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Press Release
Macquarie bank group welcomes findings of OECD report on global infrastructure needs
Registration details
Journalists with a press card are invited to attend free of charge the OECD Forum 2007 on 14-15 May 2007 in Paris.
The Media Centre is equipped with phone outlets/Internet connection, Wi-Fi access, telephones, fax and photocopy machines. Also available are monitoring screens to allow journalists to follow any of the roundtable discussions from the Media Centre.
OECD staff will be on hand in the Media Centre to assist journalists and help set up interviews with speakers.
Journalists may address any questions about the Forum to Meggan Dissly - meggan.dissly@oecd.org, tel: + 33 (0)1 45 24 80 94.
To reach the OECD Forum Media Centre at the Palais Brongiart, contact Meggan Dissly or Theorora Kotsira at:
01 49 27 55 86; fax 01 44 30 63 46
as of 8am Monday 14 May.
Forum Media Briefings
Monday 14 May
Room 1:
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10:00-10:20
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Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD and Jordi Sevilla, Minister of Public Administrations, Spain
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Media Centre:
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13:45
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Launch of African Economic Outlook 2007
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This joint African Development Bank/OECD Development Centre annual report shows that growth in Africa is sustained; the likely number of Millennium Development Goals to be met by country averages 2.4 out of the 9 in sub-Saharan Africa and 7.4 in Northern Africa. Economic policies, coherent strategies and good governance are making a difference, democracy is strengthening, though freedoms are still limited and corruption remains widespread. With Javier Santiso, Colm Foy, Celine Kauffmann, Lucia Wegner and Henri-Bernard Solignac Lecomte.
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Tuesday 15 May
Room1:
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10:00-10:20
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Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD and Pedro Solbes, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Spain
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Media Centre:
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12:00
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Presentation of OECD report on Infrastructure to 2030 Growth, Innovation and Finance
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Michael Oborne, Director, Advisory Unit on Multidisciplinary Issues, OECD;
Grégoire Postel-Vinay, Head of the Office of Strategy Intelligence and Prospective, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, France;
Pierre-Alain Schieb, Head of Futures Projects, OECD and
Hans Werder, Secretary-General, Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, Switzerland
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13:00
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Building rules for Fair Globalisation and Responsible Investment Funds
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John Sweeney, President, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations;
Guy Ryder, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation;
John Monks, General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation and
John Evans, General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee(TUAC) to the OECD
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