Oleg Deripaska to Deliver Inaugural Lecture to Launch Presidential Forum at HKUST
EuroNext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world’s largest aluminium producer, is pleased to
announce details of CEO
Turning Opportunity into Success’ – which is the inaugural speech of the UC
RUSAL Presidential Forum at
(HKUST).
In his lecture,
talk about his principles, approaches and revolutionary ideas that help
propel to global leadership, increase competitiveness and create solutions
that can have a huge impact on the development prospects of entire
industries, regions and countries.
What does it take to create the world’s largest aluminum company out of a
few isolated aluminium smelters that were on the verge of bankruptcy in the
early 90′s? How does a Russian company operate successfully on five
continents, with its own technology, a powerful source of raw materials and
large-scale investment projects all around the globe? What is the next step
to maintain leadership positions and expand opportunities for the application
of aluminum? How to address global challenges such as the increase in
population (which is estimated at one billion every 11-13 years) combined
with the decreasing availability and the rising cost of resources, the
geographic irregularity of resource deposits and consumption centers and
environmental concerns? And, how do we preserve economic growth and provide a
better life quality by utilizing new energy sources and new approaches to
nuclear energy?
These are just the few of the issues to be addressed during the lecture,
which aims to foster the image of
the world’s most promising and fast developing regions. The lecture also
intends to improve understanding of Russian cultural, social and economic
life with younger generation of the region, which will serve to further
bolster the links between the two countries.
‘The idea behind this lecture is to convince the student audience of the
importance of a pro-active approach to life, a belief in one’s self, about
the boundless opportunities that need to be pinpointed, accessed, and
properly used to secure our goals’ said
lecture. ‘I hope that the dialogue we are pursuing within this Forum will
bring new brave and bold ideas and daring projects to life. Thanks to new
initiatives we will be able to solve essential social, economic,
environmental and humanitarian issues which are now on the agenda, to improve
the life quality in entire cities and countries’, he stated.
The lecture of Mr. Deripaska is the first part of the five year
cooperation programme between RUSAL and HKUST. The UC RUSAL President’s Forum
will host lectures of internationally acclaimed political leaders,
businessmen, professors and scientists. Student exchanges between HKUST and
leading Russian universities also form an integral part of cooperation
programme. Another important project within the cooperation framework is
joint research on the application of innovative technologies to the aluminium
sector and a search for innovative solutions to expand the use of aluminium
in construction.
The hour-long lection is due to take place on
pm
is available on the UC RUSAL corporate web-site
http://rusal.ru/en/forum.aspx. You can also post your questions to Mr.
Deripaska, which he will answer during the broadcast or straight afterwards.
About UC RUSAL
UC RUSAL (http://www.rusal.com) is the world’s largest producer of
aluminium, in 2009 accounting for approximately 10% and 10% of global
production of aluminium and alumina, respectively. UC RUSAL employs about
76,000 people in 19 countries, across 5 continents. UC RUSAL markets and
sells its products primarily in the European, Japanese, Chinese, Korean,
South East Asian and North American markets. UC RUSAL’s ordinary shares are
listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (Stock code: 486) and
global depositary shares representing UC RUSAL’s ordinary shares are listed
on the professional compartment of Euronext Paris (RUSAL for Reg S GDSs and
RUAL for Rule 144A GDSs).
About The
The
(http://www.ust.hk), situated in
in
Business and Management, Humanities and Social Science, as well as the Fok
Ying Tung Graduate School in Nansha, Mainland China. The University has nine
research institutes, among them the Institute for Advanced Study of HKUST,
set up to foster cross-discipline collaboration among the top scientists and
scholars in the world. Currently, there are about 6,000 undergraduate
students and 3,500 postgraduate students. As a research university, HKUST
focuses on five areas of frontier research, namely nano science and
technology; biological sciences and biotechnology; electronics, wireless and
information technology; environment and sustainable development as well as
management education and research.
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SOURCE UC RUSAL