Prof.
Brian Hocking, Professor of International
Relations, Loughborough University ‘What is the foreign ministry?’
Amb. Rolando Stein, Director of the
Diplomatic
Academy of Chile 'Diplomatic Training around the World'
10.50
- 11.20
Coffee
and Contact Break
11.20 - 13.00
II. The Action Canvas for MFAs: Progressive Adaptation, or Reform?
Mr Adam Blackwell, Director General, Strategy and
Services Bureau, Foreign Affairs, Canada 'Results based diplomacy'
Amb John O'Keefe, Acting Director General, Foreign
Service, US State Department ‘Transformational Diplomacy’
Amb. Kishan Rana, Senior Fellow,
DiploFoundation; Professor Emeritus, Foreign Service
Institute, New Delhi ‘MFA Reform: Global
Trends'
13.00
- 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
III. Multilateral Diplomacy;
Amb. Benedict von Tscharner, Former Ambassador of Switzerland (EU, OSCE, France); Professor,
Geneva, School of Diplomacy and International
Relations 'Switzerland’s agreements with the European
Union:
how to manage complex international negotiations'
Amb. Doru Romulus Costea, Romania Permanent Representative to the United Nations in
Geneva ‘Multilateralism: fading or changing?’
Mr Markus Kummer, Head of the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum 'Diplomatic services and emerging
multidisciplinary issues, such as Internet Governance';
15.30
- 16.00
Coffee
and Contact Break
16.00 - 17.00
IV. Value from Training: Mid-Career and Advanced Training,
E-Learning
Dr Lichia Yiu, CSEND Academy for Quality in Training and Education (AdeQuaTE), Geneva and
Dr Raymond Saner, Diplomacy Dialogue, Geneva 'Value from Training: A Requisite Manage-
ment System ISO 10015 and Its Application'
Dr John Hemery, Director of the Centre for Political and Diplomatic Studies, Oxford
'Innovations in Diplomatic Training'
17.00 - 18.00
V. The Consular Dimension
Amb. Algimantas Rimkunas, State Secretary, Lithuania
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 'Modernization of the Lithuanian Consular
Service
in Response to Global Challenges'
Ms Maaike Heijmans, and Prof. Jan
Melissen, Director, Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme
(CDSP); Co-Editor, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 'MFA’s and the Rising Challenge of Consular
Affairs: Cinderella in the Limelight'
18.30
Reception
Hosted by the Graduate Institute of International
Studies,
The Barton Villa, 132, rue de Lausanne, CH-1211 Genève 21.
See the map.
Thursday,
June 1
Panel
Themes
Speakers
09.30 - 11.00
VI. MFA and Embassy Networks
Mr Ron Garson, Director of the Policy Research
Division, Strategic Policy and Public Diplomacy,
Foreign Affairs Canada 'Canada's Foreign Ministry: On-Line and
Interactive'
Prof. Tatiana Zonova,
Chief of Study of Diplomacy, Mgmio University, Moscow 'Russian MFA: Facing the Regionalization
Process'
Dr Alex Sceberras Trigona, Former Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Malta 'Diplomatic Dealing with Politicians'
Dr David Criekemans,
Postdoctoral Researcher in International Politics, Department of Political Sciences,Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Antwerp,
Belgium
‘The case of Flanders (1993-2005): How subnational entities develop their own ‘paradiplomacy’.
13.00
- 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.45
VIII. More Reform Experiences
Amb. Vitavas Srivihok, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand 'The CEO Ambassador: Challenges of the
Internal Management
of External Affairs'
Mr Lars-Göran Larsson, Deputy Director-General, Head of Corporate Development Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden ‘Modernising Foreign Services - Facing
the
Internal Challenge’
Mr Aldo Matteucci, Former Deputy Secretary-General,
EFTA ‘How to survive budget cuts - and
thrive’
15.45
- 16.15
Coffee
and Contact Break
16.15 - 17.45
IX. Performance Management
Amb. Dr Fauziah Mohamed Taib, Director, Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Malaysia
'Privatising Diplomacy - the Way Forward?'
Prof. John Mathiason, Adjunct Professor of International
Relations and Director, Geneva Summer Internship Program, Syracuse University 'Linking Diplomatic Performance Assessment
to
International Results-Based Management'
Pedro Conceição Parreira,
Professor's assistant in Lisbon's Technical University – ISCSP - on research leave to do the PhD in Exeter University '"New" Economic Diplomacy: some brief considerations'
17.45 - 18.00
Summing-Up
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