AEF 2018 Global Challenges Summit, May 17-19, Astana

Over the last 11 years, the Astana Economic Forum (AEF) has proved to be of one of the most influential international platforms for addressing the challenges of improving and developing the world economy and financial system. The forum has to date attracted 50,000 delegates from 150 countries of the world, including over 20 Nobel laureates and 30 high-level foreign political figures.

The Forum served a platform for concluding more than 300 memorandums and agreements over $ 20 billion worth. With the active support and direct participation of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev, the AEF platform annually brings together global leaders, experts and representatives of the business community to find solutions to combat the main economic and social challenges of our time.

The AEF is annually updating the subject matter and covers a wide range of problems and challenges of global development, setting coordinates for a wide field of discussions.

24.05.2018

Summary of the AEF 2018 Global Challenges Summit

On 19 May 2018, the Astana Economic Forum, in its new form as the Global Challenges Summit, came to a close. New agendas and a revised format of events allowed the worldwide expert community to join together in search of solutions to the global challenges standing before all of humanity.

19.05.2018

Strategic session took place at the 2018 AEF Global Challenges Summit on the 19th of May in Astana

Several brainstorming sessions happened during the course of the session and were around 6 core development sessions in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

18.05.2018

Day two of the 2018 AEF Global Challenges Summit will start from a plenary session “Best practise of global changes

Baktizhan Sagintaev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as other key speakers will participate at the session. The start of the session is at 10 AM at Al-Farabi hall.