the EU bank

• Welcome address: Paavo Tapio Lipponen, Speaker of the Parliament of Finland
• Opening address: Philippe Maystadt, President of the EIB

• Chairman: Wolfgang Roth, EIB Vice-President
• Keynote speech: Günter Verheugen, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry

• Speakers:
  • Mauri Pekkarinen, Minister of Trade and Industry, Finland
  • Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of BRUEGEL, Brussels European and Global; Economic Laboratory; Professor of Economics, University Paris Dauphine; Member of the French Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, France
  • John Dryden, Deputy Director for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
• Q&A SESSION

• Chairman: Ivan Pilip, EIB Vice-President

• Speakers:
  • Tero Ojanperä, Senior Vice-President and Chief Strategy Officer, Nokia, Finland
  • C. Ian Ragan, Executive Consultant, European Scientific Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company Limited, United States
  • Prof. R.V. Rajakumar, Dean of Academic Affairs, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

• Moderator: John Thornhill, European Editor, Financial Times

• Ivan Pilip
• Jean Pisani-Ferry
• Tero Ojanperä
• C. Ian Ragan
• Prof. R.V. Rajakumar

Official dinner in Royal Hall at CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL

• Guest speaker: Matti Klinge, Professor of History, Finland
  

• Chairman: Philippe de Fontaine Vive, EIB Vice-President

• Keynote speech: Janez Potočnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research

• Speakers:
  • Philippe Pouletty, French Innovation Council, France
  • Carlos Martínez Alonso, President of the State’s Scientific Research Board (CSIC), Spain
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher, Director of the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, University of Ulm, Germany; Member of the Club of Rome
  • Prof. Carlo Rizzuto, President, Sincrotrone Trieste in Area Science Park, Italy

• Q&A SESSION

• Chairman: Sauli Niinistö, EIB Vice-President

• Speakers:
  • Johnny Åkerholm, President and CEO, Nordic Investment Bank (NIB)
  • Thomas Hackett, Director General for Lending operations in Europe, EIB
  • Auvo Kaikkonen, CEO, Inion, Finland
  • Francis Carpenter, CEO, European Investment Fund (EIF)

• Q&A SESSION
  

• Eero Heinäluoma, Minister of Finance, Finland