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