Morning Session, theme 1: Acting now on Climate Change to achieve a sustainable world society
Keynote speakers
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
Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden, Co-Chair of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society
Beatriz Paredes, President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, Mexico, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society
Eero Heinäluoma, Social Democratic Party, Finland
Ousmane Tanor Dieng, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, PS, Senegal, Chair of the Socialist International Africa Committee
Sue West, Australia Labor Party
Olav Akselsen, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Committee, Norwegian Labour Party, DNA
Elio Di Rupo, Minister of State, Leader of the Socialist Party, PS, Belgium, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society
Joseph Muscat, Leader of the Malta Labour Party
Ebrahim Ebrahim, Member of the National Executive Committee for International Affairs, African National Congress, ANC, South Africa
Afternoon Session, Panel One - How to arrive successfully at a post-2012 regime?
Cristina Narbona, former Minister of the Environment, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain, Member of the Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society
Sandip Dixsit, Member of Parliament, Indian National Congress, India
Alexa McDonough, Member of Parliament, former Leader of the New Democratic Party, Canada
Elenko Bozhkov, Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party, PBSD, Bulgaria, Secretary of Energy and Economic Committee
Alejandro Encinas, Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD, Mexico
Alejandro Sule, International Secretary, Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD, Chile
Rafael Michelini, Leader of the New Space party, Uruguay
Rolando Araya, Costa Rica
Paulo Pisco, International Department, Socialist Party, Portugal
Keynote speaker
Alfred Gusenbauer, Chancellor of Austria, Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPOe
Panel Two - How do we strengthen the multilateral architecture for a sustainable future?
Carol Browner, Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton, Member of Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society
Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the Council of the Russian Federation, Chair of the Party for a Just Russia, Member of Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society
Zhang Zhijun, Vice-Minister of China
Jesús Caldera, former Minister of Employment and Social Affairs, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain
Theme II: Working for a World in Peace, to resolve conflicts and overcome instability
Keynote speakers
Mona Sahlin, Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP
H.E. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, Leader of Fatah
Ehud Barak, Minister of Defence, Leader of the Israeli Labour Party
Yossi Beilin, Member of the Knesset, Meretz -Yachad, Israel
Mustafa Barghouti, Leader of the Palestinian National Initiative, PNI
Keynote speaker
H.E. Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq, Leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
Mohamed Abdellah, Secretary for International Relations, National Democratic Party, NDP, Egypt
Jonas Gahr Store, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Labour Party, DNA, and Co-Chair of the SI Middle East Committee
Piero Fassino, National Secretary of Democrats of the Left, DS, Italy, and Co-Chair of the SI Middle East Committee
Walid Jumblatt, Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, PSP, Lebanon
Sergei Stanishev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP , Co-Chair of SI Committee for South-Eastern Europe
Asif Ali Zardari, Co-Chair of the Pakistan People’s Party
Yiannikis Omirou, Chair of the Movement of Social Democrats EDEK, Cyprus
Mircea Geoana, Leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party, Co-Chair of the SI Committee for South-Eastern Europe
Afternoon session
Boris Tadic, President of Serbia, leader of the Democratic Party, DS
Ranko Krivokapic, Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro, leader of the Social Democratic Party
Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Japan
Denis MacShane, Member of Parliament, Labour Party, Great Britain
Alfonso Gómez Méndez, Secretary for International Affairs, Liberal Party, Colombia
Pascal Affi N’Guessan, Leader of the Ivorian Popular Front, FPI, Côte d’Ivoire
José Lello, President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, International Secretary, Socialist Party, Portugal
Sebahat Tuncel, Member of Parliament, International Secretary, Democratic Society Party, DTP, Turkey
Henry Ramos, President of Democratic Action, AD, Venezuela
Obed Bapela, National Executive Committee, African National Congress, ANC, South Africa
Wednesday 2 July
Panel - Struggling for democracy to eradicate national conflict
John Fru Ndi, leader of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, Cameroon
Tint Swe, National League for Democracy, Burma
Yassin Saeed Noaman, Secretary General of the Yemeni Socialist Party
Manuel Rosales, Leader of Un Nuevo Tiempo, Venezuela
Other contributions
Sher Bahadur Deuba, Former Prime Minister, Nepali Congress Party
Theme IV: Giving Migration a Human Face, to build a new migration agenda placing people first
Keynote speakers
Amalia Garcia, Governor of Zacatecas, Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD, Mexico and Chair of the SI Committee on Migrations
Nouzha Chekrouni, Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, Morocco and Vice-Chair of the SI Committee on Migrations
Juan Fernando López Aguilar, former Minister of Justice, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE, Spain
Sigfrido Reyes, Member of Parliament, FMLN, El Salvador
Tadeusz Iwinski, Democratic Left Alliance, SLD, Poland
Other contributions
Maria Vamvakinou, Federal Member for Calwell, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Australian Parliament, Australian Labor Party, ALP
