World Policy Conference

World Policy Conference
Organization type	annual conference on world leadership
Abbreviation	WPC
management	Thierry de Montbrial
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Geneva
WPC website

World Policy Conference 2017
place	Marrakech , Morocco
date	3rd - 5th November 2017
Attendees	Attendees

The World Policy Conference (WPC) is an annual conference founded in 2008 by Thierry de Montbrial .

history

In 2008 the conference was founded by the Ifri , on the initiative of its President and founder Thierry de Montbrial. Montbrial is a French economics professor, engineer, co-editor of various center-right media, a member of several academic academies and has been a member of the steering committee of the Bilderberg Conference since 1976 . He worked in various functions on strategic studies on behalf of French government bodies and international non-governmental organizations .

The World Policy Conference claims to promote the development of an organization for world leadership. A new form of world leadership that brings together decision-makers, experts and opinion leaders at a high level is supposed to adapt to the challenges of the 21st century.

The World Policy Conference is an independent organization with the aim of improving all forms of government and promoting a more open, prosperous, fairer and more respectful world towards the diversity of states and nations .

The annual gathering, which brings together political and economic leaders, diplomats, civil society representatives, experts and journalists from all over the world, debates constructive solutions to important international or regional challenges in an atmosphere of trust and tolerance.

The first conference took place in Evian ( France ) from November 6th to 8th, 2008.

Basis of the conference

The World Policy Conference was founded on three main principles.

• The existence of globalization : The World Policy Conference fits into the framework of globalization and growing dependency between states at the political, economic or environmental level. In its first version in 2008, the WPC dealt with the financial crisis that first broke out in the United States and has not left a continent since then.
• International relations are still focused on relations between states: Despite the globalization phenomena, the world is still organized according to political units, hence states. States are characterized by a territory , a population, and a government . They share a common culture , common values, institutions and have defined boundaries .
• The construction of a new international system - or its government - does not only affect states : In order to ensure good world governance, states must reform and work together. But they can't be the only ones going in that direction. NGOs and think tanks such as the Ifri should participate in this process. Each member should be allowed to express their own opinion and influence the choice through the correct decision-making process. Ultimately, both world institutions ( UN ) and regional ( African Union , Arab League ) and specialized institutions ( IMF , World Bank , International Energy Agency , World Health Organization ) must adapt to the new order and find appropriate solutions.

Working method

The three meeting formats - that is, the plenary sessions, the workshops and the lunch or dinner debates - promote constructive interactions at a high level between the private sector and the public sector. The aim of the conference is to fuel public debate. During a plenary session, every participant has the same right to speak, no matter how influential their country is.

Each participant is selected individually according to various criteria such as regional, functional or media-related factors. The number of participants is limited to enable constructive debates. Each participant can express himself freely and informally. In this way, an informal exchange is to be ensured at a high level.

Paper size

A report with the main contributions will be published for each edition of the conference. He presents the profiles of all participants and all partners. The conference highlights are illustrated with many pictures. Several thousand copies of the report in English and French are distributed worldwide every year . It can also be downloaded as a PDF file from the WPC website.

Electronic format

The WPC website not only provides material from previous conferences, but also information regarding the upcoming conference.

1. WPC TV: WPC TV provides interviews and explanations from the participants.

2. Conference reports: After each conference, the debates are published in digital format. All speeches are available on video and in text format.

Social networks

The WPC can be followed on Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , Pearltrees and Pinterest . In addition, the entire content of the conference is saved in video format and is available on YouTube .

Guests

Every year the World Policy Conference gathers political, economic and social decision-makers: heads of state and government , ministers , legislators , ambassadors , entrepreneurs , experts , journalists and NGO members . Among the guests of the previous conferences were:

• Masood Ahmed (Head of the Middle East and Central Asia Division of the IMF )
• Martti Ahtisaari (former President of Finland )
• Khalid Bin Mohammed Al Attiyah (then Foreign Minister of Qatar )
• Cheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani (Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar )
• Prince Turki Al-Faisal (Chairman of the Center for Research and Islamic Studies of King Faysal)
• Yukiya Amano (General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency )
• Youssef Amrani (Member of the Royal Cabinet of Morocco )
• Yutaka Aso (General Director of Aso Group)
• Robert Badinter (Former Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seal , France )
• Bertrand Badré (then General Director and Finance Director of the World Bank Group)
• Ban Ki-moon ( Secretary General of the United Nations )
• Ehud Barak (former Prime Minister of Israel )
• Marek Belka (President of the Central Bank of Poland )
• Charles-Edouard Bouée (CEO, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants )
• Christian Bréchot (President of the Pasteur Institute )
• Didier Burkhalter (President of the Swiss Confederation , Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA)
• Korn Chatikavanij (Former Minister of Finance of Thailand )
• José Angel Cordova Villalobos (then Minister of Health of Mexico )
• Nelson Cunningham (Chairman, McLarty Associates)
• Kemal Dervis (Vice Chairman of the Brookings Institution , in charge of the World Economics Department and former Minister of Economy of Turkey )
• Bozidar Djelic (partner and responsible for Central and Eastern Europe, Lazard and former deputy head of government of Serbia )
• Heinz Fischer (former President of the Republic of Austria )
• Fu Ying (then Deputy Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China )
• Robert Gates (Former United States Secretary of Defense )
• Elisabeth Guigou (Head of the Commission, National Assembly , France )
• Abdullah Gül (then President of the Republic of Turkey )
• Angel Gurría (Secretary General of the OECD )
• Richard Haass (Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) )
• Han Seung-soo (Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea )
• Maria van der Hoeven (then Executive Director of the International Energy Agency )
• Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (then Secretary General of NATO )
• Mo Ibrahim (Founder and President, Mo Ibrahim Foundation)
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves (President of Estonia )
• Mugur Isarescu (Governor of the Central Bank of Romania )
• Vuk Jeremic (Chairman of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD))
• Mari Kiviniemi (Deputy Secretary General of the OECD )
• Haïm Korsia (Chief Rabbi of France )
• Haruhiko Kuroda (Governor of the Central Bank of Japan )
• Bruno Lafont (Co-Chair, LafargeHolcim )
• Pascal Lamy (Former Secretary General of the WTO )
• John Lipsky (Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University ’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), former First Deputy Director General for IMF )
• Pauline Marois (former head of government of Quebec )
• Dmitri Medvedev (then President of the Russian Federation )
• SD Prince Albert II . (ruling Prince of Monaco )
• Mario Monti (former Prime Minister of Italy )
• Miguel Angel Moratinos (Former Foreign Minister of Spain )
• Igor V. Morgulov (Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation )
• Amr Moussa (then General Secretary of the Arab League )
• Joseph Nye (Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government)
• Raila Amolo Odinga (former head of government of Kenya )
• Arkebe Oqubay (Minister and Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia )
• Patrick Pouyanné (Director General and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Total )
• Alassane Ouattara (President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire )
• Park Geun-hye (President of the Republic of Korea )
• Didier Reynders (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Trade and European Affairs of Belgium )
• Mary Robinson (Former President of the Republic of Ireland )
• Jin Roy Ryu (CEO of the Poongsan Group)
• Nicolas Sarkozy (then President of the Republic of France )
• Boris Tadić (then President of the Republic of Serbia )
• Nobuo Tanaka (Former Executive Director of the International Energy Agency )
• Mostafa Terrab (CEO, OCP)
• Jean-Claude Trichet (former President of the ECB )
• Hubert Védrine (former Foreign Minister of France )
• Wang Jisi (President of the Institute for International Strategic Studies, Peking University )
• Lionel Zinsou (former head of government of Benin )

Versions of the WPC

Usually the conference takes place at the end of the year. The following table lists the previous conferences :.

Version	place	date
First conference	Evian , France	Oct 6-8, 2008
Second conference	Marrakech , Morocco	Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2009
Third conference	Marrakech , Morocco	Oct 15-18, 2010
Fourth conference	Vienna , Austria	Dec 9-11, 2011
Fifth conference	Cannes , France	December 7-10, 2012
Sixth conference	Monaco	Dec 13-15, 2013
Seventh conference	Seoul , Korea	Dec 8-10, 2014
Eighth conference	Montreux , Switzerland	Nov 20-22, 2015
Ninth (upcoming) conference	Doha , Qatar	Nov 20-22, 2016
Tenth conference	Marrakech , Morocco	Nov 3rd - 5th 2017

Web links

• Official website of the WPC
• WPC TV

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