The 40th St. Gallen Symposium

6–7 May 2010


Entrepreneurs – Agents of Change

Programme: Friday, 8 May 2009
08:30–15:30
16:15–17:45
18:30–20:00

Keynote Sessions  
08:30–15:30
08:30–08:35
Chairman's Statement
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (GB)
Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
08:35–08:50
Market Economy and Globalisation – Two Pillars Under Threat
Yuzaburo Mogi (JP)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Kikkoman Corporation
09:05–10:10
Resisting Economic Nationalism – A Plea for Free and Open Markets
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr. (US)
Chief Executive Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited

Joseph Hogan (US)
Chief Executive Officer, ABB Ltd.
10:10–11:00
BREAK
11:00–12:15
Award Ceremony of the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award and Panel with the Awardees
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Georg F. von Krogh (NO)
Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
12:15
LUNCH
14:00–14:05
Chairman's Statement
Mark C. Medish (DK/US)
Visiting Scholar, Senior Adviser, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
14:05–15:00
Geoeconomics and Energy Security
Dr. Wulf H. Bernotat (DE)
Chief Executive Officer, E.ON AG

Dr. Joseph A. Stanislaw (US)
Founder, The JAStanislaw Group LLC
15:00–15:20
The Role of Incentives in the World Financial Crisis
Prof. Dr. Robert John Aumann (IL)
Center for Rationality and Department of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Work Sessions (Parallel)  
16:15–17:45
12)
The Financial Crisis – How We Got Here and Where We Are Headed
Misha Glenny (GB)
Author

Mark C. Medish (DK/US)
Visiting Scholar, Senior Adviser, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
13)
Finding The Right Balance: The Future of Financial Regulation in a Global Market
Kathleen L. Casey (US)
Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
14)
Wege auch aus der Medienkrise
Hans Demmel (DE)
Chief Executive Officer, n-tv
15)
Short and Medium-Term Response of the Automotive Supplier Industry to the Global Economic Crisis
Hans-Georg Härter (DE)
Chief Executive Officer, ZF Group
16)
Ökonomische und politische Grenzen in den europäisch-chinesischen Beziehungen
Prof. Dr. MEI Zhaorong (CN)
Director, Institute of World Development Research (IWD), Development Research Center of State Council of China (DRC)
17)
What Kind of Transport and Logistics Services Are Needed in a Global World That Is Losing Its Centre of Gravity?
Monika Ribar (CH)
President & Chief Executive Officer, Panalpina Welttransport (Holding) AG
18)
No Borders to Innovation
Olaf Swantee (NL)
Senior Executive Vice President, Personal, Europe & Egypt, Orange
19)
Successful Aircraft Financing – How Governments Can Support the Industry in Hard Times
Harald Wilhelm (DE)
Chief Financial Officer, Airbus

Chairman: Andreas Klasen (DE)
Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers AG
20)
Student Perspective on the Revival of Political and Economic Boundaries
Student Participants will present their views on the topic as a result of their outstanding contributions to the
St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award

Chairman: Peter Day (GB)
Business Correspondent, BBC News
Special Sessions (Parallel)  
18:30–20:00
D)
Public Special Session
Great Game or Great Bluff? On the Revival of Geopolitics


Katinka Barysch (DE)
Deputy Director, Centre for European Reform

Parag Khanna (US)
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation & Director, Global Governance Initiative

Chairperson: Vendeline von Bredow (CH/DE)
Business Correspondent, The Economist
E)
World in Recession – Implications for Asia

Dr. Urs Buchmann (CH)
Managing Director, Head China Corporate Banking, Credit Suisse

Prof. Dr. Takatoshi Ito (JP)
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

Pawan Munjal (IN)
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Hero Honda Motors Ltd.

Chairman: Peter Day (GB)
Business Correspondent, BBC News


The official programme will be followed by the International Buffet.
Notes

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