A public one-day multi-stakeholder conference in Washington D.C. to take stock of the accomplishments achieved during Canada’s Arctic Council Chairmanship as it concludes its chairmanship and prepares for the April 2015 Arctic Council Ministerial meeting. This high-level conference will be an opportunity for senior Canadian officials and experts to offer a detailed review of the Arctic Council’s current activities and outline future tasks. The conference will also be an important opportunity in advance of the U.S. taking on the Arctic Council chairmanship to have senior U.S. government officials and experts articulate the outline of the U.S. chairmanship agenda.
This conference is hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and CIGI.
Watch the live webcast at: www.cigionline.org/webcasts
CONFERENCE AGENDA
8:30am: Registration and Light Breakfast
9:00am: Opening Remarks:
Featuring:
Ms. Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS
Mr. John Higginbotham
Senior Fellow, CIGI and Carleton University
9:05am: Keynote Address: Accomplishments of the Canadian Arctic Council Chairmanship
Featuring:
Mr. Vincent Rigby
Chair of the Arctic Council Senior Arctic Officials (confirmed)
9:30am: Panel One: The Canadian Chairmanship: The Story So Far
Featuring:
Premier Peter Taptuna
Government of the Nunavut Territory (confirmed)
Ms. Susan Harper
Senior Arctic Official, Canada (confirmed)
Ms. Okalik Eegeesiak
Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council (confirmed)
Dr. Alexander Shestakov
Director, Global Arctic Program, WWF (confirmed)
Moderated by:
Ms. Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS
10:45am: Keynote Address: The U.S. Arctic Council Chairmanship
Featuring:
Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr.
U.S. Special Representative to the Arctic (confirmed)
11:15am: Panel Two: American Plans for the Arctic Council
Featuring:
Ambassador David Balton
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (confirmed)
Representative Robert Herron
House of Representatives, State of Alaska (confirmed)
Senator Lesil McGuire
Senate, State of Alaska (confirmed)
Mr. David J. Hayes
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School (confirmed)
Ms. Marilyn Heiman
Director (U.S. Arctic), The Pew Charitable Trusts (confirmed)
Moderated by:
Mr. John Higginbotham
Senior Fellow, CIGI and Carleton University
12:30pm: Lunch
12:30pm: Keynote Address: An Arctic Council Report Card: The View from the Canadian North
Featuring:
Premier Bob McLeod (confirmed)
Government of the Northwest Territories, Canada
1:30pm: Panel Three: The Future of Arctic Council Governance
Featuring:
Mr. David Ramsay
NWT Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment; Presdient, PNWER (confirmed)
The Honorable Currie Dixon
Minister of Environment, Economic Development, and Public Service Commission, Yukon Legislative Assembly (confirmed)
Dr. Michael Byers
Professor, University of British Columbia (confirmed)
Dr. Lawson Brigham
Distinguished Professor of Geology and Arctic Policy, University of Alaska Fairbanks (confirmed)
Dr. Terry Fenge
Senior Policy Advisor, Arctic Athabaskan Council (confirmed)
Moderated by:
Ms. Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS
Please RSVP with Caroline Rholoff at [email protected]
The discussion will be ON the record.