Programme

Last update: 12/10/2004

Thursday 14 October 2004

Opening Session

Welcome:
" Lech Kaczy?ski, Mayor of Warsaw
Opening address:
" Philippe Maystadt, President of the EIB
Key note speaker:
" Marek Belka, Prime Minister of Poland

Session I : Policy Strategies for Regional Development

Chairman:
" Wolfgang Roth, Vice-President of the EIB
Speakers:
" Danuta Hübner, Nominee Commissioner for Regional Policy, European Commission
" Ivan Mikloa, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Slovak Republic
" Paul Haran, Secretary General, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ireland
" Barbara Hendricks, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance, Germany

Session II : Regional Infrastructure

Chairman:
" Ivan Pilip, Vice-President of the EIB
Speakers:
" Krystyna Gurbiel, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economy, Labour and Social Policies, Poland
" Imre Rethy, State Secretary, Ministry of Economy and Transport, Hungary
" Christos Folias, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Greece
" Henryk H. Liszka, Chairman of the Board, Hochtief, Poland

Dinner at the Polytechnical University of Warsaw

Dinner speaker:
" Professor Aleksander Wolszczan, Polish radioastronomer and astrophysicist, discoverer of the first extraterrestrial planetary system

Session III : Restructuring and Modernizing Industry

Chairman:
" Gerlando Genuardi, Vice-President of the EIB
Speakers:
" Stefan Collignon, Professor, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
" Radomil Novak, Executive Director, CzechInvest, Czech Republic
" Alain Davezac, Senior Vice-President International Development, ARCELOR, Luxembourg
" Brigitte Ederer, Member of the Board, Siemens, Austria

Session IV : Innovative Financing

Chairman:
" Sauli Niinistö, Vice-President of the EIB
Speakers:
" Graham Meadows, Director-General for Regional Policy, European Commission
" László Wolf, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, OTP Bank, Hungary
" Jacques Guerber, Chairman of the Executive Board, Dexia Crédit Local, France
" Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, Member of the Board, KFW, Germany
" Heinz Knotzer, Member of the Board, Ceska Sporitelna, Czech Republic
" Terence Brown, Director General for Lending Operations in Europe, EIB

Closing Session

Concluding comments:
" Wolfgang Roth, Vice-President of the EIB
Closing of the Forum:
" Aleksander Kwa?niewski, President, Poland