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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to open the event

This third annual conference again brings together a select group of high-ranking international government officials and business and thought leaders to discuss private- and public-sector policy options for spurring global employment.

 

The gathering, which takes place Thursday, April 14, 2011 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC from 7:45am to 3:45pm EDT, features:

APRIL 13 Opening Reception
The National Portrait Gallery
8th and F Streets, NW
7:00pm – 8:30pm Hosted by Liz Mohn, Vice Chairwoman, Bertelsmann Stiftung and Gunter Thielen, President and CEO, Bertelsmann Foundation

 

APRIL 14 Conference
The Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 7th Floor (6th Street, NW entrance)
7:45am – 8:15am Registration and check-in Breakfast will be available.

 

8:15am – 8:30am Welcome
Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation

8:30am – 9:20am A Conversation With:
Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, United States
Moderator: Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times
followed by
Congressman Henry A Waxman (D-CA), Ranking Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee
Moderator: Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times

9:20am – 9:30am Introductory Remarks Gunter Thielen, President and CEO, Bertelsmann Foundation

9:30am – 10:30am Adding Jobs to the Recovery: What Works?
Rahul Bhardwaj, President and CEO, Toronto Community Foundation

Stephen Donnelly, Member, Irish Parliament

John Engler, President, Business Roundtable

Dennis Snower, President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

David Stockman, former Director, Office of Management and Budget, United States
Moderator: Tom Braithwaite, Business and Politics Correspondent, Financial Times

10:30am – 10:45am Networking Break

 

10:45am – 11:45am Innovation and Investment – BRICs and Brains
Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, President, Fundação Getulio Vargas of Brazil

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

Wang Huiyao, Vice Chairman, China International Economic Cooperation Society, Ministry of Commerce, China
Moderator: Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation

 

12:00pm – 12:35pm Luncheon
A conversation with Gene Sperling, Director, National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, introduced by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council
Moderator: Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Luncheon will be served on the 8th floor of the Newseum, one floor above the venue for all other conference sessions.

 

12:45pm – 1:15pm A Conversation With:
Christine Lagarde, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, France
Moderator: Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times

1:15pm – 2:15pm High-wire Act: Balancing Growth and Inflation
Archibald Cox, Jr, Chairman, Barclays Americas Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman, Global Banking, Citigroup Daniel Tarullo, Member, Board of Governors, US Federal Reserve
Moderator: Robin Harding, US Economics Editor, Financial Times

2:15pm – 2:30pm Networking Break

 

2:30pm – 3:45pm Busted: Can We Afford Ourselves?
Jacob Frenkel, Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director, The World Bank and former Minister of Finance, Nigeria

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Finance, Singapore

Lawrence H Summers, President Emeritus, Harvard University and former Secretary of the Treasury, United States
Moderator: Bruce Stokes, Senior Transatlantic Fellow for Economics, German Marshall Fund of the United States and Contributing Editor, National Journal

 

3:45pm Closing Remarks Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation