The World Economic Forum Global Redesign Summit

World Economic Forum Global Redesign Summit

Doha, Qatar 30-31 May 2010

Preliminary Programme

Sunday 30 May

12.00 - 13.15

Sheraton - Plenary Hall

principles for change

Plenary Session

Renovating the International System

When states were the overwhelmingly dominant actors on the world stage and major policy decisions were commonly decided by a limited group of them, progress on international cooperation tended to be measured by the establishment of new intergovernmental legal frameworks and institutions.

Reflecting our more complex, interdependent world, how can other potential dimensions of cooperation be more fully exploited, including practical, results-oriented coalitions, better information systems, strengthened existing institutions and more systematic integration of non-governmental expertise and resources?

This session is on the record.

13.15 - 14.45

Sheraton

Networking Lunch

14.45 - 16.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 2

Interactive Sessions in Parallel

development context

Rethinking Development Cooperation

With half the world's population now living in cities and nearly an equal number of people continuing to live in abject poverty, holistic development solutions are no longer optional but essential.

What are the conditions and priorities - the context - driving the rethinking of development paradigms?

This session, which includes GRI Rapporteurs and other selected participants, sets the stage for the discussions of the Global Redesign Summit, providing participants with an overall context and key priorities in the area of development.

14.45 - 16.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 1

economic context

Rethinking Economic Cooperation

At the national and international levels, major questions remain about the sustainability of economic recovery despite the palliative effect of major stimulus packages and enhanced international liquidity.

What are the conditions and priorities - the context - driving the rethinking of economic paradigms?

This session provides a thematic overview by Global Redesign Initiative Rapporteurs.

14.45 - 16.00

Sheraton - Al Maha

security context

Rethinking Security Cooperation

Efforts to adapt institutions to address global risks in the post-Cold War era have so far failed and there remains no obvious replacement to the dominant security role of the US, which accounts for half of the world's military spending.

What are the conditions and priorities - the context - driving the rethinking of security paradigms?

This session provides a thematic overview by Global Redesign Initiative Rapporteurs.

14.45 - 16.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 3

sustainability context

Rethinking Sustainability Cooperation

As the world moves from 6 to 9 billion inhabitants, the challenges associated with this shift in respect of water, food, energy and carbon emissions are daunting, to say the least.

What are the conditions and priorities - the context - driving the rethinking of sustainability paradigms?

This session provides a thematic overview by Global Redesign Initiative Rapporteurs.

16.00 - 16.15

Sheraton

Contact Break

16.15 - 17.45

Sheraton - Al Salwa 1

Brainstorming Sessions in Parallel

financial stability

Rebuild In Depth: Financial Stability

Issue: The international financial system needs to become more resilient to major shocks.

Agenda:

1) What key structural improvements in international governance and cooperation are needed to make the international financial system more "fail safe"?

2) How could a global institution be designed to fulfil the role of watchdog on financial stability issues?

3) How might systematically relevant data be aggregated and analysed across the financial system to raise transparency and provide a base for action in crises?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

16.15 - 17.45

Sheraton - Al Salwa 2

health

Rebuild In Depth: Health

Issue: In the past decade, global health cooperation has seen a dramatic increase in resources and innovation. However, specific structural improvements are needed to strengthen the coordination of public health efforts around the world in view of the related proliferation of actors.

Agenda

1) How can health risk metrics be developed and applied broadly in order to improve the effectiveness of health policy?

2) How should the international community organize itself to combat chronic disease?

3) How can governments and companies work more closely together to reduce malnutrition in children under the age of two in developing countries?

4) Which international institutions need to be strengthened to tackle the issue of population growth?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

This session provides an opportunity to discuss the core questions and build on key issues and general principles identified in the session "Rethinking Development Cooperation".

16.15 - 17.45

Sheraton - Al Maha

low carbon growth

Rebuild In Depth: Low-Carbon Growth

Issue: The United Nations Bali Action Plan called for international cooperation to help developing countries develop and implement Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in the context of sustainable development. Under the Copenhagen Accord, actions of this nature seeking international support will be recorded in a registry along with relevant technology, finance and capacity building support.

Agenda:

1) How can the process by which developing countries develop their low-carbon plans be effectively linked to the identification of financing arrangements and technologies?

2) How can the capacity for climate change mitigation be strengthened through public-private exchange of best practices, lessons learned, and technologies?

3) How can coalitions of like-minded countries, provinces, states and cities help making progress on specific issues such as forest-based mechanisms for climate change mitigation?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

16.15 - 17.30

Sheraton - Al Majlis

Interactive Session

security

Redesign Principles: Security Architecture

How should the existing international security architecture, including UN institutions and regional arrangements, be upgraded to meet contemporary challenges?

This session examines the design principles and building blocks needed to strengthen international security cooperation in a more interdependent world.

17.45 - 18.15

Sheraton

Contact Break

18.15 - 18.45

Sheraton - Plenary Hall

opening remarks

Plenary Session

Opening Remarks

This session is on the record.

· H.H. Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar

Chaired by

· Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

18.45 - 19.30

Sheraton - Plenary Hall

opening plenary

Plenary Session

The Global Redesign Imperative

There is strong demand, shared across cultures and stakeholders, for a more effective cooperative response to an expanding list of global challenges.

How can the international system be adapted to these new conditions, fostering a greater degree of collaboration across issues and building legitimacy and effectiveness going forward?

This session is on the record.

20.30 - 23.30

Sheraton - Gardens

Cultural Night

Monday 31 May

08.30 - 10.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 1

Brainstorming Sessions in Parallel

employment

Rebuild In Depth: Employment and Migration

Issue: The recent economic crisis has left many countries with major, protracted increases in unemployment. At the same time, numerous industrialized countries are projected to experience labour force shortages due to demographic change, while developing countries struggle to find jobs for their increasingly educated populations.

Agenda:

1) How can countries boost the employment intensity of economic recovery?

2) How might win-win migration arrangements among developed and developing countries be stimulated through international cooperation?

3) How might the international community provide more effective support to countries wishing to create or expand basic pension, health and anti-poverty insurance programmes?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

08.30 - 10.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 3

energy governance

Rebuild In Depth: Energy Governance

Issue: Global energy governance is highly fragmented, despite its emergence in the past decade as a critical concern for most economies due to the fact that economic development and population growth are expected to double energy demand over the next 30 years.

Agenda:

1) How might a more inclusive Global Energy Forum to improve international energy cooperation be designed and launched?

2) How can global industry cooperation on energy efficiency and renewable energy be strengthened?

3) How can the related challenge of water scarcity be better managed?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

08.30 - 10.00

Sheraton - Al Maha

human rights

Rebuild In Depth: Human Rights and Protection

Issue: In recent years, the international community has devoted greater attention to preventing mass atrocities, but the new frameworks that have been developed in this regard are still in the early stages of implementation.

Agenda:

1) What improvements in international cooperation would be most effective in preventing gross human rights violations?

2) How can institutional capacity for human rights monitoring and crisis-prevention be strengthened globally and nationally?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

08.30 - 09.45

Sheraton - Al Majlis

Interactive Session

development

Redesign Principles: Development Cooperation

How can the formal or informal architecture of development cooperation be improved to strengthen poverty alleviation in the new context?

This panel session provides an opportunity to discuss the general principles that should guide development cooperation. It builds on the priorities identified in the Report of the Global Redesign Initiative and in the session on "Rethinking Development Cooperation" and connects them to specific projects discussed in the various deep-dive sessions.

10.00 - 10.30

Sheraton

Contact Break

10.30 - 12.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 2

Brainstorming Sessions in Parallel

education

Rebuild In Depth: Education

Issue: Education is one of the most important ways in which countries have succeeded in broadening social participation in a growing national economy.

Agenda:

1) What specific improvements can be made in the Education for All architecture and the global push to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults?

2) How can the international community help countries extend the reach and capacity of their higher education systems?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

This session provides an opportunity to discuss the core questions and build on key issues and general principles identified in the sessions "Rethinking Development Cooperation" and "Redesign Principles: Development Cooperation".

10.30 - 12.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 3

global risks

Rebuild In Depth: Global Risks

Issue: Global risks are intensifying, while the global community remains reactive and no overarching global institution exists to address and manage such risks.

Agenda:

1) What improvements in international cooperation could enhance the international community's capacity to understand and respond pre-emptively to global risks?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

10.30 - 12.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 1

monetary systems

Rebuild In Depth: Monetary System Reform

Issue: The financial crisis has highlighted longstanding weaknesses in the international monetary system, including an asymmetry in the pressures on surplus and deficit countries to adjust, and the absence of a viable multilateral lender of last resort.

Agenda:

1) How can a "global financial safety net" encompassing multilateral, regional and bilateral arrangements be coordinated and strengthened?

2) What improvements in international governance and cooperation would be most helpful in advancing an international monetary system that facilitates smoother adjustment in economic imbalances?

3) How might these mechanisms be designed to provide greater protection for countries against speculative attacks on their currencies?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

10.30 - 11.45

Sheraton - Al Majlis

Interactive Session

sustainability

Redesign Principles: Environmental Governance

How should the legacy of the achievements of the landmark 1992 Rio conference be built upon and what corresponding structural upgrades would be needed in international environmental cooperation?

This session examines the design principles and building blocks needed to strengthen international cooperation in a more interdependent world.

12.00 - 13.30

Sheraton

Networking Lunch

13.30 - 15.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 3

Brainstorming Sessions in Parallel

climate finance

Rebuild In Depth: Climate Finance

Issue: Accelerating clean growth requires a dimensional step change in capital investment for low-carbon infrastructure, since global investment in clean energy must reach US$ 500 billion per year if the world is to see energy-related CO2 emissions peak by 2020.

Agenda:

1) How should public financing tools be used effectively to leverage private investment?

2) How can the climate impact of public-private financing mechanisms be measured and assessed?

3) How can these mechanisms be aligned with other elements of the global institutional architecture such as carbon trading?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

13.30 - 15.00

Sheraton - Al Maha

democratic legitimacy

Rebuild In Depth: Legitimacy and International Institutions

Issue: The voting structures and leadership selection processes of many international institutions have yet to adapt fully to shifts in economic and political influence. In addition, a more educated and informed global population as well as increased cross-border travel, communication and virtual interaction are leading to greater citizen involvement in global affairs.

Agenda:

1) What key improvements in international governance and cooperation can be undertaken to strengthen the democratic legitimacy and accountability of international institutions in view of this changing context?

2) How might international institutions and partnerships utilize new electronic interactive technologies to strengthen citizen engagement and accountability?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

13.30 - 15.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 2

fragile states

Rebuild In Depth: Humanitarian Assistance and Fragile States

Issue: Development and humanitarian challenges, such as provision of basic public goods to fragile states and disaster risk reduction and response, are more suited to regional than global approaches to cooperation.

Agenda:

1) How can aid to fragile states be enhanced through transparent management of financial systems, inclusive developmental programmes and dual-oversight mechanisms where responsibility is shared between state authorities and external funders?

2) How might countries improve their resilience in relation to natural disasters by engaging local private sector and NGOs competencies?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

13.30 - 15.00

Sheraton - Al Salwa 1

international trading system

Rebuild In Depth: International Trading System

Issue: The multilateral trading system and World Trade Organization are being challenged as trade liberalization is increasingly taking place outside the context of WTO negotiations: some 462 regional trading agreements have been notified to the WTO up to February 2010, up from about 30 in the early 1990s.

Agenda:

1) In addition to the successful completion of the Doha Development Agenda, how might the multilateral system be strengthened?

2) How should variable geometry and countries' concern for maintaining policy space be reflected in the WTO framework?

3) How should overlapping regional and bilateral trading agreements be dealt with?

4) How might the international trade and energy communities work together to create a Sustainable Energy Free Trade Area (SEFTA) framework to help accelerate progress on global warming?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

13.30 - 14.45

Sheraton - Al Majlis

Interactive Session

values

Redesign Principles: Values Framework

How can the political constituency for international cooperation be expanded by cultivating a shift in values within societies and professions based on a better appreciation of the implications of global interdependence for the achievement of their objectives?

This session examines the design principles and building blocks needed to strengthen international cooperation in a more interdependent world.

15.00 - 15.15

Sheraton

Contact Break

15.15 - 16.45

Sheraton - Al Salwa 2

Brainstorming Sessions in Parallel

legal regulatory environment

Rebuild In Depth: Legal Regulatory Environment

Issue: While there has been a much stronger emphasis on governance over the past decade, this degree of accentuation has not been reflected in a commensurate institutional capacity building assistance in relation to the economic rule of law and private sector development.

Agenda:

1) What innovations in international cooperation hold the most promise for helping developing countries to strengthen economic institutions, legal frameworks and private sector development?

2) How can barriers to the application of Intellectual Property for development and humanitarian uses be reduced?

3) How can the problem of corruption be tackled more vigorously from the (business) side?

4) How could the fair distribution of costs, benefits, risks and responsibilities be strengthened in the exploitation of natural resources such as mining and metals?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

15.15 - 16.45

Sheraton - Al Salwa 3

oceans

Rebuild In Depth: Oceans

Issue: The inability to manage ocean resources stands among the greatest failures of international cooperation, particularly as oceans provide invaluable and irreplaceable services to humans, including biomass and oxygen production, climate regulation, heat storage and food security.

Agenda:

1) How can the Law of the Sea and other existing conventions be strengthened?

2) How can ocean health using transparent indices be measured?

3) How might fisheries be managed through a reform of subsidies and efficient market mechanisms?

4) How might marine biodiversity and ecosystem functions in Large Ocean Reserves be conserved?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

15.15 - 16.45

Sheraton - Al Maha

wmd proliferation

Rebuild In Depth: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Issue: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation regime is arguably under greater stress than at any time since the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force in 1970, as the number of states with nuclear capability is poised to grow significantly in the coming years.

Agenda:

1) What specific improvements in international governance and cooperation would be most helpful in advancing the goals of the NPT?

2) How might a Global Alliance against Nuclear Terrorism be designed and launched to ensure the security of all nuclear weapons and materials?

3) How can international cooperation on a secure civilian nuclear fuel cycle be improved?

Format:

Informal 90-minute session featuring expert briefings and facilitated group dialogue

15.15 - 16.30

Sheraton - Al Majlis

Interactive Session

economy

Redesign Principles: Global Growth

There is widespread agreement that the international community needs to undertake a complementary set of adjustments in national policies supported by improvements in international cooperation to rebalance the world economy and make it more inclusive and sustainable.

What are the most important improvements in international institutional architecture that would facilitate the necessary adjustment in national policies?

This session examines the design principles and building blocks needed to strengthen international cooperation in a more interdependent world.

16.45 - 17.00

Sheraton

Contact Break

17.00 - 18.00

Sheraton - Plenary Hall

closing

Plenary Session

A Framework for the Future

Many global challenges are deeply interrelated. Progress on one depends on achieving progress on others.

What are the possible initiatives or mechanisms to mobilize systemwide progress across different individual challenges?

This session is on the record.

18.00 - 19.30

Farewell Reception

Participants and their spouses are cordially invited to a farewell reception.