19:30 | Cocktail
20:30 | Dinner debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Former President of Mongolia
Il est primordial que la réunion sur la politique mondiale soit un lieu où les petits pays comme la Mongolie ont voix au chapitre, car nous savons désormais que les grandes entreprises et les grands pays ne peuvent pas résoudre tous les problèmes.
Debates
8:30 – 9:30 | Opening session
His Majesty King Mohammed VI
King of Morocco
Ensuring peace and stability requires genuine governance based on justice and discipline.
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Until all world powers are included in the way we deal with issues like the economic downturn, trade and climate change, our institutions will lack the richness and legitimacy necessary for dealing with today’s challenges.
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
If we fail to adapt our coordination structures to a world that is changing rapidly, and even too rapidly, we will experience systemic crises the likes of which the recent economic and financial crisis would only be a preview of things to come.
9:30 – 11:00 | Plenary session 1
Architecture of Political Governance”
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Former President of Mongolia
There should be performance criteria based on the quality of life we are trying to reach together.
Han Seung-Soo
Former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea
What is certain is that the Bretton Woods Institutions that have come into being since the end of the Second World War need a drastic revitalization, if not a complete form.
Hubert Védrine
Former French Foreign Minister
If Europeans were able to get beyond their own navel-gazing, they would organise themselves within the G20 to manage the change, which will be painful for them but which is inevitable.
Robert Blackwill
Senior Fellow & Senior Advisor to the President, RAND Corporation
The great powers need to work much harder to find strategic convergence on the preeminent problems that face the international system.
Debates
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45 | Plenary session 2
“Macro-economic Governance”
Fathallah Oualalou
President, Commune Urbaine de Rabat
The new macro-economic governance, the result of a new balance of power between the State and the market, is gradually becoming more varied in form.
Arkady Dvorkovich
Sherpa to President Dmitry Medvedev
The important thing is not to avoid imbalances altogether but to have manageable imbalances that can be sustained and financed, where dangerous developments can be monitored and risks can be tackled before they lead to another crisis.
Yoichi Otabe
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. G8 Sherpa, Japan
To be realistic, the wisdom of the G7 and the OECD lies in their introduction and strengthening of this “peer review” mechanism.
Wolfgang Munchau
Director of Eurointelligence Adviser Limited
Ultimately, when we have a process that is ad hoc and intergovernmental, we do not get agreement on what needs to be done, but only on what can be agreed.
Jacques Mistral
Head of Economic Research at Ifri
Debates
12:45 – 15:00 | Lunch debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Han Seung-Soo
Former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea
Like the travelers and explorers of the old world, let us cultivate a taste of learning. Let us take a sincere interest in and show a real curiosity about others.
Debates
15:00 – 16:15 | Plenary session 3
“The future of capitalism”
Lionel Zinsou
Chairman and CEO of PAI partners
If there is one idea about this crisis that has been particularly wrong but remains tenacious, it is the idea that excessive financialisation of the economy was the root cause of the crisis.
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
Former Italian Minister of Economy and Finance
What has failed in the crisis is not the system in which individuals or firms pursue their self-interest, but a version of it in which they pursued self-interest without the framework of rules and public action which are indispensible to achieving that miracle.
Jeffry Frieden
Professor at Harvard University’s Department of Government
An open international economic order requires systematic, purposive, concerted cooperation among national governments.
Debates
16:15 – 16:45 | Coffee break
16:45 – 18:15 | Plenary session 4
“Energy and Climate”
Richard Bradley
Senior Manager for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency at the IEA
No single government will have the capacity to produce the range of technologies which will be required to “green” the range of economic sectors that emit GHGs.
Anil Razdan
Former Power Secretary, Government of India
Energy, which is a prime mover of development and poverty alleviation, has to be available, affordable, reliable, and sustainable.
Manoelle Lepoutre
Director of Sustainable Development and Environment, TOTAL
It is also important to work with the public authorities to make the solution acceptable to the citizen and to ensure there is both a real incentive and a framework to ensure that industrialists who create emissions and those who have the skills to store them in the ground work together.
William Ramsay
Director of the Ifri Energy Program
We have heard a great deal of talk of how low energy intensity is working nicely, economies are being de-intensified and using a lot less energy per 2 000 hours of GDP etc. However, carbon emissions are just not dropping.
Debates
18:15 – 18:45 | Mini-session 1
“Migrations”
Pierre Morel
Special Representative for Central Asia and for the Crisis in Georgia, EU
The traditional phenomenon of integration, which should be the outcome of migration except in cases of circular migration, has become increasingly urgent –but it has also become increasingly difficult.
Jean-Paul Guevara Avila
Director-General of Bilateral Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Plurinational State of Bolivia
Globalization is not only a technological or communicational revolution but it is also the human mobility and the capacity of transport and the movement of persons.
20:00 – 22:00 | Dinner debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Jean-David Levitte
Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy
For the first time in human history, we are confronted with global crises that threaten not only our economic future but also the future of our planet.
Debates
9:00 – 10:45 | Plenary session 5
“Security”
Yutaka Iimura
Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for the Middle East and Europe
This is the importance of people involved in policy decision-making understanding various regional situations and grasping these in comprehensive terms.
Sergei Karaganov
Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy in Moscow
Regarding the positive component, the divide in Europe must be healed either by signing a new security treaty or by taking Russia into NATO.
Dominique Moïsi
Special Advisor to Ifri
Within this system, as a European, I am struck by the slow pace at which we accept and assimilate the changes taking place in the world.
Meir Sheetrit
Member of Knesset. Former Interior Minister of Israel.
Terrorism is no longer about small groups of people fighting against big powers. It involves international networks, very sophisticated and well funded, manipulating democracies and using them against themselves.
Debates
10:45 – 11:45 | Plenary session 6
“Economic and Financial Regulations”
Jacques Mistral
Head of Economic Research at Ifri
Kemal Dervis
Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings Institution
More of the flow of capital generated by the oil-producing countries and China needs to move towards the developing and emerging countries rather than solely to America.
Nicolas Véron
Research Fellow at Brugel, Brussels
It is not enough to have common standards: they need to be applied consistently and in a similar way; supervision needs to be consistent, as does the management of risk by the public authorities.
Debates
11:45 – 12:15 | Coffee break
12:15 – 13:30 | Plenary session 7
“International law”
Celso Lafer
Professor of Philosophy of law at University of Sao Paulo. Former Foreign Minister of Brazil
One of the items of the present international agenda is related to the politics of identity and recognition, and this brings into question the ability of a principle such as self-determination to deal with this new challenge that affects the stability of the present-day international-state system.
Serge Sur
Professor at University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas
As far as the mechanisms of international law are concerned, one must stress their creativity and their flexibility.
Assia Bensalah Alaoui
Ambassador-at-Large, Kingdom of Morocco
We can only hope that “beating” people’s consciences, in the way he is pinning his hopes on, will result in producing this salutary burst of enthusiasm for better governance of a much fairer and more equitable system, one which has still to be developed.
Debates
13:30 – 15:30 | Lunch debate
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Amr Moussa
Secretary-General of the League of Arab States
The Arab world has to link up with the 21st century.
Debates
15:30 – 17:00 | Plenary session 8
“Health and Environment”
José Angel Cordova Villalobos
Health Minister of the United States of Mexico
Cherif Rahmani
Algerian Minister for Planning, Environment, and Tourism
The path forward will be extremely long and we must choose between two strategies: a passive strategy based on a denial of responsibility and reality or an active strategy.
Bruno Lafont
Chairman and CEO of Lafarge
Environmental protection is compatible with growth and development as long as they are planned and conducted by responsible companies.
Thomas Wellauer
Head Corporate Affairs and Executive Member of Novartis
Most ministries of health or finance, and equally the bodies of global health governance, are measuring inputs and very little in terms of outcomes from the system.
Debates
17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break
17:30 – 18:45 | Plenary session 9
“Water, Agriculture and Food”
Michel Camdessus
Former Managing Director of the IMF. Honorary Governor of Banque de France
Water is local, almost by nature, because it is expensive to transport and has a high leakage rate. The strategic level is therefore the nation.
Christian Bréchot
Vice President for Medical Scientific Affairs, Mérieux Alliance
There is a strong need to standardize surveillance data collection and analysis as well as micro-biological methods.
Louise Fresco
Professor, University of Amsterdam
We can feed the world, even based on our current knowledge, even without using GMOs, if demand can be clearly defined and if we are able to organise markets, organise the workforce and organise inputs.
Debates
18:45 – 19:15 | Mini-session 2
“The role of Regions in Globalization”
Jordi Pujol
Former President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Globalisation is sparking a search for identity and a need for a reference or anchorage point.
Moulay Driss Mdaghri
Président, Association marocaine d’intelligence économique, AMIE
The legitimate aspiration for the recognition of local cultures and the demand by various populations and their elites for greater participation and autonomy must be leveraged to drive development and progress.
19:15 – 19:45 | Conclusions
Thierry De Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
The problems addressed are multi-faceted and we have to master them if we want to be constructive and effective.
21:00 | Gala dinner
Taïeb Fassi Fihri
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Kingdom of Morocco
Our concern for democracy prompts us to seek a new compromise, a new global structure and better tools.
Michael Posner
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, USA
We need a new relationship between government and civil society. When we talk about democracy, we have to have a larger vision than just elections. We need to ask what a democratic society looks like.
Samuel Kaplan
American Ambassador to Morocco
I would say that you need to have conferences very often, because only by coming together in this kind of venue and talking about these kinds of issues can we make progress in the world today.