This document provides the program for a conference taking place on March 25-26, 2013 in Lebanon. The program includes opening addresses on the first day, followed by panels on corporate culture and the role of business leaders. The second day will discuss the place of business within society, entrepreneurship, and the role of the media. Key speakers include the Director General of the WTO, the Prime Minister of Lebanon, religious and business leaders, journalists, and former government officials.

1. 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)

2. 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