2016 Agenda

08:30 – 09:30

Welcome coffee

09:30 – 10:30

Opening session

10:35 – 10:45

Special guest

10:45 – 12:30

Plenary session 1: The future of the Middle East

12:30 – 13:30

Plenary session 2: Ethics and Government-Business relations

13:30 – 14:45

Lunch debate

15:00 – 15:30

Plenary session 3: Turkey’s European and international role

15:30 – 16:30

Plenary session 4: Health: Technological development and global governance

16:30 – 18:00

Plenary session 5: Technological change and the New Social Contract

18:00 – 18:30

Coffee-break

18:30 – 19:00

Plenary session 6: UK after Brexit

19:00 – 19.45

Plenary session 7: Security and Economic Development in Africa

20:30

Dinner debate

08:30 – 09:45

Plenary session 8: European Union: what next?

10:00 – 12:30

Parallel workshops

Workshop 1: Finance and Economy

Workshop 2: Energy and Climate

Workshop 3: China in transition

12:45 – 14:15

Lunch debate

14:15 – 16:00

Plenary session 9: Post-American Elections

16:00 – 16:30

Plenary session 10: Space as a major technological and governance adventure

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee-break

17:00 – 18:30

Plenary session 11: Fighting Terrorism

18:30 – 19:30

Plenary session 12: Political and Economic Stability in East Asia

20:00 – 20:30

Cocktail

20:30

Official Dinner

08:45 – 10:00

Plenary session 13: Main world economic challenges

10:00 – 11:15

Plenary session 14: The role of hydrocarbons in the regional geopolitical landscape

11:15 – 11:45

Coffee-break

11:45 – 12:30

Reports from parallel workshops

12:30 – 13:00

Plenary session 15: Education and the role of women

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch debate

14:30 – 15:45

Plenary session 16: Diversification, Education and Employment in the Middle East

15:45 – 17:00

Plenary session 17: Young Leaders Session: Disruption, Populism and the World of Tomorrow

17:00 – 17:30

Coffee break

17:30 – 19:30

Plenary session 18: Final debate

19:30

Envoi

2015 Agenda

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Conference themes

08:30 – 09:45

Opening session

09:45 – 11:00

Plenary session 1: Global economic order at the Crossroads

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee-break

11:30 – 12:45

Plenary session 2: The future of central banking

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch

14:45 – 15:30

Plenary session 3: Washington’s view of the political and geopolitical implications of November 13th attacks in Paris

15:30 – 16:30

Plenary session 4: Trade Agreements from the Viewpoint of Middle Powers

16:30 – 17:30

Plenary session 5: Do Firms have a Nationality?

17:30 – 18:00

Coffee-break

18:00 – 19:30

Plenary session 6: The future of the Middle East

20:30

Dinner debate

08:00 – 09:30

Plenary session 7: Security in Asia in a Historical Perspective

09:30 – 10:00

Coffee-break

10:00 – 10:45

Plenary session 8: Peaceful coexistence of religions?

10:45 – 12:00

Plenary session 9: Food and water security

12:15 – 13:45

Lunch debate with Planning Staff Directors

14:00 – 14:45

Plenary session 10: Israeli-Palestinian dialogue

14:45 – 16:00

Plenary session 11: The global challenges of the digital technologies

16:15 – 19:15

Parallel workshops
Workshop 1: Energy

Synopsis

Workshop 2: Economy and Finance

Synopsis

Workshop 3: China

Synopsis

19:30 – 20:00

Cocktail

20:00

Gala dinner

08:00 – 08:45

Reports from parallel workshops

08:45 – 09:45

Plenary session 12: Health and global governance

09:45 – 11:30

Plenary session 13: Climate and Environment

11:30 – 12:15

Plenary session 14: Iran and Middle East

12:15 – 13:45

Plenary session 15: Europe’s refugee crisis

14:00 – 15:00

Lunch

15:00 – 16:45

Plenary session 16: Final debate

16:45

Envoi

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

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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)

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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

2008 Agenda

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 PeelThe Financial Times
Jim HoaglandThe 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 JauvertLe 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 ThornhillThe 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 BoltanskiLe Nouvel Observateur

20:00 – 22:30

Dinner-debate
Dinner with Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Moderator: Quentin PeelThe 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 GauthierLe 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 ThornhillThe 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 HoaglandThe Washington Post

2009 Agenda

19:30

Cocktail

20:30

Dinner debate
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, former President of Mongolia

8:30 – 9:30

Opening session
Reading of the Royal Message from His Majesty King Mohammed VI

Opening Speech by Thierry de Montbrial, President and Founder of the WPC

Message from Kofi Annan, Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations

9:30 – 11:00

Session 1: “Architecture of Political Governance”
Introducers: Nambaryn Enkhbayar, former President of Mongolia
Han Seung-Soo, former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea
Hubert Védrine, former French Foreign Minister Robert Blackwill, Senior Fellow & Senior Advisor to the President, RAND Corporation; former United States Ambassador to India

Moderator: Steven ErlangerThe New York Times

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 12:45

Session 2: “Macro-economic Governance”
Introducers: Fathallah Oualalou, President, Commune urbaine de Rabat, former Finance Minister of Morocco
Arkadi Dvorkovitch, Sherpa to President Dmitry Medvedev
Yoichi Otabe, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, G8 Sherpa, Japan
Wolfgang Munchau, Associate Editor of The Financial Times, Director of Eurointelligence Advisor Limited

Moderator: Jacques Mistral, Head of Economic Research at Ifri

12:45 – 15:00

Lunch debate
Han Seung-Soo, former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea

15:00 – 16:15

Session 3: “The future of capitalism”
Introducers: Lionel Zinsou, Firm’s Chairman and Chief Executive of the Private Equity firm PAI
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, former Italian Minister of Economy and Finance
Jeffry Frieden, Professor at Harvard University’s Department of Government

Moderator: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, President of Lagardère News

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee break

16:45 – 18:15

Session 4: “Energy and Climate”
Introducers: Richard Bradley, Senior Manager for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency at the IEA
Anil Razdan, ormer Power Secretary, Government of India
Manoelle Lepoutre, Director of Sustainable Development and Environment, Total
William Ramsay, Director of the Ifri Energy Program, former Deputy Executive Director of the IEA

Moderator: Alexei Pushkov, Director of the Institute of Contemporary International Problems at the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow

18:15 – 18:45

Mini-session 1: “Migrations”
Introducer: Pierre Morel, Special Representative for Central Asia and for the Crisis in Georgia, EU

Discussant: Jean Paul Guevara Avila, Director-General of Bilateral Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Plurinational State of Bolivia

20:00 – 22:00

Dinner debate
Jean-David Levitte, Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy

9:00 – 10:45

Session 5: “Security”
Yutaka Limura, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for the Middle East and Europe
Sergei Karaganov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy in Moscow
Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor to Ifri

Moderator: Quentin PeelThe Financial Times

10:45 – 11:45

Session 6: “Economic and Financial Regulations”
Introducers: Kemal Dervis, Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings Institution, former Turkish Minister for Economic Affairs and Treasury
Nicolas Véron, Research Fellow at Bruegel, Brussels

Moderator: Jacques Mistral, Head of Economic Research at Ifri

11:45 – 12:15

Coffee break

12:15 – 13:30

Session 7: “International law”
Introducers: Celso Lafer, Professor of Philosophy of law at University of São Paolo, former Foreign Minister of Brazil
Serge Sur, Professor at University of Paris II – Panthéon-Assas
Assia Bensalah Alaoui, Ambassador-at-Large, Kingdom of Morocco

Moderator: Philippe Moreau Defarges, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of RAMSES at Ifri

13:30 – 15:30

Lunch debate
Amr Moussa, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States

15:30 – 17:00

Session 8: “Health and Environment”
Introducers: José Angel Cordova Villalobos, Health Minister of the United States of Mexico
Cherif Rahmani, Algerian Minister for Planning, Environment and Tourism
Bruno Lafont, Chairman and CEO of Lafarge
Thomas Wellauer, Head of Corporate Affairs and Executive Member of Novartis

Modérateur : Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor to Ifri

17:00 – 17:30

Coffee break

17:30 – 18:45

Session 9 : “Water, Agriculture and Food”
Introducers: Michel Camdessus, former Managing Director of the IMF, Honorary Governor of Banque de France
Christian Bréchot, Vice President for Medical Scientific Affairs, Mérieux Alliance
Louise Fresco, Professor, University of Amsterdam

Moderator: Philippe Moreau Defarges, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of RAMSES at Ifri

18:45 – 19:15

Mini-session II : “The role of Regions in Globalization”
Introducer: Jordi Puyol, former President of the Generalitat de Catalunya

Discutant: Moulay Driss Mdaghri, President, Association Marocaine d’Intelligence Economique, AMIE

19:15 – 19:45

Conclusions
Thierry de Montbrial, President and Founder of the WPC

21:00

Gala dinner
Speech 1
Taïeb Fassi Fihri, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Kingdom of Morocco

Speech 2
Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, USA, Founder and President of Human Rights First

Speech 3
Samuel Kaplan, American Ambassador to Morocco

2010 Agenda

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19:00

Welcome cocktail

20:30

Dinner-debate
Christophe de Margerie, Chairman and CEO, Total

8:30 – 10:00

Opening session
Reading of the Royal Message

Opening speech by Thierry de Montbrial, President and Founder of the WPC

Speech by Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

11:00 – 11:30

Plenary session 1: “Population, Climate, Health: What Global Governance?”
Introducers: William Reilly, Chairman of the Climate Works Foundation, former Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Chris Viehbacher, Chairman and CEO, Sanofi-Aventis
Fernando Alvarez del Rio, Head of the Economic Analysis Unit, Secretariat of Health, Mexico
Jean de Kervasdoué, Professor, CNAM

Moderators: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, President, Lagardère News
Narendra Taneja, Energy CEO and Convener, World Oil & Gas Assembly

11:30 – 12:00

Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30

Plenary session 2: “Global Monetary and Financial Governance”
Introducers: Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank
Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development, former Special Adviser to the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Kemal Dervis, Vice President, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution

Moderators: Xavier Vidal-Folch, Deputy Director, El País, President of the World Editors Forum
Jacques Mistral, Head of Economic Studies, Ifri

13:30 – 15:30

Parallel workshops
1. Energy and Environment
Anil Razdan, Chair, former Power Secretary, Government of India
Bruno Lafont, Chairman and CEO, Lafarge
William Ramsay, Director of the Energy Program, Ifri
Qu Xing, President, China Institute for International Studies
Mohammed Tawfik Mouline, General Director, Royal Institute for Strategic Studies

2. Food Security
Philippe Chalmin, Chair, Professor, Paris-Dauphine University, Founder of the Cercle Cyclope
Kairat Umarov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Kazakhstan
Yashwant Thorat, former Chief General and Executive Director, The Reserve Bank of India

3. Global Monetary and Financial Governance
Jacques Mistral, Head of Economic Studies, Ifri
Lionel Zinsou, Chairman and CEO, PAI Partners
Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist of the OECD
Gordon Smith, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada

17:30 – 18:00

Coffee break

18:00 – 19:30

Plenary session 3: “Discussion Panel on Current Events”
Introducers: Joaquín Alumnia, Vice President and the Commissioner for Competition in the second college the Barroso Commission
Nambaryn Enkhbayar, former President of Mongolia
Miguel Angel Moratinos, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain
Hubert Védrine, former French Foreign Minister
Amir Peretz, Member of Parliament, State of Israel
Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the Russian Duma Foreign Affairs Committee
Manuel Hassassian, Ambassador from Palestine to London

Moderators: Dominique Moïsi, Special Adviser to Ifri
Jim Hoagland, Associate Editor and Chief Foreign Correspondent, Washington Post

20:30 – 22:30

Gala Dinner
Amina Benkhadra, Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment
Fu Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China

09:15 – 09:25

Introduction of the day
Thierry de Montbrial

09:25 – 09:30

Message from Henry Kissinger

09:30 – 10:00

Reports from parallel workshops
1. Energy and Environment 
Bruno Lafont, Chairman and CEO, Lafarge

2. Food Security 
Philippe Chalmin, Chair, Professor, Paris-Dauphine University, Founder of the Cercle Cyclope

3. Global Monetary and Financial Governance 
Lionel Zinsou, Chairman and CEO, PAI Partners

10:00 – 11:15

Plenary session 4: “Governance of the Cyberspace”
Introducers: 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 Partners SPRL, former CEO of British Telecom Global Services, former Chairman of Lucent EMEA

Moderators: Ulysse Gosset, Journalist, France Télévision
Steven Erlanger, Paris Bureau Chief, New York Times

11:15 – 12:45

Plenary session 5: “French and Korean Views on the G20”
Introducers: Jean-David Levitte, Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa to President Nicolas Sarkozy
Ahn- Ho-Young, Ambassador-at-large for the G20, Deputy Minister for Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Samir Aita, Editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique éditions arabes and President of the Cercle des économistes arabes

12:45 – 15:30

Lunch-debate
With Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Founder and former Chairman of Celtel International Global Governance and Business

15:30 – 18:00

Free afternoon

18:00 – 19:30

Plenary session 6: “Emerging Powers and Global Governance”
Introducers: Fu Ying, Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Kanwal Sibal, former Foreign Secretary of India
Kemal Dervis, Vice President, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
Stuart Eizenstat, Partner, Convington & Burling LLP

Moderators: Mehmet Ali Birand, Journalist and writer, CNN Türk
Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs

19:30 – 19:45

Envoi

20:30

Closing dinner

2011 Agenda

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15:00 – 16:00

Opening session
Thierry de Montbrial, President and founder of the WPC

Opening speeches
Heinz Fischer, President of the Republic of Austria;
Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey, Guest of honor of the 4th edition of the WPC

16:00 – 16:15

Coffee-break 

16:15 – 17:00

Plenary session 1: The ECB and the sustainability of the Euro
Chair: Thierry de Montbrial
Speaker: Peter Praet, Member of the ECB’s Executive Board

17:00 – 19:00

Plenary session 2: “Arab spring and global governance”
Chair: Volker Perthes, Chairman and Director of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Speakers: Amr Moussa, former Secretary General of the League of Arab States, candidate to the Egyptian presidential elections;
HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal, Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies;
Edward Djerejian, Founding Director of James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, former US Ambassador to Syria;
Christophe de Margerie, Chairman & CEO of Total

19:00 – 20:15

Plenary session 3: “Major catastrophes and global governance”
Chair: Jim Hoagland, Associate Editor, Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Washington Post
Speakers: Yukiya Amano, Director General of the IAEA;
Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing of Microsoft

20:15 – 21:15

Welcome cocktail

21:15 – 23:00

Dinner at the Hofburg Palace (Conference Center)
Herbert Stepic, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International

09:00 – 10:15

Plenary session 4: “Corporate social responsibility and global governance”
Chair: Bruno Lafont, Chairman and CEO of Lafarge Group
Speakers: Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, President of Mary Robinson Foundation;
Narayana Murthy, President and founder of Infosys Technologies Limited

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee-break

10:45 – 12:15

Plenary session 5: “The future of the G8 and G20: challenges and prospects for the economic and financial systems”
Chair: Kemal Dervis, Vice-President for Global Economy at the Brookings Institution and Senior Advisor at the Sabanci University; former Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey
Speakers: Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International, former Governor of the Bank of Israel;
Il Sakong, Presidential Envoy of the Republic of Korea;
Jean-David Levitte, Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa of President Nicolas Sarkozy;
Lourdes Aranda, Sherpa of Mexico to the G20, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

12:30 – 14:30

Lunch debate
Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore

14:45 – 15:30

Plenary session 6: “Debriefing of the European Council”
Jean-David Levitte, Diplomatic Advisor and Sherpa of President Nicolas Sarkozy

15:30 – 17:00

Plenary session 7: “Europe as a laboratory for global governance”
Chair: Charles Kupchan, DProfessor in international relations at the Georgetown University
Speakers: Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia;
Bartholomew 1st, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople;
Fu Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China;
Kemal Dervis, Vice-President for Global Economy at the Brookings Institution and Senior Advisor at the Sabanci University; former Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey

17:00 – 17:30

Coffee-break

17:30 – 19:30

Parallel workshops
1. Energy and environment
Chair: William Ramsay: Senior Advisor of the Center for Energy at Ifri
Speakers: Manoëlle Lepoutre, Executive Vice President, Sustainable Development and Environment of Total;
Paal Frisvold, Chairman of the Board of Bellona Europa asbl;
Kristina Rüter, Research Director of OEKOM research AG

2. Food security
Chair: Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of OCP Group
Speakers: Louise Fresco, Professor at the University of Amsterdam;
Yashwant Thorat, CEO of the Rajiv Gandhi Trust;
Qu Xing, President of China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)

3. Health
Chair: Jérôme Contamine, Executive Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer, and Member of the Executive Committee of Sanofi-Aventis
Speakers: Petra Laux, Head of Global Public Affairs at Novartis;
Steve Howard, Founding Secretary General of The Global Foundation

4. Global Governance and its current state
Chair: Stewart Patrick, Senior fellow and director of the program on international institutions and global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Speakers: Sean Cleary, Chairman of Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd;
Bruno Lafont, Chairman and CEO of Lafarge Group

20:30

Gala dinner at the Rathaus
Martti Ahtisaari, former President of the Republic of Finland, Nobel Peace Prize 2008

09:00 – 10:00

Reports from parallel workshops

10:00 – 11:15

Plenary session 8: “Development and security”
Chair: Jim Hoagland, Associate Editor, Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Washington Post
Speakers: M.K. Narayanan, Former National Security Advisor of the Prime Minister; Governor of West Bengal of India;
Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

11:15 – 11:30

Coffee-break

11:30 – 12:30

Plenary session 9: “Africa”
Chair: Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Magazine
Speakers: Lionel Zinsou, Chairman of PAI Partners;
Jean-Michel Severino, Chairman of Investisseur et Partenaire, member of the French Academy of Technology

12:30 – 14:30

Lunch debate: “Lesson learned: an experience of the Polish-Russian rapprochement”
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International relations, Co-Chairman of the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters;
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, former Foreign Minister of Poland, Co-Chairman of the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters

14:45 – 15:45

Plenary session 10: “Middle East”
Chair: Steven Erlanger, Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times
Speaker: Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister; Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel

16:00 – 18:00

Plenary session 11: “General debate”
Chair: Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor at Ifri
Speakers: Nambaryn Enkhbayar, former President of Mongolia;
Hubert Védrine, former French Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Igor Ivanov, former Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Joschka Fischer, former German Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Robert Badinter, former French Minister of Justice, former President of the Constitutional Council

18:00 – 18:15

Envoi

20:30

Closing dinner

2012 Agenda

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19:30

Welcome cocktail

20:00

Dinner debate 

09:00 – 10:00

Opening session

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee-break

10:15 – 11:45

Plenary session 1: “Global economic governance”

11:45 – 12:30

Plenary session 2: “G2?”

12:45 – 14:15

Lunch debate

14:30 – 15:15

Plenary session 3, with Mario Monti

15:15 – 16:45

Plenary session 4: “The future of the EU”

16:45 – 18:00

Plenary session 5: “Good governance and economic success”

20:30

Cocktail

21:00

Gala dinner

09:30 – 12:30

Parallel workshops
1. Finance
2. Energy and environment
3. Major risks

12:45 – 14:30

Lunch debate

15:00 – 16:45

Plenary session 6: “The future of Middle East”

16:45 – 17:15

Coffee-break

17:15 – 18:45

Plenary session 7: “Africa”

20:00

Dinner debate

08:00 – 09:00

Reports from parallel workshops

09:00 – 11:00

Plenary session 8: “General debate”

12:30

Lunch and departure

2013 Agenda

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14:30 – 15:30

Opening session
H.S.H. Prince Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco
Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
Thierry de Montbrial, President and founder of the WPC

15:30 – 17:00

Plenary session 1: “The state of the world economy and global governance” 
Moderator: Nicolas Barré, Deputy Managing Director, Les Echos
Speakers: Henri de Castries, Chairman & CEO of AXA
Kemal Dervis, Vice President and Director of Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution and Senior Advisor at Sabanci University; former Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey
Il SaKong, Chairman of the Institute for Global Economics; former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Korea
Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty (G30)
Pascal Lamy, Honorary president of Notre Europe, former Director-General of the WTO
David de Rothschild, Group Chairman, Rothschild

17:00 – 17:45

Plenary session 2: with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

17:00 – 19:15

Plenary session 3: “Middle East”
Moderator: Steven Erlanger, London Bureau Chief, New York Times
Speakers: Masood Ahmed, Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department, IMF
Renaud Girard, Journalist at Le Figaro, Editor at Questions Internationales
Elisabeth Guigou, President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the French National Assembly
Sergey Karaganov, Chairman of the Presidium of the non-governmental Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Bassma Kodmani, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative
Marwan Lahoud, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer of EADS
Mona Makram-Ebeid, Egyptian Senator, Distinguished Lecturer at American University in Cairo

19:15

Welcome cocktail

20:00

Dinner debate with Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council

08:00 – 09:45

Plenary session 4: “Asia’s strengths and weaknesses” 
Moderator: Michael Yeoh, Founder and CEO, Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute, Malaysia
Speakers: Bruno Lafont, Chairman & CEO of Lafarge
Mayankote Kelath Narayanan, Governor of West Bengal
Jin Roy Ryu, Chairman & CEO, Poongsan Group, Republic of Korea
Shotaro Oshima, Chairman, Institute for international Economic Studies (IIES) and Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yang Jiemian, Chairman, Council of Academic Affairs, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

09:45 – 11:15

Plenary session 5: “The challenges of the cyberspace”
Speakers: Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden; former Prime Minister of Sweden
Chang Dae Whan, Chairman of Maekyung Media Group
Paul Hermelin, Chairnan & CEO of Capgemini
Meir Sheetrit, Member of the Knesset; former Minister of Intelligence Services; former member of the security cabinet, Israel

11:15 – 11:45

Coffee-break

11:45 – 13:00

Plenary session 6: “Whither the ‘European social model’?”
Moderator: Jim Hoagland, Contributing Editor, The Washington Post
Speakers: Joaquín Almunia, Vice-President and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary General, OECD
Jean Pisani-Ferry, General Commissioner for Policy Planning
Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs, Belgium

13:15 – 14:45

Lunch debate: “The future of diplomacy”
Hubert Védrine, Former French Minister of Foreign Affairs

15:00 – 16:15

Plenary session 7: “Destruction or metamorphosis of the legal order?”
Speakers: Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Mireille Delmas-Marty, Professor at the Collège de France
Lord Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Jean-Marc Sauvé, Head of the French Council of State

16:30 – 19:30

Parallel workshops
1. Energy and environment
Chair: Christophe de Margerie, Chairman & CEO of Total
Speakers: Jun Arima, Director General, JETRO London; Special Adviser for Global environmental Affairs, METI
André Caillé, Director of Junex, Canada
Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA)
William Ramsay, Senior Advisor of the Center for Energy, Ifri; former Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)
Kevin Sara, Chairman and CEO of Nur Energie

2. The health and emerging risks
Chair: James D. Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank
Speakers: Christian Bréchot, Director of the Institut Pasteur
Richard Cooper, Professor of International Economics at Harvard University
Daniel Daianu, member of the Romanian Academy; former Minister of Finance of Romania
Thomas Kirkwood, Associate Dean for Ageing, Institute for Ageing and Health Newcastle University

3. Food security
Chair: Mostafa Terrab, Chairman & CEO of OCP Group
Speakers: José Graziano da Silva, Director General of FAO
Christopher Delgado, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute; former Economics and Policy Advisor & Practice Leader, Agriculture and Environmental Services, World Bank
Brent Habig, Regional Director for West and Southern Africa, TechnoServe
Marcos Jank, Executive Director, Brasil Foods (BRF) Global Public and Governmental affairs, Brazil
Jane Karuku, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Mahama Zoungrana, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Burkina Faso

4. Finance
Chair: Jean-Claude Trichet, former President of the ECB
Speakers: Marek Belka, President of the National Bank of Poland
Benoît Cœuré, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank
Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty (G30)
Jeffry Frieden, Professor of government at Harvard University
Il SaKong, Chairman of the Institute for Global Economics; former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Korea
John Lipsky, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, International Economics Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

20:00

Cocktail

20:30

Gala dinner with Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France

08:00 – 09:00

Reports from parallel workshops

09:00 – 10:00

Plenary session 8: “Towards a European Banking Union”
Moderator: Alessandro Merli, Frankfurt correspondent, Il Sole 24 Ore
Speakers: Benoît Coeuré, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman, BlackRock; former Chairman of the Swiss National Bank (SNB)
Constantin von Oesterreich, Chairman of the Management Board of HSH Nordbank

10:00 – 10:45

Plenary session 9: with H.R.H. Prince Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00

Plenary session 10: with Itamar Rabinovich, President of the Israel Institute, Distinguished Global Professor at New York University (NYU), Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University

12:00 – 13:30

Plenary session 11: “Africa”
Moderator: Jean-Michel Severino, CEO, Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P)
Speakers: Mo Ibrahim, Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder and former Chairman of Celtel International
Jean-David Levitte, Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution
Titus Naikuni, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive of Kenya Airways
Qu Xing, President of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)
Mostafa Terrab, Chairman & CEO of OCP Group
Tidjane Thiam, Group Chief Executive, Prudential plc Lionel Zinsou, President, PAI Partners

13:30 – 15:15

Lunch debate with Pauline Marois, Prime Minister of Quebec

15:30 – 16:45

Plenary session 12: “Politics and religions”
Moderator: Pierre Morel, Director of the Pharos Observatory of cultural and religious pluralism Bartholomew 1st, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
Speakers: Faisal Bin Muaammar, Secretary-General of the Vienna-based KAICIID Dialogue Centre
Mircea Geoana, Senator; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
David Rosen, International Director of Interreligious Affairs, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Mohammed Sammak, Secretary-General of the National Committee for Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor, Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

16:45 – 18:45

Plenary session 13: “General debate”
Moderator: Domique Moïsi, special advisor at Ifri
Speakers: Titus Corlatean, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Steven Erlanger, London Bureau Chief, New York Times
Jim Hoagland, Contributing Editor, The Washington Post
Yusuf Ziya Irbec, Member of the Turkish Parliament
Donald Johnston, Founding Partner, Heenan Blaikie; former Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Karl Kaiser, Harvard University; former Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations
Carlos Pérez Verdía, Head of the Private Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development in Russia

18:45

Closing

19:30

Informal dinner