Agenda and Participants

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Friday, February 12, 2016

03.00 p.m.

Welcome Remarks

Wolfgang Ischinger
Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich

03.05 p.m. – 03.45 p.m.

Opening Statements

Ursula von der Leyen
Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin

Jean-Yves Le Drian
Minister of Defence, French Republic, Paris

03.45 p.m. – 04.45 p.m.

Special Address by His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan

King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein
King, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Amman

Intermission

Statements

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Kabul

Haider Al-Abadi
Prime Minister, Republic of Iraq, Baghdad

Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

04.45 p.m. – 05.45 p.m.

Panel Discussion

"Daeshing" Terror and Safeguarding Liberties

James R. Clapper
Director of National Intelligence, United States of America, McLean, VA

Robert Hannigan
Director, Government Communications Headquarters, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Cheltenham

Robert Antonius Cornelis Bertholee
Head, General Intelligence and Security Service, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Zoetermeer

Gerhard Conrad
Director, EU Intelligence Analysis and Situation Centre, European External Action Service, Brussels

Moderator: Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY

05.45 p.m. – 05.50 p.m.

Comment

"Daeshing" Terror and the Role of the Internet

Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Mountain View, CA

06.15 p.m. – 06.45 p.m.

Statements

Federica Mogherini
Vice President of the European Commission and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, European Union, Brussels

Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran

06.45 p.m. – 07.45 p.m.

Panel Discussion

Refuge Refused? The EU and the Migrant Crisis

Peter Altmeier
Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey, Ankara

Bert Koenders
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague

Paolo Gentiloni
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Italian Republic, Rome

William Lacy Swing
Director General, International Organization for Migration, Geneva

Moderator: Christiane Amanpour
Chief International Correspondent, CNN, Atlanta, GA

06.15 p.m. – 07.15 p.m.

07.45 p.m. – 10.00 p.m.

10.15 p.m. – 11.15 p.m.

Panel Discussion

Trade, Prosperity and Security

Michael Froman
Ambassador, Trade Representative, United States of America, Washington, D.C.

Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Director, Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission, European Union, Brussels

Friedrich Merz
Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke e.V., Berlin

Mauro Vieira
Minister of External Relations, Federative Republic of Brazil, Brasilia

Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President, Republic of Estonia, Tallinn

Moderator: Philip Stephens
Associate Editor, Financial Times, London

Reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Munich

Welcome: Dieter Reiter
Lord Mayor, City of Munich

Night Owl Session: The Plot Sickens – The Health-Security Nexus

Introduction: Joanne Liu
International President, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva

Introduction: Christopher Elias
President, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

Hanna Serwaah Tetteh
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Republic of Ghana, Accra

David M. Rodriguez
General, Commander, United States African Command, Stuttgart

James L. Jones
General (ret.); former National Security Advisor of the United States of America; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; President, Jones Group International, Washington, D.C.

Stefan Oschmann
President, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufactures & Associations; Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt

Rüdiger Krech
Director of Health Systems and Innovation, Office of the Assistant Director General, World Health Organization, Geneva

Moderator: Robin Niblett
Director, Chatham House, London

Saturday, February 13, 2016 Boundless Crises, Reckless Spoilers, Helpless Guardians? The State of the International Order
09.00 a.m. – 09.10 a.m.	Opening Statement Frank-Walter Steinmeier Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin; Chairperson-in-Office, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Berlin
09.10 a.m. – 09.30 a.m.	Opening Statement Jens Stoltenberg Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels
09.30 a.m. – 10.10 a.m.	Prime Ministers' Debate Manuel Valls Prime Minister, French Republic, Paris Dmitry A. Medvedev Prime Minister, Russian Federation, Moscow Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich

10.30 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.	Presidential Debate Petro Poroshenko President, Ukraine, Kyiv Sauli Niinistö President, Republic of Finland, Helsinki Dalia Grybauskaitė President, Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius Andrzej Duda President, Republic of Poland, Warsaw Martin Schulz President, European Parliament, Brussels Moderator: Ian Bremmer President and Founder, Eurasia Group, New York, NY


11.45 a.m. – 12.05 p.m.	Statement John F. Kerry Secretary of State, United States of America, Washington, D.C.
12.05 p.m. – 01.00 p.m.	Foreign Ministers' Debate Frank-Walter Steinmeier Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin; Chairperson-in-Office, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Berlin Sergey V. Lavrov   Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, Moscow  Philip Hammond Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, London      Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger   Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich


03.00 p.m. – 04.30 p.m.	Panel Discussion Doubling Down? China and the International Order(s) Introduction: Fu Ying Chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the National People's Congress, People's Republic of China, Beijing Kevin Rudd Former Prime Minister of Australia; President, Asia Society Policy Institute, New York, NY Ng Eng Hen Minister of Defence, Republic of Singapore, Singapore Robert Corker Senator, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Fu Ying Chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the National People's Congress, People's Republic of China, Beijing Moderator: Sebastian Heilmann President, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Berlin

05.00 p.m. – 06.30 p.m.	Panel Discussion Between Reassurance and Reengagement? The Future of NATO Introduction: Klaus Iohannis President, Romania, Bucharest Erna Solberg Prime Minister, Kingdom of Norway, Oslo Michael Fallon Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, London Peter Hultqvist Minister of Defence, Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm Witold Waszczykowski Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland, Warsaw Petr Pavel General, Chairman, NATO Military Committee, Brussels Moderator: R. Nicholas Burns Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
05.00 p.m. – 06.30 p.m.	Panel Discussion Climate and Energy Security: Is the Heat Still on? Ilham Aliyev President, Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku Maroš Šefčovič Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Energy Union, European Union, Brussels Sheldon Whitehouse Senator, Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States of America; Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change and the Bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus, Washington, D.C. Oliver Bäte Chief Executive Officer, Allianz SE; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich Security Conference, Munich Kumi Naidoo Former Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam Moderator: Melinda Crane Chief Political Correspondent, Deutsche Welle, Berlin
05.00 p.m. – 06.30 p.m.	Panel Discussion Towards Further Euro-Atlantic Integration? Introduction: George Soros Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations; Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich Security Conference, New York, NY Gjorge Ivanov President, Macedonia, Skopje Borut Pahor President, Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana Kolinda Grabar Kitarović President, Republic of Croatia, Zagreb Milo Djukanović Prime Minister, Montenegro, Podgorica Giorgi Kvirikashvili Prime Minister, Georgia, Tbilise Moderator: Sebastian Kurz Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Republic of Austria; Chairperson-in-Office 2017, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Vienna
08.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m.	State Dinner hosted by the Minister-President of the Free State of Bavaria Welcome: Horst Seehofer Minister-President, Free State of Bavaria, Munich Laudatio: Jan Eliasson Deputy Secretary General, United Nations, New York, NY Laureate: Laurent Fabius Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic; President, COP21, Paris
10.30 p.m. – 11.30 p.m.	Night Cap Session The Future of Warfare: Race with the Machines Rose Gottemoeller Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Alexander Grushko Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO, Brussels Thomas Rid Professor of Security Studies, King's College, London James Stavridis Admiral (ret.); former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich Security Conference, Medford, MA Kenneth Roth Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY Moderator: Espen Barth Eide Head of Geopolitical Affairs, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway, Geneva

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Africa: Keeping P(e)ace

09.00 a.m. – 09.15 a.m.

Opening Statement

Kofi Annan
Former Secreaty General of the United Nations; Chairman, Kofi Annan Foundation; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2001, Geneva

09.15 a.m. – 09.25 a.m.

Comment

Salil Shetty
Secretary General, Amnesty International, London

09.25 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.

Panel Discussion

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
President, Federal Republic of Somalia, Mogadishu

Youssef Amrani
Minister in Charge of Mission at the Royal Cabinet, Kingdom of Morocco; former Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Rabat

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

Jean-Marie Guéhenno
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Crisis Group; former Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations; Member of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project, New York, NY

Smail Chergui
Commissioner for Peace and Security, African Union, Addis Ababa

Chairman: Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Chairman, Tana High Level Forum, Lagos

Human Plight – Out of Sight?

09.00 a.m. – 09.10 a.m.

Opening Statement

Fatou Bensouda
Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague

09.10 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.

Panel Discussion

Tammam Salam
President of the Council of Ministers, Republic of Lebanon, Beirut

Ine Eriksen Søreide
Minister of Defence, Kingdom of Norway, Oslo

Filippo Grandi
High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations, Geneva

Anne-Marie Slaughter
President and Chief Executive Officer, New America, Washington, D.C.

Roula Khalaf
Deputy Editor, The Financial Times, London

Moderator: Jane Harman
President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Member of the Advisory Council, Munich Security Conference, Washington, D.C.

Growing Rifts, Power Shifts? The New Geopolitics of the Middle East

11.00 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.	Statement John McCain Senator, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States of America, Washington, D.C.
11.15 a.m. – 12.15 p.m.	Panel Discussion Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar, Doha Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Riyadh Norbert Röttgen Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, German Bundestag, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, Berlin John McCain Senator, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Comment: Riad Hijab Former Prime Minister of Syria; Head of the High Negotiation Committee, Syrian Opposition Movement, Riyadh Moderator: Lyse Doucet Chief International Correspondent, BBC, London
12.15 p.m. – 12.30 p.m.	Final Comment Moshe Yaalon Minister of Defence, State of Israel, Jerusalem Moderator: Lyse Doucet Chief International Correspondent, BBC, London
12.30 p.m.	Closing Remarks Wolfgang Ischinger Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Munich