The Fourth Global Think Tank Summit
Agenda
(China World Hotel)
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015
09:00-10:30 CLOSED-DOOR: CHINA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT （Grand Ballroom A, Level I）
13:00-16:30 REGISTRATION (Conference Hall, Level I)
15:30-16:00 REPORT RELEASE: REBALANCING GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE (Grand Ballroom A, Level I)
17:00-19:00 OPENING CEREMONY (Conference Hall ABC, Level I)
MODERATOR: WEI Liqun, Permanent Vice Chairman of CCIEE
OPENING REMARKS: ZENG Peiyan, Chairman of CCIEE, Former Vice Premier of the State Council, PRC
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
LIU Yandong, Vice Premier of the State Council, PRC
BAN Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (Written message to be read out by WU Hongbo, Under Secretary-General of the United Nations)
Romano PRODI, President of the Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation, Professor at China Europe International Business School, Former Prime Minister of Italy
Danilo TURK, Professor of International Law, Former President of Slovenia
Kevin RUDD, President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, Former Prime Minister of Australia
Sir Don MCKINNON, Chairman of New Zealand China Council, Former Commonwealth Secretary General, Former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
Grzegorz W. KOLODKO, Founder and Director of Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Former Deputy Premier of Poland
Thomas SARGENT, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of Economics at New York University
William BURNS, President of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nubuo TANAKA, President of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Former Executive Director of International Energy Agency
19:00-20:30 WELCOME BANQUET (Grand Ballroom BCD, Level I, Invitation Only)
MODERATOR: ZHANG Xiaoqiang, Permanent Vice Chairman and CEO of Executive Board of the Council of CCIEE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: XU Shaoshi, Chairman of National Development and Reform Commission, PRC
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015
09:00-13:00 PARALLEL FEATURED FORUMS
PARALLEL FEATURED FORUM I: CLIMATE CHANGE & GREEN GROWTH (Grand Ballroom ABC, Level I)
09:00-10:15 SESSION I: CLIMATE CHANGE
MODERATOR: WEI Jianguo, Vice Chairman of CCIEE
PANELISTS:
ZHANG Yong, Vice Chairman of National Development and Reform Commission, PRC
John PODESTA, Founder of Center for American Progress, Former Counselor to US President on Climate Change and Energy Policy
Adnan Z. AMIN, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency
WANG Yi, Director of Institute of Policy and Management of Chinese Academy of Sciences, National People’s Congress Standing Committee Member, PRC
Teresa RIBERA, Director of Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Former Secretary of State for Climate Change in Spain’s Government
HE Jiankun, Vice Chairman of the National Experts Panel on Climate Change, Director of Institute of Low Carbon Economy, Tsinghua University
KHOR Kok Peng, Executive Director of South Center
10:15-11:15 SESSION II: POVERTY ALLEVIATION
MODERATOR: Mustafa MUJERI, Director General of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
PANELISTS:
LIU Yongfu, Director of Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development of the State Council, PRC
Romeo ORLANDI, President of Osservatorio Asia, Italy
NIE Zhenbang, Vice Chairman of CCIEE
Michael YEOH, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute
Amson SIBANDA, Senior Social Affairs Officer, Division for Social Policy and Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
11:15-13:00 SESSION III: GREEN GROWTH
MODERATOR: ZHANG Dawei, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of CCIEE
PANELISTS:
LI Wei, Director of Development Research Center of the State Council, PRC
Fred KRUPP, President of Environment Defense Fund, USA
MA Jiantang, Executive Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Governance
Suma CHAKRABARTI, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
JIN Liqun, Secretary General of the Multilateral Interim Secretariat of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Steven COHEN, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Earth Institute, Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs at Columbia University
Martin LEES, Former Secretary General of Club of Rome
Amory LOVINS, Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute
Ricardo MELENDEZ-ORTIZ, Chief Executive of International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Switzerland
ZOU Ji, Deputy Director of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, Director of Energy and Climate Economics Program of Renmin University of China
Meenakshi RAMAN, Senior Legal Advisor and Climate Change Policy Coordinator of the Third World Network
PARALLEL FEATURED FORUM II: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & GLOBAL GOVERNANCE (Conference Hall B, Level I)
09:00-11:00 SESSION I & II: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
How will the world political architecture evolve amidst the profound changes of international relations? How to avoid and mitigate the fallout of international financial crisis on international relations? Whether the advancement of human civilizations and enhanced interdependence of countries can help reduce the risks and impact of international conflicts? How to curb expansion of extremist forces through international cooperation？How to look to the future and establish a new type of relations among world’s major powers? How to view the influence of emerging economies on international relations? What role should emerging economies play in shaping international relations system?
09:00-10:00 SESSION I
MODERATOR: YANG Jiemian, Director of Academic Committee of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, PRC
PANELISTS:
Ian ANTHONY, Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden
Ian BOND, Director of Foreign Policy, Center for European Reform
Nicola CASARINI, Senior Fellow for Asia at the Institute of International Affairs, Non-Resident Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C.
Daniel GROS, Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies
Srikanth KONDAPALLI, Former Chairman of Center for East Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Bruce William MCCONNELL, Senior Vice President of East West Institute, USA
ZHOU Wenzhong, Secretary General of Boao Forum for Asia, Former Chinese Ambassador to the United States
10:00-11:00 SESSION II
MODERATOR: Fred KEMPE, President of Atlantic Council, USA
PANELISTS:
Rastam Mohd ISA, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia
JI Zhiye, President of China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Benjamin KRASNA, Head of Bureau of Economy and Asian Affairs, Center for Policy Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Kristin SHI-KUPFER, Director of Politics, Society and Media Research Area, Mercator Institute for China Studies
SUN Zhe, Director of Center for US-China Relations, Institute of Modern International Relations, Tsinghua University
Ali Resul USUL, Chairman of Center for Strategic Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
ZHAO Jinjun, Vice Chairman of CCIEE, Former Chinese Ambassador to France
11:00-13:00 SESSION III & IV: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
11:00-12:00 SESSION III
How to enhance the effectiveness of global governance mechanism? How to improve global governance mechanism so that countries can conduct dialogue on an equal footing and jointly explore ways to resolve differences? How to encourage leaders and policy makers of all countries to play a leading role in establishing a new global governance mechanism? What kind of agenda should the 2016 G20 Summit have to give a better play to the role of the G20 mechanism? How to better help developing countries realize their development goals so as to achieve common development?
MODERATOR: Lawrence LAU, Ralph and Claire Laudau Professor of Economics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
PANELISTS:
CHI Fulin, President of China Institute for Reform and Development
Thomas A. BERNES, Former President of Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
Steve HOWARD, Secretary General of the Global Foundation, Australia
HUANG Jing, Director and Professor of the Centre on Asia and Globalization of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Alexey MAKUSHKIN, Director of Economics and International Studies Department of Center for Strategic Research, North-West Foundation, Russia
James MCGANN, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Director of Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program
Naoki TANAKA, President of Center for International Public Policy Studies, Japan
Marc UZAN, Founder and Executive Director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, France
12:00-13:00 SESSION IV
How to deal with the relations between new and existing institutions? How should newly established global and regional platforms for exchanges and cooperation interact with each other? How to manage the relations between and among TPP, TTIP and RCEP? How to position the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank vis-à-vis the World Bank and Asian Development bank and manage their relationship? What kind of role should the BRICS Development Bank play? How to coordinate the role of new and existing institutions in promoting the sound development of global economy?
MODERATOR: LEE Il Houng, President of Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
PANELISTS:
CHEN Wenling, Chief Economist of CCIEE
Pierre DEFRAIGNE, Executive Director of Madariaga College of Europe Foundation
Peter DRYSDALE, Emeritus Professor at Australian National University, Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research
Kazumasa IWATA, President of Japan Center for Economic Research, Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan
Konstantin NOSKOV, Head of the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation
Stephen ROACH, Senior Fellow of Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, Former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia
Paola SUBACCHI, Director of the International Economics Department at Chatham House, UK
13:00-14:30 BUFFET LUNCH (Arcade Level, Basement I)
15:00-15:30 RELEASE OF RESULTS FROM INITIAL STAGE OF RESEARCH: ADAPTING A SUSTAINABILITY METRICS AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CHINA SUTAINABILITY (Grand Ballroom C, Level I)
16:00-16:30 RELEASE OF JOINT DECLERATION OF THE FOURTH
GLOBAL THINK TANK SUMMIT (Grand Ballroom C, Level I)
14:30-18:00 PARALLEL THEMATIC FORUMS
THEMATIC FORUM I:
INEQUALITY & INCLUSIVE GROWTH (Conference Hall C, Level I)
THEMATIC FORUM II:
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CRISIS & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(Grand Ballroom D, Level I)
THEMATIC FORUM III:
GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ENERGY REFORM
(Conference Hall A, Level I)
THEMATIC FORUM IV:
GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF THINK TANKS (Function Room 6, Arcade Level, Basement I)
THEMATIC FORUM V:
GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: BRAND BUILDING (Grand Ballroom AB, Level I)
THEMATIC FORUM VI:
GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE POWER OF MARKET (Conference Hall B, Level I)