Monday 17 November
OPENING
Addresses by:
Jose Trinidad Padilla, Director of the Institute of Innovation and Governance, University of Guadalajara
Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD
Beatriz Paredes, President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Vice-President of the Socialist International
George Papandreou, President of the Socialist International
FIRST MAIN THEME
The return of politics: the critical role of government and regulatory frameworks in securing a sustainable and fair global economy
Alfred Gusenbauer, Chancellor of Austria; SI Vice-President
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Founder of the Party of Democratic Revolution, Mexico; and Honorary President of the Socialist International
Ousmane Tanor Dieng, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, PS, Senegal
Massimo D’Alema, Former Prime Minister of Italy, DS; SI Vice-President
Eero Heinäluoma, Social Democratic Party, Finland; SI Vice-President
Manuel Laguarda, Socialist Party, Uruguay, and SI Vice-President
Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero, Socialist Spokesperson on the Parliamentary Economic Commission, member of the Federal Executive Commission of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE
Closure of first session
FIRST MAIN THEME continued
Christoph Zöpel, Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Sue van der Merwe, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, African National Congress, ANC, South Africa
Nikolay Levichev, Leader of the A Just Russia Party parliamentary group
Juliao Mateus Paulo, Secretary General of MPLA, Angola, and SI Vice-President
Victor Benoît, Leader of the Union of Haitian Social Democrats and SI Vice-President
Carlos Vieira da Cunha, SI Vice-President, Leader of the Democratic Labour Party, PDT, Brazil; Member of Parliament and SI Vice-President
Samuel Santos, Minister for Foreign Affairs, FSLN, Nicaragua
Philip Cordery, Secretary General of the Party of European Socialists, PES
Hager Cherif, Deputy General Secretary of the Constitutional Democratic Assembly, RCD, Tunisia
Jesus Rodriguez, Radical Civic Union, UCR, Argentina
Paulo Pisco, Socialist Party, PS, Portugal
Javier Guerrero, Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico
Juan Carlos Zabalza, Senator, Socialist Party, Argentina
Mauricio Mulder, General Secretary of the Peruvian Aprista Party, PAP
Yiannikis Omirou, President of the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK
SECOND MAIN THEME
New opportunities for international cooperation and multilateralism following the U.S. elections
Frank Llewellyn, National Director, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, United States
Meg Munn, Member of Parliament, Labour Party, Great Britain
Juan Fernando López Aguilar, President of the Parliamentary Commission for Public Administration, Secretary General of the PSC-PSOE; former Minister of Justice, Spain
Hakan Juholt, Secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP
Pascal Affi N’Guessan, President of the Ivorian Popular Front, Côte d'Ivoire, FPI; SI Vice-President
Gustavo Carvajal, Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico
Closure of second session
Tuesday 18 November
Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and a Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Climate Change, Co-Chair of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society
Lourdes Quinones, Vice-President of Socialist International Women, SIW, PRI, Mexico
PANEL
Working for social justice, inclusion and community in emerging and developing economies: priorities and innovative approaches
Amalia Garcia, Governor of the State of Zacatecas, PRD, Mexico
Miguel Angel Ibarra, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, National Union for Hope, UNE, Guatemala
Paulo Jorge Teixera, MPLA, Angola
Gerardo Morris, Peruvian Aprista Party, PAP
Placido Mico Abogo, General Secretary, CPDS, Equatorial Guinea; SI Vice-President
Addressing inequality and enhancing regional cooperation: the perspective from Latin America and the Caribbean
Piero Fassino, National Secretary of the Democrats of the Left, DS, Italy
Sigfrido Reyes, Member of Parliament, FMLN, El Salvador