17:00 – 22:00
Registration and Welcome buffet
09:30 – 10:15
Opening session
Presentation of the World Policy Conference:
Thierry de Montbrial, President and Founder
François Fillon, Prime Minister of the French Republic (speech delivered by Thierry de Montbrial)
10:15 – 12:30
Plenary session
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia
Raila Amolo Odinga, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya
Hans Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary-General of NATO
SAR Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
Mario Monti, President of the Bocconi University of Milan
Moderators: Quentin Peel, The Financial Times
Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post
13:00 – 15:00
Parallel lunch-debates
Lunch 1
World Leaders
Moderator: Thierry de Montbrial
Lunch 2
Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Mario Monti, President of the Bocconi University of Milan
Moderator: Jacques Mistral, Director for Economic Studies at Ifri
Lunch 3
Han Sung-Joo, Chairman of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea
Eberhard Sandschneider, Director of the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Berlin
Yukio Satoh, Former Ambassador to the United Nations. Head of the Japan Institute for International Affairs
Yusuf Wanandi, Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Trustees, and Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at Jakarta
Moderator: Dominique Moïsi, Senior Advisor at Ifri
15:30 – 17:00
Parallel Workshops
1. United States: what does the world expect from the “indispensable nation”?
Han Sung-Joo, Chairman of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea
Marshall Goldmann, Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College, Former Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University
Jim Hoagland, Columnist and Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Post
Dominique Moïsi and Etienne de Durand (Ifri)
Moderator: Vincent Jauvert, Le Nouvel Observateur
2. Japan : what power, what strategies ?
Yukio Satoh, Former Ambassador to the United Nations. Head of the Japan Institute for International Affairs
Igor Ivanov, Former Foreign Minister of Russia
Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University
Valérie Niquet (Ifri)
3. Is Europe with 27 and more member sustainable?
Arseni Iatseniouk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Yusuf Wanandi, Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Trustees, and Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at Jakarta
Michel Foucher, Former Ambassador to Latvia. Ex-Director of CAP
Hans Stark and Kerry Longhurst (Ifri)
Moderator: Quentin Peel, The Financial Times
4. An arc of crisis from Iraq to Pakistan
Volker Perthes, Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Chairman and Director of the Board of SWP
Shireen Hunter, Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Denis Bauchard and Marc Hecker (Ifri)
Moderator: Robert Parsons, France 24
5. Which governance for which stability?
K. Shankar Bajpai, Former India’s Ambassador to Pakistan, China, and the United States, Chairman of the Delhi Policy Group
Sergueï Karaganov, Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs, State University – Higher School of Economics (SU-HSE), Moscow
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, French Diplomat, Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon, International Consultant, Expert in Criminal Finance, Former Expert, Laundering of criminal money, UN Office for Crime Prevention
Philippe Moreau Defarges and Laurence Nardon (Ifri)
Moderator: Bernard Guetta, France Inter
6. The economy of knowledge, or education, still deserves an effort
Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman of Lafarge. Chairman of Board of Directors of Ifri
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of Bruegel
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science
Susanne Nies (Ifri)
Moderator: Natacha Butler, France 24
7. Credit crisis, financial crisis, economic crisis: what to do?
Mario Monti, President of the Bocconi University of Milan
André Lévy-Lang, Administrator of Dexia, Paris-Orléans and Scor.Associated Professor Emeritus at Paris Dauphine University
Gikas A. Hardouvelis, Professor at the University of Piraeus, Chief Economist and Director of Research at EFG Eurobank
Jacques Mistral, Director for Economic Studies at Ifri
François Nicolas and Eliane Mossé (Ifri)
Moderator: John Thornhill, The Financial Times
8. Regulation of migrations, a world issue
Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo V., Representative of the President of the United Mexican States
Mohammed Bedjaoui, Former Foreign Minister of Algeria
Christophe Bertossi (Ifri)
Moderator: Taoufik Mjaïed, France 24
9. Is the Gold becoming an arc of hope?
SAR Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
Henry Siegman, Director for the US/Middle East Project
Bassma Kodmani, Director of the Arab Reform Initiative
Khadija Mohsen Finan (Ifri)
Moderator: Christophe Boltanski, Le Nouvel Observateur
20:00 – 22:30
Dinner-debate
Dinner with Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Moderator: Quentin Peel, The Financial Times
10:00 – 12:30
Plenary session
Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal
Stepan Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of the Republic of Mongolia
SaKong Il, Personal Representative of the President of Republic of Korea
Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo V., Representative of the President of the United Mexican States
Moderators: Stéphane Paoli, France Inter ; Ulysse Gosset, France 24
13:00 – 15:00
Parallel lunch-debates
Lunch 1
Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal
Moderator: Lionel Zinsou, Managing Partner of the Private Equity firm PAI
Lunch 2
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of the Republic of Mongolia
Moderator: Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University
Lunch 3
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia
Moderator: Dominique Moïsi, Senior Advisor at Ifri
15:30 – 17:00
Workshops and a non plenary roundtable in parallel
Workshops
1. Russia: domestic developments and external policies
Marshall Goldman, Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College, Former Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University
Sergueï Karaganov, Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs, State University – Higher School of Economics (SU-HSE), Moscow
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science
Thomas Gomart and Adrian Dellecker (Ifri)
Moderator: Bernard Guetta, France Inter
2. China: domestic developments and assertion of power
Yusuf Wanandi, Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Trustees, and Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at Jakarta
Eberhard Sandschneider, Director of the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Berlin
Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University
Valérie Niquet (Ifri)
Moderator: Ursula Gauthier, Le Nouvel Observateur
3. India: regional power and/or world actor?
Jean-Luc Racine, Senior Fellow du CNRS au Centre des Etudes de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Security Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research
K. Shankar Bajpai, Former India’s Ambassador to Pakistan, China, and the United States, and as Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs, Chairman of the Delhi Policy Group
Olivier Louis (Ifri)
Moderator: John Thornhill, The Financial Times
4. Sub-Saharan Africa: implosion or takeoff?
James Orengo, MP, Minister for Lands of the Republic Kenya
William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution and Director of Conflict Management at the John Hopkins University
Lionel Zinsou, Managing Partner of the Private Equity firm PAI
Robert Glasser, Secretary General of CARE International
Alain Antil (Ifri)
Moderator: Robert Parsons, France 24
5. Israel/Palestine, a crucial international issue: what commitments for external actors?
Amine Gemayel, Former President of the Lebanese Republic
Henry Siegman, Director for the US/Middle East Project
Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sari Nusseibeh, Professor of Islamic Philosophy, President of Al Quds University, Former PLO Representative in Jerusalem
Bassma Kodmani, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative
Dorothée Schmid (Ifri)
Moderator: Jean-Bernad Cadier, France 24
6. Energy and climate: what diplomatic challenges?
Thomas Becker, Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy
Bruno Weymuller, Advisor to the Managing Director at Total SA
Bruno Lescoeur, EDF’s Senior vice President for International Businesses
Jacques Lesourne, Former Editor of Le Monde, President of Futurible International
William Ramsay and Maïté Jauréguy-Naudin (Ifri)
Moderator: Natacha Butler, France 24
7. World food crisis
Hervé Gaymard, MP, President of the Regional Council of Savoy, France
François Danel, Director General of Action Contre la Faim
Aline Leboeuf (Ifri)
Moderator: Andrey Zolotov, Founding Editor of Russia Profile Magazine, RIA Novosti
8. Non plenary roundtable
Mohammed Bedjaoui, Former Foreign Minister of Algeria
Han Sung-Joo, Chairman of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea
Igor Ivanov, Former Foreign Minister of Russia
Hubert Védrine, Former French Foreign Minister
Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger, German Diplomat. Former Ambassador to the UK and the USA
17:15 – 18:45
Special plenary session on economics
Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank
Thierry de Montbrial, President and Founder
Moderator: Jacques Mistral, Director for Economic Studies at Ifri
20:00 – 23:00
Official dinner
09:00 – 12:00
Plenary session
Opening session: Thierry de Montbrial
Pascal Couchepin, President of the Swiss Confederation
Boris Tadic, President of the Republic of Serbia
Christophe de Margerie, General Director of Total
Moderators: Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post ; Stéphane Paoli, France Inter
12:00 – 13:15
Closing session
Dmitri Medvedev, President of the Federation of Russia
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic
13h30 – 15h30
Parallel lunch-debates
Lunch 1
Stepan Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia
Moderator: Michel Foucher, Former Ambassador of France to Latvia, Former Director of CAP
Lunch 2
Pascal Couchepin, President of the Swiss Confederation
Moderator: Dominique Moïsi, Senior Advisor at Ifri
Lunch 3
SAR Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
Christophe de Margerie, General Director of Total
Moderator: Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post