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Programme of the Global Forum on Trade 2012

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8 November 2012, OECD Conference Centre

   
09:00 – 09:30  Registration
   
09:30 – 09:45

   

 Opening Remarks

Ken Ash, Director of the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate
   
 09:45 – 10:00 Keynote Speech

Minister Anabel González, Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Trade
   
10:00 – 11:00 Session I: Services trade and services in global value chains

Chair: Raed Safadi, OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate

Presentations:
   
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
   
11:15 – 11:45 Open discussion
   
11:45 – 13:00 Session II: Best practice regulation in services

Chair: Carmel Cahill, OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate

Speakers:

  • Best practice services sector regulation
    Transport - Jari Kauppila, International Transport Forum
    Telecoms - Rudolf van der Berg, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
    Financial services - Juan Marchetti, World Trade Organization

Open discussion
   
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 – 16:00  Session III: More competitive services markets: what can we do?

Chair: Crawford Falconer, OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate

Business perspectives:

Regional reforms

  • The economic impact of the services directive: A first assessment following implementation
    Josefa Monteagudo, European Commission
  • Professional services in COMESA
    Nora Dihel, World Bank

Open discussion
   
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
   
16:15 – 17:45 Session III, continued.

The way forward

  • The impact of global value chains for services trade agreements
    Pascal Kerneis, European Services Forum
    Patrick Low, World Trade Organization
    H.E. Fernando de Mateo, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the World Trade Organization

Open discussion
   
17:45 – 18:00 Concluding remarks