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AGENDA
Enriching The Middle East's Economic Future
Conference
March 9th – 11th , 2008
Doha, Qatar
The Ritz Carlton Hotel |
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SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH
, 2008 |
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Event |
| 09:00 –20:00 |
Registration |
20:00
Al-Wasail Hall |
Opening Dinner and Reception
Welcome:
Professor Steven L. Spiegel, Director, UCLA Center for
Middle East Development
Opening Address:
H.E. Yousef Hussain Kamal, Minister of Finance &Acting
Minister of Economy and Commerce, Qatar
Remarks:
-Panos Kammenos, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Mercantile
Marine, Greece and Former Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE)
-Lord David Trimble, House of Lords, Nobel Laureate and
former Northern Ireland First Minister, United Kingdom |
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MONDAY, MARCH
10TH , 2008 |
09:00 –10:30
Al-Wasail Hall |
Introduction
Professor Steven L. Spiegel, Director, UCLA Center for
Middle East Development
Plenary 1
Innovation and Investment Generation Between Asia and the
Gulf States
Moderator:
Raj Mitta, Chairman, Essential Value Associates Pte Ltd.
Speakers:
-Nobuaki Tanaka, Japanese Ambassador to Turkey and former
Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament, the United Nations
-H.E. Wang Wangsheng, Ambassador at Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of P.R. China
-Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary of India,
Ambassador to Russia |
| 10:30 –11:00 |
Break |
11:00 –13:00
Al-Wasail Hall |
Plenary 2
Integrating Energy with Foreign Policy
and Security
Moderator:
Mel Levine, Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher
Speakers:
-Baroness Amos, Former Leader of the House of Lords and
Lord President of the Council, United Kingdom
-Gray Davis, Former Governor of California
-Cornelia Meyer, Vice President for Development, Kimberly
Clark
-Ravi Shankar Prasad, Former Minister and National
Spokesman of BJP, India
-Manish Tiwari, National Spokesman for Congress Party,
India |
| 13:00–13:30 |
Break |
13:30–15:00
Al-Wasail Hall
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Plenary 3
Creating Legal Reform and Trade Regionalism in the Middle
East
Moderator:
-Sean Cleary, Chairman, Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd
Speakers:
-H.E. Maqbool Ali Sultan, Minister of Commerce and
Industry, Sultanate of Oman
-Abdul Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg, Minister Plenipotentiary,
Director Economic Integration Department The Cooperation for
the Arab States of the Gulf
-Clyde Prestowitz, Founder and President, Economic Strategy
Institute |
15:00–16:00
Al-Mukhtasar |
Lunch |
16:00 –18:00
Al-Wasail Hall |
Plenary 4
Global Change, Regional Impact
Moderator:
-Hani Findakly, CEO, Potomac Capital
Speakers:
-Flynt Leverett, Director, Geopolitics of Energy
Initiative, New America Foundation – “Energy and the New
Global Financial Architecture”
-Mohsen Fahmi, COO, Moore Capital Management – “Capital
Flows and the Change in the Financial Environment”
-Cyrus Ardalan, Vice Chairman, Barclay's Capital "A Local
Investor’s View”
-Peter Baumbusch, Partner, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher – “The
Regulatory/Legal Perspective” |
| 18:00 –19:00 |
Break – meet in lobby at
19:00 for transport to Al Tajen Restaurant |
| 19:00 –22:00 |
Outing in Old Town,
Including Dinner at Al-Tajen Restaurant |
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TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH , 2008 |
09:00 –11:00
Fatah Al-Khear
Al-Wasail Hall 2
Al-Wasail Hall 3
Al-Wasail Hall 4 |
Panel
1
Innovation and Investment Generation Between Asia and the
Gulf States
Chair:
Raj Mitta, Chairman, Essential Value Associates Pte Ltd
Speakers:
-Tadashi Maeda, Director General, Energy and Natural
Resources Finance Dept., Japan Bank for International
Cooperation, Japan
-Zhang Ming, Chairman of Sichuan Sunfor Light Co Ltd, China
-Subir Raha, Chairman, Hinduja National Power Company Ltd.,
India
-Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Senator, Senate of Pakistan
-Alex Crutchfield, Senior Managing Director, Oasis Partners
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Panel 2
Integrating Energy with Foreign Policy and Security
Chair:
David Dunn, Partner, Patton Boggs
Speakers:
-William Durbin, Head, Global Gas & Power Research, Wood
McKenzie
-Vahan Zanoyan, Chairman & CEO, PFC Energy International
-Ken B. Medlock III, Energy Research Fellow and Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Baker Institute Energy Forum - Rice
University
-S. C. Tripathi, Former Secretary of Petroleum and Natural
Gas, Govt. of India
-Chen Zhouqi, Chairman, Quantum Energy International
-Pierre Noel, Cambridge University – “Russian Gas in
Europe”
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Panel 3
Global Change, Regional Impact
Chair:
Hani Findakly, CEO, Potomac Capital
Speakers:
-John Gutfreund, Senior Advisor, Collins Stewart LLC
-Thomas S. Caldwell, Chairman and CEO, Caldwell Financial
Ltd
-Stuart Pearce, CEO + Director General, Qatar Financial
Centre Authority
-Gazi Ercel, President, Ercel Global Advisory
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Panel 4
The Interplay between Security and Economics in the Middle
East
Chair:
Robin Raphael, Senior Vice President, Cassidy & Associates
Speakers:
-Daniel Kurtzer, Ambassador, Princeton University Woodrow
Wilson School
-Theodore Kattouf, Ambassador, AMIDEAST (tentative)
-John Wang, President, Jenell Investments Ltd.
-Fareed Mohamedi, Partner, Head of Markets and Country
Strategies, PFC Energy International
-Odeh Aburdene, Managing Partner, Capital Trust
-Karan Trehan, President & CEO, Ankar Capital
-Ajay Chandra Pandey, Manager, Sahara India Pariwar
-Ghassan El Rifai – Former Finance Minister, Syria
-Barchinoy Kholbekova, Head of International Relations and
Development Department International Business School "Kelajak
Ilmi" (Uzbekistan) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Break |
| 11:30-13:30 |
Panels continue |
13:30 –14:45
Al-Wasail Foyer |
Lunch |
| 14:45-16:00 |
Break |
16:00-17:30
Al-Wasail Hall |
Plenary 5
The Interplay between Security and Economics in the Middle
East
Moderator:
-Judith Barnett, President, the Barnett Group, L.L.C.
Speakers:
-H.E. Mohammed Al Rumaihi, Assistant to the
Foreign Minister for Follow Up Affairs, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Qatar
-Marc Otte, Ambassador, EU Special Rep, Middle East Peace
Process
-John Powell, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations
World Food Programme
-Daniel Kurtzer, Ambassador, Princeton University Woodrow
Wilson School
-Dhananjay Kumar, Former State Finance Minister, India |
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17:30-17:45 |
Break |
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17:45-19:15
Al-Wasail Hall |
Final
Plenary:
Perspective and Future Implications: Reports from the Four
Panels
Chair:
-H.E. Mohammed Al Rumaihi, Assistant to the Foreign
Minister for Follow Up Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Qatar
Chair:
-Professor Steven L. Spiegel, Director, UCLA Center for
Middle East |
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20:00 |
Dinner at leisure at the
Lagoon Restaurant located on the LL Level |
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