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40th Annual Meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials -- Tallinn, Estonia, 5-6 June 2

 

40th Annual Meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials

Tallinn, Estonia, 5-6 June 2019

The meeting was kindly hosted by the Estonian Ministry of Finance
Chair: Martin Kelleners, Director, Budget Directorate, Ministry of Finance, Germany

 

AGENDA – GOV/PGC/SBO/A(22019)6/FINAL
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Wednesday, 5 June
Opening by Chair
Delegates’ Introductions
Opening Remarks by Martin Helme, Minister of Finance, Estonia
Opening Remarks by Jeffrey Schlagenhauf, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

SESSION 1 -- Budget Profile of Estonia: State Reform and Future Challenges
Presenter:

  • Veiko Tali, Secretary General, Ministry of Finance, Estonia

SESSION 2 -- OECD Principles on Budgetary Governance
Presenters:

  • Andrew Blazey, Deputy Head, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD
  • Anne Keller, Policy Analyst, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD

Discussants:

  • Martin Kelleners, Director, Budget Directorate, Ministry of Finance, Germany
  • Ronnie Downes, Assistant Secretary, Central Expenditure Policy, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Ireland

SESSION 3 – Budgets and Transparency of Information
Presenter:

  • Scherie Nicol, Policy Analyst, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD

Discussant:

  • Lorena Rivero, Technical Collaboration and Cooperation Manager, Global

SESSION 4 – Budgets for Outcomes
Presenters:

  • Stefan Kiss, Director, Structural and Expenditure Policies Department, Ministry of Finance Slovak Republic
  • Struan Little, Deputy Secretary, Budget and Public Services, The Treasury,

SESSION 5 – Delivering on Citizen-Focused Budgets
Breakout Group A -- Performance budgeting and links to strategy

  • Chair: Niels Kastelein, Director, Inspectorate for the Budget, Ministry of Finance, Netherlands
  • Presenter: Eneken Lipp, Project Manager of Performance Based Budgeting, State Budget Department, Ministry of Finance, Estonia

Breakout Group B -- Stakeholder management (how to market good budget ideas and reforms)

  • Chair: Friederike Schwarzendorfer, Director, Budget Department, Ministry of Finance, Austria
  • Presenter: Benoit Laroche de Roussane, Deputy Director, Public Management, Budget Directorate, Ministry of Budget, Public Accounts, and Public Service, France

Breakout Group C -- Lifecycle services (budgeting for a citizen and/or process lifecycle)

  • Chair: Åke Nordlander, Budget Director, Budget Department, Ministry of Finance, Sweden
  • Presenter: Struan Little, Deputy Secretary, Budget and Public Services, The Treasury, New Zealand

 

Thursday, 6 June
SESSION 5 – Delivering on Citizen-Focused Budgets (…/Cont’d)

  • Reports by Breakout Groups Chairs.

SESSION 6 – Digitalisation of Finance Activities: Challenges and Opportunities
Presenters:

  • Edwin Lau, Head, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, OECD
  • Andrus Jõgi, Adviser, Local Governments Financial Management Department, Ministry of Finance, Estonia
  • Rosemary Huxtable, Secretary, Department of Finance, Australia
  • Thomas Larouche, Director, Budget Policy and Analysis, Fiscal Policy

SESSION 7 – Infrastructure and Public Private Partnerships
Presenters:

  • Irène Hors, Deputy Director, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD
  • Ana Maria Ruiz, Policy Analyst, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD
  • Colin Forthun, Deputy Director General, Budget Department, Ministry of Finance, Norway

SESSION 8 -- Budgeting in Greece – Peer Review
Presenters:

  • Eftychia Gratsia, Directorate of Programming, Fiscal Data and Methodology, General Accounting Office and Nektaria Papatzanaki, Fiscal Analyst, General Accounting Office, Ministry of Finance, Greece
  • Delphine Moretti, Senior Policy Analyst, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD

Peer review:

  • Ronnie Downes, Assistant Secretary, Central Expenditure Policy, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Ireland
  • Richard Hughes, Research Associate, Resolution Foundation, United Kingdom

SESSION 9 -- Managing Fiscal Risks: Disasters, Demographics, and Debt
Presenters:

  • Delphine Moretti, Senior Policy Analyst, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD
  • Falilou Fall, Senior Economist, Economics Department, OECD
  • Jason Harris, Deputy Division Chief, Public Financial Management Division, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
  • Kelly Kinneen, Assistant Director for Budget, Budget Review Division, Office of Management and Budget, United States

SESSION 10 – Report by the Secretariat and Future Work
Presenter:

  • Edwin Lau, Head, Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, OECD

16:45 Closing by Chair and Secretariat

 

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