The 2nd International Forum ‘Northern Sustainable Development Forum’ will be held online on September 27-30, 2020. The theme of the forum is TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE ARCTIC AND THE NORTH.

The Forum starts with a Plenary Session on September 28, 2020 (Monday) at 19:00 (UTC + 9) at venues of the Sakhamedia Republic-wide Media Center (Yakutsk), the Rossiya Segodnya Press Center (Moscow), and Skype (online). The Plenary Session will be streamed by NVK Sakha local broadcaster, as well as in YouTube and at the Forum’s official website at www.nsdf.ru.

The event will attended by representatives of federal, national, regional executive and legislative bodies, local government bodies, international, non-profit and public organizations, diplomatic missions and many other stakeholders.

Speakers:

• Aisen NIKOLAEV, Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
• Olafur Ragnar GRIMSSON, Chair of the Arctic Circle, President of Iceland in 1996-2016
• Victor RAZBEGIN, Director of Transcontinental Russia
• Yuri BEZDUDNY, Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Chair of the Northern Forum
• Eric S. REINERT, Norwegian economist; Professor, Tallinn University of Technology; Professor Emeritus, University College of London; Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen
• Vladimir PANOV, Special Envoy of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM for the Development of the Arctic; Deputy Chair of the State Commission for the Development of the Arctic
• GUO Peiqing, Professor, Ocean University of China
• Alexander NERADKO, Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya)
• Oran R. YOUNG, American economist; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California (USA)

In addition to the speakers, the Plenary Session of the Forum will be attended by the discussion participants:

• Emilia SAIZ, Secretary General of UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments)
• Esteban LEON, Head of City Resilience Profiling Programme, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
• Rodion STEPANOV, Head, Arctic Programs Directorate, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
• Lassi HEININEN, Finnish Geopolitician, Professor of the University of Lapland
• Alexander PILYASOV, Director General of the Regional Consulting Institute
• Lars KULLERUD,, President of the University of the Arctic
• Anatoly TSYKALOV, Deputy Chair of the Government, Krasnoyarsk Krai
• Anatoly NIKOLAEV, Rector of Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
• Andrey FEDOTOV, First Deputy Chair of the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) – Permanent Representative of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) to the President of the Russian Federation

The organizers of the Forum are the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), the ‘Northern Forum’ international organization of northern regions, and the North-Eastern Federal University.

To see the full program of the Forum visit nsdf.ru website. nsdf.ru

The events will be streamed live on the Northern Forum YouTube channel at: Northern Forum Secretariat Northern Forum Secretariat