Panel 1: Climate change, energy, the road to and from COP 26
Theme: Multilateral Cooperation
Chair: Mel Cappe, ex-Clerk of the Privy Council, ex-Deputy Minister of the Environment
Paper: Looking to Glasgow by Dr. Jen Allan
Participants:
Dr. Steven Bernstein, Distinguished Professor, Global Environmental and Sustainability Governance
Dale Beugin, VP research and analysis, Canadian Institute for Climate Choices
Gerald Butts, Vice-Chair, Eurasia Foundation
Dr. Kathryn Harrison, Professor of Political Science, UBC
Jason Langrish, Executive Director of the Canada-Europe Roundtable for Business
Shawn McCarthy, Senior Counsel at Sussex Strategy Group
Pierre-Marc Johnson, Chief negotiator for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and EU
Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands
Dr. Susanne Droege, Senior Fellow in the Global Issues Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Director of the Multilateral Dialogue Geneva of KAS
Dr. Christoph Bertram, Energy Systems Group of PIK
Dr. Sabrina Schulz, Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Germany
Bastian Hermisson, Executive Director Heinrich Böll-Stiftung (Washington)
Dennis Tänzler, Director and Head of Programme Climate Policy at adelphi
Panel 2: The pandemic, COVAX and vaccine strategy
Theme: Multilateral Cooperation
Chair: Dr. Alan Bernstein, CEO, Canadian Foundation for Advanced Research
Paper: Canada and Germany: Multilateral Partners to End the Pandemic and Catalyze an Equitable and Resilient Recovery to the SDGs by Dr. Peter Singer, Special Advisor to the Director General, WHO
Participants:
Dr. Kali Barrett, Physician at UHN
Dr. Charles Larson, Professor of Global Health, McGill
Dr. Aleksandra Leligdowicz, Researcher at Toronto Western Hospital
Dr. Joanne Liu, Professor at the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University
The Honorable Dr. Keith Martin, Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Rosemary McCarney, Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
Dr. Kate Zinszer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, UdQ
Ilona Kickbusch, Graduate Institute of International Development Studies
Prof. Detlev Ganten, Founding President of the World Health Summit
Björn Kümmel, senior political advisor on global health affairs in the German Federal Ministry of Health
Dr. Mathias Bonk, Global Health consultant for WHO
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Director of the Multilateral Dialogue Geneva of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Robert Greenhill, Executive Chairman, Global Canada Initiative
Dr. Christina Zarowsky, Full Professor of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal
Dr. John Kirton, Professor of Political Science, Director of the G7 Research Group, Co-Director of the G20 Research Group, Interim Director of the International Relations program, and a Research Associate of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Panel 3: Protecting democracy and defending human rights, democratic solidarity
Theme: Democracy
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Welsh, McGill University
Paper: In Search of Democratic Revival by Jeremy Kinsman and Dr. Kurt Bassuener
Participants:
Tom Axworthy, Former Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Leslie Campbell, Senior Associate, NDI
Dr. Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, Professor and researcher at the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal and at the Montreal Centre for International Studies (CÉRIUM)
Christian Lamarre, Senior Programme Officer, UN Democracy Fund
Monika LeRoy, Advisor to the Secretary General, OAS
Kyle Matthews, Executive Director of MIGS at Concordia University
Dr. Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Ryerson University
Alisha Todd, Director General of ParlAmericas
Thorsten Benner, co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)
Dr. Jörg Faust, Vice-Chair of the OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation
Dr. Julia Leininger, Chair of the research program “Transformations of Political Order: Governance, Values and Peace” at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Michael Zürn, Director of the Global Governance unit at WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Claudius Wagemann, Chair of empirical political science research methods at the Goethe University Frankfurt
Catherine Godin, Director General of the Office of Human Rights, Freedoms and Inclusion, part of Global Affairs Canada
Arif Lalani, Director General for International Organisations at Global Affairs Canada
Dr. Jonas Wolff, political scientist
Panel 4: Digital and tech democracy, disinformation
Theme: Democracy
Chair: Sue Gardner, former Executive Director of the WikiMedia Foundation
Papers: Digital Democracy and Public Discourse by Dr. Ulrike Klinger and Securing Cyberspace in an Age of Disruption by Aaron Shull and Kailee Hilt
Participants:
Chris Beall, Policy Lead at CIGI
Mark Surman, Executive Director at the Mozilla Foundation
Prof. Heidi Tworek, professor of history and public policy at the University of British Columbia
Dr. Wesley Wark, fellow at CIGI
Kyle Matthews, Executive Director of MIGS at Concordia University
Dr. Christian Katzenbach, lead researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Matthias Kettemann, law professor at the University of Innsbruck
Dr. Alexander Görlach, Editor-in-Chief at Conditio Humana
Tankred Schipansky, Christian Democratic Union representative in the German Bundestag
Dr. Fenwick McKelvey, communications professor at Concordia University
Panel 5: Trade and economic cooperation – building back confidence and fairness, WTO, Ottawa Group, international finance
Theme: Multilateral Cooperation
Chair: Canada’s Ambassador to the EU, Ailish Campbell
Papers: Brave New World: Trends in Global Trade Governance by Lawrence Herman and “If Something Cannot Go On Forever, It Will Stop“ by Bill White
Participants:
Dr. Laura MacDonald, Carleton University
Margaret Cornish, University of British Columbia
Dr. Frédéric Mérand, Université de Montréal
Dr. John F. Helliwell, University of British Columbia
Dr. John Hancock, WTO
Marie-France Paquet, Global Affairs Canada
Delphine Sallard, Delegation of the EU to Canada
Dr. Kurt Hübner, Free University of Berlin
Dr. Marcel Fratzscher, DIW Berlin
Dr. Sabrina Schulz, SDSN Germany
Bernd Lange, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
Nadia Theodore, Maple Leaf Foods
Dr. Stefan Collignon, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Angella MacEwen, CUPE National
Hugh Stephens, CANCPEC
Dr. Ulrich Blum, University of Halle
Panel 6: Managing inclusive pluralism, immigration, refugees
Theme: Mutual learning and bilateral cooperation
Chair: Sen. Ratna Omidvar, Senate of Canada
Papers: The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility by Ayelet Shachar, Germany and the Refugee Challenge: Successes and Risks for the Future by Ulrich Kober, and A Call to Action: An Agenda for Canadian-German Cooperation to Strengthen the International Refugee & Migration System by Paul Heinbecker and Fen Osler Hampson
Participants:
Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia
Jennifer Bond, University of Ottawa
Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley
Kimahli Powell, Rainbow Railroad
Anne Koch, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Sandra Kostner, University of Stuttgart
Annette Ranko, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Roland Bank, UNHCR
Jan Schneider, SVR
Naika Forouton, Humboldt University
Randall Hansen, University of Toronto
Phil Triadafilopoulos, University of Toronto
Panel 7: International peace and security, UNSC, China, the Arctic
Theme: Multilateral cooperation
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Welsh, McGill University
Papers: “A Multilateralism for the People” by the German Federal Government (presented by Thorsten Benner and Amb. Sabine Sparwasser) and “Can Middle Powers Save the Liberal World Order” by Roland Paris
Participants:
Louise Fréchette, UN
Gunther Hellmann, Goethe University
Ann Fitz-Gerald, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Michael Manulak, Carleton University
Jim Cloos, Trans European Policy Studies Association
Nicole Deitelhoff, Goethe University
Zachary Paikin, Centre for European Policy Studies
Hanns Maull, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Andy Knight, University of Alberta
Lars Brozus, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Elissa Golberg, Global Affairs Canada
Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Université de Montréal
Ronja Scheler, Körber-Stiftung
Panel 8: 21st century economies and technological projects
Theme: Multilateral Cooperation
Chair: The Honourable Dr. Kevin Lynch, Privy Council Office of Canada
Papers: Pushing the technology frontier in the 21st century: a curse for international instability? by Prof. Dr. Michael Huether and Dr. Matthias Diermeier, and Prospects for Post-CETA Issues for German-Canadian Trade by Dr. Jack Mintz
Participants:
Marie Gervais-Vidricaire, Global Affairs Canada
Achim Hurrelmann, Carleton University
Jo-Ann Davis, Leman Group
Goldy Hyder, Business Council of Canada
Terrie Romano, National Research Council of Canada
Tom Jenkins, OpenText
Mark Manger, University of Toronto
Jennifer Decker, National Research Council of Canada
Oliver Schmidtke, University of Victoria
Robert Hage, University of Calgary
Yvonne Denz, Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Robert Hardt, Robert Hardt Consulting
Nicolai Pogadl, Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Reinhard Stuth, HanBao Neue Energien
Heinrich Hauss, Mellum Capital
Organizers:
Nik Nanos, Atlantik Bruecke Canada
Christine Verdonck, Atlantik Bruecke Canada
Panel 9: Building civil society and research networks, review of all panel outcomes
Theme: Mutual learning and bilateral cooperation
Chair: TBD
Papers: TBD