Program

Welcome:
Václav Havel, former President, the Czech Republic
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman, Nippon Foundation, Japan

Remarks:
Mike Moore, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, former Director General of WTO
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, East Timor

Moderator:
Oldřich Černý, Executive Director, Forum 2000 Foundation, the Czech Republic

Breakfast (Small Room, Žofín Palace)
Sponsored by Wood & Company Financial Services, a.s.
By special invitations only.

Remarks:
Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada, Secretary General of Club de Madrid

Introduction:
Jan Sýkora, General Manager, Wood & Company Financial Services, the Czech Republic

Opening Remarks:
Václav Havel, former President, the Czech Republic

Moderator:
Jacques Rupnik, political scientist, France

Keynote speeches:
Ghassan Salamé, former Minister of Culture of Lebanon, Professor at Sorbonne University
Gareth Evans, former Foreign Minister of Australia, President of the International Crisis Group

Moderator:
Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician, advisor to the President of Ukraine

Panel Discussion:
Michael Melchior, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Israel
James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton, USA
Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Senior Associate at Oxford University
Aleksander Milinkievich, opposition presidential candidate, Belarus
John O'Sullivan, journalist, UK/USA
André Glucksmann, philosopher, France
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, sociologist, Taiwan
H.R.H. El Hassan bin Talal, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Keynote speech:
James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton, USA

Introduction:
Marc S. Ellenbogen, President, The Prague Society for International Cooperation, the Czech Republic and Chairman Global Panel Foundation (Berlin)

Keynote speech:
James J. Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute, USA

Moderator:
Mike Moore, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, former Director General of WTO

Panel Discussion:
Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada, Secretary General of Club de Madrid
Karel Schwarzenberg, member of the Senate, the Czech Republic
Grigory Yavlinsky, politician, Russia
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, East Timor
Nasr Hamid Abu-Zayd, Professor at the University of Humanistics, Utrecht, Egypt/the Netherlands
Ida van Veldhuizen-Rothenbücher, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the Czech Republic

Chair and Opening Remarks:
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman, Nippon Foundation, Japan

Introduction:
Oldřich Černý, Executive Director, Forum 2000 Foundation, the Czech Republic

Panel Discussion:
Mats Karlsson, World Bank, Sweden
Hiroyuku Ishi, Professor at Hokkaido University, Former Ambassador to Zambia, Japan

Keynote Speech:
Robert Cooper, Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, Council of the EU, UK

Moderator:
Bronislaw Geremek, Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Panel Discussion:
Ghassan Salamé, former Minister of Culture of Lebanon, Professor at Sorbonne University
Jacques Rupnik, political scientist, France
Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician, advisor to the President of Ukraine
Pál Csáky, Deputy Prime Minister, Slovakia
Martin Walker, Editor-in-Chief, UPI, UK/USA
Sergey Kovalyov, human rights activist, Russia
Dominique Moisi, political scientist, France

Closing Remarks:
Václav Havel, former President, the Czech Republic

Moderator:
Bronislaw Geremek, Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Remarks:
Megawati Sukarnoputri, former President of Indonesia
H.R.H. El Hassan bin Talal, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Moderator:
Oldřich Černý, Executive Director, Forum 2000 Foundation, the Czech Republic