TENTATIVE AGENDA
DAY ONE, Tuesday 5 May 2009
08:00 - 09:00 REGISTRATION
09:00 - 09:30 OPENING CEREMONY
H.E. Mr. Abdallah Al-Dardari, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Syrian Arab Republic
H.E. Mr. Bader Al Dafa, Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary, UN-ESCWA
Mr. Maurizio Bussi, Deputy Regional Director, ILO
09:30 - 10:15 Press Conference: LAUNCHING OF UN-ESCWA FLAGSHIP PUBLICATION entitled "Annual Review of Developments in Globalization and Regional Integration in Arab Countries, 2008"
H.E. Mr. Tayseer Al-Radawi, Head of the Syrian State Planning Commission
H.E. Mr. Bader Al Dafa, Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary, UN-ESCWA
Mr. Nabil Safwat, Chief, Economic Development and Globalization Division, UN-ESCWA
Press Conference
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 12:45 SESSION ONE: Sectoral Impact of International Financial Crisis on ESCWA Member Countries moderated by Mr. Jomo Kwane Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development and member of the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System (TBC)
Mr. Khaled Hussein, First Economic Affairs Officer, UN-ESCWA
Mr. Mahmoud Abd El Fadil Hussein, Professor of Development Economics, Cairo University
Mr. Salaheddin Abosedra, Regional Advisor, Economic Development, UN-ESCWA
Ms. Nicole Moussa, Investment Trends and Data Section, UNCTAD
Mr. Fadi Khalaf, Secretary General of the Union of Arab Stock Exchanges
Discussion
12:45 - 13:00 COFFEE BREAK
13:00 - 14:30 SESSION TWO: Sectoral Impact of International Financial Crisis on ESCWA Member Countries (ctnd), moderated by Mr. Jan Kregel, Senior Scholar with the Monetary Policy and Financial Structure program at the Levy Economics Institute of Board College and member of the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System (TBC)
Mr. Eckart Woertz, Program Manager Economics, Gulf Research Center
Mr. Bachir Hamdouch, Professor of Economics at the Mohamed V University
Mr. Fouad Shaker, Secretary General, Union of Arab Banks
Mr. Farrukh Iqbal, Sector Manager, MNSED, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Hussein Amach, President of Al Jazeera University (Dair Ezzour, Syria)
Discussion
END OF DAY ONE
DAY TWO, Wednesday 6 May 2009
09:00 - 10:30 SESSION THREE: The Global Response to the Crisis and The United Nations System Response to the Crisis, moderated by M Farrukh Iqbal, Sector Manager, MNSED, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank (TBC)
Mr. Yu Yongding, Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Former Member of Monetary Policy Committee, People's Bank of China and member of the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
Mr. Jan Kregel, Senior scholar with the Monetary Policy and Financial Structure program at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and member of the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
Mr. Hazem Fahmy, Chief, Multistakeholder Unit, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York
Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 13:00 SESSION FOUR: National Responses to the Crisis, moderated by H.E. Mr. Tayseer Al-Radawi, Head of the Syrian State Planning Commission
National Responses: Representatives of ESCWA Member countries
Discussion
13:00 - 13:15 COFFEE BREAK
13:15 - 14:45 SESSION FIVE: Regional Responses to the Crisis, moderated by Mr. Fadi Khalaf, General Secretary of Union of Arab Stock (TBC)
Discussion
END OF DAY TWO
DAY THREE, Thursday 7 May 2009
09:00 - 10:30 SESSION SIX: From a Financial Crisis to a Job Crisis? The Social Impact of the Crisis and Policy Responses in the ESCWA Region, moderated by Ms. Christina Behrendt, Social Security Specialist, ILO
Mr. Issam Maldaoun, Deputy Ministrer of Social Affairs and Labour, Syrian Arab Republic
Mr. Jameel Hmeidan, Undersecretary, Ministry of Labour, Bahrain
Mr. Fahallah Omrani, Union of Textile Workers, Jordan
Mr. Mounir Bsat, Association of Lebanese Industrialists, Lebanon
Mr. Zafiris Tzannatos, Independent Consultant, Lebanon
Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 13:00 SESSION SEVEN: Concluding Remarks and Adoption of Declaration, moderated by Mr. Nabil Safwat, Chief, Economic Development and Globalization Division, ESCWA
Discussion and adoption of the declaration of the Regional High-Level Consultative Forum on the Impacts of the International Financial Crisis on the ESCWA Member Countries: the Way Forward.
END OF THE FORUM