PROGRAM (as of January 14 2013)

MONDAY MARCH 25th, 2013

9h00 Welcome Address by Pierre LECOCQ, President UNIAPAC, M. NOKKARI and Raymond SFEIR, President & Secretary General of MA’AM

9h15 Opening remarks by Dr. Gerhard WAHLERS, Deputy Secretary General of Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Germany

9H30 Opening Session

9h30 THE STATE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

Pascal LAMY, Director General of WTO :

10h00

WHERE IS THE WORLD GOING? THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERCULTURAL DIALIOG: HRH Prince Turki AL FAISAL, Chairman King Faisal Foundation for Islamic Studies

10h30

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVOLUTIONS IN THE ARAB COUNTRIES

Adnan KASSAR, Chairman General Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and

Agriculture, former minister.

11h00 Pause

11h25

VALUES FOR BUSINESS IN CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM FAITHS :

* Cardinal TURKSON, President of the Pontifical Council Justice & Peace, Vatican

* Cheikh Mohamed Ahmad AL-TAYEB*,Grand Imam Al-Hazar, Cairo

(alternatively Sheikh Malek Al Shaar, Mufti de Tripoli)

12h05

H. E Michel SLEIMAN, President of Lebanon

12h30 Lunch (by small groups of 6 attendees)

Monday March 25th Afternoon: CORPORATE CULTURE THE ROLE OF THE BUSINESS LEADER

14h00 Plenary Speaker : Louis GALLOIS, past President of EADS (Airbus Industry)

14h30 Panel A - Mr. Raed CHARAFEDDINE, Vice-Governor of the Banque du Liban - Mr. Gianfelice ROCCA, President Techint Group, Italy * - M. Memduh BOYDAK, VP “Boydak Holding”, Turquie /Adem KUMKU, délégué

general UNITEE - Mme Wided BOUCHAMAWI, President of the Tunisian Union of Industry and

Commerce Chair: Burkhard LEFFERS, President of UNIAPAC Europe

15h30 Exchanges inside the « small groups »

18h00 Lebanese intercommunity Ceremony

20h30 Gala Dinner

Dinner Speech, Dr. Günther BECKSTEIN, former Prime Minister of Bavaria, Vice-President of the de German Evangelical Church Synode (EKD)

TUESDAY MARCH 26th, 2013

9h00 Welcome by Pierre LECOCQ, President UNIAPAC, & Raymond SFEIR, Secretary General of MA’AM, and Dr. Thomas Birringer, Head of

Africa and Middle East Department of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

THE PLACE OF BUSINESS WITHIN THE SOCIAL SOCIETY

9h10 Plenary Speaker: Ruud LUBBERS, Past Premier Minister of The Netherland

9h30 Panel B: Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility – - José Ignacio MARISCAL, Director and Chairman, Grupo Bimbo, Mexico. - Riza Nur MERAL, President of Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey

and CEO of Optigaz - Mr. Ziad BEKDASH, Vice President of Industrial Federation of Lebanon - Leila El-SOLH HAMADE *, Former Minister of Industry, Lebanon; Vice-President of the

Al Whalid Ben Talal Foundation Chair : Mohammed KABBAJ, former Minister of Finance, President Lafarge (Morocco), and

President & founder of the Fes Festival (Morocco)

10h55 Pause

THE STATE, GUARDIAN OF AN ECONOMY RESPECTING THE PERSON

11h25 Plenary speakers

- H.E. Riad SALAMEH, Governor, The Central Bank of Lebanon

- Prof. Dr. Johann EEKHOFF, Director of the Institute for Political Economy, University of Cologne

12h05 Panel C: - Mustafa NASEREDDIN, Director Talal Abu GHAZALEH International Organization,

Jordan

- Mr. xxx , entrepreneur, Belgium

- Nasser SAIDI, former Minister of Finance, chief economist of Dubaï International Financial

Center

- Michael HENNRICH, Member of Bundestag of Germany Chair: Jos VAN GENNIP, former MP Netherlands

13h30 Lunch

THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA

14h45 Panel D: key media leaders - Dr. Rainer HERMANN, Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung

- Rami George KHOURI, Journalist and Director of the Issam Fares Institut for public

Policy and International Affairs

- Mohamed SALMAWI, Egyptian Journalist and Writer - Dominique SEUX*, Redactor in Chief of Les Echos

Chair : Mrs Latifa MOUSSA, Journalist

16h10 Synthesis: Georges CORM, Former Minister, Ministry of Finance – Republic of Lebanon; Writer and Professor, The Institut d’Etudes Politiques at the Saint Joseph University, Beirut

16h35 Final Address: Najib MIKATI, Prime Minister du Lebanon *

16h50 Final address: P. LECOCQ, R. SFEIR