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 Con ference Delegates (location to be determined)
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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
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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
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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
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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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OBSERVERS: Angelo ASIMAKOPOULOS, Global Governance Group, CANADA Thanos DOKOS, Director of Studies, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy ELIAMEP, GREECE Scot GARDINER, Professor Communications, Concordia University, Montreal CANADA Aggeliki LIARIGOVINOU, Member Board of Directors, Global Governance Group, GREECE Nikolaos MANARAS, Post-Graduate Student King’s College in London; Vice- President of the Board & Founding Member of the Youth Society for the United Nations-Greece, GREECE Georgios MARGETIDIS, Executive Agency for Public Health, European Commission, LUXEMBOURG Linda NAIMAN, Founder Creativity at Work.com, Vancouver, CANADA Sotiris RAPTIS, Post-graduate student MA Public Law, University of Athens, Graduate University of Aristotle University of Thessalonica, GREECE. Mickael ROBERT, Lawyer, Winston & Strawn LLP, Paris, FRANCE Regina C. TASSITANO, Health Professional, BRAZIL Pericles VASILOPOULOS, Journalist NET, Vice-President PAREMVASSI, GREECE
SESSION 3: Should the Corporation be a Social and Political Actor?
ISSUE PAPER AUTHOR: Stilpon NESTOR, Principal, Nestor Advisors Ltd, U.K.
MODERATOR: Michael R. TSIBRIS, Partner Moussas & Tsibris, Athens; Vice President, Global Governance Group-Greece, GREECE
RAPPORTEUR: Argyris MAMARELIS, PhD History, the London School of Economics, GREECE
EXPERT PANELISTS: Joseph BENARROSH, President, JJDS Capital Inc., Montreal, CANADA John BUNZL, Founder & Director, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), U.K. Michael CHRISTOFORAKOS, President Siemens Group Greece, GREECE Jason S. COWART, Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP, New York, NY U.S.A. Nicolas EBEOGLOU, President, ALBA Graduate Business School, GREECE Mamadou FALL, Professor of Economic History, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, SENEGAL Tina GOLFI, General Director, European Profiles SA, GREECE
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Vassilis GOULANDRIS, General Manager, Access2Democracy, GREECE Justin JENK, CEO of DELTA HOLDING SA, GREECE Demetres KARAVELLAS, Director WWF Greece, GREECE George KARCAS, Manager Technology Sales, Outokumpu, FINLAND Maria-Eugenia MARIN, Associate Director, International Relations, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, SPAIN Bernard MAROIS, Professor of Finance and Economics, HEC Paris, Paris, FRANCE Raphael A. MOISSIS, Sc.D., Chairman of the Board of Directors, Public Gas Corporation SA (DEPA SA), GREECE Gennady POLONSKY, Reader in Economics, U.K. and RUSSIAN FEDERATION Izalco SARDENBERG, Advisor to the Chairman, Brazil’s Stock Exchange – BOVESPA, Sao Paolo, BRAZIL Eustratios E. STRATIGIS, Member of the Board of the Athens Bar Association, GREECE Charalambos TSARDANIDIS, Director, Institute of International Economic Relations of the Pan Hellenic Association of SA and LTD, GREECE Haridimos TSOUKAS, The George D. Mavros Research Professor of Organization and Management, ALBA Greece; Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Warwick UK, GREECE Despina YANNOULI, Corporate Relations Director, DIAGEO Southern & Eastern Europe, Athens, GREECE
OBSERVERS: Ronald CARRE, Global Governance Group, CANADA Eric CHACOUR, Student International Business, HEC Montreal, CANADA Manolia BOUROU, BS Economics, University of Piraeus, GREECE Drasko BUBALO, President Consus, Montreal CANADA Xenia KOUTENAKI, Project Coordinator ANCE, GREECE Ulysses KYRIAKOPOULOS, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Federation of Greek Industries, GREECE Themistoklis MAMAKOS, Lawyer, GREECE Ute Helene von REIBNITZ, Economist; Director, Scenarios + Vision, FRANCE Georgia SFAKIANAKI, Bachelor Degree-Department of International European Economic and Political Studies, Macedonia University; MUN Officer, GREECE Fred SNEIDER, President Sneider Associates, Montreal CANADA Patrizia VALERO, Global Governance Group, FRANCE
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SESSION 4: Are Present Global Institutions Still Relevant?
ISSUE PAPER AUTHOR: Kimon VALASKAKIS, President Global Governance Group, Ambassador of Canada to the OECD RET, CANADA
MODERATOR: Hisham EL-SHERIF, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IT Investments, Cairo, EGYPT
RAPPORTEUR: John KIRTON, Director of the G8 Research Group, University of Toronto, CANADA
EXPERT PANELISTS: George AYITTEY, Distinguished Economist in Residence, American University, Washington DC, USA Alain CHANLAT, Director, Centre Humanismes, Gestions et Mondialisation, Montreal, CANADA Ioannis E. FILOPOULOS, Secretary-General & Treasurer, Global Governance Group-Greece, GREECE Heiner FLASSBECK, Officer-in-Charge, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies UNCTAD, Geneva, SWITZERLAND Olivier GISCARD d’ESTAING, President Global Governance Group, FRANCE Kostas IFANTIS, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Athens; President of the Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM), GREECE Paulina LAMPSA, International Secretary of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), GREECE Vijay MEHTA, President of VM Centre for Peace, UK & INDIA Michael MOLLER, Special Representative of the Secretary-General & Chief of Mission, UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Toshiyuki NIWA, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF,New York,USA Pierre PETTIGREW, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, CANADA Cyril RITCHIE, President, Federation of International Institutions (FIIG), Geneva, SWITZERLAND Marilena SIMITIS, Lecturer, Department of International and European Studies, University of Pireaus, GREECE Pantelis SKLIAS, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at the Department of International Economic Relations and Development, Democritus University of Thrace; Head of the International Cooperation Department, Constantine Karamanlis Institute for Democracy, GREECE Statty STATTEV, First Vice Rector and Rector on Foreign Relations, University of National and World Economy, Sofia; Member of the Governing Council, Bulgarian National Bank, Sofia, BULGARIA
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Andrew STRAUSS, Professor of Law, School of Law, Widener University, Delaware, U.S.A. Yahya SEZAI TEZEL, Professor of International Economics and Economic Development, Ankara, TURKEY
Henri VALOT, MDG Campaign Manager, CIVICUS – World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
OBSERVERS: Anna Maria AZUOLO, Global Governance Group, CANADA Apostolos GIANNAKOULIAS, Law student, University of Athens; Founding Member of the Youth Society for the United Nations-Greece; GREECE Lucas KATSIKARIS, Deputy Director, International Project, European Profiles SA, GREECE Xenofon V. KONTARGYRIS, Student, Law School of Aristotle University of Thessalonica; Treasurer & Founding Member of the Youth Society for the United Nations-Greece; GREECE Christoforos KORAKAS, Access2Democracy, GREECE Maria MOUSTAKAS, Assistant Manager, Pireaus Bank, GREECE Paraskevas PARASKEVOPOULOS, Professor of Control, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE Panorea PERDIKARI, Member Board of Directors, Global Governance Group, GREECE Alexandros PHILON, Head of Centre for Analysis and Planning (KAS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GREECE Kalliopi THERMOU, Graduate Law student, Sorbonne Law School, GREECE
13:00-15:00 LUNCH WITH FEATURED SPEAKER: 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
15:00-18:00 PARALLEL ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS (CONT’D)
- FREE EVENING FOR CONFERENCE DELEGATES –
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19:30-22:45
INTEGRATIVE ROUNDTABLE SESSION:
RAPPORTEUR: 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
ROUNDTABLE SESSION ISSUE PAPER AUTHORS: Paul COLLIER, Professor of Economics, Oxford University, U.K Michael D. INTRILIGATOR, Professor of Economics, Political Science & Public Policy, UCLA, U.S.A Stilpon NESTOR, Principal, Nestor Advisors Ltd, London U.K. Kimon VALASKAKIS, President Global Governance Group, Ambassador of Canada to the OECD RET, CANADA
ROUNDTABLE SESSION RAPPORTEURS: Kritonas ARSENIS, Head of Sustainable Development Programme, Elliniki Etairia, GREECE John KIRTON, Director of the G8 Research Group,University of Toronto, CANADA Argyris MAMARELIS, PhD History, the London School of Economics, GREECE John TRENT, Fellow, Centre on Governance, University of Ottawa, CANADA
ROUNDTABLE SESSION MODERATORS: Brady KIESLING, former US diplomat, USA Alexandros YANNIS, Council of the European Union, External and Politico-Military Affairs, Brussels, BELGIUM Michael R. TSIBRIS, Partner Moussas & Tsibris, Athens; Vice President, Global Governance Group-Greece, GREECE Hisham EL-SHERIF, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IT Investments, Cairo, EGYPT
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
10:15-12:45 CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
CHAIRPERSON: Kimon VALASKAKIS, President Global Governance Group, Ambassador of Canada RET, CANADA
PRESENTATION OF SESSION CONCLUSIONS
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
DECISION MAKERS RESPONSE PANEL: Ulysses KYRIAKOPOULOS, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Federation of Greek Industries, GREECE Olivier GISCARD d’ESTAING, President Global Governance Group, FRANCE Pierre PETTIGREW, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, CANADA Sabri A. RBEIHAT, Minister of Political Development and Parliamentary Affairs, HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN Cyril RITCHIE, President, Federation of International Institutions (FIIG), Geneva, SWITZERLAND
“Declaration of Athens” (Read by a representative of the City of Athens and the Global Governance Group)
13:00-15:00 CLOSING LUNCH WITH FEATURED SPEAKER George A. PAPANDREOU, President of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), President of the Socialist International, GREECE (invited)
18:30-22:45 SOCIAL EVENT: Dinner (Restaurant to be Determined)
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