PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS No. 5, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 2–3 p.m. Meeting of the Extended Bureau Aberdares Hall Main Track 9.30– High-level event Tsavo 1 11.30 a.m. Transforming economies for sustainable and inclusive growth Building productive capacity to transform economies Moderator: Ms. Poppy Trowbridge, Sky News Opening remarks: Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD Panellists: H.E. Mr. Rob Davies, Minister for Trade and Industry, South Africa H.E. Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, Minister for Industry, Trade, and Investment, Nigeria Mr. James Donovan, Chief Executive Officer, ADEC Innovations Mr. Kurt Tong, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, United States of America Discussants: Mr. Helmut Scholz, Committee on International Trade, European Parliament Mr. Gilbert Houngbo, Deputy Director General, International Labour Office Mr. Chutintorn Gongsakdi, Director General, Department of International Economic Affairs, Thailand Mr. Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director, Executive Secretariat for the Enhanced Integrated Framework, World Trade Organization Mr. Sergio Alonso Fernández de Córdova, President and Co-founder, PVBLIC Foundation 2.30– High-level event Tsavo 1 4.30 p.m. Building economic resilience for the most vulnerable Tackling vulnerabilities, building resilience Moderator: Mr. Laban-Cliff Onsario, Reporter, Nation Media Group, Kenya Opening remarks: Mr. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Panellists: H.E. Mr. Axel M. Addy, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Liberia H.E. Mr. Tofail Ahmed, Minister for Commerce, Bangladesh Mr. Cheick Diarra, former United Nations Special Adviser on Africa and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa Ms. Anne Mutahi, Executive Director, Biashara Factors Ltd., Kenya Ms. Diana Ofwano, Regional Director ad interim for East and Southern Africa Regional Office and West and Central Africa Regional Office, UN-Women Mr. Kako Nubukpo, Director, Digital and Economic Francophonie, International Organization of La Francophonie Mr. Kostas Stamoulis, Assistant Director General, Economic and Social Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali, President, Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia Mr. Mehdi Abbas, Professor, University of Grenoble, France 3–6 p.m. Committee of the Whole (private) Aberdares Hall 9.10 a.m.– General debate Shimba Hall 12.10 p.m. 3–6 p.m. General debate Shimba Hall Ministerial round tables 11.30 a.m.– Lowering hurdles for trade: Trade costs, regulatory convergence and Tsavo 2 1 p.m. regional integration Building productive capacity to transform economies Moderator: Mr. Kevin McKinley, Acting Secretary-General, International Organization for Standardization, Canada Opening remarks: Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD Panellists: Ms. Rita Teaotia, Secretary of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India Ms. Tatyana Valovaya, Minister for Integration and Macroeconomic Policy, Eurasian Economic Commission, Russian Federation Mr. Kurt Tong, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State, United States Mr. Yonov Frederick Agah, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization Mr. Palu Dhanani, Managing Director, Universal Corporation Ltd, Kenya Mr. Edward Njoroge, Chair, Telkom, Kenya Mr. Roberto Acle, President, Uruguay Chamber of Commerce, Uruguay Mr. Yonov Frederick Agah, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization 2 Closing remarks: Mr. Guillermo Valles, Director, Division of International Trade in Goods and Services and Commodities, UNCTAD 11.30 a.m.– A world without least developed countries (LDCs) : Towards a better Tsavo 3 1 p.m. framework to assist structural transformation for LDC graduation Moderator: Mr. Cheick Diarra, former United Nations Special Adviser on Africa and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Opening remarks: Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD Panellists: Hon. Vincent Seretse, Minister for Investment, Trade and Industry, Botswana Mr. David Jackson, Director, Local Development Finance, United Nations Capital Development Fund Mr. Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director, Enhanced Integrated Framework Mr. Oumar Diallo, Special Assistant to the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Mr. Andrey Kuleshov, Senior Project Manager, Common Fund for Commodities Mr. Mehdi Abbas, Professor, University of Grenoble, France Mr. Cheikh Tidiane Dieye, Executive Director, Centre africain pour le commerce, l'intégration et le développement 3–4.30 p.m. Roadmap for recovery: Economic development prospects of the Tsavo 3 Occupied Palestinian Territory through addressing obstacles to trade and development Tackling vulnerabilities, building resilience Opening remarks and Moderator: Mr. Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Division on Globalization, and Development Strategies, UNCTAD Panellists: Mr. Abeer Odeh, Minister for National Economy, State of Palestine Mr. Hani Kort, Chair, Palestinian Shippers Council, Occupied Palestinian Territory Mr. Raja Khalidi, Coordinator of Research, Palestinian Economic Policy Research Institute, Occupied Palestinian Territory Mr. Atif Kubursi, Professor Emeritus, McMaster University, Canada Mr. Jonas Borlin, Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Swedish Industry, Sweden Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Chair in International Studies, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia 4.30.00–6 Ministerial round table Tsavo 1 p.m. Women as agents for economic change: Smallholder farming, food security, agricultural upgrading and rural economic diversification in the least developed countries 3 Opening remarks: Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD Moderator: Mr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, Chair, Independent Partnership for the Monitoring of the Outcome of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC IV Monitor), and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka. Session I: Closing the gender gap in agriculture: Towards gender-sensitive rural transformation Panellists: H.E. Ms. Zenebu Tadesse, Minister for Women and Children Affairs, Ethiopia Ms. Sekai Nzenza, Head of Public Affairs, Amatheon Agri, Zimbabwe Respondent: Mr. Kostas Stamoulis, Assistant Director General, Economic and Social Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Session II: Enhancing rural women’s economic empowerment through off-farm activities Panellists: H.E. Mr. Willy Bett, Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya H.E. Mr. Jayanta Chand, Minister for Commerce, Nepal Respondent: Ms. Arancha González, Executive Director, International Trade Centre Session III Promoting coordination mechanisms at the national and local levels to advance gender-sensitive rural development Panellists: H.E. Mr. Faizaz Siddiq Koya, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Fiji Ms. Pauline Ngare, Director, Hand in Hand Eastern Africa Respondent: Ms. Diana Ofwona, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, UN-Women Closing remarks: Mr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, Chair, LDC IV Monitor, and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue and UNCTAD secretariat 4.30–6 p.m. South–South mechanisms to tackle vulnerabilities and build resilience: Tsavo 3 regional and monetary integration and innovative finance Moderator: Mr. Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Division of Globalization and Development Strategy 4 Opening remarks: Mr. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Panellists: Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Chair in International Studies, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia Dr. Kako Nubukpo, Director, International Organization of la Francophonie Mr. Patrick Njoroge, Governor, Central Bank of Kenya, Kenya Dr. Pedro Paez, Superintendent for Market Power Control, Ecuador Mr. Fernando Pimentel, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission Brazil to the World Trade Organization, Switzerland Mr. Gabriel Negatu, Regional Director, African Development Bank Side events 8–9 Post-accession Forum Tsavo 2 a.m. Maximizing the benefits of World Trade Organization membership: Best practices on post-accession -- Lessons learned from 36 completed accessions Moderator: Mr. Guillermo Valles, Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, UNCTAD Opening remarks: Mr. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Mr. Frederick Yonov Agah, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization Post-accession implementation strategy: Maximizing the benefits of membership of the World Trade Organization Speakers: H.E. Mr. Humayoon Rasaw, Minister for Commerce of Industries, Afghanistan H.E. Mr. Axel Addy, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Liberia Post-accession support and partnership Speakers: Ms. Arancha Gonzalez, Executive Director, International Trade Centre Mr. Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director, Executive Secretariat, Enhanced Integrated Framework Interventions by other multilateral institutions and bilateral partners Conclusions and the way forward Speaker: Mr. Joakim Reiter, Deputy Secretary-General and former Chair of the Working Party on the Accession of Liberia Reception for participants