In the aftermath of the worst financial and economic crisis in our lifetime, we have an opportunity to wonder:

• Why couldn’t we have avoided the crisis?
• What needs to be done to prevent another crisis?
• Are today's economic theories, models and assumptions still appropriate for tomorrow?
• What adjustments do we need in our mandate in order to fulfil our mission of “better policies for better lives”?

Strategic Orientations 2013 and beyond (PDF)

Profile

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Speeches and public statements

 Selected

• Policy Coherence for Development in a Post-2015 Era
  
  
• Reformas en Europa: Avances y Desafíos (in Spanish)
  
  
• OECD Global Forum on Competition
  
  
• Tackling inequality: Getting the policy challenges right
  
  
• Growth Challenges – avoiding the low growth trap
  
  
• Visit to the OECD by Angela Merkel, introductory remarks by Angel Gurría
  
  
• The Euro Area at a Crossroads: Policies for Growth, Jobs and Competitiveness
  
  
• Taxation and Competition Policy
  
  
• Combating global corruption: More crucial than ever
  
  

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Featured events

Latest

• Secretary-General in Oslo
  (5 March 2014)
• Secretary-General in Bilbao for Global Forum Spain 
  Bilbao, 3 March 2014
• Secretary-General in New York
  (26-27 February 2014)
• OECD Secretary-General participates at the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Sydney
  (21-23 February 2014)
• Visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the OECD
  (19 February 2014)
• Secretary-General in Brussels
  (17 February 2014)
• Secretary-General visit to Brussels
  (10-11 February 2014)
• Irish Prime Minister visits OECD
  (7 February 2014)

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Background information

OECD countries renew Angel Gurría’s mandate as Secretary-General
Selection process and former Secretaries-General

Journalists are invited to contact Dan.Morrison@oecd.org, Media Relations at the OECD (tel. 33 1 45 24 80 90).