Introduction Programme Registration Press
 
November 13 , 2006
 
 
 
 
15.30h-16.00h REGISTRATION
   
16.00h-16.30h OPENING
 

Ion de la Riva, Director General, Casa Asia
Ángel Martín Acebes, Executive Vice president of the Spanish Institute of External Trade (ICEX)
José Eugenio Salarich, Director General of External Politics for Asia and the Pacific, Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Jordi Valls, Councillor of the Regional Ministry, Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government)
Jordi Hereu, Mayor of Barcelona

   
16.30h-17.00h INAUGURAL SPEECH
  Asia's growth: global implications.
Supachai Panintchpakdi-secretary General UNCTAD, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
   
17.00h-19.30h
ROUND TABLE
 

Asia's growth: global implications .

Chairperson: Eugenio Bregolat, ambassador of Spain in Andorra, former Ambassador of Spain in China

Robert Kapp, President Robert A.Kapp & Associates, Inc, former President of the US-China Business council
Frank–Jürgen Richter, President HORASIS
B.B.Bhattacharya, vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University
Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE economist
   
19.30h-20.00h
CLOSING SPEECH
 

Harsha Vardhana Singh, WTO Deputy Director

   
 

 

 
November 14, 2006
 
 
   
   
16.00h-16.15h Adress by Maria Teresa Costa, President, National commission of Energy
   
16.15h-16.45h

FRAME WORK SPEECH

 

Michael Nobel, chairman of the Appeal of the Peace Prize Laureates Foundation

   
16.45h-18.30h
SESSION I : SUSTAINABLE ENERGY IN ASIA

Chairperson: Enrique Jiménez Larrea, President of the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE)

Environment and sustainable development
         -Josep Puig, Ecoserveis Founder

Renewable energy in Asia: Current situation and future trend
         -Olivia L. la O`Castillo, U.N. Sec.Gen Kofi Annan Water & Sanitation Advisory Board/President, Asia Pacific roundtable for sustainable consumption and production

Financing and investment of renewable enregy projects in Asia.
        -Mariàngels Pérez Latorre, Deputy Head of Unit, Management of Energy RTD Programmes, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport

The role of the EC-ASEAN Energy Facility Program on promoting Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia
         -Christopher G. Zamora, Co-director of the EC-ASEAN. -ASEAN Centre for Energy

   
18.30h-20.15h
SESSION II N: ENERGY SECTOR IN THE "ASIAN CENTURY"

Chairperson and speaker : Juan Lladó, CEO Grupo Técnicas Reunidas

Some reflexions on Depleated Resources
         -Juan Lladó, CEO Grupo Técnicas Reunidas

A new ASEAN Action Plan for the Energy cooperation (APAEC):a bridge towards security in energy and to the future of the sustainable energy
         -Weerawat Chantanakome, Executive Director ASEAN, Centre for Energy

         -Paul Isbell, Analyst, Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos

Energy Security : implications for UE-Asia relations
         -Pablo Benavides, former Director for Energy, European Comission

   
20.15 h
CLOSING SPEECH
  
20.30h
COCKTAIL