Preliminary Programme
(Subject to change)
Kingsman EU Sugar Seminar
Wednesday 21st March 2012, Geneva
08.00
Registration
09.00
Welcome Address -
Jonathan Kingsman
Session One:
Keynote speakers
09.05
Update on EU affairs
Martin van Driel,
Head of Sugar Sector at the European Commission
09.30
Perspectives for the EU beet Growers
Elisabeth Lacoste,
The International Confederation of
European Beet Growers (CIBE)
09.50
View of the quota sugar buyers
Robert Guichard
, Committee of European Users of Sugar (CIUS)
10.10
Floor debate
10.30
Morning Refreshments
Session Two:
Alternatives to beet/beat
11.00
View of the isoglucose producers
Juliette Jacques,
Deputy Managing Director of the AAF representing the European Starch Industry*
11.20
Refineries: challenges and opportunities for the future
Joao Pereira,
Chairman of the European Sugar Refiners'
Association (ESRA)
11.40
ACP sugar producing Group
Geo Govinden,
Overseas Representative, Mauritius Chamber of
Agriculture & Mauritius Sugar Syndicate
12.00
Floor debate
12.30
Lunch - sponsored by Energy Commerce BV
Session Three:
The EU market in the context of the world market
14.00
The World market
Omar al-Dahhan,
Louis Dreyfus Commodities
14.20
The EU market
Julian Price,
President of the European Association of Sugar
Traders (ASSUC)
14.40
EU White Sugar Trade in a Global Context
Peter de Klerk
,
Czarnikow
15.00
Floor debate
15.30
Refreshment Break
Session Four:
Thinking out of the box
16.00
The EU seen from afar
Abhijit Roy,
AGM Corporate Affairs, Al Khaleej
16.20
Ethanol in the EU
Roland Cuni,
Deputy Director of CGB
(Confederation of the French beet growers)
16.40
Fair-trade sugar
Monika Berresheim-Kleinke,
Global Product Manager Sugar of Fairtrade International*
17.00
Beet sugar, cane sugar and isoglucose – winners and losers
Martin Todd,
LMC international
17.20
Floor debate
17.45
Closing comments - Jonathan Kingsman / Fabienne Pointier
18.00
Cocktail party
