20:30 | Dinner-debate
Introduction by Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Christophe de Margerie’s speech
CEO and Member of the Executive Committee, Total
“This crisis […] will force statesmen over the world whatever their colour to be responsible and to act in sustainable manner, to make promises that they can keep.”
Conclusion by Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
8:30 – 10:00 | Opening session
Royal Message
His Majesty King Mohammed VI
“This crucial project should be perceived as the result of an essential cultural and political process, backed by genuine political will, that can contribute to lasting peace, the right to fair trade and respect for diversity when it comes to matters relating to culture and faith.”
Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
“The goal of this conference is to constructively participate in reshaping the global governance system, with the aim of strengthening the security of the entire world in the years and decades to come – because the governance issue is fundamentally a security issue.”
Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
“Global governance is too important to be left to just one organization or group. But it is at the United Nations – with its universality, experience and operational presence in nearly every country – where global governance can best come together.”
Debates
10:00 – 11:30 | Plenary session 1
“Population, Climate, Health: What Global Governance?”
Introduction from Narendra Taneja & Jean-Pierre Elkkabach
Energy CEO and Convener, World Oil & Gas Assembly (WOGA) / President, Lagardère News
Fernando Alvarez Del Rio
Head of the Economic Analysis Unit, Secretariat of Health, Mexico
William Reilly
Chairman of the Climate Works foundation
“The one basis for optimism on this subject in America right now is that there is a growing consensus that we cannot even govern ourselves and therefore, maybe international governance would be friendlier and more welcome than it might have been.”
Chris Viehbacher
Chairman and CEO, Sanofi-Aventis
“All of these factors are interdependent. The more urbanisation there is, the more environmental problems there are. As urbanisation and access to health care increases, the more likely we are to discover what causes diseases.”
Jean de Kervasdoue
CNAM Professor
Chris Viehbacher
Chairman and CEO, Sanofi-Aventis
Fernando Alvarez Del Rio
Head of the Economic Analysis Unit, Secretariat of Health, Mexico
“The issue is that many of these actions go beyond the health sector. There are many aspects that are intersecting; there are many aspects that relate to agreements with industry. That is where global governance also comes into play. You have to have a perspective that is going to be global, but that is going to end up in specific solutions at the conflict base.”
William Reilly
Chairman of the Climate Works foundation
Fernando Alvarez Del Rio & Jean de Kervasdoue
Head of the Economic Analysis Unit, Secretariat of Health, Mexico / CNAM Professor
William Reilly
Chairman of the Climate Works foundation
Debates
11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 | Plenary session 2
“Global Monetary and Financial Governance”
Introduction from Jacques Mistral & Xavier Vidal-Folch
Head of Economic Studies, Ifri/Deputy Director, El País, President of the World Editors Forum
Kemal Dervis
Vice President, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
“Why governance? Because there is interdependency. This interdependency is growing mainly through trade. Trade creates an obvious interdependency at the level of fiscal and budgetary policies.”
Haruhiko Kuroda
President, Asian Development Bank
“The use of a single national currency, the US dollar, as an international reserve currency heightened the tension between national and global monetary policy making. It also continued to be a source of instability, by allowing lower financing costs for the countries with the reserve currency.”
Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank
“it is necessary to make our public opinions sufficiently aware of the externalities of national decisions, and consequently on the necessity to internalize complex concepts like global economic prosperity and global financial stability.”
Panelists’ comments
Debates
13:30 – 15:30 | Lunch-debate
Introduction from Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Speech from Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank
“all the advanced and emerging countries are learning from the crisis, which is a sort of life-sized stress test on the new world which has been created. .”
Exchange between Thierry de Montbrial and Jean-Claude Trichet
President and Founder of the WPC / President of the European Central Bank
Debates
Conclusion from Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
15:30 – 17:30 | Parallel workshops
Workshop #1 – Energy and Environment
Introduction from Anil Razdan
Former Power Secretary, Government of India
“There is also an inseparable link between energy use and deployment and levels of income and development. Therefore, energy is virtually a sine qua non of any poverty alleviation programme.”
Bruno Lafont
Chairman and CEO, Lafarge
“Lafarge is present in 80 different countries, of which 60 are developing countries. The first point about governance is that companies should be involved in the process of finding solutions.”
Qu Xing
President, China Institute of International Studies
“Under the precondition of common but differentiated responsibilities, the key for effectively fighting climate change is to realize the cooperation between developed and developing countries.”
William Ramsay
Director of Energy Programme, Ifri
“The last really bad crisis we had was in 1975, and it was another of these commodity ramps; we went through commodity ramps in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and here we are again with the impacts of these runaway commodity prices. ”
Mohammed Tawfik Mouline
Director General of the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies, Kingdom of Morocco
“The Mediterranean typifies the main energy and environmental issues of the world, and therefore offers a regional analytical framework that overlaps at national and world levels. This framework is relevant for the analysis of interdependencies and interrelationships between national policies and their coherence with the world effort.”
Debates
Workshop #2 – Food Security
Introduction from Philippe Chalmin
Professor, Paris Dauphine University; Founder, Cercle Cyclope
“who would have believed, when people at the start of the 21st century have mastered practically everything in terms of technology and controlling space and time that we would still find ourselves facing food problems, just as our ancestors did during the great famines of previous centuries?”
Yashwant Thorat
Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India and Former Chairman, NABARD
“India is now revisiting the Green Revolution all over again in the context of the Millennium Development Goals, as well as the need for a second round of resurgence in agriculture.”
Kairat Umarov
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Kazakhstan
“40 countries around the world are experiencing food shortages; more than a billion people are experiencing water shortages, and this figure will triple by 2025. World energy prices are growing rampantly, pushing up the prices of all kinds of goods, including food.”
Remark • Jean de Kervasdoue
Professor, CNAM
“soya from the United States is now 90% GM. The figures are between 80 and 90% for almost all major crops in North America. Soon they will hit 100%.”
Remark • Amit Roy
President and CEO of IFDC
“There has been a lot of talk recently in terms of running out of phosphate. We will reach peak phosphate in 30 years and run out of it in 130 years”
Debates
Workshop #3 – Global Monetary and Financial Governance
Introduction from Jacques Mistral
Director of Economic Studies, Ifri
Lionel Zinsou
Chairman and CEO, PAI Partners
“there’s the rest of the world, where the levers are going up and where we have to manage the opposite situation, damping down a sector that is overheating. Dealing with both forms of governance is no easy task. It was these two forms of governance that I wanted to draw your attention to.”
Pier Carlo Padoan
Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist of the OECD
“Global current account imbalances underlying savings and investment imbalances should not be totally eliminated; they are good in some cases. There are some good imbalances…”
Gordon Smith
Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
“we have to do what we all have probably been trained not to do, and get into this very sensitive area of the future of sovereignty. That really is what we are talking about if we are to manage in an effective way the kind of interdependent world in which we now live.”
Debates
17:30 – 18:00 | Coffee break
18:00 – 19:30 | Plenary session 3
“Discussion Panel on Current Events”
Introduction from Dominique Moïsi
Special Adviser to Ifri
Joaquin Almunia
Vice President and the Commissioner for Competition
“Europe has taken very important, very courageous and very worthwhile initiatives, not only to solve its internal problems but also problems beyond its borders, global problems. But Europe has a position that others find unreasonable. It is over-represented in multilateral institutions.”
Miguel Angel Moratinos
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain
“But other players who also have power don’t have responsibilities. Yet they still participate in decision-making. When a speculator decides to buy Spanish bonds at a certain price, isn’t he making economic and financial policy?.”
Konstantin Kosachev
Chairman, Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, Russia
“we are making progress on discussions as to whether European or global security will focus just on military aspects, which is more or less the case now, or will include other things like economic security, humanitarian issues and other important things.”
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Former President of Mongolia
Good governance is about engaging others, not excluding; about regulating and coordinating, not dictating; about giving everyone a chance, even North Korea, Mongolia, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.”
Hubert Védrine
Former French Foreign Minister
“The aim is that within three, four or five years, a young man in Gaza, in despair because his cousins or his friends have been killed by the Israeli army, ends up thinking that it makes more sense to open up a pizzeria… At that point we will see a new Middle East, which will bring Jordan and other countries in its wake.”
Amir Peretz
Member of Parliament, State of Israel
“For the majority of Israelis the question of the settlements is less important than the important goal of peace, which will change our reality for generations to come. I believe that if we put into motion this real will and real opportunity to reach the agreement with the power from the international community – led by president Obama, we might see this dream comes true”
Manuel Hassassian
Ambassador from Palestine to London
“Israel should recognise a simple fact, that it cannot continue its occupation while seeking peace, and cannot disregard the Arab Peace Initiative, the only safety valve for its existence and acceptance in the Middle East region. We the Palestinians are the only guarantors for a legitimate existence of the State of Israel. ”
Conclusion from Dominique Moïsi
Special Adviser to Ifri
20:30 | Gala Dinner
Amina Benkhadra
Minister of Energy, Mining, Water and the Environment
“Sustainable development is not limited to rational resource management and environmental preservation, which are certainly essential pillars. It is, instead, a comprehensive and integrated concept (…) that views the individual as the actor and purpose for all development.”
Fu Ying
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China
“In a developing country like China, nothing is more important and more relevant than to improve the living and working conditions of its 1.3 billion people. We are still lagging behind the people’s needs. To understand China, one should not lose sight of such reality.”
9:15 – 9:30 | Introduction of the day
Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Message from Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State in the administrations of President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford, Nobel Peace Prize 1973
“Right now, the world is dominated by at least two overwhelming realities. The first is that the international system of the 19th and 20th centuries has disintegrated. The system based entirely on the sovereignty of states is no longer enough to meet the needs of humanity and of the world as it is…”
9:30 – 10:00 | Reports from parallel workshops
Workshop 1 • Bruno Lafont
Chairman and CEO, Lafarge
“In energy, governance is clearly the quest for clean energy. Then again, in terms of the challenges, the link between energy and global warming is a global subject. So also is the link between energy and growth…”
Workshop 2 • Philippe Chalmin
Professor, Paris-Dauphine University, founder of the Cercle Cyclope
“Apart from the controversies about the part which may have been played by speculation or other forces, these price surges must be seen as a warning message from the markets, a warning message on what we have considered as the major challenge of the 21st century, namely the food challenge. ”
Workshop 3 • Lionel Zinsou
Chairman and CEO, PAI Partners
“We agreed that the world had basically succeeded in getting the financial system working again. (…) We understood that, as far as the regulation of banks and insurance companies was concerned, much work had been done, but there were still the non-banking institutions…”
10:00 -11:15 | Plenary session 4
“Governance of the Cyberspace”
Introduction from Ulysee Gosset
Journalist, France Télévisions
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
Minister of State for Forward Planning and Development of the Digital Economy
“The Internet is something very scaleable that no one designed. In fact, it operates through addition, and through addition by capillarity. It also operates in a very decentralised manner, which accounts for some of the Internet’s resilience. If it’s a space, then it’s a space that is constantly in motion.”
Craig Mundie
Chief Research and Strategy Officer of Microsoft Corp.
“The technology does not start at a border or end at a border. Many of the issues associated with how it is going to evolve are going to be very difficult to manage. Another thing that is very different about the cyber environment, even as it extends, are physical world experiences, is that the rate at which things are happening is different. “
François Barrault
Chairman and founder of FDB Partner SPRL
“When you look at how the Internet has developed since its beginnings, it was viral and a little chaotic…Internet technology has become an integral part of everyday life. In my opinion, the problem of governance means organising this chaos.”
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
Minister of State for Forward Planning and Development of the Digital Economy
Craig Mundie
Chief Research and Strategy Officer of Microsoft Corp.
François Barrault
Chairman and founder of FDB Partner SPRL
Michel Chertoff
Former Secretary for Homelands Security, United States of America
“We are facing a circumstance in which the Internet allows people to potentially have a catastrophic, destructive effect. This is not only on the Internet itself, but on the real world systems that depend on the Internet. Here is the challenge. “
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
Minister of State for Forward Planning and Development of the Digital Economy
Craig Mundie
Chief Research and Strategy Officer of Microsoft Corp.
Debate
Conclusion from Steven Erlanger
Chef du Bureau de Paris, New York Times
11:15 – 12:45 | Plenary session 5
“French and Korean Views on the G20”
Introduction from Jim Hoagland & Samir Aita
Associate Editor and Chief Foreign Correspondent, Washington Post / Editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique éditions arabes, and Président of the Cercle des économistes arabes
Ahn Ho-Young
Ambassador-at-large for the G20, Korea
“We have to fill the gap between those 172 countries who wish to sit at the G20 table and the G20 countries, who think 20 countries are already too many. We thought that maybe we should appoint an Outreach Ambassador and make him travel to all those non G20 member countries.”
Jean-David Levitte
Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy
“Another idea important to President Sarkozy is continuing to work year long. A summit lasts 24 to 36 hours. Considering the subjects on the agenda, we think it is very important for the heads of State and government, as well as the ministers, to feel fully involved.”
Debates
12:45 – 15:30 | Lunch-debate
“Global Governance and Business”
Introduction from Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
Speech from Mo Ibrahim
Founder and Chair, The Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Debates
15:30 – 18:00 | Free afternoon
18:00 – 19:30 | Plenary session 6
“Emerging Powers and Global Governance”
Introduction from Mehmet Ali Birand
Journalist and writer, CNN Türk
Fu Ying
Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
“For the developed countries, there is concern that the newly emerging countries may not observe the original rules or may not be ready to accept existing structures. At the same time, the emerging countries are concerned that those developed countries may not accept them, or may impose on them.”
Kemal Dervis
Vice President, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
“the future of Turkey depends on its ability to thrive with this diversity. It must not try to merge it or overcome it, but to actually make a strength of it. If you believe that globalisation is going to continue and that global economic and cultural forces are going to be very strong worldwide, taking advantage of these different dimensions is going to be a very good thing.”
Kanwal Sibal
Former Foreign Secretary of India
“La phase unipolaire est terminée, et en ce qui concerne la multipolarité, il existe une dichotomie dans l’attitude de certains pays s’opposant à la domination des Etats-Unis. Ils souhaitent une multipolarité à l’échelle mondiale, mais souhaiteraient l’unipolarité dans leurs propres régions.”
Stuart Eizenstat
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
“We are really at a historic watershed. The question is; will the greater influence that developing countries rightly demand, come along with the capacity to create consensus between developed and developing countries.”
Panelists’ Comments
Conclusion from Fyodor Lukyanov
Editor-in-chief, Russia in Global Affairs
Debates
19:30 – 19:45 | Envoi
Thierry de Montbrial
President and Founder of the WPC
“I have to tell you that it is my profound conviction that, in a century, in other words at the beginning of the 22nd century, either the whole world will be a vast European Union in terms of organisation, or there will have been tragedies, conflicts and world wars.”