8th ANNUAL MEETING OF OECD PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICIALS AND INDEPENDENT FISCAL INSTITUTIONS
OECD Conference Centre, Paris, 11-12 April 2016
President: Mr. François Monier, High Council of Public Finance, France
AGENDA - GOV/PGC/SBO/A(2016)3
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Monday, 11 April 2016
Opening by the Meeting Chair and Delegates’ Introductions
Welcome Address
- Dider Migaud, First President, Cour des comptes, and Secretary General, High Council of Public Finance, France
SESSION 1 – Global financial-macroeconomic risk and the role of IFIs
Chair: François Monier, Secretary General, High Council of Public Finance, France
Presenter:
- William White, Chairman, Economic Development and Review Committee, OECD
SESSION 2 – New institutions
Chair: Tateki Sakiyama, Researcher, Research Office of the Standing Committee on Budget, National Diet of Japan
Presenters:
- Arūnas Dulkys, Auditor General, National Audit Office, Lithuania
- Mohamed Jahed, Director, Parliamentary Budget Office, South Africa
- Panagiotis Liargovas, Coordinator, Parliamentary Budget Office, Greece
- Jon Magnusson, Secretary to the Budget Committee, Parliament of Iceland
SESSION 3 – The OECD Review of Budget Oversight by Parliament: Ireland
Chair: Chiara Goretti, Council Member, Parliamentary Budget Office, Italy
Presenters:
- Ronnie Downes, Deputy Head of Division, Budgeting & Public Expenditures, OECD
- Tom Malone, Principal Officer, Committee Procedure and Statutory Affairs, House of the Oireachtas, Ireland
- Larry Honeysett, Head of Financial Scrutiny, House of Commons Scrutiny Unit, United Kingdom
- Eduard Groen, Head of Financial, Economic and Social Affairs Department, House of Representatives of the Dutch States General, Netherlands
- Sebastian Barnes, Economic Counsellor to the Chief Economist, OECD
SESSION 4 – Evaluation and peer review at IFIs
Chair: Bob Sunshine, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office, United States
Presenters:
- Laura van Geest, Director General for Budget, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
- Kwangmook Kim, Chief for Budget Analysis, National Assembly Budget Office, Korea
- John Smidt, Director, Danish Economic Council
- Trevor Shaw, Budgeting & Public Expenditures, OECD
SESSION 5 – Communicating quality
Chair: Robert Chote, Chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility, United Kingdom
Presenters:
- Chris Giles, Economics Editor, Financial Times
- Phil Bowen, Parliamentary Budget Office, Australia
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Welcome Address
- Mme Michèle André, President, Senate Finance Commission, France
SESSION 6 –
Layer cake or marble? The evolving cooperation of national, sub- and supra national IFIs
Chair: Eckhard Janeba, Chairman, Independent Advisory Council to the Stability Council, Germany
Presenters:
- José Luis Escriva, President, Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal (AIREF), Spain
- Susan Rice, Chair, Scottish Fiscal Commission
- Robert Chote, Chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility, United Kingdom
- Stephen LeClair, Financial Accountability Officer, Ontario, Canada
SESSION 7 – Medium-term expenditure frameworks
Chair: Heidi Silvennoinen, Executive Director for Fiscal Policy Evaluation, National Audit Office of Finland
Presenters:
- François Monier, Secretary General, High Council of Public Finance, France
- Jon BlOndal, Head of Division, Budgeting & Public Expenditures, OECD
- Michal Horvath, Lecturer in Economics, University of York
SESSION 8 – Corporate Income Tax Analysis: Taming an Impala
Chair: Carlos Marinheiro, Member of the Board, Portuguese Public Finance Council
Presenters:
- Mostafa Askari, Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
- François Ecalle, Council Member, High Council of Public Finance, France
- Sebastian Barnes, Council Member, Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Economic Counsellor to the Chief Economist of the OECD
SESSION 9 – Fiscal transparency in 2016: relevance, roles and opportunities from an IFI perspectiveChair: Ludovit Odor, Council Member, Council for Budget Responsibility, Slovak Republic
Presenters:
- Bob Sunshine, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office, United States
- Ludovit Odor, Council Member, Council for Budget Responsibility, Slovak Republic
SESSION 10 -- Reports from “Sister” networks, report by the OECD Secretariat, and proposals for future work
Chair: Ludovit Odor, Council Member, Council for Budget Responsibility, Slovak
Presenters:
- José Luis Escriva, President, Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal (AIREF), Spain
- Jon Blöndal, Head of Division, Budgeting & Public Expenditures, OECD
- Larry Honeysett, Inter-Parliamentary Financial Information Network (IPFIN)
Closing by Chair and OECD Secretariat