Specialist conference
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9.00 a.m.
Registration
9.15 a.m.
Introductory Session to the EU-India-US Trialogue
Welcome and Introduction to the Trialogue
Dr Peter Köppinger, KAS European Office, Director Dialogue on Development Policy
9.30 a.m.
Input Statement
Neena Gill, MEP, Chairwoman, Delegation of Relations with India (tbc)
09.50 a.m.
Direct Questions and Answers
10.00 a.m
Chair/Moderator
Jörg Wolff, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, New Delhi
Panelists
M.K. Lokesh, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India to Belgium and the European Union
Ambassador C. Boyden Gray, Special Envoy for European Union Affairs
Jean-Christian Remond, Head of Unit India, Bhutan, Nepal, DG External Relations, European Commission
10.45 a.m.
Coffee Break
11.15 a.m. First Session
Interests of Europe, India and the US in West Asia?
Chair/Moderator
H.E. Vinod Grover,Member of the National Security Advisory Board, New Delhi
Panelists
H.E. Lalith Mansingh, Former Foreign Secretary, Advisor to the Government of India, New Delhi
Karl von Wogau, MEP, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Member of the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (tbc)
Dr Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia Council on Foreign Relations, Washington
Geoffrey Barrett, Adviser Asia Directorate, DG External Relations, European Commission
12.00 a.m.
Open Discussion
12.45 p.m.
Lunch Break
2.15 p.m. Second Session
The Indo-US Strategic Partnership and its implications for Europe
Chair/Moderator
Manvendra Singh, Member of Parliament, Member of the Defence Committee, New Delhi
Panelists
Major General Dipankar Banerjee, Director, Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi
Tomasz Kozlowski, Head of Unit, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Unit, Policy Unit Asia Task Force (tbc)
Elmar Brok, MEP, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation to the United States of the European Parliament (tbc)
Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington
3.00 p.m.
Open Discussion
3.45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4.00 p.m. Third Session
Energy Security and Climate Change: New dimensions of Geopolitics
Chair/Moderator
Prof Jean-Luc Racine, Director Centre for Indian and South-Asian Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Panelists
H.E. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Member of the Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the UN, former Indian Ambassador to China and the European Union, New Delhi
Xenia Dormandy, Project Director India and the Subcontinent and Board Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Boston
Dr Peter Liese, Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety in the European Parliament
4.45 p.m.
Open Discussion
5.15 p.m.
Coffee Break
5.30 p.m. Conclusions of EU, India and USA
Sachin Pilot, Member of Parliament, Committee on Home Affairs, New Delhi
Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington
Jörg Wolff, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, New Delhi
6.15 p.m. End of Conference