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Here is the WEF Agenda now in progress.



Sir Nicholas Stern, former Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, has helped the British government to come up the the so-called "Stern Report" on Global Climate Change, which I believe is one of the "must-read" reports of our time.


"Africa’s emergence as a vital strategic interest" is one of the topics which interests me a lot as I see that the world's attention, especially that of business leaders is now finally turning to the Continet and its people.



WEDNESDAY 24

• Keynote address: Angela Merkel, German chancellor, outlines her plans for the German presidency of the G8 and the EU

• Why do brains sleep: with Professor Robert Winston

• The security implications of climate change:

Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern review on the economics of climate change

• The future of the dollar

• The age of the avatar and multiple identities



THURSDAY 25

• Leading figures discuss the impact of regulation on financial market competition – including the question of whether US markets are losing competitiveness

• Creating new body parts

• Who will run the internet?

• From private giving to social investing: debate on the New Philanthropreneurs

• CEO salaries: How high will they go?

• India – managing the global services economy



FRIDAY 26

• Hedge fund transparency, derivatives activity, financial stability, private equity activity - and the role that regulators could, or should, play in curbing any risks

• In China, does big equate to world-beater? Debate on Chinese industrial policy and state-owned enterprises

• The state of US leadership: Dinner with senators John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Maria Cantwell and Trent Lott; congressmen Sander Levin, Barney Frank, Ed Market, Christopher Shays

• What is today’s American dream? with senators John Kerry and John McCain

• Africa’s emergence as a vital strategic interest

• Housing deflation: What’s that hissing sound?

• Immigration: New blood for industrialised societies

• The Gulf States as an emerging financial hub: with prominent Gulf bankers

• The influence of the gaming generation



SATURDAY 27

• A blueprint for human settlement of the solar system: with Michael Griffin of NASA

• Keynote debate: on whether central banks can still manage global financial risks, attended by Jean Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank and Wu Xiaoling, deputy governor of the Chinese central bank.

• Frozen trade talks and the need for progress