Ahead of the G20 and G7 Summits: Debating Global Governance on Trade and Digital Affairs

This conference brings together Japanese and French speakers to discuss, before the G7 and G20 summits, two key issues for global governance: trade and digital issues. The first panel will address the question of how to restore a global governance for trade in a context of protectionism and unilateralism. The second panel will focus on the issue of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the need to establish a global governance for the use of new technologies.

Programme

9:30-9:45 – Welcome remarks: Martin-Pierre CHARLIAT, Desk Officer, G7 Task Force - 2019 French Presidency, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

9:45-11:00 – Trade governance in the age of trade war: is a reset possible?

Chair: Sébastien JEAN, Director, CEPII

• Françoise NICOLAS, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
• Yoichi OTABE, Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, former sherpa G8/G20
• Akiko YAMANAKA, Special Advisor to the President of ERIA (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia)

11:00-11:15- Coffee Break

11:15-12:30 – Governing the 4^th industrial revolution: challenges for governments and companies

Chair: John SEAMAN, Research fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

• Yuko HARAYAMA, Former Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
• Henri VERDIER, France’s Ambassador for Digital Affairs
• Patrick NICOLET, Group Chief Technology Officer - Member of the Group Executive Board, Capgemini