6:00-10:00 pm

Opening Dinner (by invitation only)

A World Leaders Forum Event
Dinner and Discussion: The Uruguay Round and the WTO: What Have We Achieved?

Welcome: Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
Chair: Merit E. Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia University; Member, WTO Appellate Body
Keynote Speakers: Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University
Carla A. Hills, Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company International Consultants; Former U.S. Trade Representative
Peter Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman, BP p.l.c.; former Director General, GATT & WTO
Clayton Yeutter, Of Counsel, Hogan & Hartson LLP; Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; Former U.S. Trade Representative

 8:15 am

Breakfast and Registration

 8:50-9:00 am

Welcome: Lisa Anderson, Dean and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

 9:00-10:45 am

Session 1: Decision Making at the WTO: An Analysis of a Member-Driven Organization

Chair: Merit E. Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia University; Member, WTO Appellate Body
Discussion: Stuart Harbinson, Special Adviser, Office of the Director General, WTO
Hyun-Chong Kim, Minister for Trade, Republic of Korea
Amina Mohamed, Chair, WTO General Council; Ambassador of the Republic of Kenya to the WTO
Mary Robinson, Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, Columbia University; Executive Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative; Former President, Ireland
Ambassador Sun Zhenyu, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the WTO

 10:45-11:00 am

Coffee Break

 11:00-12:30 pm

Session 2: Examining the Dispute Settlement System: How Has It Performed?

Chair: Yasuhei Taniguchi, Member, WTO Appellate Body
Discussion: George A. Bermann, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (discussing paper by Petros C. Mavroidis)
John H. Jackson, University Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Julio A. Lacarte, Former Member and Chairman, WTO Appellate Body
Frieder Roessler, Executive Director, Advisory Centre on WTO Law
Werner Zdouc, Director, Appellate Body Secretariat

 12:45-2:30 pm

Luncheon and Discussion: The WTO's Biggest Problem at 10: Surviving the Doha Round

Chair: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Keynote Speakers: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Mari Elka Pangestu, Minister of Trade, Republic of Indonesia

 2:45-4:15 pm

Session 3: Lessons from Experience: Operation of the Panel Process and Appellate Review

Chair: Luiz Olavo Baptista, Member, WTO Appellate Body
Discussion: William J. Davey, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
Valerie Hughes, Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP; Former Director, WTO Appellate Body Secretariat
Mitsuo Matsushita, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; Former Member, WTO Appellate Body
Andrew L. Stoler, Executive Director, Institute for International Business, Economics & Law, University of Adelaide; Former Deputy Director-General, WTO
John M. Weekes, Senior Policy Advisor, Sidley Austin LLP; Former Canadian Ambassador to the WTO

 4:20-5:45 pm

Session 4: WTO Case Law in International Law Context

Chair: Georges Abi-Saab, Member, WTO Appellate Body
Discussion: Jose E. Alvarez, Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law & Diplomacy, Columbia Law School
Florentino P. Feliciano, Senior Associate Justice (Ret.), Supreme Court of the Philippines; Former Member, WTO Appellate Body; Senior Counsel, SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
Martti Koskenniemi, Professor, Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki
Pieter Kuijper, Director - Principle Legal Advisor, European Commission
Patricia M. Wald, Judge (Ret.), U.S. Court of Appeals

 6:30-9:00 pm

Dinner and Discussion: Managing the Challenges Ahead

Welcome: David M. Schizer, Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Chair: Hugh Patrick, Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business; R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus, Columbia Business School
Keynote Speakers: Hyun-Chong Kim, Minister for Trade, Republic of Korea
Christine Lagarde, Minister of Foreign Trade, France
Susan Schwab, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

Following remarks by the Keynote Speakers, three distinguished Columbia faculty members will offer reactions and direct questions to the speakers:
Albert Fishlow, Professor of International and Public Affairs; Director, Institute of Latin American Studies; Director, Center for Brazilian Studies, Columbia University
Arvind Panagariya, Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor; Executive Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

 8:15 am

Breakfast and Registration

 9:00-10:45 am

Session 5: Considering Remedies

Chair: Kyle Bagwell, Kelvin J. Lancaster Professor of Economic Theory and Professor of Economics and Finance, Columbia University
Discussion: Gary Horlick, Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP
Robert Lawrence, Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Bruce Wilson, Director, WTO Legal Affairs Division
Alan Wolff, Partner, Dewey Ballantine LLP

 10:45-11:00 am   

Coffee Break

 11:00-12:45 pm

Session 6: The Dispute Settlement System in the Next Ten Years

Chair: Julio A. Lacarte, Former Member and Chairman, WTO Appellate Body
Discussion: Jane Bradley, Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law
Steve Charnovitz, Associate Professor, George Washington University Law School
Robert Howse, Alene & Allan F. Smith Professor of Law, The University of Michigan Law School
David Palmeter, Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP

 1:00-2:30pm

Luncheon and Discussion: Expanding Public Awareness of the WTO and Its Work

Chair: Charles W. Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business, Columbia Business School
Keynote Speaker: Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics, Yale University; Former President, Mexico
Discussant: Rufus Yerxa, Deputy Director-General, WTO

 2:45-4:00 pm

Session 7: Implementation of WTO Rulings: The Role of Courts and Legislatures in the U.S. and Other Jurisdictions

Chair: Giorgio Sacerdoti, Member, WTO Appellate Body
Discussion: Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr., Senior Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
George A. Bermann, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
*Sander Levin, Member, House Ways & Means Committee, U.S. Congress
Donald McRae, Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law, University of Ottawa
Sharyn O'Halloran, George Blumenthal Professor and Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Professor of International and European Law, European University Institute

 4:00-5:30 pm

Session 8: Major Themes/Conclusions from the Conference and Reflections on the WTO in the Context of Economic Globalization

Chair: Grant Aldonas, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Discussion: Paul Blustein, Staff Writer, Washington Post
John H. Jackson, University Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Keith Rockwell, Director, Information and Media Relations, WTO
*David Sanger, White House Correspondent, The New York Times
Seiichi Kondo, Ambassador, International Trade and Economy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Martin Wolf, Associate Editor, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

 5:30 pm

Closing Remarks: Merit E. Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia University; Member, WTO Appellate Body

 1 Program subject to change
 * Denotes those invited but yet to confirm.