A 21CQ/GB GLOBAL CONFERENCE – “THE STATE & FUTURE OF THE WORLD – POST-PANDEMIC & POST-U.S. ELECTION”
NOVEMBER 27 & 28
A Two-Day Global Conference (Virtual) from the Institute for 21st Century Questions (21CQ) and Global Brief Magazine
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Preliminary Roster
DAY 1 – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27
9am – 9.10am EST
Introduction & Welcome:
Irvin Studin, President, Institute for 21st Century Questions; Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Global Brief Magazine
9.15am – 10.30am
Global Geopolitics After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Bilahari Kausikan (Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore)
Andrei Kortunov (Director General, Russian International Affairs Council)
John E. McLaughlin (Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency, USA)
Lloyd Axworthy (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada)
10.40am – 11.50am
The Global Economy After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Mark Wiseman (Chair, Alberta Investment Management Corporation; Former President & CEO, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Former Senior Managing Director, BlackRock)
John Kay (Columnist, Financial Times; Professor of Economics, Oxford University)
Vladimir Mau (Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economic and Public Administration)
David Skilling (President, Landfall Strategy Group, Netherlands/Singapore/New Zealand)
Noon – 1.15pm
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan & the Entire Former Soviet Space After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Irina Busygina (Professor of Comparative Politics, MGIMO University – Moscow State Institute of International Relations)
Yauheni Preiherman (Founder & Director, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations)
Anna Dolidze (Member, High Council of Justice & Former Deputy Minister of Defence, Georgia)
Vyacheslav Tolkovanov (Deputy Head, Parliamentary Reform Office, Verkhovna Rada & Former Head of the National Agency for the Civil Service, Ukraine)
1.25pm – 2.40pm
Europe After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Michael Barutciski (Associate Editor, Global Brief Magazine)
Ulrike Franke (Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, London)
Reinhard Krumm (Head of Office, Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe, Vienna)
Bruno Tertrais (Deputy Director, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
2.50pm – 4.05pm
The United State After the Pandemic & After the Election:
Jeremi Suri (Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin)
Michael Cotey Morgan (Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
4.15pm – 5.30pm
Global Public Health After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Martha Fulford (Professor, McMaster University Department of Medicine, Hamilton, Canada)
Chandresh Harjivan (Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group, Washington, DC)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
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DAY 2 – SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28
9am – 9.05am EST
Introduction to Day 2:
Irvin Studin, President, Institute for 21st Century Questions; Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Global Brief Magazine
9.05am – 10.20am
China After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Kishore Mahbubani (Former Founding Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore)
Henry Huiyao Wang (Founder & President, Centre for China and Globalization, Beijing)
Steven Wang (Editor-in-Chief, Harvard International Law Journal, USA)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
10.30am – 11.45am
India After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Ramaswamy Sudarshan (Dean, School of Public Policy, Jindal Global University, New Delhi)
Kanti Bajpai (Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore)
Anvesh Jain (Student, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
11.55am – 1.10pm
The Arctic Space After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Bob McLeod (Former Premier, Northwest Territories, Canada)
Daryana Maximova (Deputy Executive Director, Northern Forum, Russia)
Timo Koivurova (Director, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
1.20pm – 2.35pm
The Middle East After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Sinem Akgul-Acikmese (Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul)
Itai Brun (Deputy Director, Research & Analysis, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
2.45pm – 4pm
Australia, New Zealand & Oceania After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
4.10pm – 5.25pm
Latin America After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Alejandro García Magos (Senior Editor, Global Brief Magazine)
Carlos Umaña Alvarado (GB Geo-Blogger & Former Counselor and Consul, Embassy of Costa Rica in Canada)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Africa After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Niagalé Bagayoko (President, Africa Security Sector Network, Ghana)
Obiora Okafor (Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Global Institutions After the Pandemic & After the U.S. Election:
Hubert Védrine (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, France)
*Several more panellists to be announced in the coming days
[FINIS]
