The World’s Rising Powers:
China, India, Brazil, Russia...and More

January 18 - 21, 2006
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street off Connecticut Avenue at Woodley Park

PLEASE NOTE: This is the agenda as of January18. Names of speakers will be added to this agenda as they confirm their attendance. A (c) next to the speakers name means they are confirmed.  Where available you will find links to more information about each speaker.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Amb. John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence (Chairman's Dinner Honoree and Speaker) (c)
Amb. Thomas (Tom) R. Pickering, former US ambassador to India, Senior Vice President of The Boeing Company (c)
Anne Garrels, NPR Correspondent, winner 2006 WACA Distinguished Foreign Journalist Award (c)
Kenneth Deffeyes, Oil Expert and Author of Beyond Oil, Princeton University (c)
Amb. Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations (c)
Ralph Begleiter, former CNN Correspondent, University of Delaware (c)
Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University (c)
Joel Cohen, World Authority on Population, Rockefeller University (c)
John Hatch, Leader of Microenterprise Movement and Founder of FINCA (c)
Clyde Prestowitz, Author and President, Economic Strategy Institute (c)
Bates Gill, Chairman of Chinese Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies (c)
Paulo Sotero, Award-Winning Correspondent, O Estado de Sao Paolo (c)
Amb. Donna Hrinak, Former US Ambassador to Brazil (c)
Robert Wittman, Federal Bureau of Investigation (c)
Nils Daulaire, President, Global Health Council

Main Conference Program

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18

All day visits to Capitol Hill organized by individual councils.

Operations Workshops for Council Staff and Board Members

2:00 pm – 5:30: Operations Workshops for Staff and Board Members, see above link

5:30  pm – 7:30 Opening Reception in the Ambassador Ballroom

7:15 pm – 8:00 Special Reception for Chairman’s Dinner Patrons and Sponsors

8:00 pm – 10:00 Chairman’s Dinner (extra registration fee required)  
Honoree and Speaker:  Amb. John Negroponte (c)
 
 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19

9:00 am Opening of Conference.

9:15 am Plenary Session:  The Rise of China
Speaker:  Roderick MacFarquhar (c)

10:45 am  Plenary Session:   Beyond Oil
Speaker:  Kenneth Deffeyes (c)

12:30 pm Ambassadorial Luncheons at Hotel

3:00 pm Discussion Groups
 
Group A - Microenterprise Movement Worldwide - John Hatch (c)
Group B – Avian Flu: Next Global Pandemic - Nils Daulaire (c)
Group C - WorldWatch and the State of the World Report - Chris Flavin        
Group D - Democracy and Human Rights in China - Bates Gill (c)
Group E – Can Brazil Overcome Poverty? - Amb. Donna Hrinak (c)
Group F – How Media Shapes America’s Image - Ralph Begleiter (c)                     

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

9:00 am Plenary Session:  What Americans Need to Know about India
Speaker: Amb. Thomas (Tom) R. Pickering (c)

10:45 am Plenary Session:  Where is Putin’s Russia Going?
Speaker:  Amb. Jack Matlock
    
12:30 am    Keynote Luncheon Speech: America’s Opportunity to Change the Course of History 
Speaker:  Richard Haass (c)
 
3:00 pm Discussion Groups

Group G - Beating Corruption - Susan Cote - Freeman (c)
Group H  - India: Our New Partner? - Sunil Dasgupta (c)
Group I –  One Year after the Tsunami - Deborah Kennedy-Iraheta (USAID) (c)
Group J -  How Many People Can the Earth Support? - Joel Cohen (c)
Group K  – International Art Crimes - Robert Wittman (c)
Group L – Three Billion New Capitalists - Clyde Prestowitz (c)

4:30 pm Free Time

6:30 pm Cash Bar in Ambassador’s Ballroom.

7:30 pm Rising Powers Banquet
 Distinguished International Journalist Award to NPR Correspondent Anne Garrels
 President’s Awards
 Dances of the Silk Road
 Raffle of Airline Tickets to Latin America

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21

7:30 am  NCIV Breakfast with Dr. Sherry Mueller

9:00 am  Summation of Conference.

10:30 am National Membership Meeting.
  
12:00 pm Luncheon for National Board Members.

12:30 pm  National Board Meeting.

3:30 pm End of National Board Meeting

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