This year’s SITE Development Day conference will focus on the Russian war on Ukraine. We will discuss the situation in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, how to finance and organize financial support within the EU and within Sweden, and how to deal with the current energy crisis.

1. #AcademicsStandWithUkraine
VENUE: THE AULA AT SSE
SVEAVÄGEN 65, 113 83
STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
PROGRAM
TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER, 2022
Registration & coffee
Introduction and welcome
Anders Olofsgård, Deputy Director at SITE
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of the Belarusian Democratic Forces
Pre-recorded message from Johan Forssell, Minister of Foreign Trade and International
Development Cooperation. Followed by further remarks from Henrik Norberg, Head of
Division for Reform Support to Eastern Europe at Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Andrij Plachotnjuk, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the
Kingdom of Sweden
Tymofiy Mylovanov, President of the Kyiv School of Economics (on link from Kyiv)
Coffee break
Yuliya Markuts, Head of the Centre of Public Finance and Governance Analysis, Kyiv
School of Economics: Fiscal policy in the shadow of a war
Panel discussion: The European Union and support to Ukraine
• Jean-Erik de Zagon, Head of the Representation to Ukraine, the European Investment
Bank
• Cecilia Thorfinn, Team leader Communications at the Representation of the European
Commission in Sweden
• Fredrik Löjdquist, Centre Director of the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European
Studies (SCEEUS)
• Yulia Markuts, Head of the Centre of Public Finance and Governance Analysis, Kyiv
School of Economics
8.45-9.15
9.15-9.20
9.20-9.30
9.30-9.50
9.50-10.05
10.45-11.00
10.05-10.20
10.20-10.45
11.00-12.00

2. Lunch break
Panel discussion: Organizing and financing Swedish support to Ukraine
• Jan Ruuth, Deputy head of unit for Eastern Europe at Sida
• Karin Kronhöffer, Director of Strategy and Communication at Swedfund
• Andreas Flodström, CEO and founder of Beetroot
Panel discussion: An EU and Swedish perspective on the energy crisis
• Chloé Le Coq, Professor of Economics, University Paris-Pantheon-Assas (CRED) &
SITE
• Lars Andersson, Senior advisor at Swedenergy
• Pär Hermerèn, Senior advisor at Jernkontoret
Coffee break
Book Launch: Reconstruction of Ukraine: Principles and policies
• Ilona Sologoub, VoxUkraine scientific editor (on link)
• Torbjörn Becker, Director at SITE
• Tatyana Deryugina, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (on link)
Impact in the region
• Michal Myck, Director at CenEA, Poland
• Yaroslava Babych, Lead economist at ISET Policy Institute, Georgia
• Lev Lvovskiy, Research fellow at BEROC, Belarus
SITE/FREE Network Research Initiatives
• War and gender, Pamela Campa, Associate Professor at SITE
• War and the environment, Julius Andersson, Assistant Professor at SITE
• War and democracy, Jonathan Lehne, Assistant Professor at SITE
Concluding remarks
Torbjörn Becker, Director at SITE and Nataliia Shapoval, Head of KSE Institute and
Vice President for Policy Research at Kyiv School of Economics (on link)
TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER, 2022
12.00-13.00
13.00-13.45
13.45-14.30
14.30-15.00
15.00-15.45
15.45-16.15
16.15-16.45
16.45-17.00