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The Trilateral Commision's North American Regional Meeting Program

Friday, November 6

6:30 PM Reception & Dinner                Peacock Lounge/Crystal Room
IRAN
CHAIR:    John Deutch, Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry, MIT
SPEAKER:  Adm. Dennis Blair (Ret.), Director of National Intelligence    

Saturday, November 7

9:00 AM-10:30 AM Session One  

ENGAGING WITH RUSSIA, PART II
    
CHAIR:  Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution
SPEAKER: Henry Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

10:45 AM-12:15PM Session Two 

THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS 
                         
CHAIR:        E. Gerald Corrigan, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Bank USA
SPEAKER:  Paul Volcker, Chair, President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
  
12:15PM -2:00PM Lunch 

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE HEMISPHERE?
SPEAKER: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning, Department of State    
PANEL: Wendy Dobson, Professor and Director, Institute for International Business,
                  Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
 Eduardo Ibarrola, Ambassador of Mexico to Guatemala


   
2:15 PM –3:45 PM Session Three 
                
NAFTA:  MORE OR LESS? 

CHAIR:   David Rubenstein, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group 
   
PANEL: Jaime Serra, SAI Derechio & Economia
  John Manley, Incoming President & CEO, Canadian Council of Chief Executives
  Carla Hills, Chair and CEO, Hills & Co. 


4:00 PM -5:30 PM Session Four  
   
U.S. POLITICAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

CHAIR: David Gergen, Professor of Public Service, JFK School of Government,                      Harvard University  
PANEL:   John Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress
 Kenneth Duberstein, Chairman & CEO, The Duberstein Group

6:15 PM Buses leave for American Institute of Architect Building  

6:30 PM Reception & Dinner  
     
DEALING WITH NORTH KOREA

CHAIR: Bill Graham, Former Foreign Minister  
SPEAKER:   Stephen Bosworth, Special Representative for North Korean Policy
 

Sunday, November 8  

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Session Five  

CONFLICT IN AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN 
  
CHAIR: Gordon Smith, Director, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
SPEAKER:  Amb. Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan                                     


10:45 AM – 12:15 PM  Session Six             

THE NON PROLIFERATION AGENDA

CHAIR: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
SPEAKER:  Gary Samore, White House Coordinator for the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism 


12:30 PM                 Informal Lunch