· Breakfast with Hubert Martin, Labor Advisor to the President of the French Parliament (Assemble Nationale).

· French Foreign Ministry - Nicolas de Riviere, Conseiller au Cabinet Ministre, Michel Foucher, Director, Policy Planning Staff, and Patrick Allard, Policy Planning Staff.

· Banque de France - Marc Olivier Strausse-Kahn - Director General, Bernard Enfrun - Deputy Director General, Ivan Odonnat - Head of International Economic Analysis, and Olivier de Bandt - Head of Unit.

· Bain & Company - Jean-Marie Pean, Director

· Stephen Pierce, Managing Director, American Chamber of Commerce in Paris