chair the seventh meeting of the Turkish-Russian High-Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) and attend the NPP ground-laying ceremony.
The issues of risk management, as well as ensuring industrial, information, radiation and environmental safety at constructing and operating NPP Akkuyu and other international projects in the Black Sea region and European countries will be discussed with participation of the leaders of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) within the framework of the International Conference “Risk Management Leaders in Energy» (the Conference)  on May 15-16, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The meeting devoted to preparing the International Conference "Risk Management Leaders in Energy" (Conference), May 15-16, 2018, Istanbul (Turkey) took place in the Russian Ministry of Energy on March 15 under the leadership of the Deputy Minister of Energy Anatily Yanovsky.

The Heads of the leading International organizations of the Black Sea region BSEC Secretary General Michael Christidees and President of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) Ihsan Delikanli have already confirmed their participation in the Conference.

The participation of BSEC and BSTDB leaders in the Conference confirms the interest of the countries of the Black Sea region and South-Eastern Europe in developing economic relations with Russia.

Dr. Delikanli, President of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank will make a presentation within the Plenary Session “RISKS IN THE MORDEN WORLD ENERGY AND GOVERING THEM”.

Mr. Ihsan Ugur Delikanli was appointed President of the Black Sea Trade & Development Bank as of July 16, 2014 for a period of four years. He started his professional career in the financial sector as a Sworn Banks Auditor at the Undersecretariat of Treasury of the Republic of Turkey in 1992. In 2005 he became Head of the Regulations Department in the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey, and in 2009 he was appointed Vice President. In 2012, Mr. Delikanli moved to the private sector as Executive Vice President of one of the Turkish investment banks.

Mr. Michael Christides, BSEC Secretary General noted the particular significance of the Conference issues, as well as importance of expanding energy cooperation for the member countries of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.