FIRST

Priorities for Sydney and beyond

Antonio del Rosario

Former Chairman, WEC Executive Assembly

A time for consensus and action

Gerald Doucet

Secretary General, WEC

The outlook to 2025

Philip Aiken

Group President, Energy, BHP Billiton

Defining future energy needs

Norberto de Franco Medeiros

Chairman Programme Committee and Chairman, Brazilian Member Committee, WEC

Japan’s power sector reform

Shige-Etsu Miyahara

Vice Chairman (Asia) WEC

Simplicity and diversity

HE Dr Purnomo Yusgiantoro

President and Secretary General, OPEC

Technologies for energy security

Hon Spencer Abraham

Secretary of Energy, United States of America

Strategic role for hydropower

Dilma Vana Rousseff

Minister of Energy and Mines, Federative Republic of Brazil

Sustainability and security

Laurens Jan Brinkhorst

Minister of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands

Nigeria comes of age

Dr Edmund Daukoru

Presidential Advisor on Petroleum and Energy and Alternate Chaiman, NNPC

Renewables and Asia’s energy mix

Tadao Chino

President, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Energy’s investment appetite

Claude Mandil

Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Egypt’s energy potential

HE Sameh Samir Fahmy

Minister of Petroleum & Natural Resources, Egypt

Europe at crossroads

Pierre Gadonneix

Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gaz de France

Diversification holds key to growth

Alfonso Cortina

Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Repsol YPF

Sustainability: it’s all in the mix

William H Timbers

President and Chief Executive Officer, USEC Inc

Russia’s energy reform

Anatoly Chubais

Chairman of the Management Board, RAO “UES of Russia”

The lessons of liberalisation

Paolo Scaroni

Chief Executive Officer and Director General, Enel

Plugging Africa’s energy gap

Noureddine Boutarfa

President, Sonelgaz

Re-defining the role of business

Thulani Gcabashe

Chief Executive, Eskom

Leading the way in biofuels

Ildo Sauer

Gas and Energy Director, Petrobras

Re-energising nuclear power

Joe F Colvin

President & CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute

Managing national assets

Alí Rodríguez Araque

Former President and CEO, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA)

New demand for coal and uranium

Preston Chiaro

Chief Executive, Energy, Rio Tinto

Innovation and efficiency

Klaus Voges

President, Siemens Power Generation Group

Strength in diversity

Gérard Mestrallet

Chairman and Chief Executive, SUEZ

Delivering sustainability

André Caillé

Chairman, World Energy Council Executive Assembly

Challenges to emissions trading

Richard Wilson

Global Industry Leader Energy, Chemicals and Utilities Ernst & Young

The age of renewable energy

Mohamed T El-Ashry

Former CEO and Chairman, Global Environment Facility

The globalisation of gas

George Verberg

President, International Gas Union

Policies for a dependent Europe

Loyola De Palacio

Former Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Transport & Energy

Economic liberalisation

HE Ilham Aliyev

President, Republic of Azerbaijan

Message

Rt Hon Tony Blair MP

Prime Minister, United Kingdom

Message

House of Lords

Democracy and independence

Dr Elmar Mamedyarov

Foreign Minister, Republic of Azerbaijan

Regional integration

Aliyev F Arhad Shovlet Oglu

Economic Minister, Republic of Azerbaijan

Favourable economic outlook

Avaz Alekperov

Minister of Finance, Republic of Azerbaijan

The economic role of tourism

Dr A Garayev

Minister of Youth, Culture and Tourism, Republic of Azerbaijan

Investing for the future

Samir Rauf Oglu Sharifov

Executive Director, State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan

A national development bank

Jahangir Hajiyev

Chairman of the Board, International Bank of Azerbaijan

A legacy of cooperation

HE Rafael Ibrahimov

Azerbaijani Ambassador to the Court of St James’s

Westminster view

Sir Patrick Cormack, FSA MP

European round-up

Jonathan Evans, MEP