23 March 2010 Fourth High-level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Financing for Development (New York, 23-24 March 2010) TENTATIVE PROGRAMME Overall theme: The Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: status of implementation and tasks ahead” Tuesday, 23 March 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Plenary meeting (Trusteeship Council Chamber) Opening of the meeting: • Opening remarks by H.E. Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the General Assembly • Opening address by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations Messages from the heads of the major institutional stakeholders: • World Bank: Mr. Otaviano Canuto, Vice President and Head of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network • United Nations Development Programme: Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: Mr. Petko Draganov, Deputy Secretary-General • World Trade Organization: Mr. Shishir Priyadarshi, Director, Development Division Formal statements by: • Ministers and high-level officials 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Plenary meeting (Trusteeship Council Chamber) Formal statements by: • Ministers and high-level officials 23 March 2010 Fourth High-level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Financing for Development (New York, 23-24 March 2010) Wednesday, 24 March 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Three simultaneous multi-stakeholder round tables: • Round table 1: “The reform of the international monetary and financial system and its implications for development” (Conference Room 1, TNLB) Chair: H.E. Mr. Gert Rosenthal, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations Panelists: o Mr. Jose Antonio Ocampo, Professor in the Professional Practice of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University o Mr. Ranjit Teja, Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy and Review Department, IMF o Mr. Martin Khor, Executive Director, South Centre • Round table 2: “The impact of the current financial and economic crisis on foreign direct investment and other private flows, external debt and international trade” (Conference Room 2, TNLB) Chair: H.E. Ms. Olga Algayerova, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovakia Panelists: o Mr. Heiner Flassbeck, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD Mr. Daniel Titelman, Director, Development Studies Division, UN-ECLAC o • Round table 3: “The role of financial and technical development cooperation, including innovative sources of development finance, in leveraging the mobilization of domestic and international financial resources for development” (Conference Room 4, TNLB) Chair: H.E. Mr. João Gomes Cravinho, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Portugal Panelists: o HRH Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development o Dr. Philippe Douste-Blazy, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Innovative Financing for Development o Mr. Simon Scott, Head, Statistics and Monitoring Division, OECD 3:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Informal interactive dialogue: “The link between financing for development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals: the road to the 2010 high-level event” (Trusteeship Council Chamber) Panelists: o Mr. Zia Qureshi, Senior Adviser, Office of the Chief Economist, World Bank o Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, UN-DESA 5:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Closing of the meeting (Trusteeship Council Chamber) • Concluding remarks by H.E. Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the General Assembly .