Monday, 27 September

 The Challengeof Building an Effective Public-PrivatePartnership 

8.30 – 10:30 

Plenary Session1: The Ten Essential Elements of a Successful National Export Strategy 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Isaac Njoroge

Principal Consultant

AMC - ALMACO

Management Consultants Ltd. Kenya

Co-chair: 

Mr. Joseph Smadja

Deputy Executive Director

ITC

Strategy Team 

Commentators: 

Mr. Juan CarlosMathews National Director of Foreign Trade Department

Ministry of Foreign Trade and

Tourism

Peru

Ms. Jacqueline Emmanuel- Albertine

Emmanuel Financial

Consultants Ltd. Saint Lucia

11:00–12:30 

Plenary Session2: Sustaining the Public –PrivatePartnership: Constraints and Solutions 

Network Co-chair: 

Ms. Patricia Francis Chief Executive Officer JamaicaPromotions Corporation (JAMPRO)

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Wajid Jawad

Chairman

Associated Garments Industries Pakistan Ltd Pakistan

Strategy Team 

Commentators: 

Mr. Femi Boyede

Chief Executive Officer Koinonia Ventures Ltd. Nigeria

Mr. Georgy G. Petrov

Vice-President

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

12:30 – 14:30 

Lunch 

14:30 – 16:00 

Breakout Session A: Making Business Advocacy Work 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Renato Pleno

Director

Exporters Confederation of the Philippines Inc.

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Joseph ZammitTabona

Chairman

Malta Enterprise

Strategy Team 

Commentators: 

Mr. Abdul Awal Mintoo

President

Federation of the Bangladesh

Chambers of Commerce and

Industries

Mr. Riaan Le Roux

Director

Export Department

Trade and Investment South

Africa (TISA)

Breakout Session B: Does theAnswer Lie witha National ExportCouncil? 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Costin Lianu

General Director

Export Promotion Division Departmen t of Foreign Trade Romania

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. WolfgangZehender

Senior Advisor

Trade and Investment

Promotion GTZ Germany

Strategy Team 

Commentators: 

Mr. SerafinN. Juliano

Executive Director

Garments and Textile Export

Board

Department of Trade and

Industry

Philippines

Mr. Osei Boeh-Ocansey

Chief Executive

Private Enterprise Foundation

Ghana

Monday, 27 September 

The Challengeof Building an Effective Public-PrivatePartnership (continued) 

14:30–16:00 

Breakout SessionC: Coordinating the Partnership – What’sthe Role of the TPO? 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. RicardoEstrada Estrada, Executive President

CORPEI Ecuador

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Halim Fuad Abu Rahmeh

Chief Executive Officer

Jordan Exporters Association

Strategy Team 

Commentators: Mrs. FlorenceKata Executive Director

Uganda ExportDevelopment

Board

Mr. Karim Berrada

Vice-President

The MoroccanAssociation of

Exporters (ASMEX)

Breakout Session D: Financing the Partnership 

Network Co-chair: 

Ms. Christine Kilindu

Chief Executive Confederation of Tanzanian Industries

Co-chair: 

Mr. Brian Barclay

Coordinator

ITC Executive Forum

Commentators: 

Mr. Victor Angenscheidt

Executive Director Investment and Export Promotion Agency(Uruguay XXI)

Uruguay

16.30–18:00 

Plenary Session3: The CriticalPartnership – The “Border Gear” of Export Strategy 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Jean E. Kubler

Deputy Chief

Global Trade Solutions

UN Economic Commission for

Europe (UNECE)

Switzerland

Co-chair: 

Mr. Gian Piero Roz

Director

Division of Programme

Support

ITC

Commentators: 

Mr. Jean E. Kubler

Global Trade Solutions

UN Economic Commission for

Europe (UNECE) Switzerland

Mr. Ravi Ratnayake

Director

Trade and Investment

Division

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Thailand

Tuesday, 28 September

Focusing the Partnership 

8:30 – 10:00 

Plenary Session 4: Competitiveness through Export Clusters thatWork 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. John Saegaert

Coordinator

Business Development

Centre

Chamber of Industries of

Uruguay

Network Co-chair: 

Mrs. ChantraPurnariksha Director General Department of Export Promotion

Ministry of Commerce

Thailand

Commentators: 

Mr. A. Sakthivel

Chairman

Apparel Export Promotion

Council

India

Mr. Fabio Russo Industrial Development Officer

Small and Medium Enterprises Branch United Nations Industrial

Development Organization

(UNIDO)

10:30–12:30 

Plenary Session5: The Need for a Sector-Level Orientation – What’sBest Practice? 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Sok Siphana Secretary of State for Commerce Cambodia

Co-chair: 

Mr. Peter Walters

Director

Division of Product and

Market Development

ITC

Strategy Team 

Commentators: Mr. Azim Mawji Director

Afro LeatherLtd. Tanzania

Mr. Isaac Njoroge Principal Consultant AMC - ALMACO

ManagementConsultants

Ltd. Kenya

12:30 – 14:30 

Lunch 

13.15 – 14.15 

Informal Session: WhyPay Attention to South-South Trade? 

14.30 – 16.00 

Breakout Session E: Export ValueAddition through Integration of the Tourism, Entertainment andProduction Sectors 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. LutherMiller, Director of Finance and Resource Management Caribbean Tourism Organization

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. José Carrión

President

Federation of Chamberof

Tourism (FENACAPTUR) Ecuador

Strategy Team 

Commentators: 

Mrs VeniecePottinger Executive Director Services Sector Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO)

Mr. Fabrice Leclercq Trade Promotion Adviser ITC

Tuesday, 28 September 

Focusing the Partnership (continued) 

14.30 – 16.00 

Breakout Session F: Best Practice for an Export Strategy Focusing on the Services 

Sector 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Rajendra Tagore

Servansingh

Deputy Secretary General Mauritius Chamberof Commerce and Industry

Co-chair: 

Mr. RobertFournier Fournier Associates Canada

Strategy Team 

Commentators: 

Mr. George Sharkov

Chairman

Bulgarian Association of

Software Development

Companies (BASSCO)

Mr. Alwyn Didar Singh

Expert

e-Commerce and Trade

Development

Breakout Session G: Working from the Bottom Up – Export-led Poverty Reduction: What Works? 

Network Co-chair: 

Mr. Yuri Jenkins

Executive Secretary

Central American Association of Consultants in

International Trade

El Salvador

Co-chair: 

Ms. Tamsyn Barton

Team Leader

(Trade and Development) Department for International Development

United Kingdom

Strategy Team 

Commentators: Mr. Solomon Kuria Director

Department of External

Trade

Ministry of Trade and

Industry

Kenya

Ms. GabrielaByrde

Switzerland

Breakout Session H: The Gender Dimension – “Best Practice” Scenarios 

Co-chair: 

Ms. Mia Horn Af Rantzien

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the WTO

Co- Chair 

Ms. Lilia NaasHachem

Office for Africa Division of Technical Cooperation Coordination ITC

Strategy Team 

Commentators: 

Ms. Maria Baeva Vice-President Club of Women Entrepreneurs and Managers

Bulgaria

Mrs. Sarah Kitakule

President Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association

16:30 – 18:00 

Plenary Session 6: Review of Breakout Session Conclusions and Moderated Debate on Best Practice 

Co- Chairs: 

Mr. Wang Jinzhen,Deputy Director General, China Council for the Promotion of International

Trade (CCPIT)

Mr. Ramamurti Badrinath, Director, Division of Trade Support Services, ITC