PREVIOUS SESSIONS

A Single Germany: the Political Consequences
Panel: Franco Maria Malfatti and Theo Sommer

The Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Area: Possible Scenarios
Panel: Salah Bassiouny, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Richard Gardner, Arrigo Levi, Dan Vittorio Segre

The Emerging Democracies of Central and South-Eastern Europe between Nationalism and Integration
Panel: Norbert Kloten, Dominique Moïsi

The Role of Western Governments and International Institutions as Regards Economic Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
Panel: Leon Brittan, Priscilla Rabb Ayres, Mario Sarcinelli

The Business Community Faces the New Situation in Eastern and Central Europe: Monetary Reform and the Transition to Market Economies
Panel: Gianni Agnelli, George Soros, Derek Thomas

The State of the European Community after the Maastricht Summit: Implementation of the Next Far-Reaching Step toward Integration and the Emerging Problem of an “Enlargement” of EEC
Panel: Riccardo Perissich, Renato Ruggiero, Helmut Sonnenfeldt

The State of Relations between Europe, the United States, and Japan under the Impact of Domestic Constraints and International Challenges
Panel: Harold Brown, Karl Kaiser, Yoichi Funabashi
Chairman of the conference: Arrigo Levi

Keynote Speakers: John Brademas, Kevin Phillips

The American Economy in the Current International Economic Outlook
Panel: Lester Thurow, Frank Zarb

Industrial Competition and Trade Friction between Europe, Japan, and the US
Panel: Renato Ruggiero, Peter Sutherland

International Crises and the Role of the United States, Other Western Powers, and International Institutions
Panel: James Hoge, Karl Kaiser, Ferdinando Salleo

Western Economic and Political Coordination and the Prospects of the Upcoming G7 Summit
Panel: Mario Arcelli, Richard Gardner, Paula Stern
Chairman of the conference: Arrigo Levi

Keynote Speakers: Umberto Colombo, Hugh Sidey

The Political Outlook in Europe after the Elections
Panel: Edward Mortimer

Italian Elections and the International Arena
Panel: Sergio Romano

The European Economic Outlook
Panel: Gianni Agnelli

Mock G7 Summit
Panel: Michael Blumenthal, Kim Campbell, Nigel Lawson, Hisashi Owada, Jean François Poncet, Renato Ruggiero, Helmut Schmidt
Chairman per il Vertice simulato: Paolo Garimberti
Chairman of the conference: Arrigo Levi

Keynote Speakers: Giorgio Bernini, Haynes Johnson, Stefano Silvestri, Norbert Walter

Lessons to Be Remembered at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Panel: Henry Kissinger, Lord Roll
Chairman: Arrigo Levi

The Changing Political Picture in Europe: after the French Elections and before the Italian Elections
Panel: Dominique Moïsi, Giovanni Sartori
Chairman: Paolo Garimberti

The International Economy and Potential Risks in Commercial and Monetary Accords
Panel: Giuliano Amato, Anthony Solomon
Chairman: Antonio Marzano


Keynote Speakers: David Gergen, Stanley Greenberg, Kevin Phillips

Vertice simulato

The European Union: the Florence Summit and Beyond
Panel: Gianni Agnelli, Boris Biancheri, Mario Monti
Chairman: Edward Mortimer

Italy after the Elections
Panel: Beniamino Andreatta, Massimo D'Alema, Domenico Fisichella, Giuliano Urbani
Chairman: Dennis Redmont

Leading the World to the Year 2000
Panel: Edouard Balladur, Thomas Foley, Andrei Kozyrev, Felipe Lampreia, Hisashi Owada
Chairman: Peter Sutherland

Are the Future Costs of Social Welfare Sustainable? The Experiences of the US and Western Europe
Panel: Carlo Callieri, Peter G. Peterson, Norbert Walter
Chairman: Tiziano Treu

Keynote Speakers: Robert Blackwill, Andrea Mitchell

Looking Ahead: the Dollar - Euro Relationship
Panel: Otto Graf Lambsdorff, William McDonough, Fabrizio Saccomanni, Jeffrey Shafer
Chairman: Paolo Garimberti

Looking Ahead: Business and Governments Face Globalization
Panel: Joschka Fischer, Paolo Fresco, Dana Mead, Jan Timmer
Chairman: Moeen A. Qureshi

The United States: the Successes of a Half Century and Some Still Open Questions
Panel: Laura D'Andrea Tyson, E. J. Dionne, Lawrence Korb
Chairman: Gianni Riotta

Italy: Between Reform of the Welfare State and the New International Competition
Panel: Sergio D'Antoni, Giorgio Fossa, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, and Giulio Tremonti
Chairman: Lucia Annunziata

Keynote Speakers: Giuliano Amato, Dominique Moïsi, Edward Mortimer

The New Fabric of World Trade Fifty Years after the Inception of GATT
Panel: Augusto Fantozzi, Renato Ruggiero, Jack Welch
Chairman: Richard Gardner

Where Does Europe End?
Panel: Bülent Eczacibasi, Bronislaw Geremek, Robert Hunter, Josef Joffe
Chairman: Thierry de Montbrial

The New Issues of Global Security and their Consequences for the Private Sector
Panel: Jules Kroll, Ronald Noble, Federico Stella
Chairman: Gianni Riotta

The Growth of the Italian Stock Market in a Phase of Turmoil in the Global Financial System
Panel: Paul Horne, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Alessandro Profumo, John Wall
Chairman: Gianni Riotta

Keynote Speakers: Thomas Friedman, James Mann, Fabrizio Saccomanni

Life on the Net: Electronic Commerce, Privacy and Legislative Implications
Panel: David Aaron, Elio Catania, John Mogg, Stefano Rodotà
Chairman: Robert Kaiser

The Contagion of Economic Crises and its Impact on Global Corporate Strategies
Panel: Michael Armacost, Paolo Fresco, Yoichi Funabashi, Jeffrey Shafer
Chairman: Moisés Naím

Economic Interests and Strategic Imperatives in the Gulf and the Middle East
Panel: James Baker, Lamberto Dini, Lucio Noto, Stefano Silvestri
Chairman: Andrea Mitchell

The New European Scene the Day after the European Elections
Panel: Marta Dassù, Dominique Moïsi, Theo Sommer, Helmut Sonnenfeldt
Chairman: Giles Merritt

The Changing Landscape of National Sovereignty and International Law: Implications for Global Business
Panel: Kenneth Cohen, Richard Gardner, Jay Mazur, Federico Stella
Chairman: Guido Brosio

Mergers and Acquisitions: What Caused the Explosion and What Are the Implications?
Panel: Massimo Capuano, Mario Monti, Joseph Perella, Peter Sutherland
Chairman: Domenico Siniscalco

Russia: the Indispensable Partner
Panel: Robert Blackwill, Boris Nemtsov, Mario Sarcinelli, Gerhard Wibiral
Chairman: Alison Smale

The United States on Election-Eve: Change in the Offing or More of the Same?
Panel: E.J. Dionne, Richard Grasso, James Hoge, Alice Rivlin
Chairman: Gianni Riotta

Keynote Speakers: Edward Burman, Sergio Romano

The Digital Divide: Consequences of Differentiated Access to the Internet
Panel: Franco Bassanini, Elio Catania, Ewan McPhie, Helmut Meier
Chairman: Domenico Siniscalco

The Coming of a Universal Cell Phone: Technological, Economic, and Cultural Consequences
Panel: Roger Kermisch, John MacDonald, Henrik Pålsson, Roberto Pellegrini
Chairman: Lionel Barber

What Makes the Strategic Role of China: Demographic, Military and Economic Factors
Panel: Cesare Romiti, Stapleton Roy, Konrad Seitz, Zhu Ling
Chairman: Robert Kaiser

Global Economic Trends on the Eve of the Genoa G8 Summit
Panel: Jacob Frenkel, Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, Paolo Guerrieri, G. Mustafa Mohatarem
Chairman: Massimo Gaggi

Keynote Speaker: Alan Simpson

After the Recession: Prospects and Conditions for Economic Recovery in Europe and in the US
Panel: Mario Draghi, Paolo Fresco, Moisés Naím, Jeffrey R. Shafer
Chairman: Angelo Tantazzi

Privacy vs. Security: the Dilemmas Posed to the Western Free Societies by the Increased Concerns about Security
Panel: Franco Frattini, Stefano Rodotà, Nadine Strossen, Richard Thornburgh
Chairman: Gianni Riotta

American Politics after 9-11: a Neo-Conservative Moment?

Keynote Speaker: William Kristol

The New Geo-Political Outlook of the Middle East: the Role of Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey
Panel: Gilles Kepel, Bernard Lewis, Edward L. Morse, Stefano Silvestri
Chairman: Shireen T. Hunter

The New Geo-Political Outlook of Europe: Russia and the two Enlargements
Panel: Giancarlo Aragona, Robert E. Hunter, Karl Kaiser, Grigory A. Yavlinsky
Chairman: Sergio Romano

Corporate Governance after a Critical Phase
Panel : Mario Cuomo, Alexander Schaub, Luigi Spaventa, Paul Volcker
Chairman: Massimo Gaggi

State and Prospects of European Integration on the Eve of the Italian Presidency of the Union
Panel: Enrico Letta, Riccardo Perissich, Charles Ries, Werner Weidenfeld
Chairman: Quentin Peel

The State of Trans-Atlantic Relations
Panel: John Bolton, Dominique Moisi, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Joseph Galli Jr.
Chairman: Michael Stürmer

Keynote Speakers: Pier Ferdinando Casini, Rocco Buttiglione, James Hoge

The Growing Costs of an Aging Society. Public and Private Roles in Developing a Sustainable System
Panel: Tito Boeri, John Joyce, Karl Lauterbach, Alicia Munnell
Chairman: Reginald Dale

The United States in an Election Year
Panel: Jim Hoagland
Chairman: Michael Calingaert

A Wider Europe: Economic, Institutional and Geopolitical Consequences
Panel: Jim Hoagland
Chairman: Michael Calingaert

State Building and Burden Sharing in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and the Middle East
Panel: Carl Bildt, Philip Gordon, Antonio Martino, Adrian Zaccaria
Chairman: Gianni Riotta

The State of Transatlantic Relations: an American View

Keynote Speakers: Chuck Hagel, Franco Frattini, Jeffrey Shafer

The Impact of Immigration in the United States and Europe
Panel: Franco Frattini, Demetrios Papademetriou, Franco Pittau, Rita Süssmuth
Chairman: Lucia Annunziata

America Committed and Divided
Keynote Speaker: William Schneider

China and India: the Next Superpowers?
Panel: Gianpietro Benedetti, Robert Blackwill, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Fei-Ling Wang
Chairman: Philip Stephens

Seizing Opportunities in the Middle East: Iraq, Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Panel: James Dobbins, Dominique Moïsi, Francesco Rutelli
Chairman: Serge Schmemann

Europe after the British Elections and the French and Dutch Referenda

Keynote Speakers: Sergio Romano, Giorgio La Malfa

Business and the Arts
Panel: Davide Croff, Andrea Kerbaker, Glenn Lowry, James Sitrick
Chairman: Gianluigi Gabetti

Keynote Speaker: Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Dealing with High Oil Prices and Natural Gas Shortages in an Uncertain Global Energy Outlook
Panel: Lee Raymond, Paolo Scaroni, Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Alison Smale
Chairman: Philip Stephens

Towards a New Media World
Panel: Paolo Gentiloni, Johannes Mohn, Eli Noam, Marco Tronchetti Provera
Chairman: Bill Schneider

Italy after the Elections
Panel: Vittorio Merloni, Pier Carlo Padoan, Umberto Ranieri
Chairman: Moisés Naím

Keynote Speakers: Jim Hoagland, Bernd Pfaffenbach, Strobe Talbott

Energy Consumption and the Environment. Global Warming or Hot Air at the Next G8?
Panel : Frank Loy, Jessica Mathews, Umberto Quadrino, Hermann Scheer
Chairman: Philip Stephens

The Troika of the World Economy: are Asia, Europe and U.S. Pulling in the Same Direction?
Panel: Nicholas Donofrio, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Mario Monti, Anjan Roy
Chairman: Richard Gardner

A Critical Biennium in the Transatlantic Relationship: from a New President in France to the Spring 2009 European Elections via the 2008 U.S. National Elections.
Panel: Daniel Benjamin, Dominique Moïsi, Renato Ruggiero, Matthias Wissmann
Chairman: Alison Smale

Keynote Speakers: Massimo D’Alema, John Hulsman, Nancy Soderberg

Post-conflict Reconstruction: Can the Task Be Accomplished?
Panel : Paddy Ashdown, Barbara Contini, Alastair McKechnie, Karin Von Hippel
Chairman: Lilli Gruber

The Hot Peace with Russia
Panel: Rosario Alessandrello, Fraser Cameron, Yegor Gaidar, Mark Medish
Chairman: Sergio Romano

The Internet’s Impact on Global Public Opinion and Politics
Panel: Arturo Artom, Bob Boorstin, Derrick de Kerckhove, Stefan Kornelius
Chairman: Roger Cohen

Keynote Speakers: Joseph Biden, Richard Burt, Franco Frattini, Sergio Marchionne