Forum Agenda 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

Friday - 14:45-16:00

BBC World Debate (On the Record)
Have the Western policies failed North Africa and the Middle East?
Baroness Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President, European Commission
Nabil Fahmy, Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University, Cairo
The Hon. Jeanne Shaheen, Member, U.S. Senate

MODERATOR: Mr. Nik Gowing, Anchor, BBC World

Friday - 16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

Friday - 16:30 - 17:30

Opening Address (On the Record)
Introduction by:
The Hon. Wilfried Martens, President, European People’s Party
Opening Address:
H.E. Yves Leterme, Prime Minister, Belgium
Keynote Address:
H.E. Herman Van Rompuy, President, European Council

Friday - 17:30 - 18:00

Coffee Break

Friday - 18:00 - 19:15

Creating Jobs and Fixing the Economy (On the Record)
The Hon. Richard Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve, Dallas
Mr. Wilfried Porth, Member of Board of Management, Daimler AG
The Hon. Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
The Hon. Mark Warner, Member, U.S. Senate

MODERATOR: Ms. Rana Foroohar, Assistant Managing Editor, TIME

Friday - 19:30 - 21:00

Opening Dinner (On the Record Remarks)
Opening Toast: The Hon. Jeanne Shaheen, Member, U.S. Senate
Introduction by:
Mr. Wilfried Porth, Member of the Board of Management, Daimler AG
Keynote by:
H.E. Jose Manuel Barroso, President, European Commission

 Friday - 21:30

Night-Owl Sessions

China Rising: Is Strategic Competition Inevitable? (On the Record)
The Hon. Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden
The Hon. Fu Ying, Vice Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China
The Hon. Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State

MODERATOR: Mr. David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, Washington Post

The Global Trading System at Risk? (Off the Record)
The Hon. Karel De Gucht, Commissioner for Trade, European Commission
Mr. Jim Quigley, CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Amb. Miriam Sapiro, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

MODERATOR: Dr. Andre Sapir, Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Russian Modernization and the West (Off the Record)
The Hon. Werner Hoyer, Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany
Prof. Vladislav Inozemtsev, Director, Centre for Research of a Post-Industrial Society, Russia
Prof. Adam Rotfeld, Co-chairman, Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matter
The Hon. Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense

MODERATOR: Mr. Ivan Krastev, Chair of the Board; Program Director, Political Research, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Demographic Shifts and Minority Political Representation (Off the Record)
The Hon. Alcee Hastings, Member, U.S. House of Representatives 
The Hon. Claude Moraes, Member, European Parliament
The Hon. Fadime Örgü, Journalist, The Netherlands

MODERATOR: Mr. Cornell Belcher, President, Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Saturday - 8:00 - 9:15

Early Bird Sessions

Saving Western Institutions from Extinction (Off the Record)
The Hon. Ahn Ho-Young, Ambassador to the European Union, Republic of Korea
The Hon. Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Amb. Masafumi Ishii, Ambassador for Policy Planning and International Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Amb. Pierre Vimont, Executive Secretary General, European External Action Service

MODERATOR: Dr. Kati Suominen, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF

The Fossil-Free  Future of Energy? (Off the Record)
Ms. Antonella Battaglini, Program Manager, Smart Energy for Europe Platform
Amb. Richard Jones, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Ms. Cecile Maisonneuve, Director, International Agenda and Perspective, Areva
Mr. Simone Mori, Executive Vice President, Director Regulatory Affairs,  Environment and Carbon Strategy, Enel SPA

MODERATOR: Ms. Dymphna van der Lans, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF

Saturday - 9:30 – 9:45

Saturday - 9:45 - 11:00

Pipelines, Politics, and Pipe Dreams(On the Record)
Mr. Iain Conn, Chief Executive of Refining and Marketing, BP 
Amb. Richard Jones, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Mr. Ivan Krastev, Chair of the Board; Program Director, Political Research, Centre for Liberal Strategies
The Hon. Leonard Orban, Presidential Adviser for European Affairs, Romania

MODERATOR: Dr. Sylke Tempel, Editor, Internationale Politik

 Saturday - 11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

Saturday - 11:30 - 12:45

Keeping the G20 en Vogue (On the Record)
The Hon. Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom
The Hon. Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organization
The Hon. Michel Pébereau, Chairman of the Board of Directors, BNP Paribas
The Hon. Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank

MODERATOR: Mr. Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times

Saturday - 13:00 - 15:30

Break-out Lunch Discussions (Off the Record)

Saturday - 15:30 - 16:30

Japan - The Aftershocks (On the Record)
Amb. Masafumi Ishii, Ambassador for Policy Planning and International Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Mr. Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director, Bruegel
Dr. Yorizumi Watanabe, Professor of International Political Economy, Keio University

MODERATOR: Mr. Bruce Stokes, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF

Saturday - 16:30 – 17:00

Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:15

Bridging the Trust Deficit with Pakistan (On the Record)
The Hon. Liam Fox, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom
Amb. Marc Grossman, U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. State Department
Mr. Ahmed Rashid, Journalist and Author, Pakistan

MODERATOR: Ms. Patricia Loison, Presenter, France 3

Saturday - 18:15- 18:45

Coffee Break

Saturday - 18:45-20:00

Introductory Remarks
The Hon. Radek Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

The European Neighborhood Policy: Ok, Let’s Get Real Here (On the Record)
The Hon. Stefan Fuele, Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, European Commission
The Hon. Phil Gordon, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
The Hon. Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine
The Hon. Radek Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

MODERATOR: Mr. Anton La Guardia, European Union Correspondent, The Economist

Saturday - 20:15 - 21:15

Networking Dinner (Off the Record)

Saturday - 21:30

Night Owl Sessions

Missile Defense in Search of a Home (Off the Record)
The Hon. Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister, Russian Federation
The Hon. Ellen Tauscher, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, U.S. Department of State
The Hon. Michael Turner, Member, U.S. House of Representatives

MODERATOR: Mr. David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, Washington Post

Politics in America: Divided Government and the 2012 Election (Off the Record)
The Hon. Robert Bennett, Director, The Bennett Consulting Group
Mr. Charles Cook, Political Analyst and Columnist, National Journal
Barbara Lee, Member, U.S. House of Representatives

MODERATOR: Mr. Julian Borger, Diplomatic Editor, The Guardian

Is the Eurozone Crisis Over? (Off the Record)
The Hon. Mikuláš Dzurinda, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovakia
Dr. Barry Eichengreen, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
The Hon. Guy Verhofstadt, Member, European Parliament

MODERATOR: Mr. Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director, Bruegel

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Sunday - 8:00 - 9:00

Early Bird Sessions 

Belarus’ Nightmare Election and the Western Response (Off the Record)
Dr. Irina Bogdanova, Campaigner, “Free Belarus Now”
Dr. David Kramer, Executive Director, Freedom House
The Hon. Miroslav Lajčák, Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service
Amb. Darius Semaška, Presidential Chief Advisor on Foreign Policy, Lithuania

MODERATOR: Mr. Pavol Demeš, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF

How can the Arab Spring lead to Democracy? (Off the Record)
The Hon. Jim Kolbe, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF
Amb. Nabil Fahmy, Dean, American University, Cairo
The Hon. Nickolay Mladenov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria
Mr. Mahmoud Salem, Egyptian Blogger

MODERATOR: The Hon. Paula Dobriansky, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Thomson Reuters

Sunday - 9:15 – 10:00

Libya: What Now? (On the Record)
The Hon. Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
The Hon. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Member, European Parliament; President, European Liberal Forum
Mr. David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, Washington Post

MODERATOR: Ms. Nahida Nakad, Director, Arabic Language Channels, France 24

Sunday - 10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

Sunday - 10:30 - 11:45

Turkey, “Zero Problems” and the EU (On the Record)
The Hon. Egemen Bağiş, Minister of State, Chief Negotiator to the European Union, Turkey
Mr. Michael Leigh, Director General for Enlargement, European Commission
The Hon. Ruprecht Polenz, Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, German Parliament
Mr. Robert Wexler, President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace

MODERATOR: Ms. Katinka Barysch, Deputy Director, Centre for European Reform

Sunday - 11:45 - 12:15

Coffee Break

Sunday - 12:15 - 13:15

Bringing the Balkans into Europe (On the Record)
H.E. Igor Lukšić, Prime Minister, Republic of Montenegro
Mr. Stefano Sannino, Deputy Director General for Enlargement, European Commission
H.E. Boris Tadić, President, Republic of Serbia
The Hon. Michael Turner, Member, U.S. House of Representatives

MODERATOR: Mr. Steven Erlanger, Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times

Sunday - 13:15

Young Writers Award and Closing Remarks (On the Record)
Mr. Craig Kennedy, President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
The Hon. Steven Vanackere, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Belgium