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The two-year OECD Futures Project "Global Infrastructure Needs: Prospects and Implications for Public and Private Actors" (2005-2007) brought together experts from the public and private sector to take stock of the long-term opportunities and challenges facing infrastructures worldwide, and to propose a set of policy recommendations for OECD Governments which aim to enhance infrastructures’ contribution to economic and social development in the years to come. Topics covered in the project: transport, regional, rural and urban development, climate change, energy...
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on 18-Nov-2008
The IFP has recently completed a Futures Project on Infrastructure Needs to 2030 (2005-2007) which covered telecoms, water, electricity and surface transport, but did not include ports, airports and other major infrastructures crossing or connecting continents. This meeting will present the key elements of a new planned infrastructure project on Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030: Ports, Airports, Rail Corridors, Oil and Gas Pipelines...
For information, please find attached the options for further work document and the agenda of the meeting (also available in Japanese ).
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from 03-Jun-2008 to 04-Jun-2008
On 4 June, Michael Oborne, Director of the IFP, chaired a session on "Financing Infrastructure" composed of Messrs. Agustín Carstens, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico; Andrew Hunter, Head, Macquarie Europe; Richard Lavergne, Secretary-General, Observatoire de l’énergie, France; Pierre Lortie, Senior Business Advisor, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (Montreal), Canada; Hamish McRae, Associate Editor, The Independent, United Kingdom. Don't miss the speeches and the pictures of the session.
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on 15-May-2007
The OECD Forum 2007 "Innovation, Growth & Equity" took place in Paris on 14-15 May. Michael Oborne, Director of the IFP, chaired a session on "Infrastructure to 2030: Growth, Innovation and Finance" on 15 May. The press release is available here .
For more information about the Forum, visit the OECD Forum website.
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