Agenda

Every autumn, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) hosts its annual conference. This landmark event brings together accomplished researchers, policy makers, business leaders and journalists to define and debate issues of critical global importance and to identify innovative practices that can assist in meeting global challenges.

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CIGI’09: Towards A Global New Deal

Draft Conference Agenda

Friday, October 2, 2009 (CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON)

16:00-17:30	Registration
17:30-18:00	Welcoming Remarks
	John English, Executive Director, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
18:00-21:00	Dinner
20:00-21:00	Dinner Speaker
Introduction	Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, Government of Canada
Keynote	Jagdish Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Vote of Thanks	William Webb, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Gluskin Sheff and Associates

 

Saturday, October 3, 2009 (CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON)

8:00-9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcoming Remarks
	Daniel Schwanen, Deputy Executive Director, Programs, The Centre for International Governance Innovation; CIGI'09 Chair
9:15-10:15	Morning Speaker
Introduction	Lee Smolin, Founding Faculty Member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Keynote	Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Vote of Thanks	David Johnston, CIGI IBG; President, University of Waterloo
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:30	Stress-Testing Trade and Investment Régimes
Chair	John Whalley, Distinguished Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
Panel	Andrew Rose, B.T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Business in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
	Pierre Sauvé, Deputy Managing Director, World Trade Institute
	Craig VanGrasstek, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
11:30-11:45	Break
11:45-12:45	Crisis, Poverty and Food Security
Chair	Maureen O'Neil, CIGI IBG; President and CEO of Canadian Health Research Services Foundation
Panel	Jennifer Clapp, CIGI Chair in Global Environmental Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs
	Jorge Braga de Macedo, CIGI IBG; President, Tropical Research Institute; Professor at the Faculty of Economics of Nova University, Lisbon; Former Finance Minister, Portugal
	Uma Lele, Special Advisor to the M.S. Swaminathan Foundation, Chennai, India; Former Senior Advisor, the World Bank
12:45-14:15	Lunch
14:15-15:45	From Where Will the Global Economic Recovery Come?
Chair	Ngaire Woods, CIGI IBG; Director, Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University
Lead Presenter	Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Panel	Alicia García-Herrero, Chief Economist for Emerging Markets, BBVA Hong Kong
	Manmohan Agarwal, Senior Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
	Marcel Biato, Policy Advisor, Office of the President of Brazil
15:45-16:00	Break
16:00-17:00	Currencies and Global Imbalances
Chair	John Curtis, Distinguished Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
Panel	Eric Helleiner, CIGI Chair in International Economic Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs
	Paolo Guerrieri, Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali
	Gregory T. Chin, Senior Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
17:00-17:15	Break
17:15-18:30	Reception at Clay and Glass Gallery (25 Caroline Street North, Waterloo)
18:30-21:00	Dinner
20:00-21:00	Dinner Speaker
Introduction	Dwight Duncan, Minister of Finance, Government of Ontario
Keynote	Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Vote of Thanks	John English, Executive Director, The Centre for International Governance Innovation

 

Sunday, October 4, 2009 (CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON)

8:15-9:30	Breakfast
9:30-10:30	Morning Speaker
Introduction	Jim Balsillie, Chair of the Board, The Centre for International Governance Innovation and Co-CEO of Research In Motion
Keynote	The Right Honourable Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada
Vote of Thanks	Paul Heinbecker, Distinguished Fellow; The Centre for International Governance Innovation
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:45	Do We Understand Systemic Risk?
Chair	John Helliwell, CIGI IBG; Co-Director and Arthur J.E. Child Foundation Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Panel	Thomas Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs
	Thomas A. Bernes, Former Director, Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
	Avinash Persaud, Founder and Chairman, Intelligence Capital Ltd.
11:45-12:00	Break
12:00-13:00	Future Global Economic Leadership
Chair	Andrés Rozental, CIGI IBG; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Panel	Debra Steger, CIGI Senior Fellow; Leader of the EDGE Network Projects on Global Economic Governance, EDGE network
	Andrew F. Cooper, Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
	Paola Subacchi, Research Director, International Economics, Chatham House
13:00-14:15	Lunch
14:15-15:45	Building a Global New Deal: Brainstorming Session
Moderator	Steve Paikin, Anchor and Senior Editor, The Agenda
	This session encourages participants to contribute interactively. After two days of discussing crosscutting themes over the course of the six panels, participants will be asked to deliberate over pre-selected questions in a results-based media-moderated plenary session. The goal of this session is a dynamic discussion, where participants can voice their opinions and vote on the most pertinent answers.
15:45-16:00	Closing Remarks
	Daniel Schwanen, Deputy Executive Director, Programs, The Centre for International Governance Innovation; CIGI'09 Chair
16:00	Cocktail Reception