Agenda
Iran and the West: Oil, Sanctions, and Future Scenarios
SAIS – CTR
June 26, 2012
Program
9:00 – 9:15 Light Breakfast
9:15 – 9:30 Welcoming Remarks – Ambassador Andras Simonyi (Managing Director, SAIS CTR)
9:30 – 11:00 Panel I Energy and Politics: Myths and Reality of a Complex Interaction
Speakers:
- Claudia Castiglioni (Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow – SAIS CTR)
- Sara Vakhoshouri (President of SVB Energy International and former Advisor to Director of the National Iranian Oil Company International)
- Guy Caruso (Senior adviser in the Energy and National Security Program at CSIS, former administrator of the Energy Information Administration)
Moderator:
- Robert J. Lieber (Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University)
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 12:45 Panel II The future of Iran-West Relations: a Transatlantic Perspective
Speakers:
- Ambassador Carlos Pascual (Special Envoy, State Department’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs) has been invited
- Christian Burgsmueller (Counselor, Head, Transport, Energy, Environment and Nuclear Matters Section, EU Delegation in DC)
- Abbas Maleki (Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at Center for International Studies, MIT)
Moderator:
- Suzanne Maloney (Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution)
