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Executive Forum on National Export Strategies
Business for Development: Implications for Strategy-Makers
Saturday, 6 September
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07.00
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Introductory Breakfast Meeting
Mayan Tour
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17.00
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Official Opening
J. Denis Bélisle
Executive Director, ITC
José Luis Romero Hicks
Director General, Bancomext
Rana
Deputy-Director-General, World Trade Organization
Hans Peter Egler
Head, Trade and Clean Technology Cooperation Development, seco
D.J.
de Man
Head, Trade Promotion Section, CBI
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18.00
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Group
Photo
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18.30
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Opening
of Competitiveness Tools Fair
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| 19.00 |
Reception |
Sunday, 7 September
The Strategic Environment
(closed sessions)
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09.00
–12.00
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First Proposition:
Strategic Implications of the Doha Development Agenda
ITC Moderator:
R. Badrinath
ITC Commentators:
P. Naray
S. Meitzel
Team Commentators:
R. Makoond
Director, Joint Economic Council, Mauritius
E. Lacs
Technical Coordinator, Commission of International Commercial Trade, Guatemala
S. Islam
Director, The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh
B. Georgiev
Director, Bulgarian Industrial Association, Bulgaria
N. Waniala
Executive Director, Private Sector Foundation of Uganda, Uganda
Table Debate
Open Debate
Summary and Conclusions
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| 12.00
–15.00
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Lunch Meeting for Adjudicating Panel of the World TPOAwards (closed session)
Lunch Meeting for Textiles and Clothing Sector Business Representatives
Competitiveness Tools Fair
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15.00
–18.00
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Second Proposition:
Ensuring a Competitive Response
ITC Moderator:
J. Smadja
ITC Commentators:
B. Barclay
F. von Kirchbach
Team Commentators:
M.S. Adeli
Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs,
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Iran
O. Boeh-Ocansey
Director General, Private Enterprise Foundation, Ghana
M. Kissling, Gerente General
Promotora del Comercio Exterior de Costa Rica (PROCOMER), Costa Rica
A.A. Memon
Chairman, Kings Group, Pakistan
Table Debate
Open Debate
Summary and Conclusions
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Monday,
8 September
Re-Thinking
the Approach to Strategy
(closed sessions)
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09.00–12.00
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Third Proposition:
Ensuring a Focused Response
ITC Moderator:
P. Walters
ITC Commentators:
I. Sayers
A. Said
Team Commentators:
P. Richter
Project Director, Private Sector Promotion, GTZINTEGRATION, Germany
I. Njoroge
AMC - ALMACO Management Consultants Ltd., Kenya
P. Francis
President, Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Jamaica
S. Juliano
Director, Department of Trade and Industry , Bureau of Export Promotion, Philippines
Table Debate
Open Debate
Summary
and Conclusions
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| 12.00
–15.00
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Competitiveness Tools Fair |
15.00
–18.00
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Fourth Proposition:
The Development Gear of Export Strategy
- Cause or Consequence?
ITC Moderator:
H. Roelofsen
ITC Commentators:
A. Shah
F. Leclercq
Team Commentators:
C. Kilindu
Chief Executive, Confederation
of Tanzania Industries,
Tanzania
R. Estrada-Estrada
Executive
President, CORPEI, Ecuador
G.
Tillekeratne
Director General, Sri Lanka Export Development Board. Sri Lanka
Table Debate
Open Debate
Summary
and Conclusions
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| 18.00
– 20.00
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Competitiveness Tools Fair |
Business
for Development - Implications for Export Strategy-Makers
Tuesday, 9 September
(open sessions)
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| 09.00–18.00
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Competitiveness Tools Fair |
09.00
–12.00
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Fifth Proposition:
Pro-Poor Export Strategy: The Essential Ingredients
Invited Panellists:
Ms. Paola Ghillani
CEO, Max Havelaar Suisse, Switzerland
Mr. Ivan De Souza Montero
Executive Manager, Banco do Brasil, Brazil
Mr. K.P. Somasekharan
Director (Finance), Spices Board, India
Mr. Deo Kafwa
Director, Mikono Ltd., Tanzania
Mr. Sok Siphana
Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of
Cambodia
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09.00 –12.00
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Sixth Proposition:
Redefining Tourism as an Export and Development
Opportunity
Invited Panellists:
Mr.
Rodolfo Elizondo
Secretary
of Tourism, Mexico
Mr.
Francesco Frangialli
Secretary General, World Tourism Organization, Spain
Mr. Ken Robinson CBE FTS
Leisure Recreation and Tourism Ltd, United Kingdom
Mr. Wally Olins CBE
Chairman, Saffron Brand Consultants, United Kingdom
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09.00
–12.00
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Seventh Proposition:
Competitiveness, Development and “e”
Invited Panellists:
Mr. Madanmohan Rao
Director, Strategy and Planning, 4plus Technologies
Ltd., India
Mr. Eduardo da Costa
CEO, l-Cubo, Brazil
Dr. Vadim Levitin
CEO, e-Commerce Institute, USA
Ms. Janette Toral
CEO, Digital Filipino, Philippines
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15.00
–18.00
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Eighth Proposition:
Services Exports as a Development Option
Invited Panellists:
Ms. Florence Kata
Executive Director, Uganda Export Development Board,
Uganda
Mr. Jacques Rostenne
Perwit International, Canada
Mr. Anukul Tamprasirt
President, Association of Thai Software Industry,
Thailand
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15.00
–18.00
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Ninth Proposition:
Strategic Alternatives? - FDI and In-Country Business
Alliances
Invited Panellists:
Mr. Karl Sauvant
Director, Division on Investment, Technology and
Enterprise Development
United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Mr. Guillermo Cadena Acevedo
President and Chairman of the Board of Ultraquimia
Group,
Member of the Executive Board, International Chamber
of Commerce,
Mexico
Mr. Humberto Molina Medina
Deputy General Director (Planning)
Foreign Trade Bank of Mexico (Bancomext), Mexico
Mr. Joachim Zahn
DaimlerChrysler Ltd., Brazil
Mr. Thomas Mitchsein
General Coordinator, POEMA, Brazil
Mr. David Rabkin,
Vice President, on the FRONTIER Group, USA
Mr. Geoffrey Tillekeratne
Director General, Sri Lanka Export Development Board,
Sri Lanka
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15.00 –18.00
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Tenth
Proposition:
Trade-Related
Technical Assistance:
What Works and What Doesn’t?
Invited Panellists:
Rt. Hon. Susan Whelan
Minister for International Cooperation
Canadian International Development Agency, Canada
Rt. Hon. Cham Prasidh
Minister, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of Cambodia
Mr. A.H.M. Lansink
Managing Director, Centre for the Promotion of
Imports from Developing Countries, Netherlands
Mr. Stanislas Habonimana
President, Rugofarm S.A, Burundi
Mr. Marlon Lezama
Chief Programme Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat,
United Kingdom
Mr. Abu Sayeed Quasem
Chairman, Newage Garments Ltd., Bangladesh
Mr. Femi Boyede
CEO, Koinonia Venture Ltd., Nigeria
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| 19.00
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Gala
Dinner and Closing |
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