Agenda
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Thursday, September 12
19:00
Opening reception
Friday, September 13
9:00
Opening. Movie and welcoming remarks
9:15
Special guest
9:30
Speech and Q&A
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
10:15
Speech of Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia
Kersti Kaljulaid
President of Estonia
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
10:30
Speech and Q&A
Sauli Niinistö
President of the Republic of Finland
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
11:50
Happiness and Today’s Challenges — from the Eyes of a Historian, a Psychologist, an Artist
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Steven Pinker
Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Olafur Eliasson
artist
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
12:40
Lunch with Conversation
13:30
Special Conversation
14:35
New Challenges of the 21st Century
Yuval Harari
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Victor Pinchuk
Founder, YES
15:30
Just Happy – No Good Governance & Happiness Without Rule of Law
Juhan Parts
Prime Minister of Estonia (2003-2005)
Yuval Harari
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kersti Kaljulaid
President of Estonia
16:30
A View from the Middle East
H.E. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor al Thani Al-Thani
Prime Minister of Qatar (2007-2013), Foreign Minister of Qatar (1992-2013), Foreign Minister of Qatar (1992-2013)
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
17:00
Business and Market Economy – Enabler of the Pursuit of Happiness?
Robert F. Smith
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Vista Equity Partners
David Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
18:30
Happiness as Government Goal – Best Practices, Innovations, Measurement - including Presentation of Global Happiness & Political Attitudes Survey
Lord Richard Layard
Programme Co-Director – Wellbeing, Centre for Economic Performance, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Jeffrey Sachs
Professor, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Steven Pinker
Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
George Ward
Research Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
19:30
Dinner with conversations
20:15
Special guest
David Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
20:40
A Comedian in Politics – Reykjavík as Precedent for Ukraine?
Jon Gnarr
Comedian, Artist and Writer, Mayor of Reykjavik (2010-2014)
Aleksander Kwasniewski
President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the YES Board
21:45
Winning Ukraine’s Battle for Energy Independence (Nightcaps)
Andriy Kobolyev
CEO, Naftogaz
Alain Pilloux
Vice President, EBRD
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Founder & Chairman, Rasmussen Global
Ilya Ponomarev
CEO, Former Member, Trident Acquisitions, Russian State Duma
Bruno Lété
Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
21:45
Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Ukraine (Nightcaps)
Osnat Lubrani
UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine
Iryna Stavchuk
Executive director, Centre for Environmental Initiatives “Ecodiya” (“Ecoaction”)
Georg Zachmann
Senior Fellow, Project Leader, Bruegel, LowCarbonUkraine
Anna Bogushenko
Representative of Greta Thunberg’s youth movement "Fridays for Future" in Ukraine
Kateryna Soroka
Co-Founder, legal expert, climate activist, ICPS Associate Expert, NGO “Unique Planet”
21:45
The Science of Happiness – What does it tell us about Public Policy? (Nightcaps)
George Ward
Research Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Carrie Exton
Head of Measuring Well-being and Progress, OECD, OECD
Jeffrey Sachs
Professor, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Lord Richard Layard
Programme Co-Director – Wellbeing, Centre for Economic Performance, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Gillian Tett
US Editor at Large and Chair of the Editorial Board, Financial Times
21:45
The Holocaust and the Gulag: Humanity’s Dark Side (Nightcaps)
Anne Applebaum
Сolumnist, Washington Post
Jonathan Littell
Writer and Filmmaker
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
21:45
Ukraine and Russia (Nightcaps)
John Tefft
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2009-2013) and Russia (2014-2017)
Ben Hodges
Pershing Chair, Center for European Policy Analysis, Fmr. Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe
Andrey Illarionov
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Phil Breedlove
Distinguished Professor, Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Oleksandr Danyliuk
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Wolfgang Ischinger
Chairman, Munich Security Conference
21:45
The Future of Europe (Nightcaps)
Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994)
Aleksander Kwasniewski
President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the YES Board
Pat Cox
President of the European Parliament (2002-2004)
Egemen Bağış
Former EU Minister & Chief Negotiator of Turkey
Michael Gahler
MEP, Spokesperson of the EPP Group on Foreign Affairs
Gerhard Gnauck
Correspondent, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ
Saturday, September 14
07:30
Working breakfast. Beyond the West – Views on Happy Life, Society and State in China and Russia
Julian Baird Gewirtz
Harvard Academy Scholar
Anne Applebaum
Сolumnist, Washington Post
Andrey Illarionov
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
09:00
Prime Minister’s Speech and Q&A
Oleksiy Honcharuk
Prime Minister of Ukraine
David Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
09:45
UK and Ukraine in a New World
Christopher Pincher
Minister of State for Europe, United Kingdom
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
10:10
New Democracy: Brexit–Trump–5 Stars–Macron–Johnson–Bolsonaro… AND ZELENSKYY?
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Philosopher and Writer
Tony Blair
Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute and former UK Prime Minister
Oleksandr Martynenko
CEO, Interfax-Ukraine News Agency
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
11:30
Government for Happiness?
Volodymyr Borodiansky
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine
Mykhailo Fedorov
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Tymofiy Mylovanov
Minister of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine
Anna Novosad
Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
12:15
Ukraine’s New Political Face
Dmytro Razumkov
Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine
Halyna Yanchenko
Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Servant of the People faction
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Member of Parliament, “Golos”
Ivan Krulko
Member of Parliament, “Batkivshchyna”
Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994)
Pat Cox
President of the European Parliament (2002-2004)
13:00
Lunch
13:45
Corruption – Major Obstacle to Happiness: Lessons from the World for Ukraine
Daron Acemoğlu
Institute professor, MIT
Jeffrey Sachs
Professor, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Vitaly Kasko
Deputy Prosecutor General
Anne Applebaum
Сolumnist, Washington Post
15:00
Shimon Peres Peace Lecture
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
President of Colombia (2010-2014; 2014-2018) & 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
15:20
First Security, Then Happiness: Ukraine’s Strategic Situation
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
President of Colombia (2010-2014; 2014-2018) & 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Tony Blair
Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute and former UK Prime Minister
Kurt Volker
U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine
Vadym Prystaiko
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Miroslav Lajčák
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Chairperson-in-Office, OSCE
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
17:00
Summary Debate: The Liberal International Order is Over?
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
Gillian Tett
US Editor at Large and Chair of the Editorial Board, Financial Times
18:20
Special guest
18:50
Closing
19:05
Closing dinner
«Russia still has to become a modern nation. It still hasn’t made the fundamental decisions to determine whether it’s going to be a part of the international community or whether it’s going to try to be an imperial power and attack its neighbors, and take their land.»