OECD Forum 2002 - Speakers

  • Tom Arnold, Chief Executive, Concern Worldwide, Ireland
  • Judith E Ayres, Assistant Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, United States
  • Christopher Ball, Chancellor, and Former Warden of Oxford College, University of Derby, United Kingdom
  • Hélène Ballande, ECA reform campaigner, Friends of the Earth, France
  • Bruna Basini, Deputy Editor, L'Expansion, France
  • Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Professor, Economics Department , Columbia University, United States
  • Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Director for International Financial Relations, Ministry for Economy and Finance, Italy, and Chairman, OECD Financial Markets Committee
  • Nicholas Biwott, Minister of Trade, Kenya
  • Joëlle Bourgois, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France to the OECD, Permanent Delegation of France to the OECD
  • François Bourguignon, Professor of Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Egypt
  • Jorge Braga de Macedo, President of the Development Centre, OECD, and Former Finance Minister of Portugal
  • Chris Brooks, Director, Public Affairs and Communications, OECD
  • Jermyn Brooks, Executive Director, Transparency International, Germany
  • Maria Livanos Cattaui, Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
  • Dae Whan Chang, Executive Chairman, World Knowledge Forum Committee, President and Publisher, Maeil Business Newspaper and TV, Korea
  • Yvonne T. Chua, Director of Training, Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism, Philippines
  • Leonardo Clerici, President, Instituto di Skriptura, Italy
  • Corrado Clini, Director General, Department for Global Environment International and Regional Convention, Ministry for Environment and Territory, Italy
  • Bertrand Collomb, CEO, Lafarge, France
  • Bruno Comby, President, Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, France
  • Helena Conruyt-Angenent, Chair, OECD Committee on Insurance, General Advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Belgium
  • Kathleen B. Cooper, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce, United States
  • David Crane, Economics Editor, The Toronto Star, Canada
  • Andrew Crockett, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements, and Chairman Financial Stability Forum
  • Bronwyn Curtis, Managing Editor, Bloomberg Television, United Kingdom
  • François David, Chairman and Managing Director of COFACE, Chairman of the, CEPII Club, France
  • Belmiro de Azevedo, President, Sonae SGPS, SA, Portugal
  • Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA, France
  • Léo Delwaide, President, Antwerp Port Authority, Belgium
  • Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems, Director, Center for Transitional Economies, Columbia University, United States
  • Ileana Di Giovan Battista, Ambassador, and Director of International Economic Co-operation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina
  • Évelyne Dourille-Feer, Economist, CEPII, France
  • Arkady Dvorkovich, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Russian Federation
  • Leo Esaki, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, and President, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
  • John Evans, General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)
  • Magdi Farahat, Minister Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations, Egypt
  • J Kayode Fayemi, Director, Centre for Development and Democracy, United Kingdom
  • Anna Fielder, Director of the Office for Developed and Transition Economies, Consumers International
  • Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Chairman, Observatoire Francais des Conjontures Économiques (OFCE), France
  • Niall FitzGerald, Joint Chairman, and CEO, Unilever
  • Lionel Fontagné, Director, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII), France
  • Yves Franchet, Director General, European Commission/Eurostat
  • Brant W. Free, Senior Vice President, International External Affairs, The Chubb Corporation, United States
  • Julio Frenk Mora, Minister of Health, Mexico, and Former WHO Executive Director responsible for setting up the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Mexico
  • Ahmed Galal, Executive Director, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, Egypt
  • Jean-Daniel Gardère, General Manager, French Export Institute (CFCE), France
  • Reiner Geiger, Deputy Director, Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
  • Raymond V. Gilmartin, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co. Inc, United States
  • Almira Ginyatullina, Chief of the Board, Bishkek Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Handicrafts, Kyrgyzstan
  • Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Directorate, OECD
  • Ronnie Goldberg, Senior Vice President, Policy and Program, U.S. Council for International Business, United States
  • Edward Goldsmith, Founding Editor, Ecosystems Ltd, The Ecologist, United Kingdom
  • Charmian Gooch, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Global Witness Limited, United Kingdom
  • Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, President and Chief Executif, Air France, France
  • Jorge Rodriguez Grossi, Minister of Economy, Ministry of Economy, Chile
  • Cicero R. Habito, Essay competition winner, Philippines
  • Bob Harris, Senior Consultant, EI - Education International, Australia
  • Gudmund Hernes, Director, International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO
  • Dean R. Hirsch, President, Chief Executive, World Vision International, United States
  • Paul Hohnen, Consulting Senior Adviser, Global Reporting Initiative, Netherlands
  • Wolfgang Hubner, Head of Transport Division, OECD
  • R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors, White House, United States
  • Harold Hyman, Interviewer and Morning News Anchorman, Radio Classique, France
  • Lelio Iapadre, Professor, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
  • David Ignatius, Executive Editor, International Herald Tribune
  • Toshiro Ikemura, Paris Bureau Chief, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan
  • Takatoshi Ito, Professor, Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Pierre Jeanniot, Director General & CEO, International Air Transport Association (IATA)
  • Donald J. Johnston, Secretary-General, OECD
  • L. Craig Johnstone, Vice President, Regional Manager Europe, The Boeing Company, United States
  • Yaacov Katz, Director of the Education Department, Ministry of Education, Israel
  • Parag Khanna, Essay competition winner, Center for the Global Agenda, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
  • Sachie Kikkawa, Essay competition winner, Japan
  • Joongi Kim, Professor of Law, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Korea
  • Morio Kimura, Governor of Aomori Prefecture, Aomori Prefectural Government, Japan
  • Hideaki Koizumi, Senior Chief Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
  • Charles Kovacs, Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, SPB Investment Limited, Hungary
  • Bruno Lamborghini, Chairman, Olivetti Tecnost, Member of the Olivetti Board of Directors, Italy
  • Anne Lauvergeon, Chairwoman and CEO, AREVA, France
  • Daniel Lebègue, Director General, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, France
  • Jacques Lesourne, Counsellor, Foresight Studies, EDF, France
  • Clarie Lo, President,, Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), and Commissioner for Narcotics, Hong Kong, China, China
  • Tom Luce, Founder and Chairman, Just for the Kids and the National Center for Educational Accountability, United States
  • Leanne Macmillan, Director, International Strategy, Amnesty International
  • Philippe Manière, Editor in chief, L' Expansion, France
  • Claude Martin, Director General, WWF International
  • John Martin, Director for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs , OECD
  • Barry McGaw, Deputy Director, Education, Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (DEELSA), OECD
  • Pradeep S. Mehta, Secretary General, Consumer Unity and Trust Society, India
  • Paul Mentré, Inspecteur général des Finances, France
  • Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO, SUEZ, France
  • Juan Millàn, Governor, State of Sinaloa, Mexico
  • Maite Millogo, Essay competition winner, France
  • Takahiro Miyao, Professor, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan, Japan
  • John Monks, General Secretary, Trades Union Congress (TUC), United Kingdom
  • Siegmar Mosdorf, Member, Bundestag, Germany
  • Martina Motlova, Deputy Minister of Environment, Czech Republic
  • Kenizé Mourad, Writer, Turkey
  • Robert Mundell, Nobel Prize Winning Economist, University Professor of Economics, Columbia University, Canada
  • Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Minister of State, for Foreign Affairs, Belgium
  • Ronald K. Noble, Secretary General, Interpol
  • William D. Novelli, Executive Director and CEO, AARP, United States
  • Christine Ockrent, Journalist, France Télévision, France
  • Kenichi Ohno, Professor, International Finance and Development Economics, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
  • Angela Orozco, Minister of Foreign Trade, Colombia
  • Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General Designate, World Trade Organisation (WTO)
  • John Page, Director, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, World Bank
  • Beatriz Paredes Rangel, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Latin American Parliament, Mexico
  • Laurence Parisot, President, Director General, French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP), France
  • Robert H. Pasternack, Assistant Secretary, Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S Department of Education, United States
  • Andrew Peek, Essay competition winner, United States
  • Mark Pieth, Chairman, OECD Working Group on Bribery in International, Business Transactions, Basel University, Switzerland
  • Clyde V. Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute, United States
  • Guy Quaden, Governor, National Bank of Belgium, Belgium
  • Govindasamy Rajasekaran, Secretary-General, Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC), Malaysia
  • Valerie Reyna, Senior Research Advisor, U.S. Department of Education, United States
  • Burton Richter, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences, Stanford University and Director Emeritus Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, United States
  • Maria Joao Rodrigues, Chair of exports of the European Commission on Socio-economic Research, General Co-ordinator of the Cabinet of Proinov, (Inovation support integrated programme), Portugal
  • Jorge Rodriguez Grossi, Minister of Economy, Ministry of Economy of Chile, Chile
  • Michael Roeskau, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD
  • Martina Rosakova, Essay competition winner, Slovak Republic
  • Guy Ryder, General Secretary, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
  • Gideon Sagee, Chairman, Israel SMEs Authority (ISMEA), Israel
  • Il Sakong, Chairman & CEO, Ambassador for International Economy and Trade, Institute for Global Economics, Korea
  • Christian Sautter, Deputy Mayor responsible for Economic Development and Finance, Mairie de Paris, France
  • Brigita Schmögnerová, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
  • Christian Schricke, Secretary-General, Société Générale, France
  • Susan Sclafani, Counsellor to the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education, United States
  • Charles Secrett, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth, United Kingdom
  • Cvetka Selsek, President of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, SKB Banka D.D., Slovenia
  • Arýl Seren, Secretary General of the Federation of Euro Asian Stock Exchanges and, Senior Vice Chairman, Istanbul Stock Exchange, Turkey
  • Emile Servan-Schreiber,CEO, NewsFutures.com, France
  • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, President and Executive Editor, Expo Times, Sierra Leone
  • Manfred Spitzer, Chairman of the Psychiatric Hospital, University of Ulm, Germany
  • John J. Sweeney, President, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), United States
  • Christopher Tabilo Heavey, Essay competition winner, Chile
  • Stefan Tangermann, Director, Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, OECD
  • Robert Taylor, Research Associate, Center for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
  • Roberto Toscano, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, President of the DAC, Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation, OECD, Italy
  • Laurence Tubiana, Counsellor to the Prime Minister of France for the Environment, Office of the Prime Minister, France
  • Simon Upton, Chair, OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development, and Former New Zealand Minister of Environment
  • Adolfo Urso, Minister of, Foreign Trade, Italy
  • Shunichiro Ushijima, Economic Adviser to the Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, on the International Economic Affairs Cabinet Office, Japanese Government
  • René Valladon, Confederal Secretary, Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO), France
  • Paul Van den Bergh, , Bank for International Settlements
  • Jan Vandemoortele, Principal Advisor, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
  • Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister, of Belgium
  • Lucia Vitali, Professor of Insurance Economics, University of Rome, Italy
  • Jean-Marc Vittori, Editorial Director, L'Expansion, France
  • Luzius Wasescha, Chairman of the OECD Trade Committee, Delegate for Trade Agreements of the Federal Council, Director General for World Trade, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Switzerland
  • Jeremy Webb, Editor, New Scientist, United Kingdom
  • Douglas C. Worth, Secretary General, Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC)
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