Summit Leaders
PM
Jean Chretien President V. Fox
President Bush President Lagos
THE FUTURE OF On November 2,3,2009 four distinguished former leaders, Jean Chretien(Canada), George W. Bush (USA), Vicente Fox(Mexico) and Ricardo Lagos (Chile), will lead a distinguished group of some 200 senior academics, businessmen and government officials from Mexico, Canada and the United States who will meet in Toronto to discuss vital issues for the Future of North America.
Agenda
8:00 am Breakfast with Fox, Bush and Chretien : Invited guests ONLY
9:00 am - 9:30 am North America Matters
Opening Statements by: President Vicente Fox of Mexico(C)
President
George Bush of the United States(C)
Prime Minister
Jean Chretien of Canada(C)
President
Ricardo Lagos Escobar of Chile (C)
9:30 am - 9:45 am Welcome: Senator Trevor Eyton (C)
9:45 am - 11:00 am A Case for North America
Moderator: Dr. Peter Appleton, President The Commission on North American Prosperity(C)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robert Pastor, Founder and Director, North American Center, American University, Washington, DC (I)
Respondents:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Global Economic Challenges and the Implications for North America
Moderator: Steven Blank, Co-Chair of the North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council (C)
Panel: Dr. Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party and Opposition leader , Parliament of Canada
Rafael Fernandez de Castro, Presidential Advisor for International
Affairs and Competitiveness and founder and head of the Department of
International Studies at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
(ITAM). (C)
Georgina Baker, Director Global Financial markets, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Washington, DC (I)
LUNCH
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Environment and Climate Change: North America and Global Negotiations
Keynote Speaker: President Ricardo Lagos Escobar of Chile and co-chair of the Global
Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA) (C)
Moderator: Shannon Flint , Director of Strategic Policy and Innovation with the Oil Sands Environmental Management Division in Alberta Environment. (I)
Panel: Gerry Butts, President and CEO of WWF-Canada. (I)
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm Global Energy Challenges and the Implications for North American
Moderator: Mr. Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan (I)
Panel: Canada Greg Stringham,Vice President , Canadian Association of Oil Producers (I)
Mexico Dr. Duncan Wood, professor at ITAM and director of Red Mexicana de Energia (C)
Break
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 2:00 - 3:45 Future of Global Trade and Implications to North America
Introduction: Idalia Obregon , President Mexico- Canada Chamber of Commerce, Toronto, Canada (C)
Keynote Speaker: Honorable Stockwell Day, Canadian Minister of International Trade (I)
Moderator: Respondents: Juan Gutierrez , President Xela Corp. Toronto, Canada (C)
Joel Velasco Chief Representative in North America of Brazil's Sugar Cane Industry Association (C)
Albert Zapanta , President United States- Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC (C)
Break
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm EVENING COCKTAIL with
President Fox (C)
President Bush (C)
Prime Minister Chretien (C)
President Ricardo Lagos Escobar of Chile (C)
Moderator: Howard Green, Anchor Business News Network, Toronto, Canada (C)
Questions and Answers:
Special Awards Ceremony: North American Prosperity Fellows
Morning Session Tuesday November 3
Welcome and Opening Al Zapanta, President United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC. (C)
9:00 am - 10:30 am Innovation, Knowledge and Higher Education
Moderator: Lic. Antonio Leano Reyes Rector Universidad Autonomo de Guadalajara , Mexico (C)
Mr. Victor Garcia, Chief Technlogy Officer , Hewlett-Packard Canada (C)
Dr. Dan Papp, President, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA (C)
Dr. Mamdouh Shoukri, President and Vice Chancellor, York University, Toronto, Canada (I)
Mr. Antonio Jimenez, President Microtech, Viena , Virginia (C)
10:30 am - 12:00 am North American Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure Challenges
Moderator: Ms. Shirley-Anne George, Vice President Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Ottawa , Canada (C)
Keynote speaker: TBD
Respondants: Jose Zozaya , President Kansas City Southern Railroad, Mexico(C)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch "Strategies of Medical Sciences for North America: Avoiding a Pandemic"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roberto Trujillo of Mexico President, Pan-American Society of Neurovirology (PASNV) (C)
Washington, D.C. USA and former
Director of the National Institutes of Health Virology Center), MD PhD , Harvard, MIT.
Panel:
> Thomas Fox, Ph.D. Former Associate Dean of Graduate Education, Harvard Medical School
> Boston, MA. USA(C)
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> Jesus Ancer-Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D.Acting President, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
> Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico (C)>
> Ing. Margarita Solis-Hernandez, General Director, Instituto Jalisciese de Tecnologias de la Informacion, A.C. (IJALTI).
> Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (C)
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> Donald Bliss, M.A.,Professor of Medical Illustration, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
> Baltimore, MD, USA (C)
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