The OECD Development Centre “DEV TALKS” Series

“Managing informality to foster economic development” with Prof. Luca Meldolesi, Professor emeritus at the University of Naples Federico II and Board Member of the A Colorni-Hirschman International Institute (AC-HII)

Tuesday, 19 April 2016 11:00 to 12:30 OECD Headquarters – room D ______

Draft Agenda

11:00 – 11:10 Introductory remarks Pierre Duquesne, Chair of the Governing Board , OECD Development Centre; Permanent Representative of France to the OECD (tbc)

11:10 – 11:40 Can we leverage the informal economy in support of development? Prof. Luca Meldolesi, Former Advisor, Ministry of Labour, Italy

11:40 – 12:00 Comments by: Deborah Roseveare, Head of Division, Skills Beyond School , Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD

12:00 – 12:30 Questions &Answers and Wrap-up Alexandre Kolev, Head of the Social Cohesion Unit, OECD Development Centre

About the speaker Luca Meldolesi is Professor emeritus at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). He currently sits on the Board of the A Colorni-Hirschman International Institute (AC- HII) worked in Cambridge, UK (with Piero Sraffa), Paris (with Fernand Braudel), and Princeton N.J. (with Albert O. Hirschman). He studied Law at the Universities of Catania and Bologna and Economics and Politics at the University of Cambridge (UK). He taught History of Economic Thought (at the University of Rome, La Sapienza), Theory and Practice of Economic Development (at the University of Calabria), Economic Policy (at the University of Naples Federico II) and Economics (at the High School of Public Administration). Meldolesi has published numerous books, including Italia federanda (2015); Federalismo possibile (2012) and Discovering the Possible (1995), some of which were translated into English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Bengalese. He served as Advisor to the Italian Minister of Defense (1992-93) and as president of the National Committee for the Surfacing of Irregular Work at the Prime Minister Office (1999-2003) and at the Ministry of Labour (2004-08).