XXVI G24 Technical Group Meeting

  March 17, 2008

  Auditorium, HQ1 RD-710

  IMF Headquarters, Washington, DC

                  Draft Program

09:00-09:15 am       Opening Remarks by G24 Chair Mawakani Samba, Senior Advisor to Governor, Central Bank of Congo, DR

09:15-10:45 am       Current Financial Turmoil and Its Implications

                                    Chair:            Rogerio Studart, Executive Director, World Bank

Presenters:    Simon Johnson, Economic Counselor and Director of the Research Department, IMF

                     Uri Dadush, Director of the Development Prospects Group, Development Economics Department, World Bank

                     Jomo K. Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General, UN-DESA and Research Coordinator, G24 Secretariat

Open Discussion

10:45-11:00 am       Coffee Break

 11:00-12:30 pm      Voice and Representation in the BWIs

Chair:               Mawakani Samba, Senior Advisor to Governor, Central Bank of Congo, DR

Presenters:       Ralph Bryant, Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Amar Bhattacharya, Director, G24 Secretariat

Open Discussion

12:30-02:00 pm      Lunch Break

02:00-03:15 pm      Climate Change and Development Agenda

Chair:               wa Bilenga Tshishimbi, Chair of G24 Deputies

Presenters:       Sivan Kartha, Program Director, Stockholm Environment Institute 

                        Tariq Banuri, Program Director, Stockholm Environment Institute

Adil Najam, Professor, Boston University

Open Discussion

03:15-03:30 pm      Coffee Break

03:30-05:00 pm      Panel on Financing for Development

Chair:               wa Bilenga Tshishimbi, Chair of G24 Deputies

Panelists:          H. E. Ambassador Byron Blake, Deputy Permanent Representative

                        Mission of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations, UN and Chair of G77 New York Chapter

                        Rogerio Studart, Executive Director, World Bank

Manuel Montes, Chief, Policy Analysis Unit, UN-DESA

Stephany Griffith-Jones, Executive Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue , Columbia University

Open Discussion

05:00-06:00 pm      Wrap-Up and Other Issues

                                      Chair:              wa Bilenga Tshishimbi, Chair of G24 Deputies

Background papers:

Reform of Quota and Voting Shares in the International Monetary Fund by Raplh Bryant

The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World by Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha

International Climate Policy prepared by the Stockholm Environment Institute 

Sovereing Wealth Funds: A Developing Country Perspective by Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo

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