Programme

07:30 – 09:30

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Lobby Council Room

Room CR (Council Room)

• Pascal Lamy — EU Trade Commissioner   > Paper
• The Hon. Clement J. Rohee M.P. — Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation, Guyana   > Paper
• Niall FitzGerald — Chairman and CEO, Unilever   > Paper
• Victoria Tauli-Corpuz — Executive Director, Tebtebba Foundation and member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization
• Eveline Herfkens — UN Secretary-General's Executive Coordinator for the Millennium Development Goals  > Paper

12.30 – 15.00

Break

(1) “Trade in Agriculture”
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• H.E. Miguel Santiago Campos — Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Argentina
• Mary Minch — Director, DG Agriculture, EC
• Jack Wilkinson — President, International Federation of Agricultural Producers
• Carlo Trojan — EU ambassador
• Joachim von Braun — Director-General, International   > Paper
• Food Policy Research Institute, US
• Ignasi Carreras — Executive Director, Intermon OXFAM   > Powerpoint Presentation

(2) “A Fair Globalization”
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“Policy Coherence — The report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation”

• Guy Ryder — General Secretary, ICFTU ⁽¹⁾
• Eduardo Varela — Mission of Argentina, Geneva
• Representative of developing country Mission
• Bettina Doeser — DG Trade, European Commission
• Marita Hutjes — NOVIB, Netherlands

“Policy Coherence Initiatives: Growth, Trade and Employment”

• John Evans — TUAC ⁽²⁾  , OECD
• Neil Kearney — ITGLWF ⁽³⁾

(3) “Capacity Building — Innovative Ideas for Humane and Sustainable Development”

• H.E. Francisco Lima — Ambassador of El Salvador to the WTO
• Adolfo A. Franco — Assistant Administrator, USAID
• Patricia A. Forkan — Executive Vice President, HSUS
• H.E. Ronald Saborio, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the WTO

(4) “What is Africa's role in the Multilateral Trading System”
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Speakers:

• Sisule Musungu — South Centre, Geneva
• Peter Naray — ITC ⁽⁶⁾
• Géo Govinden — Permanent Mission of Mauritius, Brussels, Belgium

Roundtable II “Africa in the Trading System: Facilitating Strategic Integration”

Speakers:

• Samuel Gayi — UNCTAD
• Iba Mar Oularé — Permanent Mission of Senegal, Geneva
• Hezron Omare Nyangito — KIPPRA ⁽⁷⁾, Kenya
• Falou Samb — AITIC

Roundtable III “Building Trade Policy Capacity in Africa”

Speakers:

• Mena Hassan — WTO
• Nicolas Imboden — IDEAS Centre
• Chandrakant Patel — SEATINI

Reception for all participants in the lobby of the council room

10.00 - 13.00

(5) “WTO Agricultural Negotiations: Addressing farmers' needs”
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Room CR I

Organizers: International Farmers' Coalition for Fair and Equitable Agricultural Trade Rules at the WTO
Moderator: Jacques Bourgeois — Swiss Farmers Union
Speakers:

• Heidi Bravo — Swiss Farmers Union  > PowerPoint Presentation
• Désiré Proqué — ROPPA
• Robert Friessen — Canadian Federation of Agriculture
• Hyungsung Hwang — National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of Korea  > Paper
• Ricardo Serra Arias — COPA-COGECA, EU  > Paper
• Raul Montemayor — Federated Free Farmers' Coop, the Phillipines  > Paper
• Ichiya-Takuo — Ja Zenchu, Japan
• Kari Redse Haskjold — Norwegian Farmers Union  > Paper

10.00 - 13.00

(6) “Regional Trade Agreements: Challenges and Opportunities”

Room CR II

Organizers: WTO
Moderator: Guy de Jonquières — World Trade Editor, Financial Times
Speakers:

• H.E. Alejandro Jara — Ambassador of Chile to the WTO

• Carlos Bulgheroni — CEO, Bridas Corporation, Argentina

• Dr. James Mathis — University of Amsterdam  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Carlos Primo Braga — Senior Adviser, International Trade Department, The World Bank

10.00 - 13.00

(7) “South — South Co-operation”
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Room W

Organizers: CUTS — CITEE ⁽⁹⁾
Moderator: Dr. Razeen Sally — London School of Economics
Speakers:

• H.E. Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa — Ambassador of Brazil to the WTO

• H.E. Toufiq Ali — Ambassador of Bangladesh to the WTO

• Lakshmi Puri — UNCTAD

• Werner Corrales — Senior fellow, ICTSD

• Nagesh Kumar — Director General, Research and Information System for Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, New Delhi

10.00 - 13.00

(8) “Environmental Requirements and Market Access: An update on policy and practice — inside and outside the WTO”
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Room D

Organizers: UNCTAD, STIC ⁽¹⁰⁾, IISD ⁽¹¹⁾
Moderator: David Runnalls — President, IISD

“Overview of the State of Play”

• Tom Rotherham — IISD

• Nigel Garbutt — EurepGAP

• Pierre Hauselmann — ISEAL Alliance

“Gaps in the Policy Framework”

• Ulrich Hoffmann — UNCTAD

• Steven Porter — CIEL

• Paulo Ferracioli — Head, INMETRO ⁽¹²⁾  > Paper

• Shashi Sareen — Director, Indian Export Council

• Claus Sorensen — DG Environment, European Commission

Summary

• Ritu Kumar — Exec. Director, STIC

10.00 - 13.00

(9) “Does the WTO still enjoy priority?”
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Room E

Organizers: UNICE ⁽¹³⁾, BDI ⁽¹⁴⁾
Moderator: Peter Naray — International Trade Center
Speakers:

• Reinhard Quick — UNICE  > Paper

• Rodolphe Munoz — University of Liege  > Paper

• T.S. Vishwanath — Confederation of Indian Industry

• Herbert Oberhänsli — Nestlé SA  > Paper

10.00 - 13.00

(10) “Environmental Goods and Services: Towards a Meaningful Outcome for Sustainable Development”
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Room A

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”

• Sudhakar Dalela — Permanent Mission of India to the WTO

• Marta-Pia Hernandez — Permanent Mission of Nicaragua to the WTO

• Ronald Steenblik — OECD

• Tom Crompton — WWF, UK

“Some Tools for a meaningful Sustainable Development Outcome”

• Kevin Gallagher — Tufts University

• Vicente Paolo Yu — South Centre

• Sitanon Jesdapipat — Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

13.00 – 15.00

Break

15.00 - 18.00

(11) “Development Perspectives of the WTO's post-Cancun Agenda”

Room CR I

Organizers: TWN ⁽¹⁵⁾
Speakers:

• Tim Rice — Actionaid UK

• Meenakshi Raman — TWN, Malaysia

15.00 - 18.00

(12) “Developing countries in a changing trading system — issues and challenges”

Room CR II

Organizers: WTO
Moderator: H.E. Ransford Smith — Ambassador of Jamaica
Speakers:

• Dr. Nagesh Kumar — Director-General, Research and Information Systems, India  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Dr. Razeen Sally — Head, International Trade Policy Unit — London School of Economics

• Dr. Matthew Slaughter — Ass. Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University  > PowerPoint Presentation

15.00 - 18.00

(13) “Agricultural negotiations: Formula for Market Access, Special Products and a Special Safeguard Mechanism”

Room W

Organizers: CIDSE ⁽¹⁶⁾, Oxfam International
Moderator: Celine Charveriat — Oxfam Int., Geneva
Speakers:

• H.E. Felipe de Seixas de Correa — Ambassador of Brazil to the WTO

• Representative of Indonesia

• Devinder Sharma — Forum on Biotechnology and Food Security, India

• Luisa Bernal — South Centre

• Panos Konandreas — FAO  > PowerPoint Presentation

15.00 - 18.00

(14) “Trade and Biodiversity — The Need to Find Common Ground”
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Room D

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”

• Alejandro Nadal — Professor, El Colegio de México

• Heidi Bravo — Swiss Farmers Union

“Invasive Alien Species”

• Richard Tarasofsky — RIIA  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Paul Martin — Permanent Mission of Canada

“Access and Benefit Sharing”

• Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde — Permanent Mission of Brazil

• Tom Jacob — Head, ICC Taskforce on Access and Benefit Sharing  > Powerpoint Presentation

15.00 - 18.00

(15) “CSR and the WTO: Towards a Fairer Globalization or 'Misguided Virtue'?”
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Room E

Organizers: Geneva Social Observatory
Moderator: Katherine Hagen — Director, Geneva Social Observatory
Speakers:

• Auret van Heerden — Executive Director, Fair Labor Association

• Michael Stopford — Syngenta

• Hugh Pullen — DG Trade, European Commission

• Dwight Justice — ICFTU

• Tricia Feeney — Director, Rights and Accountability in Development

15.00 - 18.00

(16) “Multilateral Competition Framework: Where and how?”
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Room A

Organizers: CUTS — CCIER ⁽²¹⁾
Moderator: Pradeep Mehta — Secretary-General, CUTS
Speakers:

• Philippe Brusick — Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Frederic Jenny — Conseil de la Concurrence, France

• Robert Anderson — WTO Secretariat  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Phil Evans — Consumer Association, UK

• Taimoon Stewart — University of West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Patrick Krauskopf — Competition Commission, Switzerland  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Josef Drexl — Professor, University of Munich  > PowerPoint Presentation

10.00 - 13.00

(17) “The future of multilateralism”

Room CR I

9.30 - 11.00

(18) “Trade, Tourism and progressive poverty alleviation”

Room CR II

Organizers: World Tourism Organization
Moderator: Geoffrey Lipman, Special Adviser to SG of World Tourism Organization
Speakers:

• Francesco Frangialli —Secretary General, World Tourism Organization

• Anil Kumarsingh Gayan — Minister of Tourism and Leisure, Mauritius

• Ralf Corsten — President, Berlin Messe Gmbh

• H.E. Alejandro Jara — Ambassador of Chile to the WTO

11.00 – 13.00

(19) “Freer Trade: What does it mean for developing countries?”   > Workshop details

Room CR II

Organizers: OECD ⁽²⁸⁾
Moderator: Guy de Jonquières — Trade Editor, Financial Times
Speakers:

• H.E. Adrian Macey — Ambassador of New Zealand to the OECD  > PowerPoint Presentation

• Kenneth Heydon — Deputy Director, OECD Trade Directorate  > PowerPoint Presentation  > Paper

• Howard Chase — European Roundtable of Industrialists

• H.E. Alejandro Jara — Ambassador of Chile to the WTO

10.00 - 13.00

(20) “How to improve the functioning of the WTO in the short and in the longer term?”

Room W

Organizers: European Commission, BDI
Moderator: Erfried Adam — Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung
Speakers:

• Dr. Guido Glania — BDI

• Céline Charveriat — Oxfam International  > Paper

• Kobsak Chutikul — National Parliament of Thailand

• Dr. Richard Senti — Professor, Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung ETH Zürich

• Mr. Fabian Delcros — Representative of the European Commission  > Paper

10.00 - 13.00

(21) “Localisation within Globalisation: Better Protecting Geographical Indications to favour Sustainable Development”
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Room D

Organizers: ORIGIN ⁽²²⁾

“GIs contribution to Sustainable Development”

Intro:

• E. Barham — Assistant Professor, Unversity of Missouri)  > Paper

• Zoubida Charrouf — Argan Oil Producers, Morocco

• Jean-Jacques Bret — Director, Comité Interprofessionnel du Comté (FR)  > Paper

• Agnes Nyaga — VP Origin for Africa & Kenyan Tea Board  > Paper

“The case for better GI protection in the DDA framework”

Intro:

• Brigadier Anil Adlakha — VP ORIGIN & All Indian Rice Exporters Association (introduction)   > Powerpoint Presentation

• Dawnine Dyer — Napa Valley Vintners, US Association   > Powerpoint Presentation

• Stefano Fanti — Parma Ham Consortium, Italy   > Powerpoint Presentation

• Feng Li Ming — Camus Cognac, China   > Powerpoint Presentation

10.00 - 13.00

(22) “Agricultural Subsidies: What are we actually talking about?”
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Room E

Organizers: IATP ⁽²³⁾, ROPPA ⁽²⁴⁾, Coordination SUD, CSA ⁽²⁵⁾, IUF ⁽²⁶⁾
Moderator: Alexandra Strickner, IATP Geneva
Speakers:

• Daniel Ugarte de la Torre — University of Tenessee, US

• Jacques Berthelot — Agronomist, France

• Ndiougou Fall — President, ROPPA, Senegal

• Benedicte Hermelin — Research and Technological Exchange Group, France

• R. Dennis Olson — IATP, US

10.00 - 13.00

(23) “The IMF's role in supporting the Doha Development Agenda”

Room A

Organizers: IMF ⁽²⁷⁾
Moderator: Stuart Robinson — anc. Professeur, HEI Genève
Speakers:

• H.E. Toufiq Ali — Ambassador of Bangladesh

• Hans-Peter Lankes — Division Chief, Policy and Development Review Department, IMF

13.00 – 15.00

Break

15.00 - 18.00

(24) “Challenging the Market Access Agenda, Ineffective S&D and the Flawed Accession Process”

Room CR I

Organizers: Focus on the Global South
Moderator: Rashid Kaukab — South
Speakers:

• H.E. Nathan Irumba — Ambassador of Uganda

• Aileen Kwa — Focus on the Global South

• Jacques-Chai Chomthongdi — Focus on the Global South

• Devinder Sharma — Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security

• Dr. Ajit Singh — Professor, University of Cambridge

• Jane Kelsey — ARENA, University of Auckland

15.00 - 18.00

(25) “The impact of women in small, medium and micro enterprises on increasing trade under the WTO Agreements”
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Room CR II

Organizers: CBC ⁽²⁹⁾, GWIT ⁽³⁰⁾
Moderator: H.E. Mary Whelan — Ambassador of Ireland
Speakers:

• Carlos Braga — World Bank

• Barbara Mowat — Impact Communications Ltd.

• Christine Agimba — Chair, OWIT ⁽³¹⁾, Kenya   > Paper

• Anh-Nga Tran-Nguyen — UNCTAD Gender Focal Point   > Paper

15.00 - 18.00

(26) “The GMO dispute — rules, risks and reality”

Room W

Organizers: FOE International ⁽³²⁾
Speakers:

• Liana Stupples — Policy and Campaigns Director, FOE Int. and Bite Back Campaign

• Vandana Shiva — Director, Research Foundation for Science and Technology, India

• Alice Palmer — Programme Director, FIELD, UK

• Martin Khor — Director, Third World Network

• Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziahber — Director General, Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia

• Lori Wallach — Public Citizen, US

15.00 - 18.00

(27) “Trade, Technology and Development”

Room D

Organizers: International Policy Network (IPN)
Moderator: Julian Morris — IPN
Speakers:

• Johan Norberg — author of “In Defence of Global Capitalism”

• Margaret Karembu — University of Nairobi

• Andrew Shoyer — Partner, Sidly, Austin, Brown & Wood

15.00 - 18.00

(28) “Environment and Governance — what role for the WTO?”
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Room E

Organizers: European Commission
Speakers:

• Rupert Schlegelmilch — DG Trade, European Commission   > Paper

• Tom Crompton — WWF UK

• Vice Yu — South Centre

• Charles Arden-Clarke — UNEP

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

Organizers: WSPA ⁽³³⁾, RSPCA ⁽³⁴⁾, Eurogroup for Animal Welfare
Speakers:

• David Wilkins — WSPA

• David Bowles — RSPCA

• Christina Kaul — Eurogroup

• Nico Bondt — University of Wageningen, NL

• Representative of Agra CEAS Consulting, UK

• Representative of European Commission