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 |