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Agenda
FFD MULTI-STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATIONS ON SYSTEMIC ISSUES
May 18-19, 2005
New York, NY
Organized by Civil Society
New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
In Cooperation with the UN Financing for Development Office
Co-Sponsored by
Foreign Ministry of Sweden, Commonwealth Foundation, UN
Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Location: United Nations
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
9:30 am - 1:00 pm: Conference Room 9, Level B1, Main UN Building
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: UN Conference Room DC2, 2 UN Plaza (entrance
on 44th Street), 23rd Floor
9:30 am Welcome and
Opening Session
Speakers: José Antonio Ocampo,
Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, UN-DESA
Jo Marie Griesgraber, Chair, New Rules for Global Finance
Coalition
10:00 am Session I: Crisis
Prevention: Borrowing in Local Currency and a New International
Debt Framework
Moderator: José Antonio Ocampo,
Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, UN-DESA
Speaker:
Randall Dodd, Director, Financial Policy Forum
Frank Schroeder, Senior Economist, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
11:30 am Session II: Governance
and Credit During Crisis
Moderator: Oscar de Rojas, Director, Financing
for Development Office,
UN-DESA
Speaker:
Karin Lissakers, Adviser to the Chairman, Soros Fund Management
Oscar Ugarteche, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico
1:00 pm Lunch: Labor Issues and
Development (by invitation)
Private Dining Room 1
Speaker: Sandra
Polaski, Senior Associate and Director, Trade, Equity and
Development Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Washington, D.C.
3:00 pm Session III:
Counter-Cyclical Policies (UN Conference Room DC2, 2 UN
Plaza (entrance on 44th Street), 23rd Floor)
Moderator:
Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Director, Economic Affairs, Commonwealth
Secretariat
Speaker: José Antonio
Ocampo, Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs,
UN-DESA
5:00 pm Reception at
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, (by invitation)
823 United Nations Plaza, Suite 711,
New York, NY 10017
Thursday, May 19, 2005
UN
Conference Room DC2
2
UN Plaza (entrance on 44th Street)
23rd
Floor
9:30 am Session IV:
Governance: Financial Stability Forum, Bank for International
Settlements, Basel Committees
Moderator: Aldo Caliari,
Coordinator, Rethinking Bretton Woods Project,
Center of Concern
Speaker:
Roy Culpeper, President, North-South Institute
10:45 am Session V: Private Sector
Issues in Low Income Countries
Moderator: Michael Isimbabi,
Principal, Capital Researchers, LLC
Speaker:
Julius Okara, Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA)
12:00 pm Lunch Open
2:00 pm Session VI: Commodities:
Systemic Issues and Risk Management Policies
Moderator: Jo Marie
Griesgraber, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
Speaker:
Carlos Valderrama, Head Economist, International Cotton Advisory
Committee (ICAC)
Randall Dodd, Director, Financial Policy Forum
3:30 pm Session VII:
Slowing Capital Flight: Bank Transparency
Moderator: Rev. Seamus Finn,
Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and Chair,
Inter-Faith Center for Corporate Responsibility
Speaker:
David Spencer, Tax Justice Network
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