The Baltic Forum's 14th International Conference

Global Crisis - National Responses

29 May 2009
House of Blackheads

Programme

09:00 - 10:00
Registration

10:00 - 10:15
Opening of the Conference. Introductory remarks

10:15 - 12:00
Panel Discussion: Responses to the Global Crisis: National and Global?

Moderator: Igor Yurgens

Alan RILEY - Professor of Law, City Law School, City University, London; The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels
Leonid GRIGORYEV - President of the Institute of Energy and Finance Foundation, Russia
Jonathan POWER - contributing editor to Prospect magazine (London); Former foreign affairs columnist for the International Herald Tribune
Justas Vincas PALECKIS - Member of the European Parliament, Lithuania

13:30 - 15:30
Panel Discussion: The Economic Turbulence and the Challenges for Global and Regional Security

Moderator: Justas Vincas Paleckis

Robert NURICK - Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA
Igor YURGENS - Chairman of the Board of Institute of Contemporary Development in Russia and Member of the Board of the Baltic Forum
Alexander RAHR - Program Director Russia/Eurasia, German Council on Foreign Relations
Andres KASEKAMP - Director of Estonian Foreign Policy Institute; Professor, University of Tartu

16:00 - 17:30
Special round-table: China's Role In Global Politics And Economy In The Coming Decade

Moderator: Victor Makarov

Ouyang Jin - Research Fellow at the China Centre for Contemporary World Studies (CCCWS)
Qiang Naicheng - Member of Executive Council of China Centre for Contemporary World Studies (CCCWS)
Xu Yongquan - Research Fellow at the China Centre for Contemporary World Studies (CCCWS)
Shi Xiaohu - Research Fellow at the China Centre for Contemporary World Studies (CCCWS)

17:30
Press Briefing
Closing of the conference