Institut du Bosphore intends to maintain a strong presence in France on debates regarding Turkey
via organizing several high profile events. In 2010, as an objective platform of free dialogue, Institut
will be active through seminars and conferences apropos global and European affairs, bilateral issues between France and Turkey. The Annual Seminar, organized once a year in Istanbul, brings together French and Turkish personalities from many different worlds: politics, business, finance, sociology, science and academics, providing an excellent opportunity for indepth reflection.
Summary reports of the Institute's events will be available online.
Second annual seminar of Institut du Bosphore
The second annual seminar of Institut du Bosphore took place in Istanbul last June 11th and 12th. It gathered high level personnalities from political, economic and cultural worlds arond the theme of The World & Turkey : New Player, New visions.
Program | Keyspeakers | Photo gallery | Background papers | SpeechesSpeakers
- Alexandre Adler, Historian, Journalist
- Lucien Arkas, Member of TÜSİAD Board of Directors, President of TÜSİAD Country Communication Committee, Chairman of the Arkas Holding Board of Directors
- Egemen Bağış, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator
- Cansen Basaran Symes, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Member of TÜSIAD
Board of Directors - Didier Billion, Representative for the director of Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS)
- Ümit Boyner, President of TÜSIAD
- Monique Canto-Sperber, Philosopher, Director of Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
- Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO, AXA, Co-Chairman, Institut du Bosphore Scientific Committee
- Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and President of Institut Français des Relations
Internationales (IFRI) - Kemal Derviş, Advisor to the Sabancı University, Vice President of Brookings Institution, Co-Chairman, Institut du Bosphore Scientific Committee
- Stéphane Fouks, CEO, HAVAS, Executive Chairman, Euro RSCG Worldwide
- Hüseyin Geliş, CEO, Siemens Turkey
- Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey
- Nedim Gürsel, Lecturer of contemporary Turkish literature at the Sorbonne, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Hubert Haenel, Former President of the Commission for European Affairs of the French Senate
- Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Former Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs, Chairman of Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF)
- Prof. Ali Kazancıgil, Writer of La Turquie, coll. Les idées reçues
- Catherine Lalumière, President of the French Federation of Maisons de l’Europe
- Christophe Leclercq, Publisher and CEO of Euractiv.com
- Pierre Lellouche, Secretary of State for European Affairs
- Pierre Mariani, Chairman of the Management Board, CEO and Member of the Strategy Committee of Dexia SA
- Faik Öztrak, Former Under-Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic of Turkey
- Necdet Pamir, Board Member, World Energy Council Turkish National Committee
- Güler Sabancı, Chairwoman, Sabancı Holding
- Dorothée Schmid, Research Fellow in charge of Turkey Program, Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI)
- Haluk Tükel, President of Institut du Bosphore
- Dr. İlter Turan, Professor, Economics and Administrative Sciences Department, Bilgi University
- Gilles Veinstein, Historian, Turkish and Ottoman History, Collège de France
- Volkan Vural, Member of TÜSİAD Board of Directors, Advisor of Dogan Sirketler Grubu Holding A.S.
- Prof. Dr. Hakan Yılmaz, Chair of Political Science and International Relations Department, Bogazici University
Moderators
- Nicolas Barré, Executive Editor in Chief, Les Echos
- Nicolas Baverez, Lawyer, writer, economist and historian
- Can Buharalı, Vice President of EDAM (Center for economic studies and foreign policy); Managing Partner, Istanbul Economy Consulting
- Bahadır Kaleağası, International Coordinator, TÜSİAD Representation to the European Union and Businesseurope, Brussels
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Görgün Taner, General Director, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (IKSV)


