Zhang Yuyan chairs a Session at Boao Forum
for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2016

The Session “BRICS: from Concept To Entity” is held at Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2016 in International Conference Center in Boao.

IWEP Director Zhang Yuyan acts as moderator of the session. Speakers at the session include Bibek Debroy, Economist and Permanent Member of National Institution for Transforming India Aayog (formally the Planning Commission of India), Sudheendra Kulkarni, Chairman of Observer Research Foundation Mumbai, David Li Daokui, Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for China Tsinghua Unversity, Leslie Warren Maasdorp, Vice President of BRICS Development Bank, Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group, President FICCI, and Dmitry Pankin, President of Eurasian Development Bank and former Deputy Finance Minister of Russia Federation.

Topics being actively discussed among speakers and audience mostly concern BRICS economic development achievements, future challenges and opportunities, management of risks, measures to promote further cooperation, etc. （2016-03-24）