The Second Academic Workshop within the cycle under the topic "Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience"
On March 21, 2019, the Institute for Social Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics held the second academic workshop devoted to the Future of the Pension Savings in Russia and in the World organized in cooperation with the World Bank within the series of events under the topic “Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience” .
The second academic workshop opened by Andras Horvai, World Bank Country Director and Resident Representative for the Russian Federation, and closed by Lilia Ovcharova, Vice-Rector, Higher School of Economics, was moderated by Oxana Sinyavskaya, Deputy Director, Institute for Social Policy, Higher School of Economics. It heard the presentations by Sergey Belyakov, President, Association of private pension funds (ANPF), on Russian pension system framework and trends in socio-economic development and Dr. Heinz Rudolph, Lead Financial Sector Economist, World Bank, on Pension Funds with Automatic Enrollment Schemes: Lessons for Emerging Economies.
Evgeniy Yakushev, Executive director JSC NPF Safmar, and Yuri Voronin, Center Director, Center for Legal Support of Social and Economic Reforms, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, took part in the discussion as panelists.
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