V Astana Economic Forum

Mission:
Integrating efforts of academic economists and practitioners, plus representatives of social and international organizations, to address issues of economic development and to facilitate world economic and social progress.
Goals:
• To create conditions for a full exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas in organizing and administering economic research;
• To attract investors and customers interested in innovation and to help foster economic and social projects.
Main activities:
-- Integrating the efforts of academic economists and practitioners to address issues of economic development and facilitate progress in the Eurasian region and the world;
-- Developing recommendations that governments can use to overcome dysfunction in the global economic system;
-- Helping attract potential investors and clients;
-- Helping foster innovation efforts.

The Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists Association includes academic economists and practitioners from 91 countries.

«We possess huge human resources. And, what is most important, we have the brains to intensify our interaction to take the advanced-technology branches of the economy to a new level, promising us a breakthrough. In order to do this, we are ready to create the Eurasian Club of Scientists and the Eurasian Bank of New Technologies in Astana» (From a speech that the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, gave during the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum in 2007.)