2012 Wroclaw Global Forum Reinventing the West: Prosperity, Security and Democracy at Risk? Working Draft Program ( as of 04/03/2012) Thursday, 31 May Venue: Regional Center for Business Tourism, Wystawowa 1 Street, Wrocław 12:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm Welco ming Remarks: (Auditorium) Rafał Dutkiewicz, Mayor of Wroc ław* Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council * 1:15 pm Opening Keynote: (Auditorium) Bronisław Komorowski , President of the Republic of Poland 1:45 pm Keynote Conversation: (Auditorium) Lech Wałęsa, Founder, Lech Wałęsa Institute * 2:15 pm The Transatlantic Partnership: Global Economic Superpower or Fading Giant? (Auditorium) Moderator: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council * Panelists: Michael Froman, US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Ron Kirk, US Trade Representative Henryka Bochniarz, President of Boeing International Central Eastern Europe Gregory Meeks, US House of Representatives 3:45 pm Coffee Break 4:00 pm Ukraine: Teetering on the Edge (Auditorium) Moderator: Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Chairman, Council of the Polish Institute of International Affairs * Panelists: Bruce Jackson , Founder and President, Project on Transitional Democracies * Hanna Herman, Adviser, Office of President Viktor Yanukovych* Aleks ander Kwasniewski, President of the Republic of Poland 1995-2005 * Vitaly Klychko, Ukraine Democratic Alliance for Reform Petro Poroshenko, Head of the Council, National Bank of Ukraine 5:15 pm Break Out Sessions I 1. Does the West Still Rule in Science and Research? Moderator: Ellis Rubinstein, President and CEO, New York Academy of Sciences* Panelists: Lars Walløe, President, Academia Europaea* 2. From the Indignados to Occupy Wall Street: New Protest Movements and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Moderator: Jacek Kucharczyk, President of the Executive Board, Institute of Public Affairs* Panelists: Jacek Zakowski, Columnist, Polityka* Elzbieta Matynia, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Sociology, The New School for Social Research* Stephen Ro ac h, Non-Executive Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science 3. Shale Gas vs. Nuclear vs. Renewables: Which Brings European Energy Security? Moderator: Ian Brzezinski , Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council* Panelists: Alan Riley, Professor, the City Law School, City University London* Piotr Wozniak , Deputy Minister of the Environment and Chief Geologist of Poland Herbert Wirth, President of the Management Board, KGHM Polska Miedz SA 6:30 pm Return to Hotels 7:30 pm Reception; remarks by Rafał Dutkiewicz , Mayor of Wrocław* Location: The Military Museum (Arsenal), ul. Cieszyńskiego 9 Friday, 1 June Venue: Regional Center for Business Tourism, Wystawowa 1 Street, Wrocław 9:00 am US Keynote Panel : (Auditorium) General Mark Welsh, Commander of US Air Forces in Europe 9:30 am The Future of Europe: (Auditorium) Moderator: Marcin Zaborowski, Director, Polish Institute of International Affairs* Panelists: Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland* Ana Palacio , Former Foreign Minister of Spain* Quentin Peel, International Affairs Editor, Financial Times* William Hague, British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State 2 *CONFIRMED 10:45 am Expect the Unexpected: CEE’s Rise in an Unsta ble World: (Auditorium) Moderator: Janusz Reiter, President and Founder, the Center for International Relations* Panelists: Jan Kulczyk, Founder, Kulczyk Investments* Norman Davies, Fellow, The British Academy* Horst Köhler, Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2004-2010* Danuta Hübner, MEP* 12:00 pm Coffee Break 12:15 pm Break Out Sessions I I 1. Russia in the Post-Medvedev Era Moderator: Robert Nurick , Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council* Panelists: Andrey Kortunov , President, New Eurasia Foundation* Evgeny Gavrilenkov, Chief Economist, Troika Dialog* Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-In-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs Irackly Mtibelishvily, Chairman of Russia/CIS Banking, Citibank Andranik Migranyan , Director of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation 2. Transatlantic Competitiveness in a Shifting Global Economy Moderator: Jan Cienski, Warsaw Bureau Chief, Financial Times Panelists: Mateusz Morawiecki, President of the Management Board and CEO, Bank Zachodni Wbk SA Jacek Krawiec, President and CEO, PKN Orlen SA Adam Góral, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Asseco Group Prince Michael von Liechtenstein, Chairman of the Board, Industrie- und Finanzkontor 3. Democracy: The Digital Divide? Panelists: Iryna Vidanova , Editor-in-Chief, 34 Multimedia Magazine* Ben Scott , Policy Advisor for Innovation, US Department of State 1:30 pm Lunch 2:30 pm Keynote/Plenary: (Auditor ium) Stefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy* Democracy and Prosperity Plenary Panelists: Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy* Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament* Eamon Gilmore, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ireland; Chair-in-Office, OSCE Maria Otero, Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights 4:00 pm Coffee Break 3 *CONFIRMED 4:1 5 pm Break Out Sessions III 1. Powering the Future: The Geostrategic Implications of Energy Shifts Moderator: Stephan Richter , Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Globalist* Panelists: Edward C. Chow , Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies* Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, MEP* Richard L. Morningstar, US Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Anita Orban, Hungarian Ambassador for Energy Security 2. The Transatlantic Partners: Building the Arab Spring into Summer Moderator: Michele Dunne, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council* Panelists: Bernardino Leon, EU Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean Region* Emma Bonino , Vice President, Italian Senate* Patrycja Sasnal , Analyst in Middle Eastern Politics, Polish Institute of International Affairs* 3. Is Security Needed for Democracy? Panelists: Kadri Liik, Senior Researcher, International Centre for Defense Studies* Tomas Valasek, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgian State Minister for Reintegration 5:30 pm Return to Hotels 7:30 pm Atlantic Council Freedom Awards – Reception 8:00 pm Atlantic Council Freedom Awards – Dinner Location: Regional Center for Business Tourism, Wystawowa 1 Street, Wrocław The following individuals will receive Atlantic Council Freedom Awards: Władysław Bartoszewski, Chairman, Council for the Protection of Memory of Combat and Martyrdom* The National Endowment for Democracy, Represented by NED President Carl Gershman* Emma Bonino, Vice President of the Italian Senate and Trustee of the Arab Democracy Foundation* Further Details and Awards Coming Soon Saturday, 2 June Venue: Regional Center for Business Tourism, Wystawowa 1 Street, Wrocław 10:00 am The Wroclaw Debate: Does Euro pe Need New Europeans? Chair Norman Davies, Fellow, The British Academy* Featuring Brendan Simms , Professor of European International Relations, Cambridge University* John Martin, Professor of Medicine at University College London and Yale University* Leszek Czarnecki, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Getin Holding S.A.* Jan Zielonka, Professor of European Politics, Oxford University* 4 *CONFIRMED .