2014 Agenda

09:15 – 10:00

Opening session

Thierry de Montbrial, Chairman and founder of the WPC
Park Geun-Hye, President of the Republic of Korea

10:00 – 11:30

Plenary session 1: “Security governance in East Asia and in Europe”

Moderator:
Thierry de Montbrial, Chairman and founder of the WPC

Speakers:
Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations
Han Sung-Joo, former Republic of Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean-David Levitte, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution
Igor V. Morgulov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Shotaro Oshima, Chairman, Institute for international Economic Studies (IIES) and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo

11:30 – 13:00

Plenary session 2: “Prospects for the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia”

Moderator:
Choi Young-Jin, Professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies; former Ambassador to the US; former Head of the UN Mission in Côte d’Ivoire.

Speakers:
Thomas Bagger, Head of Policy Planning, German Federal Foreign Office
Ju Chul-Ki, Senior Secretary for Foreign Affairs and National Security, Office of the President of the Republic of Korea
Thierry Mariani, French Member of Parliament for French Citizens Abroad (Asia, Russia, and Oceania)
Marcus Noland, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations

13:15 – 14:45

Lunch debate with Lee Hong-Koo, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea

15:00 – 16:30

Plenary session 3: “Inequalities and globalization”

Moderator:
Susan Liautaud, Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Founder of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited (SLA)

Speakers:
Mari Kiviniemi, Deputy Secretary General of OECD; former Prime Minister of Finland
Richard Cooper, Professor of International Economics at Harvard University
Jean Pisani-Ferry, General Commissioner for Strategy, Office of the Prime Minister, France
Rhee Changyong, Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF
Il Sakong, Chairman of the Institute for Global Economics; former Finance Minister of Korea

16:30 – 17:15

Plenary session 4: with H.R.H. Prince Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)

17:15 – 17:45

Coffee break

17:45 – 19:15

Plenary session 5: “Africa in a global context”

Moderator:
Marie-Roger Biloa, CEO, Africa International Media Group

Speakers:
Youssef Amrani, Chargé de mission, Royal Cabinet, Morocco
Lynda Chalker, Founder and Chairman of Africa Matters Ltd; former UK Minister for Overseas Development and Africa
Nathalie Delapalme, Executive Director, Research and Policy, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Elisabeth Guigou, President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the French National Assembly
Wu Jianmin, Executive Vice Chairman of China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy

20:00

Dinner debate with Yun Byung-Se, Republic of Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs

08:30 – 11:30

Parallel workshops

1. The state of the world economy and finance

Chair:
Jean-Claude Trichet, former President of the ECB

Speakers:
Marek Belka, President of the National Bank of Poland
Daniel Daianu, Member of the Romanian Academy; former Minister of Finance of Romania
Bozidar Djelic, Partner, Lazard; former Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
Jeffry Frieden, Professor of government at Harvard University
Jun Gwang-Woo, former Chairman of Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC)
Yutaka Aso, President, Aso Group

Read themes

2. Energy, climate change and environment

Chair:
Richard Cooper, Professor of International Economics at Harvard University

Speakers:
Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur
Luigi Colantuoni, Group Representative of Total in Japan and South Korea
Vuk Jeremic, former President of the UN General Assembly; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia
Lee Seung-Hoon, Professor emeritus of the Seoul University; former Co-Chairman of Green Growth Committee of the Korean government
Tatsuo Masuda, Professor at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Graduate School, Japan
Bertrand de la Noue, General Representative of Total in China
William Ramsay, Senior Advisor of the Center for Energy, Ifri; former Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Anil Razdan, former Power Secretary of India
Sverre Vedal, Professor, University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health; Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES)

Read themes

3. Agroindustry in Africa and Asia

Speakers:
Jean-Yves Carfantan, Senior Consultant, AgroBrasConsult
Philippe Chalmin, Professor, Paris-Dauphine University
Krishan Jindal, CEO, NABARD Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.
Suresh Kumar, Chief Editor of Africaindia.org; former Head and Director of the Department of African Studies, University of Delhi
Khalid Meksem, President of the University Mohammed VI
Rod A. Wing, Professor, University of Arizona

Read themes

11:30 – 11.45

Coffee break

11:45 – 13:15

Plenary session 6: “The geopolitics and geo-economics of Eurasia”

Moderator:
Fen Osler Hampson, Director of CIGI’s Global Security & Politics program; Co-director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance; Chancellor’s professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

Speakers:
Dong Manyuan, Vice President, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)
Michel Foucher, Chair of applied Geopolitics at College of World Studies; former French Ambassador to Latvia; former Director of the policy planning staff of the French Foreign Ministry
Alexander Panov, Member of the Advisory Board of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Justin Vaïsse, Director of the policy planning staff, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yu Myung-Hwan, Chairman of Sejong University; former Republic of Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs

13:30 – 15:30

Lunch debate: “What about American leadership?”

Speakers:
Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations
Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School

15:30 – 17:00

Plenary session 7: “Trade and politics”

Moderator:
Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Groupe d’économie mondiale (GEM) at Sciences Po Paris

Speakers:
Bark Taeho, Professor at Seoul National University; former Minister for Trade, Korea
Alejandro Jara, Senior Counsel, King & Spalding; former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile, WTO
Pascal Lamy, Honorary President of Notre Europe; former Director-General of the WTO
John Manley, President and CEO, Canadian Council of Chief Executives

17:00 – 18:30

Plenary session 8: “Middle East in a global context”

Moderator:
Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor at Ifri

Speakers:
Ribal Al-Assad, Chairman of the Iman Foundation
Sergei Karaganov, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the non-governmental Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of Russia
Miguel Angel Moratinos, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
Meir Sheetrit, Member of the Knesset; former Minister of Internal Affairs of Israel
Hubert Védrine, former French Minister of Foreign Affairs

19:15

Cocktail

20:00

Gala dinner

09:00 – 10:00

Reports from parallel workshops

10:00 – 11:30

Plenary session 9: “The economic and political consequences of the revolution of Big Data”

Moderator:
Nicolas Barré, Managing Director, Les Echos

Speakers:
Chang Dae Whan, Chairman of Maekyung Media Group, Republic of Korea
Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
Ben Scott, Senior Advisor, Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation; Program Director, European Digital Agenda, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Luc-François Salvador, Executive Chairman for Asia-Pacific, Capgemini Group

11:30 – 12:00

Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00

Plenary session 10: “The US and Asia in the 21st century” with
Robert M. Gates, former Secretary of Defense of the United States
Jin Roy Ryu, Chairman & CEO, Poongsan Group, Republic of Korea

13:15 – 14:45

Lunch debate with Mehmet Ceylan, Deputy Minister of Development of Turkey

15:00 – 17:00

Plenary session 11: “General debate”

Moderator:
Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor at Ifri

Speakers:
Jeffry Frieden, Professor of government at Harvard University
Liu Chen, Professor, China’s Foreign Studies University in Beijing
Mohamed Laichoubi, former Minister of Labor and Social protection of Algeria
Kunihiko Miyake, Research Director, The Canon Institute for Global Studies, Japan
Tobby Simon, Founder and Chairman, Synergia Foundation, India
Carlos Pérez-Verdía, Head of the Private Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Michael Yeoh, Founder and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute of Malaysia

17:00

Closing session