Agenda

• Annual Meeting agenda

2005 Annual Meeting
Western Leadership in the Global Economy

Govs. Rounds, Schweitzer, Napolitano and Owens, Premier Doer and Gov. Huntsman.

Policy Resolutions

• Resolutions Approved at the Annual Meeting

Photos

• Annual Meeting Photos

Press Releases

• Western Governors Elect Napolitano Chair, Rounds Vice Chair and Adopt Policy Resolutions (6/14/05)
• Western Governors, Secretary of Energy Discuss Energy Goals, Boosting Clean and Diversified Sources (6/14/05)
• Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico Team up to Protect Forests, Reduce Wildfire Risk (6/13/05)
• Western Governors Call on Congress to Make Common-Sense Reforms to ESA; Council Created to Help Conserve Sagebrush Ecosystem, Sage Grouse (6/13/05)
• Continuing Economic Momentum Focus of Western Governors’ Annual Meeting (6/12/05)
  
• Western Governors to Discuss the Economy, Energy and Trade at Annual Meeting June 12 - 14 (5/13/05)

Briefing Materials

• Speakers biographies
  
  AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS

  June 12

  1:30 p.m. – Opening Press Conference

  2 p.m. - Plenary I: The Western Economy and U.S. Economic Growth

• Joel Kotkin, acclaimed author, speaker and futurist
• Deborah Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness
• Luther Propst, Executive Director, Sonoran Institute

Topics:

· How Western industries propel the U.S. economy and what state policies foster critical innovation and entrepreneurship.

· What Western industries will be a key part of future Western and U.S. economic growth?

June 13

9:15 a.m. - Keynote Address: U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns

9:45 a.m. - Plenary II: International Trade and the West

• Secretary Johanns
• Oded Shenkar, Professor and Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management, Ohio State University
• John Audley, Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund
• Pete Coors, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Molson Coors

Topics:

· The value of international trade to the Western U.S. economy.
· Barriers to increasing trade for the West.
· Future opportunities and challenges the West should be moving toward.

11 a.m. - Keynote Address: U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson

June 14

9 a.m. - Keynote Address: U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman

9:30 a.m. - Plenary III: North American Energy Independence

• Robert Ebel, Energy Program Chairman for the Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Brett Clayton, CEO of Kennecott Energy
• Sue Tierney, Principal, the Analysis Group

Topics:

· Promising technologies and resources to deliver reliable, affordable and clean energy.

· Public policies necessary to facilitate a move toward greater energy independence.

· How will global energy supply and demands impact the North American energy market.

11 a.m. - Board of Directors Meeting

Policy resolutions will be adopted and a new chairman and vice chairman elected.

11:45 a.m. - Closing Press Conference