Global Redesign Hearing on Energy Security in Doha

20.11.09 The Global Redesign Initiative of the World Economic Forum held a two-day "Country Hearing" on Global Cooperation and Energy Security in Doha (Qatar) on 18 and 19 November. The event was co-hosted and co-organized with the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is part of a series of meetings held in each of the three patron countries of the initiative, Qatar, Singapore and Switzerland. Thirty-five experts from business, academia and international organizations discussed possible reforms of global governance for energy security, the future of oil and gas, water security and nuclear energy. The insights from the hearing will be used to develop and refine proposals for better global cooperation in the next months. The Country Hearing in Switzerland was held in Geneva on 16 October 2009 (on global institutions and global governance). The hearing in Singapore will take place on 2 and 3 December 2009 (on Asia’s contribution to the redesign of global governance).

Videos

Opening of the Country Hearing with Abdulaziz Alansari (Director of Industrial Security Affairs at the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Qatar), Richard Samans (Managing Director at the World Economic Forum) and Mohammed Abdulla M. Al Rumaihi (Assistant Foreign Minister of Follow-Up Affairs of Qatar): Lord Malloch-Brown, a former UNDP Administrator and UN Deputy Secretary-General, who is now the Senior Advisor to the Global Redesign Initiative, explains the objectives and the purpose of the inititiave:

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