First high-level international symposium „Future Challenges of Public Sector Enterprises“

To celebrate its 35 years of successful work, the International Centre for Promotion of Enterprises - ICPE organized the first high-level international symposium «Future Challenges of Public Sector Enterprises”. The current issues of development of this sector of the economy, problems and directions for future development were discussed at the symposium. The conference was opened by Dr. Stefan Bogdan Šalej, Director of ICPE and Dr. Franks Križanič, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia. This extraordinary gathering was attended by delegations of the Institute - Dejan Eric, Srdjan Redzepagic, Ivan Stosic, Jovan Zubović, Aleksandar Zdravkovic and Drasko Nikolic.

His Excellency Rubens Ricupero - a  former Minister of Finance of Brazil and DG UNCTAD), Peter Harrold – World Bank, Country Director, Central Europe and Baltic countries, Hans Christiansen, OECD Senior Economist, Steering Group on Corporate Governance, Prof. Nevenka Hrovatin - Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, Dr. Anil Chardy Itereah - Program Coordinator, Indian Institute of Public Administration and others took part in the discussion during the first panel entitled "The Role of Public Sector Enterprises in Economic Development,"

The second panel was dedicated to dialogue between the public and the private sector and raising the level of social responsibility, while the third panel was dedicated to case studies and management practices of public companies in different countries. As part of this panel, a very remarkable lecture was held by the Director of the Institute Professor. Dr. Dejan Eric on the specificity of management of public enterprises in Serbia.

The IES delegation took an opportunity during the seminar to maintain existing and establish new business contacts.