North American Regional Meeting of the Trilateral Commission
MEXICO CITY, D.F., MEXICO
(12th Meeting of the North American Group)
At the St. Regis Hotel
Conference Chairman: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chair, National Intelligence Council and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Friday, November 8
7:00 PM, Reception & Dinner, St. Regis Hotel DINNER SESSION: The Politics & Economy of Mexico Chair: Luis Rubio, President, CIDAC (Center for Research Development)Panel: Carlos Elizondo, Professor and Researcher, Centro de Investigación y
Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
Mauricio González, Partner and Co-founder of GEA, Grupo de Economists y Asociados
Saturday, November 9
9:00 AM – 10:45 AM SESSION 1: Re-Engaging Russia Chair: Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; former Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs
Panel: John C. Sloan, FormerAmbassador of Canada to Russia
Gabriel Guerra Castellanos, President and CEO of Guerra Castellanos & Associates
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM SESSION 2: Border Security: Politics & PossibilitiesChair: John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE); former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Panel: Andrés Rozental, former Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Latin America Initiative, Brookings Institution
Simon Kennedy, Canadian Deputy Minister for International Trade
Frances Fragos Townsend, Senior Vice President, MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings, Inc., New York; CNN National Security Contributor; former Assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and Chair, Homeland Security Council
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM SESSION 3: Cyber SecurityKeynote Speaker: Dennis Blair, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence; former Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command
Respondents:
Gordon Smith, Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Juan Carlos Guel, former Coordinator for the Prevention of Electronic Crime, Mexican Federal Police
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
SESSION 4: Regional Energy Changes
Cambridge, MA; former Director of Central Intelligence; former U.S. Deputy Secretary Defense
Chair: John M. Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel: Adrian Lajous, former CEO, Pemex; Chairman, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; President, Petrométrica, S.C.; Non-executive director, Schlumberger, Ltd. and Trinity Industries Inc.
James Prentice, Senior Vice President & Vice Chairman, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Meghan O'Sullivan, Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, National Security Council
7:00 PM, Reception & Dinner, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
DINNER SESSION Interlocutor: John Negroponte, Vice Chair, McLarty Associates, Washington; former Ambassador to Mexico; former Deputy Secretary of State
Speakers:
Jose Antonio Meade, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
Ildefonso Guajardo, Secretary of the Economy Sunday, December 10
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
SESSSION 5: NAFTA & North American Identity
Chair: Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company,
International Consultants; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Panel: Jaime Serra, former Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industry; Chairman, SAI Law and Economics; Founder, Aklara, the Arbitration Center of Mexico, and the NAFTA Fund of Mexico
John M. Weekes, Senior Business Advisor, Bennett Jones; former Canadian Ambassador to the WTO
Susan Schwab, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, and Strategic Advisor, Mayer Brown, LLP; former U.S. Trade Representative
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM SESSION 6: Varying Trends in the Western Hemisphere Chair: Raymond Chrétien, Partner and Strategic Advisor, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, former Ambassador to Mexico and the United States
Panel:
Dudley Ankerson, former member of the British Diplomatic Service; Director of Latin Insight Consulting; Special Adviser to the British Government
Susan Kaufman Purcell, Director, the Center for Hemispheric Policy, University of Miami
Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank 12:30 pm Informal lunch
Next Trilateral Commission Plenary Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., Friday, April 25, to Sunday, April 27, 2013.