Maxim Oreshkin to moderate the expert session of the Open Dialogue

On 7 October, as part of the Open Dialogue, the expert session "The New Economy: Competition for Positive Development" will take place at the National Centre RUSSIA, bringing together speakers from China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Thailand, and Russia. The session will be moderated by Maxim Oreshkin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia.

"We already have everything in place — the new structure of the global economy, as I mentioned, and the technologies needed for a new architecture of world trade. This does not replace old institutions or trade routes, but complements them. The key message is one of positive development. What needs to be done to ensure that countries’ development, their joint development, is more effective and has a greater impact on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, reducing poverty and increasing quality employment in our economies?" said Maxim Oreshkin.

The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia will also explain why values and meanings have become a factor of competitiveness, and why the focus should be on generating ideas instead of "importing" them. The focus of competition in the global economy is shifting. In fundamental indicators of the primary, secondary and, to a large extent, tertiary sectors, the new economies have already displaced the former leaders. However, in the modern economic model, impressions and the values, experiences and meanings they generate are playing an increasingly important role. It is this "superstructure" — the experience economy — that is becoming the new field of competition for the added value of goods and services and for the promotion of ideas.

The challenge facing new economies is how to offer new products and models for promoting impressions that are based on multiculturalism, universal values and traditions, in order to ensure global competitiveness.

We will discuss this on 7 October at the expert session of the Open Dialogue "The New Economy: Competition for Positive Development".