9:30Welcome and Introduction:
* NN (German UN Association)
* Andrew Cooper (CIGI, Canada; confirmed)
9:50 Keynote addresses:Democratizing Global Governance: Major Challenges & Main Actors:
* Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development; invitation by DGVN)
* Michael Zürn (HSoG; confirmed)
10:45 Tea/coffee
11:15 First panel:The role of Emerging Powers in Global Governance
* Sachin Chaturvedi (Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi; confirmed)
* Song Hong (Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; confirmed)
* NN, Brazil (invitation by DGVN/hbs)
* NN, Mexico (invitation by DGVN/hbs)
* Chair: Elizabeth Sidiropoulos (SAIIA; confirmed)
12:45 Lunch
13:45Germany’s Position on Global Governance Innovation
* Bernd Pfaffenbach, German Sherpa (State Secretary, Economics Ministry;invitation by HSoG)
14:15 Second panel:Summit Architecture and the United Nations: Impetus for Reform
* Yash Tandon (Executive Director, South Centre, Geneva; invitation by DIE)
* NN, scholar from Africa (invitation by DGVN/hbs)
* Olivier Giscard d’Estaing (France, Chair of Comité pour un Parlement Mondial as well as INSEAD Foundation; invitation by CIGI)
* Inge Kaul (formerly UNDP; invitation by DGVN)
* Barbara Unmuessig (Heinrich Boell Foundation)
* Chair: Johannes Linn, Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.; confirmed)
16:00 Tea/coffee
16:30The Way Forward and Good-bye
Dirk Messner (DIE; confirmed)
17:00 End
(DRAFT AS OF APRIL 30, 2007)
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