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07:30 – 09:30 |
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Lobby Council Room |
Room CR (Council Room) |
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09.30 - 12.30 |
Plenary opening session |
Chairperson: Dr. Supachai
Panitchpakdi — WTO Director-General > Opening
statement
Speakers:
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Pascal Lamy — EU Trade Commissioner > Paper
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The Hon. Clement J. Rohee M.P. — Minister of Foreign Trade and
International Co-operation, Guyana > Paper
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Niall FitzGerald — Chairman and CEO, Unilever > Paper
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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz — Executive Director, Tebtebba
Foundation and member of the World Commission on the Social
Dimension of Globalization
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Eveline Herfkens — UN Secretary-General's Executive
Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals > Paper
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12.30 – 15.00 |
Break |
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(1) “Trade in Agriculture”
> Workshop details |
Room CR |
Organizers: WTO
Moderator: Larry Elliot — Guardian,
Economic Editor
Speakers:
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H.E. Miguel Santiago Campos — Secretary for Agriculture,
Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Argentina
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Mary Minch — Director, DG Agriculture, EC
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Jack Wilkinson — President, International Federation of
Agricultural Producers
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Carlo Trojan — EU ambassador
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Joachim von Braun — Director-General, International
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Food Policy Research Institute, US
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Ignasi Carreras — Executive Director, Intermon OXFAM > Powerpoint
Presentation
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Organizers: Global Unions |
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14.00 – 15.45 |
“Policy Coherence — The report of the World Commission on the
Social Dimension of Globalisation” |
Room W |
Moderator: Giampiero Alhadeff — Solidar
Speakers:
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Guy Ryder — General Secretary, ICFTU (1)
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Eduardo Varela — Mission of Argentina, Geneva
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Representative of developing country Mission
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Bettina Doeser — DG Trade, European Commission
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Marita Hutjes — NOVIB, Netherlands
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15.45 – 17.00 |
“Policy Coherence Initiatives: Growth, Trade and Employment” |
Room W |
Moderator: Mike Waghorne — Public
Services International
Speakers:
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John Evans — TUAC (2)
, OECD
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Neil Kearney — ITGLWF (3)
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(3) “Capacity Building — Innovative Ideas for Humane and
Sustainable Development” |
Room D |
Organizers: HSUS (8)
Moderator: Mary Estelle Ryckman —
Assistant USTR for Trade Capacity Building
Speakers:
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H.E. Francisco Lima — Ambassador of El Salvador to the WTO
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Adolfo A. Franco — Assistant Administrator, USAID
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Patricia A. Forkan — Executive Vice President, HSUS
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H.E. Ronald Saborio, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the WTO
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14.00 - 18.00 |
(4) “What is Africa's role in the Multilateral Trading System”
> Workshop details |
Room F |
Organizer: ICTSD (4), AITIC
(5)
Opening: Beatrice Chaytor — ICTSD
Governing Board Member
Roundtable I “Africa and the
Trading System: Between Multilateralism, Bilateralism and
Regionalism”
Speakers:
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Sisule Musungu — South Centre, Geneva
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Peter Naray — ITC (6)
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Géo Govinden — Permanent Mission of Mauritius, Brussels,
Belgium
Roundtable II “Africa in the
Trading System: Facilitating Strategic Integration”
Speakers:
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Samuel Gayi — UNCTAD
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Iba Mar Oularé — Permanent Mission of Senegal, Geneva
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Hezron Omare Nyangito — KIPPRA (7), Kenya
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Falou Samb — AITIC
Roundtable III “Building
Trade Policy Capacity in Africa”
Speakers:
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Mena Hassan — WTO
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Nicolas Imboden — IDEAS Centre
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Chandrakant Patel — SEATINI
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18.00 - 20.00 |
Reception for all participants in the lobby of the council room |
Wednesday, 26 May back
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(5) “WTO Agricultural Negotiations: Addressing farmers' needs”
> Workshop details
> Paper |
Room CR I |
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Organizers: International Farmers'
Coalition for Fair and Equitable Agricultural Trade Rules at the
WTO
Moderator: Jacques Bourgeois —
Swiss Farmers Union
Speakers:
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Heidi Bravo — Swiss Farmers Union > PowerPoint
Presentation
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Désiré Proqué — ROPPA
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Robert Friessen — Canadian Federation of Agriculture
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Hyungsung Hwang — National Agricultural Cooperative Federation
of Korea > Paper
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Ricardo Serra Arias — COPA-COGECA, EU > Paper
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Raul Montemayor — Federated Free Farmers' Coop, the Phillipines
> Paper
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Ichiya-Takuo — Ja Zenchu, Japan
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Kari Redse Haskjold — Norwegian Farmers Union
> Paper
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(6) “Regional Trade Agreements: Challenges and Opportunities” |
Room CR II |
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Organizers: WTO
Moderator: Guy de Jonquières —
World Trade Editor, Financial Times
Speakers:
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H.E. Alejandro Jara — Ambassador of Chile to the WTO
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Carlos Bulgheroni — CEO, Bridas Corporation, Argentina
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Dr. James Mathis — University of Amsterdam > PowerPoint
Presentation
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Carlos Primo Braga — Senior Adviser, International Trade
Department, The World Bank
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Organizers: CUTS — CITEE (9)
Moderator: Dr. Razeen Sally —
London School of Economics
Speakers:
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H.E. Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa — Ambassador of Brazil to the
WTO
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H.E. Toufiq Ali — Ambassador of Bangladesh to the WTO
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Lakshmi Puri — UNCTAD
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Werner Corrales — Senior fellow, ICTSD
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Nagesh Kumar — Director General, Research and Information System
for Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(8) “Environmental Requirements and Market Access: An update on
policy and practice — inside and outside the WTO”
> Workshop details |
Room D |
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Organizers: UNCTAD, STIC (10),
IISD (11)
Moderator: David Runnalls —
President, IISD
“Overview of the State of Play”
“Gaps in the Policy Framework”
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Ulrich Hoffmann — UNCTAD
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Steven Porter — CIEL
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Paulo Ferracioli — Head, INMETRO (12)
> Paper
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Shashi Sareen — Director, Indian Export Council
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Claus Sorensen — DG Environment, European Commission
Summary
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(9) “Does the WTO still enjoy priority?”
> Workshop details |
Room E |
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Organizers: UNICE (13),
BDI (14)
Moderator: Peter Naray —
International Trade Center
Speakers:
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Reinhard Quick — UNICE
> Paper
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Rodolphe Munoz — University of Liege
> Paper
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T.S. Vishwanath — Confederation of Indian Industry
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Herbert Oberhänsli — Nestlé SA
> Paper
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(10) “Environmental Goods and Services: Towards a Meaningful
Outcome for Sustainable Development”
> Workshop details |
Room A |
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Organizers: ICTSD
Introduction: Ricardo
Melendez-Ortiz — Executive Director ICTSD
Moderator: Amb. Anthony Hill —
Convenor of the Reflexion Group, former Amb. of Jamaica to the
WTO
“Environmental Good and Services”
“Some Tools for a meaningful Sustainable Development Outcome”
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Kevin Gallagher — Tufts University
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Vicente Paolo Yu — South Centre
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Sitanon Jesdapipat — Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(11) “Development Perspectives of the WTO's post-Cancun Agenda” |
Room CR I |
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Organizers: TWN (15)
Speakers:
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(12) “Developing countries in a changing trading system — issues
and challenges” |
Room CR II |
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Organizers: WTO
Moderator: H.E. Ransford Smith —
Ambassador of Jamaica
Speakers:
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Dr. Nagesh Kumar — Director-General, Research and Information
Systems, India > PowerPoint
Presentation
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Dr. Razeen Sally — Head, International Trade Policy Unit —
London School of Economics
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Dr. Matthew Slaughter — Ass. Professor, Tuck School of Business,
Dartmouth University > PowerPoint
Presentation
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(13) “Agricultural negotiations: Formula for Market Access,
Special Products and a Special Safeguard Mechanism” |
Room W |
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Organizers: CIDSE (16), Oxfam International
Moderator: Celine Charveriat —
Oxfam Int., Geneva
Speakers:
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H.E. Felipe de Seixas de Correa — Ambassador of Brazil to the
WTO
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Representative of Indonesia
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Devinder Sharma — Forum on Biotechnology and Food Security,
India
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Luisa Bernal — South Centre
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Panos Konandreas — FAO
> PowerPoint Presentation
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(14) “Trade and Biodiversity — The Need to Find Common Ground”
> Workshop details |
Room D |
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Organizers: IUCN (17), CESP-GEETI
(18), CIEL
(19), RIIA
(20), ICTSD,
UNEP, Precautionary Principle Project
Introduction: Achim Steiner —
Director General, IUCN > Paper
Moderator: Simon Upton — Chair OECD
Roundtable on Sustainable Development
“Agricultural Biodiversity”
“Invasive Alien Species”
“Access and Benefit Sharing”
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Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde — Permanent Mission of Brazil
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Tom Jacob — Head, ICC Taskforce on Access and Benefit Sharing
> Powerpoint Presentation
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(15) “CSR and the WTO: Towards a Fairer Globalization or
'Misguided Virtue'?”
> Workshop details |
Room E |
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Organizers: Geneva Social
Observatory
Moderator: Katherine Hagen —
Director, Geneva Social Observatory
Speakers:
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Auret van Heerden — Executive Director, Fair Labor Association
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Michael Stopford — Syngenta
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Hugh Pullen — DG Trade, European Commission
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Dwight Justice — ICFTU
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Tricia Feeney — Director, Rights and Accountability in
Development
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Organizers: CUTS — CCIER (21)
Moderator: Pradeep Mehta —
Secretary-General, CUTS
Speakers:
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(17) “The future of multilateralism” |
Room CR I |
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Organizers: WTO
Moderator: Herbert Oberhänsli,
Nestlé SA > Paper
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Webcasting: |
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Introduction: Herbert Oberhänsli
Speaker:
Johan Norberg — author of “In Defence of Global Capitalism” |
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Questions and Answers |
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Real Media:
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Speaker: Brian Hocking —
Professor of International Relations, Coventry University,
UK |
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Real Media:
Windows Media:
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Questions and Answers |
(74 minutes) |
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Real Media:
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9.30 - 11.00 |
(18) “Trade, Tourism and progressive poverty alleviation” |
Room CR II |
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Organizers: World Tourism
Organization
Moderator: Geoffrey Lipman, Special
Adviser to SG of World Tourism Organization
Speakers:
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Francesco Frangialli —Secretary General, World Tourism
Organization
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Anil Kumarsingh Gayan — Minister of Tourism and Leisure,
Mauritius
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Ralf Corsten — President, Berlin Messe Gmbh
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H.E. Alejandro Jara — Ambassador of Chile to the WTO
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11.00 – 13.00 |
(19) “Freer Trade: What does it mean for developing countries?”
> Workshop details |
Room CR II |
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Organizers: OECD (28)
Moderator: Guy de Jonquières —
Trade Editor, Financial Times
Speakers:
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H.E. Adrian Macey — Ambassador of New Zealand to the OECD > PowerPoint
Presentation
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Kenneth Heydon — Deputy Director, OECD Trade Directorate > PowerPoint
Presentation > Paper
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Howard Chase — European Roundtable of Industrialists
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H.E. Alejandro Jara — Ambassador of Chile to the WTO
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(20) “How to improve the functioning of the WTO in the short and
in the longer term?” |
Room W |
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Organizers: European Commission,
BDI
Moderator: Erfried Adam —
Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung
Speakers:
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Dr. Guido Glania — BDI
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Céline Charveriat — Oxfam International > Paper
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Kobsak Chutikul — National Parliament of Thailand
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Dr. Richard Senti — Professor, Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
ETH Zürich
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Mr.
Fabian Delcros —
Representative of the European Commission > Paper
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Organizers: ORIGIN (22)
“GIs contribution to Sustainable
Development”
Intro:
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E. Barham — Assistant Professor, Unversity of Missouri)
> Paper
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Zoubida Charrouf — Argan Oil Producers, Morocco
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Jean-Jacques Bret — Director, Comité Interprofessionnel du Comté
(FR) > Paper
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Agnes Nyaga — VP Origin for Africa & Kenyan Tea Board
> Paper
“The case for better GI protection in
the DDA framework”
Intro:
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(22) “Agricultural Subsidies: What are we actually talking
about?”
> Workshop details |
Room E |
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Organizers: IATP (23),
ROPPA (24),
Coordination SUD, CSA (25),
IUF (26)
Moderator: Alexandra Strickner,
IATP Geneva
Speakers:
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Daniel Ugarte de la Torre — University of Tenessee, US
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Jacques Berthelot — Agronomist, France
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Ndiougou Fall — President, ROPPA, Senegal
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Benedicte Hermelin — Research and Technological Exchange Group,
France
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R. Dennis Olson — IATP, US
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10.00 - 13.00 |
(23) “The IMF's role in supporting the Doha Development Agenda” |
Room A |
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Organizers: IMF (27)
Moderator: Stuart Robinson — anc.
Professeur, HEI Genève
Speakers:
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H.E. Toufiq Ali — Ambassador of Bangladesh
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Hans-Peter Lankes — Division Chief, Policy and Development
Review Department, IMF
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(24) “Challenging the Market Access Agenda, Ineffective S&D and
the Flawed Accession Process” |
Room CR I |
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Organizers: Focus on the Global
South
Moderator: Rashid Kaukab — South
Speakers:
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H.E. Nathan Irumba — Ambassador of Uganda
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Aileen Kwa — Focus on the Global South
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Jacques-Chai Chomthongdi — Focus on the Global South
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Devinder Sharma — Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security
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Dr. Ajit Singh — Professor, University of Cambridge
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Jane Kelsey — ARENA, University of Auckland
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(25) “The impact of women in small, medium and micro enterprises
on increasing trade under the WTO Agreements”
> Workshop details |
Room CR II |
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Organizers: CBC (29),
GWIT (30)
Moderator: H.E. Mary Whelan —
Ambassador of Ireland
Speakers:
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Carlos Braga — World Bank
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Barbara Mowat — Impact Communications Ltd.
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Christine Agimba — Chair, OWIT (31),
Kenya > Paper
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Anh-Nga Tran-Nguyen — UNCTAD Gender Focal Point > Paper
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(26) “The GMO dispute — rules, risks and reality” |
Room W |
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Organizers: FOE International (32)
Speakers:
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Liana Stupples — Policy and Campaigns Director, FOE Int. and
Bite Back Campaign
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Vandana Shiva — Director, Research Foundation for Science and
Technology, India
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Alice Palmer — Programme Director, FIELD, UK
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Martin Khor — Director, Third World Network
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Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziahber — Director General, Environmental
Protection Authority, Ethiopia
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Lori Wallach — Public Citizen, US
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(27) “Trade, Technology and Development” |
Room D |
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Organizers: International Policy
Network (IPN)
Moderator: Julian Morris — IPN
Speakers:
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Johan Norberg — author of “In Defence of Global Capitalism”
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Margaret Karembu — University of Nairobi
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Andrew Shoyer — Partner, Sidly, Austin, Brown & Wood
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(28) “Environment and Governance — what role for the WTO?”
> Workshop details |
Room E |
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Organizers: European Commission
Speakers:
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15.00 - 18.00 |
(29) “How to apply Green Box payments for higher animal welfare
standards in a non-trade distortive manner: Some international
case studies” |
Room A |
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Organizers: WSPA (33),
RSPCA (34),
Eurogroup for Animal Welfare
Speakers:
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David Wilkins — WSPA
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David Bowles — RSPCA
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Christina Kaul — Eurogroup
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Nico Bondt — University of Wageningen, NL
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Representative of Agra CEAS Consulting, UK
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Representative of European Commission
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International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation.
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International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.
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Agency for International Trade, Information and Cooperation.
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Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis.
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Humane Society of the US. back to text
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CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment.
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Sustainable Trade and Innovation Centre. back to text
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International Institute for Sustainable Development. back to text
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Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and
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Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe.
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Third World Network.
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International pour le Développement et la
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World Conservation Union.
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IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
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Center for International Environmental Law.
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Royal Institute of International Affairs.
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