2. Issues, questions, objectives

3. Projects of interest
(see below under expert groups)

4. Experts and expert groups

1. Project management..(Hill International) Irvin Richter
2. Project management..(Bechtel)
3. Japan Ministry of Construction,
4. Japanese Global Infrastructure Foundation
5. Alexander & Alexander: Len Battifarano
6. Barclays Bank (London): Chris Elliott, heads up transportation -- includes Tagus River Bridge & U.K.'s first toll road project
7. First Boston: Thomas Bradshaw Jr., managing director; former mayor of Raleigh.
8. Japan Development Bank: Funding for Minato Mirai 21
9. German Construction Federation: Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie: Heinreich Weitz, government finance specialist
10. World Bank
11. EBRD: Jacques de Larosière, new president
12. Rothschild & Cie. Banque (France): Jean-Louis Vinciguerra, general partner.
13. International Finance Corporation: Guy Pfeffermann, director of Economics Department; Everett J. Santos, Dir., Dept. of Infrastructure
14. Asian Development Bank (ADB): Günther Schulz, vice president for finance and administration, Kazakhstan projects
15. Goldman Sachs: Robert Cenci, VP Project Finance; Kenneth Olson, VP Public Finance
16. Fluor Corporation: Mack Torrence, VP Project Finance
17. Lehman Brothers: Jacob J. Worenklein, managing director, Head, Global Project Finance
18. Kidder Peabody: Laurie Mahon, Senior Vice President
19. Morgan Stanley: Maria Richter, Vice President
20. International Project Management Academy (NJ)
21. Canary Wharf Experience: Richard Griffiths, RWG Associates, London

5. Previous presentations and available documents
Global Super Projects Conference Discussion Groups - 1992
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
Reports by three discussion groups - Project Risk and Finance; Technology Management and Planning; and Issues and Directions - at the 1992 Global Super Projects Conference.

Kansai Area Super Projects
Tadahiko Kawamoto
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
The Kansai area of Japan, centered on Osaka, has been bustling with the development of a number of major super projects.

Mega-Project Issues and Outlook
Cordell W. Hull, Bechtel Corporation
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
Analysis of the characteristics of super mega-projects and mega-programs and the world-wide outlook for mega-projects in the 1990s.

Opening Statement
McKinley Conway, World Development Council Chairman
1994 Global Super Projects Conference
Opening statement given by Chairman McKinley Conway at the Global Super Projects Conference and Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, June 19-22, 1994.

Opening Statement
McKinley Conway, World Development Council Chairman
1993 Global Super Projects Conference
Opening statement at the Global Super Projects Conference and Exhibition in Singapore, March 8-10, 1993.

Planning and Managing Large-Scale Development: The Six-Year Development Plan for Taiwan, Republic of China
Arthur Chen, Executive Secretary, Public Construction Supervisory Board, Taiwan
1993 Global Super Projects Conference
The Six-Year National Development Plan now being pushed forward in Taiwan has attracted attention all over the world since its inception in 1991. In this paper, the Six-Year Plan is introduced and the procedures in relation to project planning and approval are presented.

Super Project Issues and Directions
John Reardon, Boulder/Longmont (Colo.) Economic Dev. Agency
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
Discussion of the direct and indirect impacts of global super projects.

Superproject Risk Management - Focus On The Team
Ernest C. Brown, Esq., P.E. President, Project Risk Associates, Irvine California
This paper focuses on building the risk management team. The author states the main reason for project failure is failure to identify critical risks, and that superprojects are inherently riskier projects than normal-scale construction and development programs.

Synopsis of Proceedings - Global Super Projects Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 16-19, 1992
James A. Oliver Bsc
1992 Site World
A synopsis of the first Global Super Projects Conference including summaries of the keynote addresses and various workshop programs.

The World Development Council Aims for the Future
McKinley Conway, WDC Chairman
Site World, 1992
The Chairman of the World Development Council (WDC) outlines the fuure strategy and challenges of the WDC.

Tsunamis of Change
James A. Dator, President, World Future Society
1992 Global Super Projects Conference
The president of the World Future Society sees the future as approaching us in the form of huge tsunamis for which we are wholly unprepared as a society, and largely unprepared individually.

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