Agenda 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
14:30 - 14:45 Opening Address (on the record)
Introduction by: Craig Kennedy, President, GMF
Opening Address: The Hon. Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs, Belgium
14:45 - 16:00 Global Europe: Game Over? (on the record)
Mr. Ivan Krastev, Chair of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
The Hon. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Member, European Parliament; President, European Liberal Forum.
The Hon. Jeanne Shaheen, Member, U.S. Senate
The Hon. Radoslaw Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Moderator: Mr. Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 A Conversation with the Secretary General of NATO (on the record)
Introduction: The Hon. Wilfried Martens, President, European People’s Party
Discussant: The Hon. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General, NATO
Moderator: Mr. Nik Gowing, Anchor, BBC World
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 19:30 The Iran Conundrum: Strategic Challenges and Regional Risks (on the record)
Dr. Ziad Asali, President and Founder, The American Taskforce on Palestine
Prof. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
The Hon. Isaac Herzog, Member of Parliament, Israel
Camille Grand, Director, Centre for European Reform
Moderator: Mr. David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, Washington Post
19:45 - 21:30 Opening Dinner (simulcast in the press room)
Toast: Mr. Martin Jager, Global Head External Affairs and Public Policy, Daimler AG
21:45 Night-Owl Sessions (off the record, closed to press)
Soft Power, Hard Power, No Power?
The Hon. Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State
The Hon. Kristalina Georgieva, Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid & Crisis Response, European Commission
Dr. Michael Ignatieff, Senior Resident, University of Toronto
The Hon. Alexander Vershbow, Deputy Secretary General, NATO
Moderator: Mr. Steven Erlanger, Bureau Chief, Paris, New York Times
The Pivot to Asia: Implications for the United States, Europe, and China
The Hon. Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
Amb. Masafumi Ishii, Ambassador for Policy Planning and International Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
The Hon. James Steinberg, Dean, School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Moderator: Mr. Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Policy Columnist, Financial Times
Syria: Portrait of an Interrupted Revolution
Mr. Mohammed Al Abdallah, Political Activist, Syria
The Hon. Alcee Hastings, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
The Hon. Nikolay Mladenov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria
Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Moderator: Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Saturday, March 24, 2012
8:00 - 9:15 Early Bird Sessions (off the record, closed to press)
E.U.-Turkey-United States in a Volatile Neighborhood: Are Key Partners on the Same Page?
The Hon. Egemen Bagis, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator, Turkey
The Hon. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Member, European Parliament; President, European Liberal Forum
Dr. Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director, IAI
Mr. Robert Wexler, President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace
Moderator: Dr. Ian Lesser, Executive Director, GMF Brussels Office
Transforming-and Disrupting- the Energy Equation
Ms. Miriam Maes, CEO, Foresee, Delivery Advisor for Ministry of State, Department for Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom
Mr. Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Ms. Cathy Zoi, Partner, Silver Lake
Moderator: Ms. Kate Dourian, Middle East Bureau Chief, Platts
Rethinking Food Security
Ms. Julie Howard, Chief Scientist, USAID
Ms. Jacqueline Mkindi, Executive Director, Tanzania Horticultural Association
Dr. Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO, OCP Group
Moderator: Mr. James Kunder, Senior Transatlantic Fellow,GMF
9:30 - 11:00 After the Revolutions: What Next for the Middle East and North Africa? (on the record)
Baroness Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President, European Commission
The Hon. Mahmoud Gebril, Former Prime Minister, Libya
The Hon. Amine Pierre Gemayel, Former President, Lebanon
The Hon. Tim Pawlenty, Former Governor of Minnesota, United States
Moderator: Ms. Amy Kellogg, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Fox News
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 Debt, Jobs, and Growth (on the record)
The Hon. Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Department of State
Mr. Wilfried Porth, Member of Board of Management, Daimler AG
The Hon. Michael Turner, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
The Hon. Steven Vanackere, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Sustainable Development, Belgium
Moderator: Anton LaGuardia, European Union Correspondent, The Economist
12:45 - 14:00 Networking Lunch (off the record, closed to press)
14:30 - 16:00 Energy Security: Politics, Policy, and Geopolitics (on the record)
Mr. Iain Conn, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Refining & Marketing BP
The Hon. Nikolay Mladenov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria
Amb. Richard Morningstar, Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy, U.S. Department of State
Ms. Julia Nanay, Senior Director, Markets & Country Strategies Group, PFC Energy
Moderator: Ms. Sylke Tempel, Editor-in-Chief, Internationale Politik
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:00 The Afghanistan Endgame (on the record)
Mr. Shaida Mohammad Abdali, Deputy National Security Advisor, Afghanistan
The Hon. Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
The Hon. Marc Grossman, Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of State
Moderator: Ms. Lyse Doucet, Presenter, Today Program, BBC News
18:00-18:10 Introduction of the Ronald D. Asmus Policy Entrepreneurs Fellows (on the record)
Remarks by: Mr. Craig Kennedy, President, GMF
18:30 Transfer
19:00 - 21:00 Breakout Dinners (off the record, closed to press)
21:30 Night Owl Sessions (off the record, closed to press)
Transatlanticism Today: Are we still Mars and Venus?
Mr. Robert Cooper, Counselor, European External Action Service
H.E. Toomas Ilves, President, Estonia
Dr. Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Moderator: Mr. Tod Lindberg, Editor, Policy Review
The Eastern European Partners: Going East, West, or Nowhere?
The Hon. Elmar Brok, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, European Parliament
The Hon. Stefan Fuele, Commissioner for Enlargement, European Commission
The Hon. Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
Ms. Natalia Koliada, Founding Co-Artistic Director, Belarus Free Theatre
The Hon. Michael Turner, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Moderator: Mr. Bruce Jackson, President, Project on Transitional Democracies
“Global Swing States”: Rising Democracies and the Future International Order
Amb. Rubens Antonio Barbosa, President and CEO, Rubens Barbosa & Associados
The Hon. Robert Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Department of State
Ms. Mona Sutphen, Managing Director, UBS AG
Mr. Sinan Ulgen, Chairman, Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies
Moderator: Mr. Chris Caldwell, Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Please note daylight savings time change
8:15 - 9:45 Early Bird Sessions (off the record, closed to press)
Strategic Defense under Political and Economic Pressure: Common Challenges, Common Solutions?
The Hon. Artis Pabriks, Minister of Defense, Latvia
The Hon. Christian Schmidt, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense, Germany
The Hon. Ellen Tauscher, Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense, U.S. Department of State
Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center
Moderator: Mr. Daniel Fata, Transatlantic Fellow, GMF
Changing Mental Maps: South America, Africa, and the New Atlantic
Amb. Roberto Abdenur, President, Brazilian Institute for Ethics in Competition
The Hon. Victor Borges, Former Foreign Minister, Cape Verde
Prof. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
Ms. Marta Dassu, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy
Mr. Christian Leffler, Managing Director for the Americas, European External Action Service
Moderator: Dr. Alfredo Valladao, Professor, Sciences Po
The Future of Privacy in the Digital Economy
The Hon. Alexander Alvaro, Vice-President, European Parliament
Ms. Erika Mann, Director, Brussels Office, Facebook
Dr. Alma Whitten, Director of Privacy for Product and Engineering, Google
Moderator: Mr. Arik Hesseldahl, AllThingsD.com
10:00 - 11:30 The 2012 U.S. Elections (on the record)
Ms. Laura Blumenfeld, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
The Hon. Tim Pawlenty, Former Governor, Minnesota
The Hon. Loretta Sanchez, Member, United States House of Representatives
Moderator: Mr. Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
11:30-11:45 Closing Remarks and Young Writers Award (on the record)
11:45-13:00 Closing Reception (off the record, closed to press)