The Tokyo Conference is the most influential high-level track II dialogue on international challenges and global governance in Japan
The Genron NPO will hold the "Tokyo Conference 2021" online on March 22-23, 2021 in collaboration with 10 world's leading thinktanks and globally recognized political leaders.
The Tokyo Conference is the first cross-cutting discussion platform in Japan that addresses global agenda with the world's leading thinktanks representing 10 major democratic countries, which share common international norms and values such as rule-based order, multilateralism, democracy and individual freedom.
The objective is to address various global issues faced by international society through a open discussion, to publicize the fruits of those discussions at home and abroad, and to present the arguments and opinions agreed upon at the Conference to the G7 and G20 chairs and civil society at large.
While there has been the US-China conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have more inward-looking attitudes throughout the world. At the same time, not only international cooperation, but also the liberal order itself are facing challenges. The main theme of the conference is "how to repair our increasingly unstable framework of international cooperation," which was advocated by the Biden Administration. There will be five sessions with difference topics with participations of thinktanks' representatives and former state leaders, such as Christian Wulff, the 10th German President, Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the 12th Secretary General of NATO.
The participating 10 thinktanks are;
- 【Japan】The Genron NPO
- 【United States】Council on Foreign Relations
- 【France】French Institute of International Relations
- 【Canada】Centre for International Governance Innovation
- 【Italy】Istituto Affari Internazionali
- 【United Kingdom】Chatham House, United Kingdom
- 【Germany】German Institute for International and Security Affairs
- 【Singapore】S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies
- 【Brazil】Getulio Vargas Foundation
- 【India】Observer Research Foundation
"Tokyo Conference 2021" on Mar. 22nd and 23rd
as of March 11Organized by The Genron NPO
Supported by The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
Main theme "How do we restore the liberal economic order, democracy, and international cooperation?"
[DAY 1] (Eastern Standard Time)
Date: March 22 (Mon) 5:00 am-10:40 am
Venue: Online
Language: Japanese and English (simultaneous interpretation will be provided.)
Program:
5:00 am - 5:30 am: Opening and Keynote Remarks
Host organization:
Yasushi Kudo, President of The Genron NPO
Katsunobu Kato, Chief Cabinet Secretary, Japan
Yasushi Akashi, Chairman, Kyoto International Conference Center and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
5:30 am - 7:00 am: Session 1 "Can the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy protect peace in Asia?"
Moderator:
Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, India
Panelists:
Yoji Koda, Former Commander-in-Chief of Japan Self Defense Fleet, Vice Admiral (Ret)
Daniel Russel, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute
Rory Medcalf, Head of the National Security College (NSC) , Australian National University
Rakesh Sood, former Prime Minister's special envoy for disarmament and non-proliferation, India
Thinktank participants:
Ong Keng Yong, Executive Deputy Chairman, S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore
Thomas Gomart, Director, French Institute of International Relations
John Nilsson-Wright, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House, United Kingdom
7:00 am - 8:30 am: Session 2 "Post-COVID economic recovery - What difficulties will we face?"
Moderator:
Ettore Greco, Executive Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
Panelists:
Kenji Okamura, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs
Zhu Min, former Deputy Managing Director of the IMF
Adam S. Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics, United States
Rohinton Medhora, President, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, President, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
8:40 am - 10:40 am: Panel discussion "How should democracies around the world work together within the tenets of democracy, peace and the liberal order?"
Moderator:
Yasushi Kudo, President of The Genron NPO, Japan
Thinktank participants:
James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations, United States
Thomas Gomart, Director, French Institute of International Relations
Volker Perthes, Special Representative for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan
Ong KengYong, Executive Deputy Chairman, S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore
Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, President, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
Rohinton Medhora, President, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, India
Ettore Greco, Executive Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
John Nilsson-Wright, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House, United Kingdom
[DAY 2]
Date: March 23 (Tue.) 5:00 am - 9:20 am
Venue: Online
Language: Japanese, English, and French (simultaneous interpretation will be provided.)
Program:
5:00 am - 6:00 am: Keynote Addresses "How do we restore the liberal economic order, democracy, and international cooperation?"
Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, President and CEO of Asia Society
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the 12th Secretary General of NATO, former Prime Minister of Denmark
Yasutoshi Nishimura, Economic Revitalization Minister, Japan
Christian Wulff, the 10th German President
6:00 am - 7:30 am: Panel discussion "How will the world restore international cooperation and the liberal economic order?"
Moderator:
Rohinton Medhora, President, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
Panelists:
Hubert Védrine, former Foreign Minister, France
Takehiko Nakao, former Governor of Asia Development Bank and Chairman of the Institute at Mizuho Research Institute Ltd.
Rufus Yerxa, President of National Foreign Trade Council, and former Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Hassan Wirajuda, former Foreign Minister, Indonesia
Thinktank participants:
Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, India
7:40 am - 9:10 am: Session 3 "COVID-19 : Why did the world mishandle its response to the coronavirus crisis?"
Moderator:
Yasushi Kudo, President of The Genron NPO, Japan
Panelists:
Margaret Chan, Former Director-General of the World Health Organization(WHO)
Hiroshi Oshitani, Professor of Virology at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Jennifer Nuzzo, Senior Scholar of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
David Heymann, former Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment of the World Health Organization
Zheng ZhiJie, K.C. Wong Professor, Chair of the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, and Senior Vice Dean, the Institute for Global Health and Development, Peking University
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