António Feijó, President of the Board of Trustees of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Francisco Seixas da Costa, Chairman of the Club of Lisbon

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Portuguese Republic

   Pausa-café às 11h15 

Are proxy wars re-emerging in Europe and the Middle East? Do they fit with Clausewitz’s postulate that war is the continuation of politics by other means? Might a multilateral, rules-based order coexist with a multipolar world?

Ana Santos Pinto, Professor of the NOVA Lisbon University, Lisbon

Luís Tomé, Director of the UAL Department of International Relations, Lisbon

Walter Russell Mead, Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, New York

    Coffee-break at 15h30 

Is the rate of mining sustainable for the planet? What geopolitical changes are induced by energy transition and the rush for critical minerals? Is industrialisation expectable in developing countries dependent on the export of these materials?

Bianca Dragomir, CEO of Cleantech for Iberia, Valencia

Henry Sanderson, Executive Editor at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, London

Hung Tran, Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center, Washington

Raquel Vaz Pinto, Researcher at IPRI-NOVA, Lisbon

Tsutomu Sato, Senior Research Fellow at Nakasone Peace Institute, Tokyo

A conversation on war and its narratives

Sofia Lorena, Journalist of Publico, Lisbon

Luísa Meireles, Editor-in-chief at LUSA Portuguese News Agency, Lisbon

A Divided World

21H

An intervention on the crises of globalisation and multilateralism

Paulo Portas, Vice President of CCIP, Vice Prime Minister of Portugal (2013-2015)

*session restricted to panelists and Conference dinner guests

       Coffee-break at 10h45 

Why is it so hard for globalisation and nationalism to coexist? Is identity being used as a common weapon in current conflicts? Why do anti-immigration narrativespersist in regions of ageing populations and labour shortages?

Fernando Ayala, Professor at the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago do Chile

Fidel Amakye Owusu, CEO of DefSEC Analytics Africa, Accra

Helena Carreiras, Professor at Iscte-IUL, Lisbon

Madalena Meyer Resende, Professor at NOVA Lisbon University, Lisbon

Shivshankar Menon, Director of Ashoka Centre for China Studies, New Delhi

A reflection on diplomacy and power

Paulo Rangel, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Portugal

       Coffee-break at 15h30  

How are technological advances in AI, automation and big data affecting employment and regulation? Can globalisation thrive with protectionism, industrial policies? Are inequalities decreasing globally while increasing within countries?

Branko Milanovic, Senior Scholar at Stone Center, New York (online)

Catarina Barata, Researcher at Institute for Systems and Robotics, IST-UL, Lisbon

Karim El Aynaoui, Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South, Rabat

Kathy Peach, Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, London

Luís Pais Antunes, President of the Economic and Social Council, Lisbon

A conversation about how opera mirrors rupture and conflict (with a piano)

Bruno Meneses Ribeiro, 1st Opera Tenor, Lisbon & Rome
Conceição Lino, Senior Journalist at SIC TV, Lisbon

Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon

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