ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM (June 2 -5)

July 15, 2021

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Outcome of Spief 2019

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is an invaluable event for discussing current issues across a wide range of areas, and identifying answers and solutions to them. With each year, the number of countries represented at the Forum increases, as does interest in the event from members of the business community, heads of international organizations, government officials, experts, scientists, and journalists.

 

 

PARTICIPANTS

SPIEF 2019 was attended by more than 19,000 people from 145 countries. Countries represented for the first time at the event included Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Côte d’Ivoire, Lesotho, Nepal, Niger, San Marino, Somalia, and Eswatini.

Among those who came to St. Petersburg were government and political figures from 110 countries, members of the business community representing more than 3,500 Russian and international companies, and heads of more than 1,800 Russian companies and 570 international ones.

The largest business delegations were from China (1,100 participants), the US (542), Germany (334), the UK (312), France (249), Japan (219), Switzerland (190), Italy (160), and the Netherlands (106).