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Friday, October 15 - Vendredi 15 Octobre Welcome Cocktail - Cocktail D’Accueil Dinner Debate - Dîner-Débat : Christophe De Margerie (Chairman & CEO, Total) Oct.15 - Oct.18, 2010 Marrakech – Morocco Draft Agenda (as of October 8, 2010 - à la date du 8 octobre 2010) Friday, October 15 - Vendredi 15 octobre Welcome cocktail - Cocktail d’accueil Dinner debate - Dîner-débat : Christophe de Margerie (Chairman & CEO, Total) Saturday, October 16 - Samedi 16 octobre Opening session - Ouverture : Thierry de Montbrial, Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) Plenary session 1: “Population, Climate, Health: What Global Governance?” Session plénière 1 : « Population, climat, santé : quelle gouvernance mondiale ? » Intervenants : José Angel Cordova Villalobos (Health Minister of the United States of Mexico), William Reilly (Chairman of the ClimateWorks Foundation; former Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency), Chris Viehbacher (Chairman & CEO, Sanofi Aventis), Christian Bréchot (Vice President for Medical Scientific Affairs, Institut Mérieux) Modérateurs : Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (President, Lagardère News), Narendra Taneja (Energy Commentator and Chairman) Coffee break - Pause-café Plenary session 2: “Global Monetary and Financial Governance” Session plénière 2 : « Gouvernance monétaire et financière mondiale » Intervenants : Jean-Claude Trichet (President, European Central Bank), Haruhiko Kuroda (President, Asian Development Bank; former Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi), Kemal Dervis (Vice President, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution) Modérateurs : Xavier Vidal-Folch (El Pais, President of the World Editors Forum), Alan Beattie (International Economy Editor for the Financial Times, tbc) Lunch debate – Déjeuners débat : Jean-Claude Trichet (President, European Central Bank) Parallel workshops - Ateliers en parallèle 1. Energy and Environment / Énergie et environnement : Anil Razdan (présidence, former Power Secretary, Government of India), Bruno Lafont (Chairman & CEO, Lafarge), William Ramsay (Director of the Energy Program at Ifri), Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva (Permanent Delegate of Uzbekistant to UNESCO), Qu Xing (President, China Institute for International Studies) 2. Food security / Défi alimentaire : Kairat Umarov (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Kazakhstan), Philippe Chalmin (Professor, Paris-Dauphine University; Founder of the Cercle Cyclope), Yashwant Thorat (former Chief General & Executive Director, The Reserve Bank of India) 3. Global Monetary and Financial Governance / Gouvernance monétaire et financière mondiale : Jacques Mistral (présidence, Head of Economic Studies at Ifri), Lionel Zinsou www.worldpolicyconference.com Oct.15 - Oct.18, 2010 Marrakech – Morocco (Chairman and CEO, PAI Partners), Pier Carlo Padoan . (Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist of the OECD), Márcio Pochmann (President, Institute for Applied Economic research, Brazil), Gordon Smith (Chairman of the Board, Canadian Institute for Climate Studies), Philippe Marini (General Rapporteur, French Senate) Coffee break – Pause café Plenary session 3: “Discussion Panel on Current Events” Session plénière 3 : « Débat sur la gouvernance dans le cadre de l’actualité » Intervenants : Joaquín Almunia (Vice-President and the Commissioner for Competition in the second college of 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) Modérateurs : Dominique Moïsi (Special Adviser to Ifri), Steven Erlanger (Paris Bureau Chief, New York Times) Gala Dinner - Dîner de gala : Fu Ying (Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China) Sunday, October 17 - Dimanche 17 octobre Introduction of the day - Introduction de la journée : Thierry de Montbrial Reports from parallel workshops - Compte rendu des ateliers parallèles : 1. Energy and Environment / Énergie et environnement : Bruno Lafont (Chairman & CEO, Lafarge) 2. Food security / Défit alimentaire : Philippe Chalmin (Professor, Paris-Dauphine University; Founder of the Cercle Cyclope) 3. Global Monetary and Financial Governance / Gouvernance monétaire et financière mondiale : Lionel Zinsou (Chairman and CEO, PAI Partners) Plenary session 4: “Governance of the Cyberspace” Session plénière 4 : « Gouvernance du cyberespace » Intervenants : 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.) Modérateur : Ulysse Gosset (France Télévisions), Brian Carney (Member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Jounal, tbc) Plenary session 5: “French and Korean Views on the G20” Session plénière 5 : « Regards croisés franco-coréens sur le G 20 » Intervenants : Jean-David Levitte (Diplomatic Advisor 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) Modérateur : Jim Hoagland (Associate Editor & Chief Foreign Correspondent, Washington Post) Lunch debate – Déjeuner débat : Mo Ibrahim (Founder & Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder & former Chairman of Celtel International) “Global Governance and Business” www.worldpolicyconference.com Oct.15 - Oct.18, 2010 Marrakech – Morocco Free afternoon - Après-midi Libre Plenary session 6: “Emerging Powers and Global Governance” Session plénière 6 : «Puissances émergentes et gouvernance mondiale» Intervenants : Fu Ying (Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs), Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães (Minister for Strategic Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil), Kanwal Sibal (former Foreign Secretary of India), Konstantin Kosachev (Chairman of the Russian Duma Foreign Affairs Committee) Modérateurs : Mehmet Ali Birand (Journalist and writer, CNN Türk), Fyodor Lukyanov (RU Editor in chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs) Envoi - Conclusions Closing dinner - Dîner de clôture Monday, October 18 - Lundi 18 octobre Departure - Départ www.worldpolicyconference.com .
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