sco 2018

Transcript of Media Briefing by Secretary (West) at Qingdao (June 10, 2018)

June 11, 2018

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: Good afternoon friends and welcome once again to this special press briefing at Qingdao on Prime Minister’s visit for the SCO Summit. Day two of Prime Minister’s visit was started with a restricted session which was followed by a plenary and there were also bilateral meetings which took place, there is one scheduled after this briefing i.e. with Kyrgyz Republic. I have with me Secretary (West) who will be briefing us on day two of Prime Minister’s stay in Qingdao. I also have with me the Jt. Secretary who looks after SCO and she will also chip in as and when required. 

Secretary (West), Mrs. Ruchi Ghanshyam: Thank you so much Raveesh and thank you all for coming here. Good afternoon to you all. As you all know Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participated in the 18th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of Shanghai Cooperation Organization which was held under the Chairmanship of the President of China, President Xi Jinping in this beautiful city of Qingdao.

This was the first SCO Summit after India became a full member in June 2017 and in that sense it was a historic summit and this was the fact that most leaders also recalled. Prime Minister’s program in Qingdao included participation in the welcome banquet hosted by the Chinese President Xi Jinping on the evening of June 9, 2018. 

Prime Minister attended the SCO Heads of State Council meeting in both the restricted as well as the extended formats in addition bilateral meetings of the Prime Minister were held on the sidelines of the summit as has been highlighted by the spokesperson just now. 

The SCO summit is a forum and this is just for understanding its importance that this is a forum which enables India to engage with countries of Central Asia. It is the highest decision making body in the SCO. It meets for annual summits in Member Countries by rotation. This summits marks the culmination of China’s yearlong chairmanship of SCO and of passing on the baton to Kyrgyzstan for the next year.

At the summit the Qingdao declaration was adopted by the Heads of State. Other documents were also adopted at the meeting. The important ones among them, well all are important but some of them which I want to point out to are, Joint Appeal by the Heads of SCO Member States for Prevention of Radicalization of Youth, Program of Cooperation in Combating Terrorism, Separatism and Extremism for the years 2019-21, MoU within SCO in the field of MSMEs, Joint Statement by SCO Members on Trade Facilitation, Joint Action Plan in the Field of Tourism for the period 2019-20, SCO Concept on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection and SCO Concept on the Prevention of Abuse of Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and SCO Anti-drug Strategy.

Some of these documents are the result of negotiations at the expert level from various fields and they are reflective of India’s active participation during the last one year in the meetings and various expert level meetings of SCO. The Prime Minister, amongst the things that he highlighted, was that SCO should explore ways to utilize the SCO platform to stabilize the energy market for mutual benefit and that the development strategy of SCO until 2025 provides a good roadmap for cooperation.

He said that India would be ready to play its role in fostering socio-economic development of the SCO region and it can offer its experience in skill development, capacity building and human resource development. Amongst the things which Prime Minister also pointed out was the importance of tourism and he specially mentioned about the foreign tourists coming to India only 6 percent are coming at the moment from SCO countries while it can easily be increased perhaps even to double the number.

He highlighted the importance of creating awareness about tourism between SCO countries and India and in this regard he offered that India could host an SCO food festival and an exhibition of the common Buddhist heritage of SCO countries and that these could be held in India. 

He also underlined the importance of skill development, capacity building and human resource development and of cooperation in these areas. In this regard he made a number of specific suggestions. I think these would be available in the Prime Minister’s statement which would be available to you on our website. 

The Prime Minister gave a kind of acronym SECURE which stands for Security for our citizens, Economic development for all, Connecting the region, United our people, Respect for sovereignty and integrity and Environmental protection. So these are some of the areas that he highlighted during the statement. The Prime Minister also congratulated the President of Kyrgyzstan who will take over as chair and offered India’s full support and cooperation to him in the pursuit of his chairmanship.

All the leaders held discussions in a very friendly atmosphere and in a very constructive manner. They also exchanged views on various issues of interest regionally and internationally. Those were some of the important highlights. Yes we had bilateral meetings just now after the summit with the President of Kazakhstan. You have already been briefed about the bilateral meetings yesterday.

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: One bilateral meeting took place today. There is another one which will take after this briefing with Kyrgyzstan. In the meeting with Kazakhstan I think the focus was on India’s participation at the SCO plus more on the bilateral side, the sectors that were covered were India and Kazakhstan working together in hydro carbon sector.

There was some discussion also on how to facilitate visa and travel of people between the two countries. PM also thanked Kazakhstan for their support during the election of Justice Dalbir Bhandari and some discussion also took place on how to enhance the level of trade and investment which exist at this point of time. 

Kazakh President did mention that compared to previous years the trade had gone up by 50 percent and that was an encouraging time. So in the limited time I think this is what was discussed between the leaders.

Secretary (West), Mrs. Ruchi Ghanshyam: Prime Minister also invited Kazakhstan to join the International Solar Alliance and the President of Kazakhstan responded enthusiastically because he said this is an important initiative. So we hope that Kazakhstan will also take now greater interest in the Solar Alliance.

Other than that those were some of the important issues, connectivity between India and Central Asian countries especially India and Kazakhstan and how we can further improve this connectivity. These are also some of the issues that came up during the discussion.

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: Thank you Ma’am. We don’t have much time for Q&A session because we have another bilateral meeting as I mentioned to you. We will take questions only on the SCO Summit.

Question: Prime Minister spoke extensively about importance of connectivity and in that context he spoke about the need to respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries while implementing various connectivity projects. India is the only country which has been actually opposing China’s BRI (Belt and Road Initiative), so what was the mood inside the room when Prime Minister talked about territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations in implementing these kind of mega infrastructure projects? 

Question: In total how many agreements were signed as far as the SCO Summit is concerned and the joint actions plans, so if you can segregate how many agreements and how many joint action plans were signed?

Question: Was there any discussion on Iran nuclear deal and were there discussion on SCO countries continuing to buying oil from Iran and other ways to ensure energy security?

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: Are you asking this question in the context of SCO because Prime Minister’s speech was also telecast live which we are going to put on our website. You will have to look whether there was a reference to this particular aspect which you are referring to or not.

Question Contd.: I thought there were some discussion in what was broadcast.

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: You know we can only share what our Prime Minister spoke but if other members spoke about it then it is something that you will have to ask them. This is not the right forum for us to answer queries about what the Iranian President might have said or others might have said. 

Question Contd.: I am sorry, my question wasn’t about what the Iranian President said, it was about how India and other countries are responding. So you can only respond about India’s reaction.

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: I can only respond with the respect to SCO. If it is connected to the SCO and Prime Minister spoke at the plenary session and the speech which he delivered is available on our website. Our position on JCPO etc. is publicly articulated and is consistent and is available anywhere. So there is no change but as far as I recall there was no reference in Prime Minister’s speech.

Question Contd.: What about the SCO mechanism to stabilize the energy market? Was that about something else?

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: That is what I am saying, please go through the Prime Minister’s speech first. If you see any reference then maybe we can give some clarification to what is already spoken.

Question Contd.: Could you clarify then stabilizing the energy market?

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: I will have to see if that reference is there in the PM’s speech or not.

Secretary (West), Mrs. Ruchi Ghanshyam: The first question was about connectivity, I don’t know if I can comment about the mood in the room but India’s position and I don’t think that India’s position is something that is not known to others. So I really don’t see India’s position coming as a surprise to anybody because this is not the first time India has articulated it. The prime Minister has articulated it earlier and it is a well-known position. So I think with that I will pass you on to my colleague for the list of agreements and documents. 

Jt. Secretary for SCO: The total number of agreements that were signed, I wouldn’t call them agreements per se, they are outcome documents which were adopted by the Council of Heads of Governments of the SCO i.e. the summit and so the documents which were adopted were. The primary being the joint communique which is issued by the Head and after that there were 12 other documents and then we had four different documents which were basically agreed between the respective ministries of the member countries. There were two documents which relate to the customs, one which related to Small, Micro and Medium enterprises and the fourth one was on tourism.

So in total we had around 22 documents which were there. So these are basically outcome documents, program of action and like Secretary had already said that one of the most important document which came out as an outcome of the summit was the appeal to the youth against radicalization. So we feel that appeal document is something very important and we negotiated that document in the SCO.

Question: There were indications that India might press for mentioning of terror groups which operates in Pakistan. So was there any mention of terror groups operating from Pakistan in the document of terrorism?

Jt. Secretary for SCO: No, there was no such mention. These are issues which are primarily debated and negotiated in the SCO – RATS (Regional Anti-Terrorists Structure). So they were not done.

Secretary (West), Mrs. Ruchi Ghanshyam: I just wanted to add to your query regarding stabilizing energy market, perhaps while I was reading, I misread because it was not part of the Prime Minister’s statement. These kind of issues can be discussed during the margins but in any case that the Prime Minister has said that is available on the website. But from India’s perspective Central Asia is an energy rich region and there are a number or mechanisms between India and Central Asian countries for cooperation in the field of energy. So I don’t think you should be linking it with other issues that you seem to have done.

Question: On terrorism, to speak about how India’s specific concerns will be reflected in the declaration, we haven’t seen it yet, can we get a sense how it would reflect our core concerns on terrorism?

Secretary (West), Mrs. Ruchi Ghanshyam: Actually the documents will be available ton the website and there is a program of action on this issue which will also be available on the website.

Official Spokesperson, Shri Raveesh Kumar: I can just add that most of the leaders they did mention about the scourge of terrorism. Several leaders spoke about it, they highlighted the menace of terrorism. We haven’t gone through the document but as Secretary mentioned there is a program of action on this particular topic which should cover the concerns of the global community vis-à-vis terrorism.

Thank you very much. Thank you Ma’am and Jt. Secretary and thank you all for joining.

https://www.icde.org/assets/RESOURCES/report_qingdao_web.pdf
Ms Liu Yandong, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China, read a message from Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, in which he stressed that “in response to the development of ICT, human society has a common key mission to advance educational reform and innovation, to develop a networked, digitized, personalized and lifelong education system, to construct a learning society where ‘anyone can learn anywhere and anytime’, and to develop a large number of “human resources with creativity.” The President expressed China’s commitment to promoting the use of ICT in education and to ensuring all Chinese people can access quality educational resources and learn anywhere and anytime. In particular, China is dedicated to narrowing the digital divide as well as promoting the innovative development of ICT in education in order to promote equity in education. He also expressed China’s willingness to engage in international cooperation and to explore sustainable approaches to the development of education. In her speech, Ms Liu Yandong further outlined the potentials of ICT in transforming education, including (1) overcoming the limits of time and space and providing an effective way to narrow learning divides and promote equity in education; (2) fostering a “two-fold revolution”, meaning transforming both teaching and learning and therefore promoting resource sharing and improving education quality; (3) building “schools without fences” and multiplying learning pathways for EFA goals and lifelong learning opportunities; and (4) converging vast knowledge and resources, and providing an important platform for human civilization to pass on and update across the generations. In this context, she referred to the impressive progress that China had made in the field of ICT in education, which could be summed up as “Three Universal Accesses and Two Platforms”. The “Three Universal Accesses” refer to: (1) universal access to broadband for all schools (74% of schools have been connected to the internet, and 73% of schools have been equipped with multimedia classrooms); (2) universal access to quality resources for all classes; (3) universal access to online learning spaces for all students and teachers (64,000 teaching sites in remote areas have gained access to digital educational resources; 4 million children in the countryside have been provided with access to qualified education in their hometowns. In addition, the National Open University had been able to offer 33,000 online courses). The “Two Platforms” refer to: (1) an educational resources public service platform to create the largest “supermarket of digital education resources” in China; and (2) an education management public service platform to provide a basic database covering all students, faculties, primary schools, secondary schools, and universities, assigning each student a unique enrolment number and providing information on tests and enrolment, students’ archives and study experiences, and employment services. Report of the International Conference on 8 ICT and Post-2015 Education Drawing on China’s experience, she put forward the following recommendations in order to make ICT in education initiatives successful: (1) support top-level design for the national ICT in education strategy, integrate the ICT in education policy into the overall national education development strategies and develop up-to-tenyear corresponding action plans. (2) ensure concerted action by setting up inter-agency coordination teams and through a countrywide network of supporting institutions; (3) expand the channels of participation for all stakeholders, including companies, schools and teachers; (4) promote application-oriented approaches, encourage teachers to innovate teaching practices through ICT, support students’ personalized learning and inquiry-based learning, and make “class-based, regular and widespread” use of ICT the “new normal” of elearning in China. The Government of China had launched its national strategy to harness the Internet, which would accelerate the use of ICT to transform education in China. The vision that the Government of China had set for 2020 was to build an e-learning environment that would ensure universal access to high-quality education resources for all; to provide a digital service system that enables the learning society; and to realize the goal of universal access to broadband internet for all schools at all levels and of all types. Finally, Ms Liu Yandong presented participants with four proposals for seizing the emerging digital opportunities:  Capture the major trends and attach greater importance to the role of ICT in education systems.  Based on human rights and needs of learners, promote in-depth integration of ICT into education systems, and in teaching and learning processes. Stress that ICT is just the means whereas the development of education is the end; ICT cannot be a substitute for teachers. Innovation is needed in the way ICT is used, in order to enhance personalized learning and peer learning between teachers and students.  Strengthen collaboration and sharing of resources, continuously expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources. She called on participants to break down barriers to open information, eliminate digital divides, expand usage and coverage of digital services, continue to optimize regulations and public policies, and enhance the governance of the Internet to ensure the safe, equal and healthy application of ICT.  Stress the principle of knowledge-sharing and move towards a new era that underscores the inheritance and development of human civilization, promoting deep interaction between different civilizations through intercultural platforms empowered by the Internet In the last keynote speech, Mr Yuan Guiren, on behalf of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, presented ICT in Education as a Driver for Modernizing Education: Practice in China and Lessons Learned. He said that life in the information age had made the world realize that education could not be modernized without applying ICT in education. He Report of the International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education 9 pointed out that for China in particular, advancing the use of ICT in education was not only required to respond to the challenges of the present era; it was also the best entry point and focal point to address the major issue of imbalanced growth of education, to promote equity in education, and to improve its quality and efficiency, thus giving it special significance. In 2010, the Government of China released its medium and long term national ICT in education master plans, which stated explicitly that ICT would have a historic impact on the development of education and called for a strong emphasis on ICT in education. Firstly, in order to realize the scientific and orderly development of ICT in education, China has developed a holistic and top-down approach. The Ten Year Development Plan for ICT in Education 2011-2020 was formalized in 2012. It states that by 2020, all adults will have access to quality education resources in an ICTenabling environment, an ICT support service system for the learning society will take shape, and all regions and schools at all levels will have broadband internet access. In order to achieve the vision, the government has put forward its initiative to build “Three Universal access and Two Platforms”, as outlined above. Secondly, in order to considerably enhance Internet coverage and transmission capacity, China has accelerated its drive to upgrade infrastructure, including the China Education and Research Network (CERNet) and China Education Broadband Satellite (CEBSat), which are the two main education networks. At the same time, China is committed to making full use of existing public information transmission resources to accelerate the rollout of Internet access for all schools. Thirdly, in order to enhance the impact of ICT in education and teaching, China has placed a strong focus on developing quality digital educational resources. In particular, China has launched the “one teacher, one quality lesson, and one class one quality teacher” initiative, which has led to the creation of quality digital teaching resources for 3.26 million teachers. In tandem, the Chinese Government has encouraged higher education institutions to develop MOOCs, and private companies to develop basic digital resources to supplement formal educational materials. Fourthly, in order to enhance the modernization of education governance, China has promoted ICT in education administration through the establishment of a national data centre and the implementation of the national service system for education decision-making. China has also set up a national data centre supporting the administration through a unique online identity number for each student, each teacher, and each school. Fifthly, in order to promote the widespread application of ICT in teaching, China has carried out full-scale capacity training for teachers. China has launched a capacity improvement project targeting primary and secondary school teachers’ capacity to use ICT, helping them to integrate ICT into their teaching. ICT training for education administrators has also been stepped up, so as to enhance their ICT leadership capability. Report of the International Conference on 10 ICT and Post-2015 Education Mr Yuan Guiren concluded that China would continue to work to provide equal access to ICT, enhance capacitybuilding for teachers to adopt ICT, and establish ICT-based lifelong learning systems and a learning society. At the international level, China is ready to strengthen exchange, cooperation, and mutual learning with countries around the world in the area of ICT in Education, to ultimately reshape the future of world education and to lay the foundations for global prosperity

may is for all belt road meta-summit and turning into 5th grade curricula

turn belt road into 5th grade teachers mapping quiz at EconomistAmerica.com
BeltRoadImagine (BR1) BRI.school BRI.mba BRI.systems

next belt road summit expected may 2019 (aka global 2.0) 65+ national leaders with Jinping & Guterres

what we need at sustainability goals summkits is jons-education facilitues/correspondentys equal to the media facilities than china offers at major sumits it hosts- in other words turn every keynote speech into a 5th grade quiz (and ola learning modules)

OLA
mit researcgh on moocs shows the mos intersting thing is which single  within mooc module viralises outsidne of the discipline because students share it with peers of other discipline

make sure all new develoment banking summits for worlds 11 main segments feed into this new geo-economic mapping
0 inside china
1 china neighbors -asean including japan and aus/nz
2 india subcontinent (india bangladesh)
3 russia
4 east euro
5 west euro
6 north america
7 stans and middle east through to suez mena- uae is host of greatest learning summuts -wise , more : oman major aiib projects
8 med sea
9 africa
10 latin america
11 arctic

 breaking 4 May 2018

as you my know my favorite news last week (or this century!) was jack ma's 20% partnership with http://www.bkash.com  sir fazle abed's fintech company in bangaldesh - the question of can edtech and fintech come together around poorest community girls empowerment and eg all of china's south asia region (or other girls belt road trading routes tpo sustainability) starts here imo (glad to know where else it starts)

%22jack ma%22 unctad - Bing

WISE@NY

Learning Revolutions: Creating Educational Environments for Empowerment and Inclusion

New York, USA – September 22, 2018
 

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is organizing WISE@NY on September 22 in New York City as part of the Global Goals Week – a series of events during the United Nations General Assembly week, under the auspices of the UN Foundation.

WISE@NY will serve as a convening platform for influential local and international thought leaders, decision makers and practitioners from diverse sectors to share best practices in education and reimagine learning environments.

Through a mix of plenaries and innovative and interactive sessions, WISE@NY will address the role of learning environments in creating an inclusive and equitable future. Participants will have the opportunity to explore important questions such as: How can we design effective and inclusive learning systems? How can we leverage multi-stakeholder partnerships to achieve these outcomes?

More information will be posted soon on the WISE website.

For queries, please contact our team at wise-ny@wise.org.qa

april usually starts the year of asean multi-win trading summits with the BAO - probably most inclusive mediatr of asean's positivive connetins with world is world record jobs creator mahbubani
2018's was hosted out of beijing with a loit of great stuff

In japan april also starts new year of school and buisness accountability in time to spring optimistically with cherry blossom

april often sees chinas annual 16+1 forum hosted with eatern euro countries

feb is for learning summits other than wise

eg varney - awards million $ teacher prize- 50 candidates a year provides many hundred extraordiary teachers to celebrate;  annual  2018 program -edtech forum - usually march, national patron duba's Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ; varney in ghana has its own great project,,, dubai also has billionnaire founding new uni

After months of deliberations we have chosen ten Finalists from the 30,000 applications and nominations we received from 173 countries. You can find full details of the Global Teacher Prize Top 10 Finalists here. One of our ten remarkable teachers will win our annual $US 1 million award given to recognise a truly exceptional teacher.

All of the teachers in our final shortlist have taken their work far beyond what is generally expected of a teacher. In the classroom they have inspired and enlightened their pupils, but their innovative and original approaches to education have ensured the impact of their work has touched communities beyond their schools, both locally and globally. The winner of the prize will be announced at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai on Sunday 18th March 2018.

germany's oeb next learning summit berlin dec 2018 -past speakers include Speakers at OEB in the past few years have included, among others: Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning at MIT; Alan Ryan, Technology Enhanced Learning Lead for HEE and the NHS; Julia Hobsbawm, Expert in Social Health; Roger Schank, AI and cognitive science visionary; Andrew Keen, author and commentator on the digital revolution; Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School; Charles Leadbeater, leading authority on innovation and creativity; Aida Opoku-Mensah, Special Adviser: Post - 2015 Development Agenda United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA); Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Author & Professor at Oxford University’s Internet Institute; Nick van Dam, Global Chief Learning Officer at McKinsey & Company; Xavier Durochat, Head of Learning & Development, Change and Transformation at BNP Paribas; Mark Stevenson, futurist, writer and entrepreneur; Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University; Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the blog Boing Boing and journalist; Andreas Schleicher, statistician, researcher and Director of the OECD Education and Skills Directorate; Aleks Krotoski, Social Psychologist and Broadcaster at the Guardian and many more.

jan is for wef summits

jinping speech wef 2017 ... solberg leads all women co-chairs if wef 2018

WEF
2018 shared future in fractured world
key note speaker from dev world 2018 modi -also macron expected to rehearse canada g7 june
summer davos in tiajing and dalian reviews world from what hapens when worlds largest economy is a developing economy

Adrian Monck, Head of Public Engagement and Foundations, Tel. +41 (0)79 615 1671; adrian.monck@weforum.org

· Ursula von der Leyen, L. Rafael Reif and Yo-Yo Ma join the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees

· The Board of Trustees serves as the guardian of the World Economic Forum’s mission and values

· For more information about the World Economic Forum, see www.weforum.org

Geneva, Switzerland, 25 August 2016 – The Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum yesterday elected German Ursula von der Leyen, Federal Minister of Defence of Germany, Venezuelan-born American L. Rafael Reif, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and American Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist, as its new members. Their diverse backgrounds are a reflection of the multistakeholder governance approach to which the World Economic Forum is committed.

The Board of Trustees is the highest-level governance body of the World Economic Forum, the recognized international organization for public private cooperation.

Ursula von der Leyen brings extensive knowledge in public health and in politics. She is a doctor by profession and has held various key ministerial positions in Germany since 2005, including Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. She is the Federal Minister of Defence and the first woman in German history to hold this position.

L. Rafael Reif, is a Venezuelan-born electrical engineer who serves as MIT’s 17th President. He leads a cutting-edge agenda to advance discovery science, stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, reshape higher education and focus the talents of the MIT community on making a better world. He brings to the board a strategic vision and practical track record that demonstrate how the research university can fuel the global economy and improve lives everywhere.

Yo-Yo Ma, an American cellist born in France to Chinese parents, brings a cultural perspective to the board. In a career that spans five decades, he has worked with a wide circle of collaborators, exploring cultures and musical forms both inside and outside the Western classical tradition. Much of his work focuses on the transformative power of music and art on individuals’ lives and society as a whole. He is a United Nations Messenger of Peace and the Founder and Artistic Director of Silkroad, a non-profit organization that seeks to create meaningful change at the intersections of the arts, education and business. He received the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award in 2008.

“The Board of Trustees now comprises an optimal combination of academic, business, cultural and political expertise. In a world which is becoming more multipolar and more multidimensional this will ensure the World Economic Forum’s relevance in shaping global, regional and industry agendas,” said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

As of 25 August 2016, the members of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum are:

Klaus SCHWAB*, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Peter BRABECK-LETMATHE*, Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum; Chairman of the Board, Nestlé SA, Switzerland bus
H.M. Queen Rania AL ABDULLAH, of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Mukesh AMBANI, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India
Marc BENIOFF, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, USA
Mark CARNEY, Chairman, Financial Stability Board; Governor of the Bank of England
Orit GADIESH**, Chairman, Bain & Company, USA
Al GORE, Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management, USA
Herman GREF, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sberbank, Russian Federation
Angel GURRÍA, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris
Jim Yong KIM, President, The World Bank, Washington DC
Klaus KLEINFELD**, Chairman and Chief Executive, Alcoa Inc., USA
Christine LAGARDE, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
Ursula von der LEYEN, Federal Minister of Defence of Germany
Jack MA, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group, People’s Republic of China
Yo-Yo MA, Musician
Peter MAURER, President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland
Luis MORENO**, President, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
Indra NOOYI*, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA
L. Rafael REIF, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Joe SCHOENDORF, Venture Partner, Accel Partners, USA
Jim Hagemann SNABE, Member of the Board, SAP AG, Siemens AG, Allianz SE, Germany
Heizo TAKENAKA**, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan (2002-2006)
George YEO, Chancellor, Nalanda University; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (2004-2011)
Min ZHU*, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2011-2016)

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Dec 15, 2017 - 2018 Canadian G7 Presidency. Canada will hold the G7 presidency from January 1 to December 31, 2018, and will welcome world leaders to the G7 Summit at the Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu in La Malbaie, Quebec, located in the Charlevoix region, from June 8-9, 2018. Charlevoix will provide a window ...

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The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal grouping of seven of the world's advanced economies consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The forum offers an opportunity for G7 Leaders, Ministers and policy makers to come together each year to build consensus and set ...

JUNE VERY BUSY MONTH

G& canada june 8-9 quebec

aiib mumbai june 25-26

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