Schedule
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Low Library, Columbia University in the City of New York
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Opening Session
Alejandra Mejia, Financial Times
Christian Deseglise, Co-Director, BRICLab, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Marcos Troyjo, Co-Director, BRICLab, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Marcelo Lyra, Vice President, Braskem
9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
Special Address: Where Will Global Growth Come From?
Stephen King, Chief Economist, HSBC
9:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Panel I - Setting Out the Landscape: BRICs as Players in Global Economic Recovery
Thomas J. Trebat, Director, Columbia Global Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Marco Maia, Speaker, Brazilian House of Representatives
Jonathan Wheatley, Deputy Emerging Markets Editor, Financial Times
Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish N. Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy,
School of International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia University
Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy; Director, Harriman Institute, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
10:50 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Panel II - The Road Ahead for Business in BRICs
Liam Casey, CEO, PCH International
Mark Gyetvay, CFO, Novatek
Gregory Stoupnitzky, Principal, CIS Capital LLC
Mark Zeffiro, CFO, TriMas Corporation
Alessandro Teixeira, Deputy Minister of Development, Industry and Trade of Brazil
James Crombie, Editor, Bloomberg Brief
12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Special Address: The Role of Governance in Global Economic Recovery
Jan Svejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy; Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
12:50 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Robert C. Lieberman, Interim Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
This program is subject to change.
