BRICS Conference KAZAN

Round Table Discussion

Brussels, October 26th 2024

The relevance of BRICS requires little introduction and can't be overstated. According to the World Bank, BRICS have a larger GDP (PPP) than the G7. The BRICS produces and exports more crude oil than OPEC. The Suez Canal, Straight of Hormuz and Cape of Good Hope are under BRICS' control. And so will the Borporus and the Straights of Malacca when Türkiye, Indonesia or Malaysia join BRICS. So yes, the world is changing rapidly. The 2024 BRICS conference in Kazan promises to have a long lasting effect on the East, Global South and West. Come October 26th 2024, our panel of experts will address and discuss the impact and consequences following the BRICS conference in Kazan 22nd to 24th 2024. Which new members will join, and in what capacity? Are we looking at the building of a new OPEC-like cartel for all other resources? What will the new trade currency look like? Will the dollar remain the reserve currency and what about the petro-dollar cycle? What monetary role do gold reserves play? What about the European Industrial complex? How harmonic can this multipolar world be?
On Oct.26th 2024, in a theater at the outskirts of Brussels, we’re going discuss all that. The venue is limited to 500 attendees.

Nova Theater Machelen

13h00 (CET) Open Doors

14h00 (CET) Kick-off and Introduction

14h30 (CET) current state of affairs pré-2024

15h00 (CET) communiqués and announcements out of Kazan

16h30 (CET) coffee break, pauze

17h00 (CET) Live reporting from Kazan

18h00 closing comments and thoughts

18h30 reception, networking, drink

full capacity of 500 chairs

Col. Ret. Jacques Baud

Military

Jacques Baud (Suisse), colonel, expert in chemical and nuclear weapons, trained in counter-terrorism and counter-guerrilla warfare, designed the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and its Action Information Management System Against Mines (IMSMA). In the service of the United Nations, he was chief of doctrine for peacekeeping operations in New York, and engaged in Africa. At NATO, he led the fight against the proliferation of small arms. He is the author of several books on intelligence, asymmetric warfare and terrorism.

Alasdair Macleod

Monetary

Head of Research at Goldmoney Inc. Alasdair Macleod (Scotsman) commenced his career as a stockbroker at the London Stock Exchange in 1970. Subsequently, he has been an investment manager and an executive director of an offshore bank in Guernsey. Today he is an esteemed commentator and analyst on banking, financials and monetary affairs. For some time Alasdair Macleod shares his insights and thoughts on his substack page.


Alasdair cannot join us in person and will therefore participate on-line and on camera from his office in the Uk.

dr. Gilbert Doctorow

Culture & Diplomacy

Gilbert Doctorow (American) is an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and holds a doctorate in Russian history from Columbia University. From a position as postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Russian Research Center in 1975 he transitioned to corporate business, serving major U.S. corporations in their ambition to establish industrial projects in the USSR. His twenty-five year business career culminated in the position of Managing Director, Russia during the years 1995-2000 working from offices in Moscow. Since 2010, Doctorow has published collections of his weekly essays on US-EU-Russian relations and most recently brought out a two volume edition of his diaries and reminiscences. Gilbert Doctorow is at present a regular invited commentator and analyst both in the West and Global South.

Prof. Em. Kees van der Pijl

Historical


Kees van der Pijl (Dutch) studied Law in Leiden with a specialisation in Political Sciences and worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam from 1973 to 1999. From 2000 to 2012, he was Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex in England. His work covers international class formation and the history of thinking about world politics. Most recent publications: Pandemic of Fear, also in German, English, French, Italian; and The Tragedy of Ukraine, an adaptation of the previously published FlightMH17, Ukraine and the New Cold War. He can be seen regularly on Café Weltschmerz and other internet channels.

Prof. Tom Sauer

Strategies for Peace

Tom Sauer (Belgian) is Professor in International Politics at the Department of Politics at the Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium). Sauer is specialized in international security, and more in particular in nuclear arms control, proliferation, and disarmament. He has published ten books (monographs and edited books), and dozens of academic articles.
He is a former BCSIA Fellow at the John F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (US)(1997-1999) thanks to a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, and an active member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Professor Sauer is a Board member of the Flemish Peace Institute, Pax Christi Flanders, and the International Institute of Peace in Vienna. He received the 2009 award of Peace Ambassador by Pax Christi Flanders, and the 2019 Alumni Global Service Award of Rotary International.

Peter van Stigt
Yannick Lefever
Joachim Van Wing

Peter van Stigt attends the BRICS conference in Kazan where he will interview dignitaries, policymakers and officials. These interviews are transmitted live to the audience in the theater in Machelen as well to the viewers attending online via live stream.

The armchair discussion among academics on stage is professionally and objectively moderated by Yannick Lefever and Joachim Van Wing.

All interviews are conducted in English

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