the EU bank

• Philippe Maystadt, President of the EIB
• Henning Scherf, Mayor and President of the Senat of Bremen

Chairperson: Ewald Nowotny, EIB Vice-President 

Speakers:

• Georg Milbradt, State Minister, Ministry of Finance, Saxony, Germany
• Noel Fahey, Ambassador of Ireland to Germany
• Jaroslaw Bauc, Minister of Finance, Poland
• Colin Imrie, Head of Structural Funds Department, Scottish Executive
• Monika Wulf-Mathies, adviser on European policies to Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, and former Member of the European Commission, responsible for Regional Policy

• Welcoming address by Hartmut Perschau, Mayor and Senator of Finance, Bremen
• Guest speaker: Günter Grass, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature 1999

• Introduction by Chairman Alfred Steinherr, Chief Economist, EIB

Speakers:

• Rudolf Schicker, Member of the City Council Vienna, Austria
• Pierre Mayet, Président du Groupe de Coordination Interministériel Sofia Antipolis, France
• Pawel Samecki, Minister, Office of the Committee for European Integration, Poland
• Jean-Charles Leygues, Director, Regional Policy Directorate-General, European Commission
• Ricardo Segura, Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Spain

Speakers:

• Jacques Guerber, CEO, Dexia Crédit Local de France, France
• Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, Board Member of Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, Germany
• Péter Medgyessy, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Inter-Európa Bank Rt., Hungary
• Ari Tolppanen, President and Partner of CapMan Partners, Finland; Chairman of EVCA (European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association)

• Wolfgang Roth, Vice-President of the EIB

• Hans Eichel, Minister of Finance and EIB Governor for Germany