International conference centre, Geneva, Switzerland
On 16-17 March 2009 the Energy Pact Foundation will be holding the Energy Pact Conference in Geneva.
The Conference is organised with the support of the Republic and Canton of Geneva and has the Financial Times as its media partner. It will address for the first time in a comprehensive and integrated manner the key issues of energy needs and environmental and developmental challenges.
Some 800 stakeholders and experts on these issues are expected. These will include high-level government officials, opinion leaders and representatives from the United Nations, NGOs, industry, civil society and the academic world.
Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany, will chair the Conference. Speakers with different backgrounds and expertise will include Dr. Carlo Rubia, Nobel Prize Winner, Ali Al-Naimi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia, Gholam Hossein Nozari, Oil Minister of Iran, Gary Ross, CEO of PIRA Energy, a world-renowned energy market specialist, Ashok Khosla, President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and President of the Club of Rome, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair, International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, academics from MIT and Harvard, as well as visionaries such as Johan Galtung, and the Swiss aeronaut Bertrand Piccard.
Please note that, while registration for the conference is free, the number of available seats is limited. If you can make it, we therefore strongly recommend that you rapidly confirm your participation by registering by Wednesday 11 March 2009 at the latest. Please mention in the section "invited by" that you are invited by Maja Gosovic Rekovic. For the latest information on the conference, please visit
by PH Department