Economic Transformations of the Central Asian Region and the Influence of China, Russia, and the U.S. - October 26-27, 2021

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT (Concluded)

The Journal JEECAR has organized a two-day virtual Conference on Economic Transformations of the Central Asian Region and the Influence of China, Russia, and the U.S. The conference is administered in cooperation with the Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan, The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and Webster University in St. Louis, MO, USA. The conference will provide an exclusive forum to discuss and explore contemporary thinking of leading academic and business practitioners related to the economic transformation of economic policies and practices in countries of the Central Asian region. We are looking toward theoretically grounded and practice-oriented presentations in Economics, Banking & Finance, Management, Marketing, HRM and O.D., and Foreign Affairs.

Topics to be Discussed:

Eurasian economic integration
The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the regional economies
Conducting business research in and about emerging markets

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Day 1 – Tuesday, October 26, 2021, from 8 am to 10 am CT Zone (Chicago time)

8:00 - 8:05 – Dr. Assylbek Kozhakhmetov. President and Founder, Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan - Welcoming remarks

Dr. Assylbek Kozhakhmetov earned his Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree at the Graduate School of Management of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" in Moscow, Russia. Also, he completed various courses on management in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, Hungary, and Estonia. In 2013, Dr. Kozhakhmetov received the State Program "Bolashak" scholarship completing the scientific internship at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (USA). He is the author of more than 60 articles on management and education development. His public activities include positions of the vice-chairman of the public Council on consideration and resolving social conflicts of National Democratic Party "Nur Otan," the chairman of Republican Public Association "Shanyrak," the member of independent anti-corruption Council, the member of Republican Public Council on control of public funds expenditure according to the anti-recessionary program, the member of Advisory Council for improvement of public services; a member of the working group on amendments to the law "On Education"; and a member of the Council on combating corruption in higher education institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Dr. Assylbek Kozhakhmetov is awarded the highest state award, "Kurmet" Medal of Honor of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

8:05 - 8:30 – Mr. Tomas Hanson, former U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer and Diplomat in Residence, the University of Minnesota – Duluth, and Director of The Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia - Keynote

Mr. Tomas Hanson currently serves as Diplomat in Residence at the Alworth Institute for International Affairs at the University of Minnesota – Duluth and has taught diplomacy at Carleton College. He is Director of The Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Chair of the Minnesota Committee on Foreign Relations; and Co-Chair of the Minnesota China Business Council. His U.S. Foreign Service postings included East Germany, France, Norway, the Soviet Union, Sweden, and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. He also participated in the opening of new U.S. embassies in Mongolia and Estonia, worked on the Foreign Relations Committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and served as Director for NATO and European Affairs at the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, D.C. Tom holds graduate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and the National School of Administration (ENA) in France.

8:30 – 10:00 – Presentations in three independent Sessions/Virtual Rooms
10:00 – Day 1 program Concluded

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Day 2 – Wednesday, October 27, 2021, from 8 am to 10 am CT Zone (Chicago time)

8:00 - 8:35 – Ambassador George Krol, Professor, U.S. Naval War College, and Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University – Keynote

Ambassador George Krol retired from the United States Foreign Service in 2018, concluding a 36-year career during which he served in Poland, India, the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, and ambassador to Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. In the State Department, he held positions of, inter alia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia and Director of the Office of Russian Affairs. Ambassador Krol currently is an Adjunct Professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., lectures locally on foreign policy topics, and is an Associate of Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Ambassador Krol is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities.

8:35 – 10:00 – Presentations in three independent Sessions/Virtual Rooms
10:00 – Conference Concluded

PRESENTATIONS

Day 1 - Tuesday 8:30 - 10:00 am	Dr. Radu Munteanu	Touro University Worldwide, CA, USA	Bitcoin and DeFi: Financial Innovation and a Decentralized Financial System
	Javaid Ahmad Bhat & Prof. Imtiyaz Ul Haq	Department of Economics, University of Kashmir	Growth and Structural Change in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
	Diana Kamaladin	Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan	Using Neuromarketing to Improve the University Marketing Strategy
	Aizhan Kazybayeva	Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan’s Nation Branding: Features and Problems
	Todd Leffko	Independent Researcher, USA	Has America Missed the Opportunity in Central Asia?
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Day 2 - Wednesday 8:30 - 10:00 am	Prof. Mohammed R. Ahmed	Webster University, MO, USA	Economic Growth Model for Transformation of the Central Asian Region
	Dr. Shikha Jain, Dr. Suraj Kamble, Dr. Shilpa Kulkarni	Institute of Management Development and Research, Pune, India	CONSUMER OUTLOOK AND ADOPTION OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN POST COVID 19 OUTBREAKS
	Dr., Prof. Irina Skorobogatykh, Dr., Prof. Sergey Mkhitaryan, Ass.prof. GainaTimokhina, Ass.prof. Natalia Ivashkova, Ass.prof. Irina Shirochenskaya	Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia	MANAGING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF METROPOLIS’ PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES BASED ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION RATINGS
	Dr. Elena Kaš?áková, Dr. Anabela Luptáková, Ján Valášek	University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia	Complementarity and Comparative Advantages of Slovakia with the Countries of the Eurasian Economic Union

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Samila Amanyraoufpoor	Dominguez Hills- California, USA
Ge Gao	Jilin University, Changchun, China
Charlotte Davis	Concord University, USA
Aiman Kazybayeva	Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan
Ksenia Kuzmina	MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia
Ran Liu	Central Connecticut State University, USA
Gordana Pesakovic	Webster University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Jozsef Poor	J. Selye University Komárno, Slovakia
Mike Szymanski	Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Russia

The accepted papers will be published in the double-blind, peer-reviewed journal JEECAR. For information on how to submit research for review and publication in the JEECAR, visit https://www.ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/instructions.

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