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Regional High-Level Consultative Forum on the Impacts of the International Financial Crisis on the ESCWA Member Countries: the Way Forward

05
-
07
May
2009
Location: 
Damascus


 

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