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Day 1 :
Thursday, May 22 10:00-17:15
Opening Remarks
Ryoki Sugita (Chairman, NIKKEI)
Speech
Suwit Khunkitti (Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry, Kingdom of Thailand)
Focus Session "Subprime Loan Problem and Asia"
♦ Panelists :
Bandid Nijathaworn (Deputy Governor, Bank of Thailand)
Ifzal Ali (Chief Economist, Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank )
Rajiv Kumar (Director and Chief Executive, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER))
Zhou Qiren (Professor, The China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Beijing University)
♦ Moderator :
Eisuke Sakakibara (Professor, Waseda University)
Lunch
Speech
Choummaly Sayasone (President, Lao People's Democratic Republic)
Focus Session "New Partnerships in an Era of Surging Oil Prices"
♦ Panelists :
Yoshihiro Shigehisa (Chairman and CEO, JGC Corporation)
Nasser H. Saidi (Chief Economist, Dubai International Financial Centre)
Ikmal Hijaz Hashim (CEO, Iskandar Regional Development Authority, Malaysia)
♦ Moderator :
Yuzo Waki (Deputy Chief Editorial Writer, NIKKEI)
Break
Dialogue
Mahathir bin Mohamad (Former Prime Minister, Malaysia)
Kazuo Ogoura (President, The Japan Foundation)
Dialogue
Vu Huy Hoang (Minister of Industry and Trade, Socialist Republic of Vietnam)
Akira Amari (Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Member of the House of Representative)
♦ Moderator :
Yasuhiko Ota (Editorial Writer, Senior Staff Writer, NIKKEI)
Day 2 :
Friday, May 23 10:00-17:25
Focus Session "Asia and the World: Coping with Environmental Problems"
♦ Panelists :
Rachmat Witoelar (Minister of Environment, Republic of Indonesia)
Lee Maanee (Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea)
Ichiro Kamoshita (Minister of the Environment, Japan)
♦ Moderator :
Naoaki Okabe (Senior Executive Editor, NIKKEI)
Lunch
Speech
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Prime Minister, Malaysia)
Dialogue
Jusuf Anwar (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Republic of Indonesia)
Hidenao Nakagawa (Former Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party, Member of the House of Representatives)
♦ Moderator :
Nobumichi Izumi (Deputy Chief Editorial Writer, NIKKEI)
Break
Speech
Heizo Takenaka (Senior Advisor, Japan Center for Economic Research)
Focus Session "Political Situation in East Asia"
♦ Panelists :
Cui Tiankai (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Japan)
Alexander A. Arvizu (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State)
Yun Dukmin (Professor, Institute of Foreign Affairs & National Security, Republic of Korea)
Hitoshi Tanaka (Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange)
Domingo L. Siazon, Jr. (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to Japan)
♦ Moderator :
Akira Kojima (Chairman, Japan Center for Economic Research)
Speech
Masahiko Koumura (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan)
