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The 15th meeting of the Advisory Group on Privatisation, titled "Privatisation, Employment and Employees", was co-hosted by the OECD and the Turkish Privatisation Administration and took place in Istanbul on October 10-11, 2002. Participants from over 20 OECD and non-OECD countries and representatives from international organisations participated in this conference.

Agenda

Materials

SESSION I
THE IMPACT OF PRIVATISATION ON EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYEES

• Mr. John Nellis, Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Development, United States
• Mr. Carlos Mladinic, Chairman, SOE Enterprises System, Chile
• Mr. Jindrich Novak, Senior Manager, National Property Fund of the Czech Republic
• Ms. Sunita Kikeri, Lead Specialist and Program Coordinator, Privatisation, the World Bank
• Mr. Kuei-Lin Chang, Director General of Department of Sectoral Planning, Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), Chinese Taipei
  - paper
  - presentation

SESSION II/III

THE ROLE OF LABOUR UNIONS IN IMPLEMENTING PRIVATISATION and PRIVATISATION, RESTRUCTURING AND EMPLOYEE RETRENCHMENT: ISSUES AND POLICY RESPONSES

• Mr. Mike Waghorne, Assistant General Secretary, Public Services International, TUAC
• Mr. Armando Castelar Pinheiro, Chief Economist, Banco Nacional de Desenvovlimento Economico e Social (BNDES), Brazil
• Mr. Christian Lepsien, Attorney - at- Law, Human Resources Management, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
• Mr. Shri Basu, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Disinvestment, India
• Mr. Melle Hendrikse, Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Finance, The Netherlands
• Mr. Piotr Czyzewski, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of the Treasury, Poland
  - paper
  - presentation
• Mr. Hakan Yildiz, Vice President, Privatisation Administration, Turkey

SESSION IV
THE EFFECT OF SOE PENSION CONSIDERATIONS ON PRIVATISATION

• Mr. Platon Tinios, Special Adviser, The Prime Minister's Office, Greece
• Ms. Gülsüm Yazganarkan, Head of Department - DG of Economic Research, Undersecretariat of Treasury, Turkey

SESSION V
EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN PRIVATISATION TRANSACTIONS: POLICIES AND PERFORMANCE

• Prof. Mike Wright, Jubilee Campus, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
  - paper
  - presentation
• Ms. Olimpia Cuomo, Council of Experts, Ministry of Economy & Finance, Italy
• Mr. Vladimir Matousek, Senior Advisor of the Macroeconomic Department, Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (CMKOS), Czech Republic
• Mr. Il Chong Nam, Fellow, Korea Development Institute, Korea