The Opening ceremony of the II BRICS Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum will be attended by high-level officials from the BRICS and partners nations, as well as countries interested in cooperation with the association. While focusing on the crucial points of the BRICS expansion and integration of newcomers into the group, the event will set a positive tone for meaningful discussions and partnerships aimed at empowering women’s entrepreneurship in the BRICS space and beyond.

Speakers:

Sergey Lavrov,  Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation  (Russia), (video message);

Galina Karelova, Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chair of the Council of Eurasian Women’s Forum, Deputy Chair of the Organizing Committee  (Russia); 

Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, Honorable Minister of Women Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Nigeria); 

Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the Russian Federation (Brazil); 

Jose Antonio Morato Tavares, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus (Indonesia); 

Anna Nesterova, Chairperson of the Russian Chapter of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance, Founder of the Watchmaking Manufactury “Palekh Watch” (Russia).