7:30-> 9:00

Registration

9:00-> 9:45

Opening Session

(Room 5 with retransmission Room 9)

Moderator : David Eades, Presenter, BBC World News

Agustín Carstens, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico

Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD

9:45-> 11:15

What Role for Biofuels?

(Room 5)

Moderator : Aart de Geus, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Eduardo Leão de Sousa, Executive Director, UNICA, Brazil

José Lopez, Executive Vice-President, Nestlé

Stefan Tangermann, Director, Trade and Agriculture, OECD

Global Innovation, IPR and Growth

(Room 6)

Moderator : John Thornhill, Editor, European Edition, Financial Times

Alison Brimelow, President, European Patent Office

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Chair, "Europe in the Global Economy" Task Force, France

Soumitra Dutta, Dean of External Relations, INSEAD, France

Pedro Lichtinger, President, European Pharmaceutical Operations, Pfizer

Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Sustainable Cities

(Room 9)

Moderator : David Eades, Presenter, BBC World News

Tasneem Essop, Minister of Environment, Planning and Economic Development, Western Cape, South Africa

Geneviève Ferone, Vice-President, Sustainable Development, Veolia Environnement

Michel Le Sommer, Engineer, Le Sommer Environnement, France

Hideaki Oda, Councillor to the President, Japan Water Forum

Mario Pezzini, Deputy Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD, France

11:15- 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45- 13:15

Innovation and Climate Change

(Room 5)

Moderator : Chris Giles, Economics Editor, Financial Times

Asit K. Biswas, President, Third World Centre for Water Management

David Foster, Executive Director, Blue Green Alliance, United States

Lorents Lorentsen, Director, Environment, OECD

Steve Westwell, Executive Vice-President and Group Chief of Staff, BP

Jobs and Growth

(Room 6)

Moderator : John P. Martin, Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD

Geoffrey I. Gallop, Professor and Director, Graduate school of Government, University of Sydney, Australia

Marie-Louise Knuppert, Confederal Secretary, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions

Enrico Letta, Member of Parliament, Italy

Dennis J. Snower, President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO, 20-first

Sovereign Wealth Funds

(Room 9)

Moderator : Carolyn Ervin, Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

Xiqing Gao, President & Chief Investment Officer, China Investment Corporation

Jean-Daniel Gerber, State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Switzerland

Kristin Halvorsen, Minister of Finance, Norway

Giandomenico Magliano, Director-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy

Jean-Paul Villain, Head, Strategy Unit, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

13:15- 14:45

Lunch

13:45- 14:40

Book Launch: OECD Work on Meeting the Climate Challenge

(Auditorium)

14:45- 15:30

Keynote Speech: New Challenges in a New Cycle

(Room 5 with retransmission Room 9)

Moderator : Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Director, CEPII, France

Rodrigo de Rato, Senior Managing Director, Lazard

Keynote Session: Of Ice, Bears and Markets in the Silicon Age

(Room 6)

Moderator : Gérard Nicaud, Senior reporter, Le Figaro, France

Alain Hubert, Chairman, International Polar Foundation

15:30- 17:00

Nuclear Energy - What Part of the Solution to Climate Change?

(Room 5)

Moderator : Jeremy Webb, Editor-in-Chief, New Scientist, United Kingdom

Luis Echávarri, Director-General, Nuclear Energy Agency, OECD

Philippe Esper, President, Eurotradia International, France

Helga Kromp-Kolb, Professor, BOKU University, Austria

Jean-Pol Poncelet, Senior Vice-President, Sustainable Development and Continuous Improvement, AREVA

Sir Crispin Tickell, Director, Policy Foresight Programme, James Martin Institute, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Health, Innovation and the Economy

(Room 6)

Moderator : Iain Gillespie, Head, Biotechnology, OECD

Cristina Garmendia, Minister of Science and Innovation, Spain

John P. Hearn, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International), University of Sydney, Australia

John Rother, Group Executive Officer, Policy and Strategy, AARP, United States

Michel Vounatsos, President, MSD-France

Elaine M. Wolfson, Founding President, Global Alliance for Women's Health

Partnerships for Tackling Climate Change

(Room 9)

Moderator : Peter Kemp, Editorial Director, Energy Intelligence, United Kingdom

Kristin Halvorsen, Minister of Finance, Norway

Gyehyun Kwon, Vice-President, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sylvie Lemmet, Director, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, UNEP

Pierre Liautaud, Vice-President, Western Europe Region, Microsoft EMEA

John J. Sweeney, President, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

17:00- 18:00

Climate Change: Mobilising Political Will

(Room 5 with retransmission Room 9)

Moderator : Doris Leuthard, Minister of Economic Affairs, Switzerland

H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco

Angel Gurría , Secretary-General, OECD

Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Phil Goff, Minister of Trade, New Zealand

18:00

World Environment Day Reception

8:00-> 9:30

Registration

9:30-> 10:30

Keynote Speech: Reflections on the Financial Markets Correction

(Room 5 with retransmission Rooms 6 and 9)

Moderator : Françoise Crouïgneau, Chief International Editor, Les Echos, France

Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank

10:30- 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45- 12:15

Climate Change and Finance

(Room 5)

Moderator : Jean-Marc Vittori, Editorial Writer, Les Echos, France

Bernard Clerfayt, Deputy Minister of Finance, Belgium

Jan H. Keppler, Professor of Economics, Paris-Dauphine University, France

James P. Leape, Director-General, WWF International

Doris Leuthard, Minister of Economic Affairs, Switzerland

Alain Massiera, Deputy CEO, Calyon

Financing Infrastructure

(Room 6)

Moderator : Michael Oborne, Director, Advisory Unit on Multidisciplinary Issues, OECD

Agustín Carstens, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico

Andrew Hunter, Head, Macquarie Europe

Richard Lavergne, Secretary-General, Observatoire de l'énergie, France

Pierre Lortie, Senior Business Advisor, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (Montreal), Canada

Hamish McRae, Associate Editor, The Independent, United Kingdom

Education: A Good School for Every Community

(Room 9)

Moderator : Barbara Ischinger, Director, Education, OECD

John Bangs, Assistant Secretary, Education and Equal Opportunities, National Union of Teachers, United Kingdom

Donald MacLeod, Editor, Education Guardian, United Kingdom

Philippe Manière, Director, Institut Montaigne, France

Holger Rupprecht, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Brandenburg, Germany

Cecilia Tortajada, President, International Water Resources Association

12:15-12:30

Concluding Comments on the Economics of Climate Change

(Room 5)

Doris Leuthard , Minister of Economic Affairs, Switzerland

12:30- 14:00

Lunch

13:00- 13.50

Education, Literacy and the Harry Potter Effect

(Auditorium)

Moderator : Barbara Ischinger, Director, Education, OECD

Yuko Matsuoka Harris, Publisher and translator of the Japanese Harry Potter books, Say-zan-sha Publications, Ltd.

14:00- 15.30

Open Markets for Trade and Investment

(Room 6)

Moderator : Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor of Economics, Columbia University, United States

Sharan Burrow, President, Australian Council of Trade Unions

Glen Hodgson, Senior Vice-President, The Conference Board of Canada

Luc Lamprière, Executive Director, Oxfam France

Clyde V. Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute, United States

Financial Market Turbulence

(Room 9)

Moderator : Robert Kuttner, Co-Editor, The American Prospect

Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Deputy Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

Padma Desai, Director, Center for Transitional Economies, Columbia University, United States

Jan Frait, Head, Financial Stability, Czech National Bank

Susan George, Board Chair, Transnational Institute

15:30- 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00- 18:00

Future Challenges for the Multilateral Trading System

(Room 5)

Moderator : Anthony Gooch, Director, Public Affairs and Communications, OECD

Simon Crean, Minister of Trade, Australia

Phil Goff, Minister of Trade, New Zealand

Anne-Marie Idrac, State Secretary, Foreign Trade, France

Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director­-General, WTO

James P. Leape, Director-General, WWF International

Beatriz Leycegui Gardoqui, Undersecretary for International Trade Negotiations, Mexico

Néstor Edgardo Stancanelli, Deputy Secretary, International Economic Negotiations, Argentina

Education and Sustainable Development

(Room 6)

Moderator : Asit K. Biswas, President, Third World Centre for Water Management

Francisco J. Lozano, Co-ordinator, Sustainable Campus Programme, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Hideaki Oda, Councillor to the President, Japan Water Forum

Bernard Ramanantsoa, Dean, HEC, France

Daigee Shaw, President, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Chinese Taipei

Dennis Tirpak, Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Thierry Touchais, Executive Director, International Polar Foundation