Conference on Russia and the West: Working Toward a New Era of Cooperation March 29 and 30, 2009 Berlin, Germany With generous support from The German Marshall Fund of the United States The Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology White & Case LLP
2 Sunday, March 29, 2009 Individual arrival at the Marriott Hotel Berlin Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1, 10785 Berlin 18:40 Bus transfer from the Marriott Hotel Berlin to the China Club Berlin at the Adlon Palais Behrenstrasse 72, 10117 Berlin 19:00 Opening dinner at the China Club Berlin Welcome Professor Dieter Feddersen Member of the Board, Dräger Foundation, Lübeck, Germany William M. Drozdiak President, American Council on Germany (ACG), New York, NY, USA Keynote address: Defining Common Interests of Europe, Russia, and the United States Hans-Ulrich Klose Member of Parliament, Berlin, Germany approx. 22:30 Individual return by taxi Monday, March 30, 2009 8:00 Bus transfer from the Marriott Hotel Berlin to the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Rauchstraße 17/18, 10787 Berlin from 8:00 Conference registration at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 8:45 Welcome Professor Eberhard Sandschneider Otto-Wolff-Director of the Research Institute of the DGAP, Berlin, Germany
3 Issue I: Russia and the West: Strategies for dealing with the Global Economy 9:00-10:30 Panel I: Russia and the Global Financial Crisis Prof. Dr. Vladislav Inozemtsev Director, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies, Moscow, Russian Federation Per Fischer Head of Financial Institutions, Senior Vice President, Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Dr. Andrew C. Kuchins Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., USA Dr. Philipp Windemuth Partner, White & Case LLC, Moscow, Russian Federation 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Panel II: Oil, Gas, and Pipelines: Interdependence and Energy Security Dr. Rainer Seele CEO, WINGAS GmbH, Kassel, Germany Jürgen Hogrefe Senior Advisor, EnBW Energie Baden Württemberg AG, Berlin, Germany Dr. Leonid Grigoriev President, Institute of Energy and Finance, Moscow, Russian Federation Dr. Ariel Cohen Senior Research Fellow, The Kathryn & Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA Andrew Nagorski Director of Public Policy and Senior Fellow, EastWest Institute, New York, NY, USA 12:30-13:30 Lunch buffet
4 Issue II: Russia and the West: Common Foreign Policy and Security Challenges 13:30-15:00 Panel III: Tensions between Russia and the West: How we got here Ambassador Dr. Anatoly L. Adamishin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Moscow, Russian Federation Ambassador Dr. Hans-Dieter Lucas Special Envoy for Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany Dr. Gunter Pleuger President, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany Dr. Lincoln A. Mitchell Arnold A. Saltzman Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Ambassador Dr. Ivan D. Soltanovskiy Deputy Permanent Representative, Mission of the Russian Federation to NATO, Brussels, Belgium 15:00-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-17:00 Panel IV: Future Cooperation between Russia and the West Ambassador Dr. Ivan D. Soltanovskiy Deputy Permanent Representative, Mission of the Russian Federation to NATO, Brussels, Belgium Dr. Frank Schauff CEO, Association of European Businesses in the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation Professor Alexander Cooley Open Society Fellow and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Alexander Rahr Program Director, Russian/Eurasia Program, DGAP, Berlin, Germany
5 17:15 Bus transfer from the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) to the Marriott Hotel Berlin Inge-Beisheim-Platz 1, 10785 Berlin 18:40 Bus transfer from the Marriott Hotel Berlin to the Restaurant Lutter & Wegner (Weinstube) Gendarmenmarkt, Charlottenstrasse 56, 10117 Berlin 19:00 Closing dinner at Restaurant Lutter & Wegner (Weinstube) Closing speech: Building a Sustainable Relationship between Russia and the West: Lessons from the Past Michael Dobbs Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; former Foreign Correspondent and State Department Reporter for the Washington Post, Washington, D.C., USA Introduced and moderated by Dr. Guido Goldman Co-Chair, Board of Trustees, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington, D.C.; Founding Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Member of the Board, ACG, New York, NY, USA approx. 22:30 Individual return by taxi