UK-Japan 21st Century Group
The 16th Group Conference was held on March 3-5, 2000, at the Warren House in Kingston-upon-Thames in England. Thirty-six of the Group's members discussed issues related to bilateral cooperation on economic and security issues, as well as the common challenges facing the countries, such as enviornmental degradation in Europe and Asia, and the social and economic impact of the information technology (IT) revolution.
Agenda
Friday, March 3 | |
Session I: UK and Japanese Political and Economic Development
Speakers:• Martin Taylor, Chairman of W.H Smith plc; Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs • Hideo Otake, Professor, Kyoto University • Tadahiro Sekimoto, Senior Member of the Board, NEC Corporation • Tadashi Yamamoto, President, Japan Center for International Exchange | |
Saturday, March 4 | |
Session II: Demography, Health, and Retirement
Speakers:• Lord Laming, Former Chief Inspector, Social Services, Department of Health • Robin Rowland, International Adviser, Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Group plc; Adviser, LinksJapan • Shinji Fukukawa, Chief Executive Officer, Dentsu Institute for Human Studies | |
Session III: New Economic Challenges
E-commerce and the growth of the Internet
Speakers:• Jim Norton, Head of Electronic Business, Institute of Directors and E-Commerce Adviser to the Cabinet Office • Sir Alan Budd, Provost of the Queen's College, Oxford • Kiyoshi Yamakawa, Corporate Adviser, Sony Corporation; Chairman of Working Party on E-Commerce of EU/Japan Business Round Table | |
Sunday, March 5 | |
| Session IV: Bilateral Relations and Communiqué | |