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OECD Forum 2010: Session summaries and Presentations

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(Please note that most background notes and presentations have been provided by Forum speakers. These are not OECD documents and have not been edited by OECD staff)

 

[Wednesday 26 May 2010]    [Thursday 27 May 2010] (last updated 21/06/10)

 

Wednesday 26 May 2010


Opening Session: Innovation, jobs & clean growth        

Read summary: [Read summary ] - OECD Observer - PDF, 92kb

  • Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD - Speaking notes [Speaking notes] [Spanish] - PDF, 184kb
  • Giulio Tremonti, Minister of Economy and Finance, Italy

 

Economic Outlook

Read summary: [Read summary ] - OECD Observer - PDF, 71kb

  • Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD
  • Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD

 

Economic Outlook debate: how to avoid a jobless recovery?

Read summary: [Read summary] - OECD Observer - PDF, 89kb

  • Moderator: Chris Giles, Economics Editor, Financial Times, United Kingdom 
  • Antoine Gosset-Grainville, Deputy CEO, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, France 
  • Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD
  • Richard Trumka, President, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations 
  • Discussant(s): Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Director, CEPII, France 
  • Luca Scarpiello, Board Member, European Youth Forum
  • Robert Skidelsky, Member, House of Lords, United Kingdom

 

Green growth and innovation

Read summary: [Read Summary] [Spanish] - OECD Observer - PDF, 92kb

  • Moderator: Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD
  • Esko Aho, Executive Vice-President, Nokia Corporation, Finland
  • Bruno Berthon, Managing Director, Accenture Sustainability Services, Accenture
  • Mikael Karlsson, President, European Environmental Bureau
  • Leonardo Radicati, Director of ICE- Paris, Italian Institute for Foreign trade, Italy
  • Niklas Zennström, CEO and Founding Partner, Atomico Ventures, United Kingdom
  • Discussant(s): Michèle Pappalardo, General Commissioner, Sustainable Development, Ministry for Ecology, France
  • Andrew Wyckoff, Director, Science, Technology and Industry, OECD Green growth and energy

 

Green growth and energy

Read summary: [Read Summary] [Spanish] - OECD Observer - PDF, 99kb

  • Moderator: Peter Kemp, Editorial Director, Energy Intelligence, United Kingdom
  • Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, Internatonal Energy Agency
  • Luiz Carlos Corrêa Carvalho, Consultant - FGV Projetos, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
  • José Domínguez Abascal, Chief Technological Officer, Abengoa, Spain
  • Nobuaki Koga, President, Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)
  • Göran Lundgren, Head of Business Development, Vattenfall Pan Europe, Sweden
  • Cécile Maisonneuve, Vice-President, International Agenda & Prospective, AREVA, France
  • Anatoly Moskalenko, Member of Management Committee, LUKOIL, Russian Federation
  • Jeong Shik Shin, Member, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Korea
  • Discussant(s): Cecilia Tortajada, Vice-President, Third World Centre for Water Management - Spaking notes [Speech available] - PDF, 47kb
  • Adam Wolfensohn, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Company, United States

 

Financing future growth

Read summary: [Read Summary] - OECD Observer - PDF, 86kb

  • Moderator: Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, The Guardian, United Kingdom
  • Franco Bassanini, Chairman, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Italy - Presentation available [PDF, 533kb]
  • Carolyn Ervin, Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
  • Gao Xiqing, President and Chief Investment Officer, China Investment Corporation
  • John Monks, General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation - Speaking notes [PDF, 21kb]
  • Alessandro Profumo, CEO, Unicredit Group, Italy
  • Discussant(s): Imoni Akpofure, Special Representative for Europe, International Finance Corporation
  • Martin Tlapa, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Czech Republic
  • Peter Waldorff, General Secretary, Public Services International

 

Green jobs: myth or reality?

Read summary: [Read summary ] [Spanish]- OECD Observer - PDF, 69kb

  • Moderator: Jean-Marc Vittori, Editorial Writer, Les Echos, France
  • Patrick Boulte, Vice-President, Association solidarités nouvelles face au chômage, France
  • Miroslav Hájek, Deputy Minister - Director General, Ministry of the Environment, Czech Republic
  • Marie-Louise Knuppert, Confederal Secretary, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions
  • John P. Martin, Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
  • Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO, 20-first, France

 

Thursday 27 May 2010

 

Future of capitalism

Read summary: [Read Summary ] [Spanish] - OECD Observer - PDF, 72kb

  • Moderator: Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times, United Kingdom
  • Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Deputy Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
  • Sharan Burrow, President, International Trade Union Confederation
  • Anatole Kaletsky, Economics Commentator, The Times, United Kingdom
  • Robert Skidelsky, Member, House of Lords, United Kingdom
  • Discussant(s): Renato Flores, Professor, Fundação Getulio Vargas/ EPGE, Brazil
  • Simon Tormey, Head, Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO, 20-first, France

 

Business ethics: restoring trust

Read summary: [Read Summary ] [Spanish] -OECD Observer - PDF, 92kb

  • Moderator: Nicolas Arpagian, Chief Editor, Strategic Prospective, Centre for Studies and Prospective Strategy, France
  • Amy Domini, Founder and CEO, Domini Social Investments, United States
  • Anne-Catherine Husson-Traoré, CEO, Novethic, France
  • Agnes Jongerius, President, FNV, Netherlands
  • Discussant(s): Carla Coletti, Director, Trade, Employment & Development, International Metalworkers' Federation
  • Edward F. Greene, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, United States

 

 

Special session: Jobs and growth

Read summary: [Read Summary] [Spanish] -OECD Observer - PDF, 79kb

  • Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD
  • Christina Romer, Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, United States - Speaking notes [PDF, 93kb]

 

Unleashing innovation

Read summary: [Read Summary] [Spanish] -OECD Observer - PDF, 54kb

  • Moderator: Luca de Biase, Information Technology and Science Editor, Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy
  • Habip Asan, President, Turkish Patent Institute
  • Dawn Graham, President of EUCan II, MSD - Speaking notes [PDF, 165kb]
  • Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, Director General, National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico
  • Martin Schuurmans, Chairman, European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
  • Gabriel Solomon, Senior Vice-President, Public Policy, GSMA
  • Andrew Wyckoff, Director, Science, Technology and Industry, OECD

 

Matching skills to jobs

Read summary: [Read Summary ] -OECD Observer - PDF, 88kb

  • Moderator: Stéphanie Antoine, Presenter, France24
  • John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation Hope, United States
  • Christine Evans-Klock, Chief, Skills and Employability Department, International Labour Organisation
  • José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal
  • Geoffrey I. Gallop, Professor and Director, Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Bob Harris, Senior Consultant to the General-Secretary, Education International
  • Barbara Ischinger, Director, Education, OECD
  • Discussant(s): Stefano Scarpetta, Head of Employment Analysis and Policy Division, OECD
  • Anna Thomas, Head of Economic and Social Development, ActionAid UK
  • Aleph Torres, President, Fundación Proacceso, Mexico

 

Trade, jobs and innovation

Read summary: [Read Summary ] - OECD Observer - PDF, 84kb

  • Moderator: Soumitra Dutta, Dean of External Relations, INSEAD, France
  • Ken Ash, Director, Trade and Agriculture, OECD
  • Sharan Burrow, President, International Trade Union Confederation
  • Otaviano Canuto, Vice-President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, The World Bank
  • Simon Crean, Minister of Trade, Australia
  • Pascal Lamy, Director-General, WTO
  • Borut Pahor, Prime Minister, Slovenia 

Preserving scarce resources

Read summary: [Read Summary ] - OECD Observer - PDF, 96kb

  • Moderator: Simon Upton, Director, Environment Directorate, OECD
  • Loïc Fauchon, Chairman, World Water Council
  • Tim Groser, Minister of Trade, New Zealand
  • John J. Harris, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé Waters
  • Brian Hoskins, Director, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, United Kingdom
  • Andrew Seidl, Head of Global Economics and Environment Programme, International Union for Conservation of Nature
  • Cesare Spreafico, Director General, COREPLA, Italy - Presentations [PDF, 2mb]
  • Discussant(s): Pascal Husting, Executive Director, Greenpeace France
  • Thomas Kaissl, Head of Green Economy Programme, WWF International
  • Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner for Planning, Morocco
  • Ambet Yuson, General Secretary, Building and Woodworkers' International (BWI)

 

Closing remarks

  • Anthony Gooch, Director, Public Affairs and Communications, OECD