China in the Shifting World Order
CIGI'08: CONFERENCE AGENDA

Note: Unless otherwise noted, the speakers have been confirmed.

Keynote Speakers

His Excellency Cheng Siwei - Former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the China Democratic National Construction Association.

The Honourable Barbara McDougall - Chairman of the Board, International Development Research Centre.

Mr. Yuen Pau Woo - President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

 

 

Saturday, October 25, 2008 (CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo)
8:30 - 9:00             Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30             Welcoming Remarks

• Jim Balsillie, Chair of CIGI Board of Directors
• Lan Lijun, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Canada
• John English, Executive Director, CIGI

9:30 - 10:30           Opening Keynote
                               Introduction: Gordon Smith, Executive Director, Centre for Global Studies
                               Keynote: Barbara McDougall, Chairman of the Board, International Development Research Centre, "The                                                Evolution of China and its Impact on the New World Order"
                               Thanks: John English, Executive Director, CIGI

10:30 - 11:30          The Rise of China, China Today and Tomorrow

• Chair: Ola Ullsten, Former Prime Minister of Sweden
• Huang Ping, Director, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Loren Brandt, Professor, University of Toronto

11:30 - 11:45          Break

11:45 - 12:45          China and Global Governance: Role, Reforms & "Structural Adjustments"

• Chair: Paul Heinbecker, Distinguished Fellow, CIGI
• Gregory Chin, Assistant Professor, York University; Senior Fellow CIGI
• Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange and Public Policy Graduate School, University of Tokyo
• Zhu Yinghuang, Editor-In-Chief Emeritus, China Daily; Professor of Tsinghua University

12:45 - 2:00           Lunch

2:00-3:00               China, Globalization, and the Internationalization of Higher Education (UW)

• Chair: Ginny Dybenko, Dean of the Wilfrid Laurier School of Business and Economics
• Xingqing Zou, Professor, Nanjing University
• Yao Li, John Whalley, Shunming Zhang and Xiliang Zhao (Yao Li, University of Western Ontario - Presenting)
• Gail Cuthbert-Brandt, Professor, University of Waterloo

3:00- 4:00              China and Africa

• Chair: Joseph Caron, Canadian High Commissioner to India, Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan and China
• Zhang Haibing, Associate Professor, Shanghai Institute for International Studies
• Harry Broadman, Managing Director, The Albright Group LLC
• Monika Thakur, Assistant Professor, McMaster University

4:00 - 4:15             Break

4:15 - 5:30             China and the West
                               Moderator: Lyse Doucet, Anchor, BBC

• Paul Evans, Senior Advisor to the Board, Asia Pacific Foundation Canada
• David Foot, Professor, University of Toronto
• Ma Zhengang, President, China Institute of International Studies
• Mei Ping, Senior Visiting Fellow, CIGI; Senior Advisor to the Center for North American Studies, China Institute of International Studies
• Hongying Wang, Associate Professor, Syracuse University

5:30 - 6:30             Reception, Clay and Glass Gallery

Book Launch - Emerging Powers in Global Governance: Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process co-edited by Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz

Guest Speaker - Su Changhe, Professor, Dean at the School of International and Diplomatic Affairs (SIDA), Shanghai International Studies University

 6:30 - 9:00            Dinner

SPECIAL EVENT 7.45-8.15pm Video-conference link with China Policy Forum in Beijing, Announcement of CIGI's upcoming initiatives within the China Program

• Chair: Daniel Schwanen, Acting Executive Director, CIGI
• John Whalley, Distinguished Fellow, CIGI; Professor, University of Western Ontario
• Yu Yongding, Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

                               Dinner Keynote
                               Introduction: Jim Balsillie, Chair of the CIGI Board of Directors
                               Keynote: His Excellency Cheng Siwei (Former Vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of National                                            People's Congress) "China's Economic Development and its Global Implications"
                               Thanks: Joe Clark, Former Prime Minister of Canada

 

Sunday, October 26, 2008 (CIGI, 57 Erb Street West, Waterloo)
7:45 - 8:00              Breakfast, CIC Panelists

8:00 - 9:45              CIC Panels (Private)

General Session Resumes
9:15 - 9:45              Breakfast

9:45 - 10:45            China and Global Financial Governance

• Chair: Donald Johnston, Founding Partner, Heenan Blaikie
•  Eric Helleiner, CIGI Chair in International Governance, University of Waterloo
•  Baotai Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Northern British Columbia      
•  Thomas A. Bernes, Director of the Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund                       

 10:45 - 11:15        Break

11:15 - 12:15         China and International Environmental Governance (UW)

• Chair: Jennifer Clapp, CIGI Chair in International Governance, University of Waterloo
• Jimin Zhao, Fellow, University of Oxford
• Steffanie Scott, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
• David Strangway, Chancellor Emeritus, Quest University Canada

12:15 - 1:45           Lunch Keynote      
                              Introduction: Jorge Braga de Macedo, President of the Tropical Research Institute of Portugal
                              Keynote: Yuen Pau Woo (President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada) "Asia in the Post        
                              Sub-Prime World Order"
                              Vote of Thanks: Marcel Massé, Former Canadian Executive Director of the World Bank

1:45 - 2:45             China Inc.

• Chair: Gordon Smith, Executive Director, Centre for Global Studies
• Jim Balsillie, Chair of CIGI Board of Directors and Co-CEO of Research In Motion 
• Jiang Haishan, Director-General, Department of International Exchanges and Program Development, China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong 
• David Choi, President and CEO, Royal Pacific Realty

2:45 - 3:15             Break

3:15 - 4:30              Adjusting to China: BRICSAM perspective
                               Moderator: Diana Swain, Anchor, CBC

•  Brazil - Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
•  Russia - Ksenia Yudaeva, Chief Economist at SBERBANK and CIGI Board Member
•  India - Alka Acharya, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
•  Mexico - Andrés Rozental, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

4:30                        Closing Remarks
                                Ramesh Thakur, Chair of CIGI'08 and Distinguished Fellow, CIGI

6.00                        Reception

7:00 - 9:00              Informal Dinner