Conference Agenda

Schedule of conference events, including key speakers

8:30 am

Registration/Light Breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:15 am

Keynote Speech

Speaker:

  • Kemal Derviş, UNDP Administrator; former Member of the Turkish Parliament and former Turkish Minister for Economic Affairs and the Treasury

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Global Human Security and Development

Moderator:

  • Hossein Askari, Iran Professor of International Business and Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Speakers:

  • Inder Sud, current Adjunct Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School at George Washington University and former Director for the Middle East at the World Bank
  • Leon Fuerth, current Research Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School at George Washington University and former national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore
  • Jan Aart Scholte, Professor in Politics and International Studies and Acting Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at Warwick University, England

12:30 pm

Luncheon

1:30 pm

Global Health

Moderator:

  • John J. Forrer, Director, GW Center for the Study of Globalization

Speakers:

  • Ruth Levine, Director of Programs and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
  • David Molyneux, Director of the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Tropical Health Sciences at the University of Liverpool
  • Ann Florini, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

3:30pm

Break

3:45 pm

Global Trade and Investment

Moderator:

  • Joseph Cordes, Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs Director, Ph.D. program in Public Policy

Speakers:

  • Jiawen Yang, Professor of International Business and International Affairs, The George Washington University
  • Bernard Hoekman, Senior Advisor, Development Research Group, World Bank
  • James Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School at George Washington University

5:45 pm

Closing Remarks

6:00 pm

Adjourn