VI Annual Conference Program

The most important annual appointment between Milan and the Mediterranean.

30th June 2008

OPENING SESSION

Mediterranean and Gulf area: a New Geography

09.15 Registration of Participants

10.00 Welcome Speeches

  • Carlo Sangalli, President of Milan Chamber of Commerce, Italy
  • Letizia Moratti, Mayor of Milan, Italy

10.20 Introduction and Guidelines of the Conference

  • Bruno Ermolli, President of Promos, Milan Chamber of Commerce, Italy

10.40 Speeches by

  • Roberto Formigoni, President of Lombardy Region, Italy
  • Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, United Arab Emirates

11.20 Speech by

  • Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy

Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Milan Chamber of Commerce
and the Ministry of Economy of the United Arab Emirates

Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Milan Chamber of Commerce
and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and New Technologies of Morocco 
 

FIRST PLENARY SESSION

Enlarged Mediterranean: New Perspectives of Development

11.50 Speech by

  • Adolfo Urso, State Under-Secretary, Ministry of the Economic Development, Italy

Moderates

  • Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Ambassador, General Director of Mediterranean
    and Middle East Countries Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy

 

  • Moustapha Benbada, Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Handicraft, Algeria
  • Prince Abdullah Bin Faisal Bin Turki, Chairman of Saudi Italian Development Company,
    Saudi Arabia
  • Zafer Caglayan, Minister of Industry and Trade, Turkey
  • Mohamed Lotfy Mansour, Minister of Transports, Egypt
  • Bassem Rousan, Minister of Information and Technologies of Communication, Jordan
  • Mohammed Abdullah Mutib Al Rumahi, Foreign Ministers' Assistant for Follow Up Affairs, Qatar
  • Ahmed Réda Chami, Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies, Morocco


13.00 Conclusions

  • Altero Matteoli, Minister of Infrastructures and Transports, Italy

13.15 Buffet Lunch

30th June 2008

SECOND PLENARY SESSION

The Key Players: the Economic Network, the Media Network

14.45 Welcome Speech

  • Pier Andrea Chevallard, Secretary General, Milan Chamber of Commerce, Italy

15.00 Speech by

  • Emma Bonino, Vice-President, Senate of the Republic, Italy

15.00 Moderator

  • Enrico Mentana

Discussion:

First Part

  • Claudio Artusi, CEO Fiera Milano Spa, Italy
  • Mohamed Benchaaboun, President of the Banque Centrale Populaire, Morocco
  • Giorgio Bertolina, General Manager Italtel, Italy
  • Hüseyin Saltuk Düzyol, Chairman and General Manager of Botas, Turkey
  • Piero Gnudi, Chairman of Enel, Italy
  • Carmine Lamanda, Senior Executive Vice Chairman of Unicredit Group, Italy
  • Corrado Passera, CEO Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy*
  • Luigi Roth, Chairman of Terna, Italy
  • Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman of Pirelli & C., Italy

Second Part

  • Tarek Ben Ammar, Chairman of Quinta Communications, France*
  • Fedele Confalonieri, Chairman of Mediaset, Italy
  • Nakhle El Hage, Director of News and Current Affairs, Al Arabiya, United Arab Emirates
  • Mervat Farrag, Vice-President of TV Department, Egyptian Radio and Television Union, Egypt
  • Diana Jabbour, Director of Syrian Television, Syria
  • Satnam Matharu, Director of International Relations, Al Jazeera, Qatar*

17.30 Speeches by 

  • Dario Scannapieco, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank
  • Stefania Craxi, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy

17.45 Conclusions

  • Antonio Tajani, EU Commissioner for Transports, Vice-President of the European Commission*


    * invited

 


 

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