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Beyond the Millennium Declaration: Embracing Democracy and Good Governance March 9 - 11, 2006 Athens, Greece “Pallas Athena” John S Beyond the Millennium Declaration: Embracing Democracy and Good Governance March 9 - 11, 2006 Athens, Greece “Pallas Athena” John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation Headquarters in Athens THE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Thursday March 9, 2006 15:00–15:30 Arrival and Reception at Pallas Athena 15:30-16:00 Opening Welcome Remarks 16:00–18:00 Opening Plenary Session 18:00–18:30 Coffee/Tea Break 18:30–19:45 Olympic Debate (Porto-Allegre vs. Davos) 20:30–22:45 Opening Night Reception & Dinner Keynote Address Dora BAKOYANNIS, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic Friday March 10, 2006 Roundtable Sessions 10:15-13:00 Development, The Threat of Should the Are Present Global Democracy, Good Insecurity: Are We Corporation be a Institutions Still Governance: Meeting the Social and Political Relevant? Competing or Challenge? Actor? Complementary Goals? 13:00-15:00 Luncheon with Featured Speaker Lord Anthony GIDDENS, Former Director of the London School of Economics & Political Science, UK 15:00-18:00 Development, The Threat of Should the Are Present Global Democracy, Good Insecurity: Are We Corporation be a Institutions Still Governance: Meeting the Social and Political Relevant? Competing or Challenge? Actor? Complementary Goals? Free Evening for Conference Delegates 19:30-22:45 Integrative Roundtable Session (with roundtable table session Moderators, Rapporteurs, and Issue Paper Authors) Saturday March 11, 2006 10:15-12:45 Closing Plenary Session Presentation of Session Conclusions / Decision Makers Response-Panel “Declaration of Athens” 13:00–15:00 Luncheon with Featured Speaker George A. PAPANDREOU, President of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), President of the Socialist International (invited) 18:30-22:45 Social Event & Dinner for Conference Delegates (location to be determined) This is a joint Initiative of the City of Athens and the Global Governance Group. The New School of Athens 2006 7, Xenofontos Str., Syntagma . GR - 105 57 Athens. Email: [email protected] +30 210 3216244 Beyond the Millennium Declaration: Embracing Democracy and Good Governance March 9 -11, 2006 Athens, Greece “Pallas Athena” John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation Headquarters in Athens Host and Conference Chairperson: Mr Theodore BEHRAKIS, Mayor of Athens Conference Coordinator: Dr Kimon VALASKAKIS, President Global Governance Group Thursday, March 9, 2006 13:00-14:00 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AT HOTEL 15:00-15:30 ARRIVAL & RECEPTION AT PALLAS ATHENA 15:30-16:00 OPENING WELCOME REMARKS - Theodore BEHRAKIS, Mayor of Athens - John RIGOS, President Global Governance Group-Greece - Evripidis STYLIANIDIS, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic MASTER OF CEREMONY - Dimitrios KATSOUDAS, Chief Political Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs 16:00-18:00 OPENING PLENARY SESSION - Kimon VALASKAKIS, President Global Governance Group and Conference Coordinator - Jean Francois RISCHARD, Former VP World Bank Europe, “Overview of Global Challenges”, LUXEMBOURG - Anuradha MITTAL, Executive Director, the Oakland Institute, USA & INDIA 18:00-18:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK 18:30-19:45 OLYMPIC DEBATE (PORTO ALLEGRE VS. DAVOS) Moderator : Sir Richard JOLLY, Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project, UK - Anuradha MITTAL, Executive Director, the Oakland Institute, USA & INDIA (for Porto Allegre) - Paul COLLIER, Professor of Economics, Oxford University, U.K (for Davos) 20:30-22:45 OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION AND DINNER KEY-NOTE ADDRESS Dora BAKOYANNIS, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic ___________________________________________________________________ 2 The New School of Athens 2006 This is a joint Initiative of the City of Athens and the Global Governance Group. Friday, March 10, 2006 10:15-13:00 PARALLEL ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS SESSION 1: Development, Democracy, Good Governance: Competing or Complementary Goals? ISSUE PAPER AUTHOR: Paul COLLIER, Professor of Economics, Oxford University, U.K MODERATOR: Brady KIESLING, former US diplomat, USA RAPPORTEUR: Kritonas ARSENIS, Head of Sustainable Development Programme, Elliniki Etairia, GREECE EXPERT PANELISTS: H.E. Bagher ASADI, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, IRAN & UN Vinay BHARGAVA, Director, International Affairs, External Affairs, Communications and the UN Affairs Vice-Presidency, World Bank Dimitris BAKOLAS, President, European Profiles SA, GREECE Franklin CUDJOE, Director, Imani: The Centre for Humane Education, Achimota- Accra, GHANA Ricardo DIEZ-HOCHLEITNER, Honorary President of the Club of Rome, Member of the Advisory Board of International IDEA, SPAIN Aristides HATZIS, Assistant Professor, University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, GREECE Asteris C. HULIARAS, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Harokopion University of Athens, GREECE Andrei ILLARIONOV, Former Senior Advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Director, Institute of Economic Analysis, Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION Louka KATSELI, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens; Director, OECD Development Centre, GREECE Ramesh C. KUMAR, Director of International Trade Specialization, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Senior Fellow, Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), CANADA Nicos MOUZELIS, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, President of the Citizen’s Union PAREMVASSI, UK & GREECE ___________________________________________________________________ 3 The New School of Athens 2006 This is a joint Initiative of the City of Athens and the Global Governance Group. Tom PALMER, Senior Fellow of Cato Institute; Director of Cato University, USA Sabri A. RBEIHAT, Minister of Political Development and Parliamentary Affairs, HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN Aaron RHODES, Executive Director, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, AUSTRIA Farhang SEFIDVASH, Professor, Universidade Federal so Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Allegre, BRAZIL James SHIKWATI, President, Inter Region Economic Network (IREN), Nairobi, KENYA Effat El SHOOKY, Vice-President, Regional Information Technology Network and Software Engineering Centre (RITSEC), Cairo, EGYPT Nikos VERNADAKIS, Professor of Economics, University of Patras, Member Board of Directors, Global Governance Group-Greece, GREECE OBSERVERS: Christos DIAMANTOPOULOS, Associate Professor, Public Administration & Public Policy, Democritus University of Thrace; Member Board of Directors, PAREMVASSI, GREECE Pamela O’DONNEL, Counsellor, Political & Public Affairs Canadian Embassy to Greece, CANADA Aspasia KAKARI, General Director ANCE, GREECE Matthew KAMINSKI, Editor, Wall Street Journal Europe Panayotis KOLLAS, BS Economics, University of Piraeus; participant at Harvard Business Conference, GREECE Hara KOUSOULAKOU, Research Officer, Department of Health Economics Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE), GREECE Dominique MARTIN, Global Governance Group, FRANCE Vivian PAPADIMA, Staff Member, Diplomatic Office of Deputy Minister Foreign Affairs, Mr. E. Styliandis, GREECE John RIGOS, President Global Governance Group, GREECE Vassilios SIAPERAS, Graduate-Law School of University of Thessalonica; President of the Board & Founding Member of the Youth Society for the United Nations-Greece, GREECE Dina VARDARAMATOU, President of the Centre for Research and Action on Peace (KEDE), GREECE ___________________________________________________________________ 4 The New School of Athens 2006 This is a joint Initiative of the City of Athens and the Global Governance Group. SESSION 2: The Threat of Insecurity: Are we Meeting the Challenge? ISSUE PAPER AUTHOR: Michael D. INTRILIGATOR, Professor of Economics, Political Science & Public Policy, UCLA, USA MODERATOR: Alexandros YANNIS, Council of the European Union, External and Politico-Military Affairs, Brussels, BELGIUM RAPPORTEUR: John TRENT, Fellow, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa, CANADA EXPERT PANELISTS: Dipankar BANERJEE, Director, Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies, New Delhi, INDIA Kevin CLEMENTS, Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA Cecilia DOCKENDORFF, President, Fundacion SOLES, CHILE Nick DRAGER, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Advisor, Department of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Law, World Health Organization, Geneva, SWITZERLAND Lord Anthony GIDDENS, Former Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science; Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; Fellow of the American Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, UK Nagaharu HAYABUSA, Senior Staff Writer of Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, JAPAN Hercules MOSKOFF, Special Advisor on Human Security,Hellenic AID, GREECE Alexander NIKITIN, Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), President of the Russian Political Science Association, Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION Ralph PETTMAN, Foundation Chair of International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Eleni STAMIRIS, Former Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), GREECE Majid TEHRANIAN, Director, TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Tokyo, JAPAN Sebastian ZACHARIA, Former Division Director, United Nations Development Program, Pasadena, USA ___________________________________________________________________
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