UNCTAD16: Programme

Filter by type of event:

All events High-level events General debate Negotiations Forums Parallel events Exhibitions Press events

Search the calendar:

20 October 2025 Monday
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: 40 years of UN guidelines for consumer protection Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Opening plenary and ceremony Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speakers: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister, Barbados José Ramos-Horta, President, Timor-Leste Phạm Minh Chính, Prime Minister, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam Speakers: Guy Parmelin, Federal Councillor, Switzerland Sandra V. Husbands, Minister of Training and Tertiary Education, Government of Barbados Annalena Baerbock, President of the 80th session of the General Assembly, United Nations Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Leaders dialogue Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Arnoldo André Tinoco, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship, Costa Rica Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Government of Jamaica Ahmed Kouchouk, Minister of Finance, Government of Egypt Guy Parmelin, Federal Councillor, Switzerland Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization
13:00 - 13:30		Opening press conference Room: Press Room
13:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Powering progress with AI and data science – a bird's-eye view of initiatives across UNCTAD programmes Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
13:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
13:15 - 14:45		Ministerial meeting of the Group of 77 and China Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
15:00 - 16:30		ASYCUDA - new technology to foster efficient, secure and sustainable trade Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Davaasuren Gerelmaa, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations in Geneva Moustoifa Hassani Mohamed, Minister of Economy, Industry, and Investments, Government of Comoros Abdel Ilah Bousseta, Director of Postal Operations, Universal Postal Union Pha Engveng, Deputy Director General, General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia Paula Baena, Global Policy Lead on Customs, International Chamber of Commerce
15:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 18:00		Opening plenary of the Committee of the Whole Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Reimagining trade – a broader path to development Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Government of Jamaica Julien Paluku Kahongya, Minister of International Trade, Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Basílio Zefanias Muhate, Minister of Economy, Government of Mozambique Anil Kumar Sinha, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Government of Nepal Mahbubur Rahman, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh Éléonore Caroit, Minister Delegate for Francophonie, International Partnerships and French Nationals Abroad, Government of France Zhanel Kushukova, Vice Minister of Trade and Integration, Government of Kazakhstan Michal Baranowski, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Government of Poland Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Implementing the Sevilla Commitment on financing for development and establishing a borrowers' platform Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Elmer José Germán Gonzalo Schialer Salcedo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Peru Ahmed Kouchouk, Minister of Finance, Government of Egypt Inés Carpio San Román, General Director of International Finance, Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Business, Government of Spain Daniel Pacho, Undersecretary for the Multilateral Sector, The Holy See Paolo Gentiloni, Co-Chair of the Group of Experts to Promote Policy Solutions for Resolving the Debt Crisis, United Nations Carlos Correa, Executive Director, South Centre Penelope Hawkins, Officer-in-Charge, Debt and Development Finance Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
16:30 - 18:00		Safe products for all consumers Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal Cielo Elainne Rusinque Urrego, Superintendent of Industry and Commerce, Superintendence of Industry and Commerce, Colombia Hardin Ratshisusu, Acting Commissioner , National Consumer Commission, South Africa Pinuccia Contino, Deputy to the Director for Consumers, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission Helena Leurent, Director General, Consumers International Teresa Moreira, Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD

20 October 2025 Monday
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: 40 years of UN guidelines for consumer protection Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Opening plenary and ceremony Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speakers: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister, Barbados José Ramos-Horta, President, Timor-Leste Phạm Minh Chính, Prime Minister, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam Speakers: Guy Parmelin, Federal Councillor, Switzerland Sandra V. Husbands, Minister of Training and Tertiary Education, Government of Barbados Annalena Baerbock, President of the 80th session of the General Assembly, United Nations Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General, United Nations Office at Geneva Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Leaders dialogue Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Arnoldo André Tinoco, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship, Costa Rica Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Government of Jamaica Ahmed Kouchouk, Minister of Finance, Government of Egypt Guy Parmelin, Federal Councillor, Switzerland Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization
13:00 - 13:30		Opening press conference Room: Press Room
13:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Powering progress with AI and data science – a bird's-eye view of initiatives across UNCTAD programmes Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
13:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
13:15 - 14:45		Ministerial meeting of the Group of 77 and China Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
15:00 - 16:30		ASYCUDA - new technology to foster efficient, secure and sustainable trade Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Davaasuren Gerelmaa, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations in Geneva Moustoifa Hassani Mohamed, Minister of Economy, Industry, and Investments, Government of Comoros Abdel Ilah Bousseta, Director of Postal Operations, Universal Postal Union Pha Engveng, Deputy Director General, General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia Paula Baena, Global Policy Lead on Customs, International Chamber of Commerce
15:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 18:00		Opening plenary of the Committee of the Whole Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Reimagining trade – a broader path to development Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Government of Jamaica Julien Paluku Kahongya, Minister of International Trade, Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Basílio Zefanias Muhate, Minister of Economy, Government of Mozambique Anil Kumar Sinha, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, Government of Nepal Mahbubur Rahman, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh Éléonore Caroit, Minister Delegate for Francophonie, International Partnerships and French Nationals Abroad, Government of France Zhanel Kushukova, Vice Minister of Trade and Integration, Government of Kazakhstan Michal Baranowski, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Government of Poland Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Implementing the Sevilla Commitment on financing for development and establishing a borrowers' platform Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Elmer José Germán Gonzalo Schialer Salcedo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Peru Ahmed Kouchouk, Minister of Finance, Government of Egypt Inés Carpio San Román, General Director of International Finance, Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Business, Government of Spain Daniel Pacho, Undersecretary for the Multilateral Sector, The Holy See Paolo Gentiloni, Co-Chair of the Group of Experts to Promote Policy Solutions for Resolving the Debt Crisis, United Nations Carlos Correa, Executive Director, South Centre Penelope Hawkins, Officer-in-Charge, Debt and Development Finance Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
16:30 - 18:00		Safe products for all consumers Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal Cielo Elainne Rusinque Urrego, Superintendent of Industry and Commerce, Superintendence of Industry and Commerce, Colombia Hardin Ratshisusu, Acting Commissioner , National Consumer Commission, South Africa Pinuccia Contino, Deputy to the Director for Consumers, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission Helena Leurent, Director General, Consumers International Teresa Moreira, Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD

21 October 2025 Tuesday
08:30 - 10:00		Ministerial meeting of the group of least developed countries Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Digital economy for development Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Powering progress with AI and data science – a bird's-eye view of initiatives across UNCTAD programmes Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Capacity-building for science, technology and innovation policy Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Multilateral and national development banks: Boosting affordable financing Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Ahmed Kouchouk, Minister of Finance, Government of Egypt Clara Manuela da Luz Delgado Jesus, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Cabo Verde to the United Nations at Geneva Abdullah Kh. Almusaibeeh, President, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) Luis Jiménez-McInnis, European Representative, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Helena Tenório Veiga de Almeida, Director of Planning, Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)
10:00 - 12:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Harnessing artificial intelligence for inclusive and sustainable development Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister for Trade, Agribusiness, and Industry , Government of Ghana Philip Fox-Drummond Gough, Secretary for Economic and Financial Affairs, Government of Brazil Mariin Ratnik, Deputy Minister for Economic and Development Affairs, Government of Estonia Jukka Salovaara, Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Government of Finland Kim Hee-sang, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Republic of Korea Çetin Ali Dönmez, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Industry and Technology, Government of Türkiye Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Mohamed Abdelsalam, Secretary-General, Zayed Award for Human Fraternity Isabel De Sola Criado, Head of the Coordination Unit, UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies, United Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Expanding productive capacities to enhance developing countries’ financial sustainability Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Government of The Gambia Lee Kinyanjui, Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade and Industry, Government of the Republic of Kenya Tekreth Kamrang, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of Cambodia Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat , Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) Xiaowen Fu, Head of Department & Professor in Engineering Management, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering , The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Taffere Tesfachew, Senior Advisor on Economic Transformation in Africa , Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) Gilson Pina, National Director for Planning, Ministry of Finance , Government of the Republic of Cabo Verde
11:30 - 13:00		Bridging the credit rating and market information gaps Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Bodo Ellmers, Managing Director, Global Policy Forum Europe Penelope Hawkins, Officer-in-Charge, Debt and Development Finance Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Ugo Panizza, Professor of Economics, Geneva Graduate Institute Lucas Tasquetto, General-Coordinator for Trade Policies, Ministry of Finance , Government of Brazil Lucie Villa, Senior Vice President, Sovereign Risk Group, Moody’s Investors Service
11:30 - 13:00		Investment facilitation: Progress, prospects and policy options Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Jumoke Oduwole, Minister of Trade and Investment, Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Ahmad Mohammed Al-Sayed, Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs, Government of the State of Qatar Thomas Steffen, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany Sung-yo Choi, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative , Government of the Republic of Korea Xiangchen Zhang, Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization Joanna Szychowska, Director, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade Nan Li Collins, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UN Trade and Development
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Making the digital economy inclusive and sustainable through cooperation Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Arnoldo André Tinoco, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship, Costa Rica Majid bin Abdullah Al-Kassabi, Minister of Commerce, Government of Saudi Arabia Mthuli Ncube, Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, Government of Zimbabwe Deborah Rivas Saavedra, Vice Minister of International Trade and Foreign Investment, Government of Cuba Arrmanatha Christiawan Nasir, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Indonesia Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal Deemah AlYahya, Secretary-General , Digital Cooperation Organization Angeline Tham, Founder and CEO, Angkas Isabelle Kumar, Journalist and Professional Moderator
12:00 - 13:00		Ministerial meeting of African countries Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
13:15 - 14:45		Ministerial meeting of the group of small island developing states Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speaker: José R. Sánchez-Fung, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Government of the Dominican Republic
15:00 - 18:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 16:30		Reshaping progress: Moving beyond GDP for inclusive and sustainable transformation Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Matthew Wilson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados, United Nations,  World Trade Organisation and Other International Organisations in Geneva Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment , Government of Bhutan Mary Beth Goodman, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD Sabina Alkire, Professor of Poverty and Human Development, University of Oxford Deemah AlYahya, Secretary-General , Digital Cooperation Organization Max Amanu, Regional Director for Africa , Changing-lives Switzerland Nathalie Delorme, Associate Political Affairs Officer, Beyond Lab Peggy Lynn Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, UN's human rights office Rutger Hoekstra, Associate professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University Nora Lustig, Co-chair the UN High-level Expert Group on Beyond GDP, Tulane University
15:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed Digital for development forum Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD James Baxter, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO, Australian Permanent Mission in Geneva Helge Elisabeth Zeitler, Director for UN and EU affairs, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Vena Arielle Ahouansou, eTrade for Women Advocate for Francophone Africa and entrepreneur, Benin Angeline Tham, Founder and CEO, Angkas Alisa Sydow, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, ESCP Business School Carla Natalie Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community Lansana Gberie, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations in Geneva Merewalesi Falemaka, Permanent Observer, Permanent Delegation of the Pacific Islands Forum to the United Nations in Geneva Rajiv Babooram, Adviser and Head of the Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda, Commonwealth Secretariat Giulia Ajmone Marsan, Head of Startups and Digital Inclusion, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Sven Callebaut, Trade and digital policy adviser in Asia and the Pacific Isabelle Kumar, Journalist and Professional Moderator
15:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Strategic priorities and emerging directions for investment and entrepreneurship policy Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Tiroeaone Ntsima, Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Government of the Republic of Botswana Diana Morales, Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Government of Colombia Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Government of The Gambia Zdenko Lucić, State Secretary for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Government of the Republic of Croatia Febrian A. Ruddyard, Vice Minister of the National Development Planning, Government of the Republic of Indonesia Steven Collet, Vice Minister for International Cooperation, Government of the Netherlands Eiman Bin Habbas Al-Mutairi, Vice Minister of Commerce, Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia María Amparo López Senovilla, Secretary of State for Trade, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business, Spain Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK
16:30 - 18:00		Climate-resilient development: Finance, structural transformation and cooperation Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Government of Jamaica Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Umid Abidhadjaev, Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Government of Uzbekistan Urujeni Bakuramutsa, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the United Nations in Geneva Philip Fox-Drummond Gough, Secretary for Economic and Financial Affairs, Government of Brazil Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Interim Co-President and Co-CEO, Global Strategies and Managing Director, Europe, IISD Yuefen Li, Special Advisor on Economics and Development Finance, South Centre, Geneva
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Regionalism in a time of uncertainty Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment , Government of Bhutan Atheer Dawood Salman Al Ghrairi, Minister of Trade, Government of Iraq Ryad Mezzour, Minister of Industry and Trade, Government of Morocco Nazar Agahanov, Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, Government of Turkmenistan Tekreth Kamrang, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of Cambodia Regina Akoth Ombam, Principal Secretary, State Department for Trade, Government of Kenya Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

22 October 2025 Wednesday
09:00 - 10:00		Dialogue with youth Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 10:00		Ministerial meeting of the Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP) Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Trade logistics and global supply chains Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Trade-in-Services Statistics Information System (TiSSTAT) Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Transforming for trade – building productive capacities for sustainable and inclusive development Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Inclusive trade and the creative economy Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Augusto Jorge de Albuquerque Veiga, Minister of Culture and Creative Industry, Government of Cabo Verde Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment , Government of Bhutan Ditya Agung Nurdianto, Director of International Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Indonesia Marisa Henderson, Chief Chief of the Trade and Creative Economy Section), UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
10:00 - 11:30		Igniting entrepreneurial potential: UNCTAD Empretec in the age of transformation Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Evelyn Anite, Minister of State Privatization and Investment, Government of Uganda Carlson Manuel, Minister Plenipotentiary, Government of Curaçao Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Hamidi, Chief Executive Officer, Social Development Bank Sipho Ngcai, Acting Group Executive for Business Development, Small Enterprise Development and Finance Agency (SEDFA) Nan Li Collins, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UN Trade and Development Ashutosh Chadha, Senior Director, United Nations Affairs and International Organizations, Microsoft Eddie Chen, Co-Chairman, China Carbon Neutrality Development Group Limited (CCNG) Jessica Anuna, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Klasha Heba Kurdi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mata Logistic Martin Zhu, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, i2Cool Sanya Rajpal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AdagioVR
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Towards resilient, sustainable and inclusive supply chains and trade logistics Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Kamel Rezig, Minister of Trade and Export Promotion , Government of Algeria Ricardo Viegas D'Abreu, Minister of Transport, Government of Angola Moustoifa Hassani Mohamed, Minister of Economy, Industry, and Investments, Government of Comoros Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India Mokhethi Shelile, Minister of Trade, Industry and Business Development, Kingdom of Lesotho Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Saleh bin Nasser Al Jasser, Minister of Transport and Logistics Services, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Stéphane Graber, Director General, International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) Naledi Moleo, Journalist and News Anchor, eNCA – eNews Channel Africa
10:00 - 13:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
11:30 - 13:00		Inclusive trade in a changing global landscape: Making trade policy work for women Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, European Commission Mokhethi Shelile, Minister of Trade, Industry and Business Development, Kingdom of Lesotho Tekreth Kamrang, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of Cambodia María Amparo López Senovilla, Secretary of State for Trade, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business, Spain Sofia Boza Martinez, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Chile to the World Trade Organization Patricia Benedetti, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the World Trade Organization Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director, Trade Law Centre
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Global Commodities Forum Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Julien Paluku Kahongya, Minister of International Trade, Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Julia Imene-Chanduru, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Namibia to the United Nations at Geneva Djatmiko Bris Witjaksono, Director General of International Trade Negotiation, Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia Francisca Tatchouop Belobe, Commissioner for Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry and Minerals (ETTIM) Department, African Union Commission
11:30 - 13:00		Future-ready ports: Energy and digital transition strategies Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Bismark Rosales Rojas, General Manager, Port Jennefer, Bolivia Suliman bin Khalid Al-Mazroua, President, Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), Saudi Arabia Mouhamadou Ngouda Mboup, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Autonomous Port of Dakar, Senegal Nieves Roqueñí Gutiérrez, President, Port Authority of Gijón, Spain Mark Assaf, Chief, Human Resources Development Section – TrainForTrade, Transport and Logistics Branch, Division of Trade and Logistics, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Lili Flour, Consultant, Human Resources Development Section – TrainForTrade, Transport and Logistics Branch, Division of Trade and Logistics, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
13:15 - 14:45		Ministerial meeting of the group of landlocked developing countries Room: Room V, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
15:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Plenary session with the UN Secretary-General Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
15:00 - 18:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
16:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Press conference: Launch of the Sevilla Forum on Debt Room: Press room, Palais des Nations Key Speakers: António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Carlos Cuerpo Caballero, Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Government of Spain Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
16:15 - 18:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Changemakers for sustainable trade: Advancing circular and biodiversity-based economies Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Salomon Eheth, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cameroon Lisa Emelia Svensson, Minister Counselor, Permanent Mission of Sweden Monica Rubiolo, Head Trade Promotion, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Pierre Marcolini, Chocolatier and Sustainable Entrepreneur, Founder and Creation Director, Maison Pierre Marcolini Emma Algotsson, Founder and Project Lead, Catchgreen Adrie El Mohamadi, Component Manager, ABS Compliant Biotrade in South(ern) Africa (ABioSA) and BioInnovation Africa, South Africa Ebenezer Laryea, Project Director Leathertrace Bangladesh and FRESHPPACT Ghana, Leathertrace Bangladesh
16:30 - 18:00		Global commodities forum (continued) Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Grégoire Bellois, Lead, Critical Minerals and Geology, Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) Clovis Freire Junior, Chief, Extractive Commodities Section, Commodities Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Susannah Fitzgerald, Governance Officer, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) Nagesh Kumar, Director and Chief Executive, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) Anabel Marin, Research Fellow , International Development Studies (ISD) Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Gerald Mwila, Director, Geological Survey Department, Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development, Zambia
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Business leaders dialogue: Investing in the future Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Shaikha Al Nowais, Secretary-General elect, UN Tourism Alan Chan, Executive Director of the Board, Hong Kong and China Gas Company (Towngas) Ángela Pérez, Chairperson and CEO, COFIDES Boon Heong Ng, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Temasek Foundation André Hoffmann, Interim Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Alfonso Líbano Daurella, Vice Chairman, Cobega Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK

23 October 2025 Thursday
09:00 - 16:00		Exhibition: Trade-in-Services Statistics Information System (TiSSTAT) Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 16:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Global services forum Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Rui Miguêns de Oliveira, Minister of Industry and Commerce , Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Angola Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Rajesh Agrawal, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of India Lattanaphone Vongsouthi, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Carla Natalie Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community Shaikha Al Nowais, Secretary-General elect, UN Tourism Kunal Sen, Director, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research
10:00 - 13:00		South-south cooperation forum Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Kamel Rezig, Minister of Trade and Export Promotion , Government of Algeria Miho Shirotori, Chief of Service, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Omar Zniber, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva Daniela Arruda Benjamin, Director, Department of Regional Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Brazil William Alfredo Castillo Bollé, Vice Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies, Ministry of People's Power for Economy, Finance, and Foreign Trade, Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Febrian A. Ruddyard, Vice Minister of the National Development Planning, Government of the Republic of Indonesia Yuefen Li, Special Advisor on Economics and Development Finance, South Centre, Geneva Márcio Lopes Corrêa, Head of the Coordination for Multilateral Cooperation, Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Brazil Sanjay Kumar Verma, Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) Emmanuel Omokhomion, Senior Programme Analyst, National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria Deborah Rivas Saavedra, Vice Minister of International Trade and Foreign Investment, Government of Cuba Juhara Abdulaziz Al-Suwaidi, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations Office in Geneva Stephanie Blankenburg, Head of the Economic Cooperation and Integration among Developing Countries Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Manuela Vivas, South–South Cooperation Data Team, Agencia Presidencial de Cooperación Internacional de Colombia (APC Colombia) César Sánchez Icaza, Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade Policy and Under-Secretary for International Negotiations, Government of Ecuador Vanessa Erogbogbo, Chief, Green and Inclusive Value Chains section, International Trade Centre and a member of the Management Action Group
10:00 - 11:30		Dialogue with civil society Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Youth forum Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Kamel Rezig, Minister of Trade and Export Promotion , Government of Algeria Carlson Manuel, Minister Plenipotentiary, Government of Curaçao Matthew Wilson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados, United Nations,  World Trade Organisation and Other International Organisations in Geneva Chidinma Cynthia Udeogu, Assistant General Manager, Nigeria Economic Zones Association Birknesh Fikadu, Production Planner , Peli Biothermal Nielsimms Sangho, Regional Manager, East Africa at Flutterwave-Africa Heba Kurdi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mata Logistic Aaron Au Yeung, Project Manager , Fullness Social Enterprises Society Limited Sanya Rajpal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AdagioVR Angela Zhong, Board Member , The Climate Initiative
11:30 - 13:00		Trade-related regulations for economic integration and sustainable development Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Sofia Boza Martinez, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Chile to the World Trade Organization Syahril Syazli Ghazali, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the World Trade Organization Clare Kelly, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the World Trade Organization Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director, Trade Law Centre Marcelo Olarreaga, Professor of Economics, University of Geneva Ralf Peters, Head of the Trade Analysis Branch, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
16:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed Closing plenary and closing ceremony Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Erwin Bollinger, Ambassador, Government of Switzerland

21 October 2025 Tuesday
08:30 - 10:00		Ministerial meeting of the group of least developed countries Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Digital economy for development Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Powering progress with AI and data science – a bird's-eye view of initiatives across UNCTAD programmes Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Capacity-building for science, technology and innovation policy Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Multilateral and national development banks: Boosting affordable financing Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Ahmed Kouchouk, Minister of Finance, Government of Egypt Clara Manuela da Luz Delgado Jesus, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Cabo Verde to the United Nations at Geneva Abdullah Kh. Almusaibeeh, President, Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) Luis Jiménez-McInnis, European Representative, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Helena Tenório Veiga de Almeida, Director of Planning, Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)
10:00 - 12:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Harnessing artificial intelligence for inclusive and sustainable development Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister for Trade, Agribusiness, and Industry , Government of Ghana Philip Fox-Drummond Gough, Secretary for Economic and Financial Affairs, Government of Brazil Mariin Ratnik, Deputy Minister for Economic and Development Affairs, Government of Estonia Jukka Salovaara, Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Government of Finland Kim Hee-sang, Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Republic of Korea Çetin Ali Dönmez, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Industry and Technology, Government of Türkiye Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Mohamed Abdelsalam, Secretary-General, Zayed Award for Human Fraternity Isabel De Sola Criado, Head of the Coordination Unit, UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies, United Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Expanding productive capacities to enhance developing countries’ financial sustainability Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Government of The Gambia Lee Kinyanjui, Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade and Industry, Government of the Republic of Kenya Tekreth Kamrang, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of Cambodia Ratnakar Adhikari, Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat , Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) Xiaowen Fu, Head of Department & Professor in Engineering Management, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering , The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Taffere Tesfachew, Senior Advisor on Economic Transformation in Africa , Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) Gilson Pina, National Director for Planning, Ministry of Finance , Government of the Republic of Cabo Verde
11:30 - 13:00		Bridging the credit rating and market information gaps Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Bodo Ellmers, Managing Director, Global Policy Forum Europe Penelope Hawkins, Officer-in-Charge, Debt and Development Finance Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Ugo Panizza, Professor of Economics, Geneva Graduate Institute Lucas Tasquetto, General-Coordinator for Trade Policies, Ministry of Finance , Government of Brazil Lucie Villa, Senior Vice President, Sovereign Risk Group, Moody’s Investors Service
11:30 - 13:00		Investment facilitation: Progress, prospects and policy options Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Jumoke Oduwole, Minister of Trade and Investment, Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Ahmad Mohammed Al-Sayed, Minister of State for Foreign Trade Affairs, Government of the State of Qatar Thomas Steffen, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany Sung-yo Choi, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative , Government of the Republic of Korea Xiangchen Zhang, Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization Joanna Szychowska, Director, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade Nan Li Collins, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UN Trade and Development
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Making the digital economy inclusive and sustainable through cooperation Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Arnoldo André Tinoco, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship, Costa Rica Majid bin Abdullah Al-Kassabi, Minister of Commerce, Government of Saudi Arabia Mthuli Ncube, Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, Government of Zimbabwe Deborah Rivas Saavedra, Vice Minister of International Trade and Foreign Investment, Government of Cuba Arrmanatha Christiawan Nasir, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Indonesia Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal Deemah AlYahya, Secretary-General , Digital Cooperation Organization Angeline Tham, Founder and CEO, Angkas Isabelle Kumar, Journalist and Professional Moderator
12:00 - 13:00		Ministerial meeting of African countries Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
13:15 - 14:45		Ministerial meeting of the group of small island developing states Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speaker: José R. Sánchez-Fung, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Government of the Dominican Republic
15:00 - 18:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
15:00 - 16:30		Reshaping progress: Moving beyond GDP for inclusive and sustainable transformation Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Matthew Wilson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados, United Nations,  World Trade Organisation and Other International Organisations in Geneva Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment , Government of Bhutan Mary Beth Goodman, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD Sabina Alkire, Professor of Poverty and Human Development, University of Oxford Deemah AlYahya, Secretary-General , Digital Cooperation Organization Max Amanu, Regional Director for Africa , Changing-lives Switzerland Nathalie Delorme, Associate Political Affairs Officer, Beyond Lab Peggy Lynn Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, UN's human rights office Rutger Hoekstra, Associate professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University Nora Lustig, Co-chair the UN High-level Expert Group on Beyond GDP, Tulane University
15:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed Digital for development forum Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD James Baxter, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO, Australian Permanent Mission in Geneva Helge Elisabeth Zeitler, Director for UN and EU affairs, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Vena Arielle Ahouansou, eTrade for Women Advocate for Francophone Africa and entrepreneur, Benin Angeline Tham, Founder and CEO, Angkas Alisa Sydow, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, ESCP Business School Carla Natalie Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community Lansana Gberie, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations in Geneva Merewalesi Falemaka, Permanent Observer, Permanent Delegation of the Pacific Islands Forum to the United Nations in Geneva Rajiv Babooram, Adviser and Head of the Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda, Commonwealth Secretariat Giulia Ajmone Marsan, Head of Startups and Digital Inclusion, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Sven Callebaut, Trade and digital policy adviser in Asia and the Pacific Isabelle Kumar, Journalist and Professional Moderator
15:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Strategic priorities and emerging directions for investment and entrepreneurship policy Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Tiroeaone Ntsima, Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Government of the Republic of Botswana Diana Morales, Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Government of Colombia Baboucarr Ousmaila Joof, Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment, Government of The Gambia Zdenko Lucić, State Secretary for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Government of the Republic of Croatia Febrian A. Ruddyard, Vice Minister of the National Development Planning, Government of the Republic of Indonesia Steven Collet, Vice Minister for International Cooperation, Government of the Netherlands Eiman Bin Habbas Al-Mutairi, Vice Minister of Commerce, Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia María Amparo López Senovilla, Secretary of State for Trade, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business, Spain Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK
16:30 - 18:00		Climate-resilient development: Finance, structural transformation and cooperation Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Government of Jamaica Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Umid Abidhadjaev, Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Government of Uzbekistan Urujeni Bakuramutsa, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the United Nations in Geneva Philip Fox-Drummond Gough, Secretary for Economic and Financial Affairs, Government of Brazil Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Interim Co-President and Co-CEO, Global Strategies and Managing Director, Europe, IISD Yuefen Li, Special Advisor on Economics and Development Finance, South Centre, Geneva
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Regionalism in a time of uncertainty Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment , Government of Bhutan Atheer Dawood Salman Al Ghrairi, Minister of Trade, Government of Iraq Ryad Mezzour, Minister of Industry and Trade, Government of Morocco Nazar Agahanov, Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, Government of Turkmenistan Tekreth Kamrang, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of Cambodia Regina Akoth Ombam, Principal Secretary, State Department for Trade, Government of Kenya Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

22 October 2025 Wednesday
09:00 - 10:00		Dialogue with youth Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 10:00		Ministerial meeting of the Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP) Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Trade logistics and global supply chains Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Trade-in-Services Statistics Information System (TiSSTAT) Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Transforming for trade – building productive capacities for sustainable and inclusive development Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 17:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Inclusive trade and the creative economy Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Augusto Jorge de Albuquerque Veiga, Minister of Culture and Creative Industry, Government of Cabo Verde Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji, Minister for Industry, Commerce and Employment , Government of Bhutan Ditya Agung Nurdianto, Director of International Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Indonesia Marisa Henderson, Chief Chief of the Trade and Creative Economy Section), UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
10:00 - 11:30		Igniting entrepreneurial potential: UNCTAD Empretec in the age of transformation Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Evelyn Anite, Minister of State Privatization and Investment, Government of Uganda Carlson Manuel, Minister Plenipotentiary, Government of Curaçao Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Hamidi, Chief Executive Officer, Social Development Bank Sipho Ngcai, Acting Group Executive for Business Development, Small Enterprise Development and Finance Agency (SEDFA) Nan Li Collins, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UN Trade and Development Ashutosh Chadha, Senior Director, United Nations Affairs and International Organizations, Microsoft Eddie Chen, Co-Chairman, China Carbon Neutrality Development Group Limited (CCNG) Jessica Anuna, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Klasha Heba Kurdi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mata Logistic Martin Zhu, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, i2Cool Sanya Rajpal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AdagioVR
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Ministerial roundtable: Towards resilient, sustainable and inclusive supply chains and trade logistics Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Kamel Rezig, Minister of Trade and Export Promotion , Government of Algeria Ricardo Viegas D'Abreu, Minister of Transport, Government of Angola Moustoifa Hassani Mohamed, Minister of Economy, Industry, and Investments, Government of Comoros Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India Mokhethi Shelile, Minister of Trade, Industry and Business Development, Kingdom of Lesotho Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Saleh bin Nasser Al Jasser, Minister of Transport and Logistics Services, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Stéphane Graber, Director General, International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) Naledi Moleo, Journalist and News Anchor, eNCA – eNews Channel Africa
10:00 - 13:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
11:30 - 13:00		Inclusive trade in a changing global landscape: Making trade policy work for women Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, European Commission Mokhethi Shelile, Minister of Trade, Industry and Business Development, Kingdom of Lesotho Tekreth Kamrang, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Kingdom of Cambodia María Amparo López Senovilla, Secretary of State for Trade, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business, Spain Sofia Boza Martinez, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Chile to the World Trade Organization Patricia Benedetti, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the World Trade Organization Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director, Trade Law Centre
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Global Commodities Forum Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Julien Paluku Kahongya, Minister of International Trade, Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo Julia Imene-Chanduru, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Namibia to the United Nations at Geneva Djatmiko Bris Witjaksono, Director General of International Trade Negotiation, Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia Francisca Tatchouop Belobe, Commissioner for Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry and Minerals (ETTIM) Department, African Union Commission
11:30 - 13:00		Future-ready ports: Energy and digital transition strategies Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Bismark Rosales Rojas, General Manager, Port Jennefer, Bolivia Suliman bin Khalid Al-Mazroua, President, Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani), Saudi Arabia Mouhamadou Ngouda Mboup, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Autonomous Port of Dakar, Senegal Nieves Roqueñí Gutiérrez, President, Port Authority of Gijón, Spain Mark Assaf, Chief, Human Resources Development Section – TrainForTrade, Transport and Logistics Branch, Division of Trade and Logistics, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Lili Flour, Consultant, Human Resources Development Section – TrainForTrade, Transport and Logistics Branch, Division of Trade and Logistics, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
13:15 - 14:45		Ministerial meeting of the group of landlocked developing countries Room: Room V, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
15:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Plenary session with the UN Secretary-General Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
15:00 - 18:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
16:00 - 16:30		Live-streamed Press conference: Launch of the Sevilla Forum on Debt Room: Press room, Palais des Nations Key Speakers: António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Carlos Cuerpo Caballero, Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Government of Spain Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
16:15 - 18:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Changemakers for sustainable trade: Advancing circular and biodiversity-based economies Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Salomon Eheth, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cameroon Lisa Emelia Svensson, Minister Counselor, Permanent Mission of Sweden Monica Rubiolo, Head Trade Promotion, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Pierre Marcolini, Chocolatier and Sustainable Entrepreneur, Founder and Creation Director, Maison Pierre Marcolini Emma Algotsson, Founder and Project Lead, Catchgreen Adrie El Mohamadi, Component Manager, ABS Compliant Biotrade in South(ern) Africa (ABioSA) and BioInnovation Africa, South Africa Ebenezer Laryea, Project Director Leathertrace Bangladesh and FRESHPPACT Ghana, Leathertrace Bangladesh
16:30 - 18:00		Global commodities forum (continued) Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Grégoire Bellois, Lead, Critical Minerals and Geology, Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) Clovis Freire Junior, Chief, Extractive Commodities Section, Commodities Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Susannah Fitzgerald, Governance Officer, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) Nagesh Kumar, Director and Chief Executive, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) Anabel Marin, Research Fellow , International Development Studies (ISD) Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Gerald Mwila, Director, Geological Survey Department, Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development, Zambia
16:30 - 18:00		Live-streamed Business leaders dialogue: Investing in the future Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Shaikha Al Nowais, Secretary-General elect, UN Tourism Alan Chan, Executive Director of the Board, Hong Kong and China Gas Company (Towngas) Ángela Pérez, Chairperson and CEO, COFIDES Boon Heong Ng, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Temasek Foundation André Hoffmann, Interim Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Alfonso Líbano Daurella, Vice Chairman, Cobega Damon Embling, Director, Headline Media UK

23 October 2025 Thursday
09:00 - 16:00		Exhibition: Trade-in-Services Statistics Information System (TiSSTAT) Room: Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais des Nations
09:00 - 16:00		Exhibition: Development trends in motion – world of debt and tariff dashboards Room: Concordia area, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 11:30		Live-streamed Global services forum Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Rui Miguêns de Oliveira, Minister of Industry and Commerce , Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Republic of Angola Julio Moltó, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of the Republic of Panama Rajesh Agrawal, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of India Lattanaphone Vongsouthi, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Carla Natalie Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community Shaikha Al Nowais, Secretary-General elect, UN Tourism Kunal Sen, Director, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research
10:00 - 13:00		South-south cooperation forum Room: Room IX, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Kamel Rezig, Minister of Trade and Export Promotion , Government of Algeria Miho Shirotori, Chief of Service, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Omar Zniber, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva Daniela Arruda Benjamin, Director, Department of Regional Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Brazil William Alfredo Castillo Bollé, Vice Minister of Anti-Blockade Policies, Ministry of People's Power for Economy, Finance, and Foreign Trade, Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Febrian A. Ruddyard, Vice Minister of the National Development Planning, Government of the Republic of Indonesia Yuefen Li, Special Advisor on Economics and Development Finance, South Centre, Geneva Márcio Lopes Corrêa, Head of the Coordination for Multilateral Cooperation, Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Brazil Sanjay Kumar Verma, Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) Emmanuel Omokhomion, Senior Programme Analyst, National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria Deborah Rivas Saavedra, Vice Minister of International Trade and Foreign Investment, Government of Cuba Juhara Abdulaziz Al-Suwaidi, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations Office in Geneva Stephanie Blankenburg, Head of the Economic Cooperation and Integration among Developing Countries Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Manuela Vivas, South–South Cooperation Data Team, Agencia Presidencial de Cooperación Internacional de Colombia (APC Colombia) César Sánchez Icaza, Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade Policy and Under-Secretary for International Negotiations, Government of Ecuador Vanessa Erogbogbo, Chief, Green and Inclusive Value Chains section, International Trade Centre and a member of the Management Action Group
10:00 - 11:30		Dialogue with civil society Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Live-streamed General debate Room: Room III, Palais des Nations
10:00 - 13:00		Negotiations Room: Room V, Palais des Nations
11:30 - 13:00		Live-streamed Youth forum Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Speakers: Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD Kamel Rezig, Minister of Trade and Export Promotion , Government of Algeria Carlson Manuel, Minister Plenipotentiary, Government of Curaçao Matthew Wilson, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados, United Nations,  World Trade Organisation and Other International Organisations in Geneva Chidinma Cynthia Udeogu, Assistant General Manager, Nigeria Economic Zones Association Birknesh Fikadu, Production Planner , Peli Biothermal Nielsimms Sangho, Regional Manager, East Africa at Flutterwave-Africa Heba Kurdi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mata Logistic Aaron Au Yeung, Project Manager , Fullness Social Enterprises Society Limited Sanya Rajpal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AdagioVR Angela Zhong, Board Member , The Climate Initiative
11:30 - 13:00		Trade-related regulations for economic integration and sustainable development Room: Concordia 1, Palais des Nations Speakers: Sofia Boza Martinez, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Chile to the World Trade Organization Syahril Syazli Ghazali, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the World Trade Organization Clare Kelly, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the World Trade Organization Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Trudi Hartzenberg, Executive Director, Trade Law Centre Marcelo Olarreaga, Professor of Economics, University of Geneva Ralf Peters, Head of the Trade Analysis Branch, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
16:00 - 18:00		Live-streamed Closing plenary and closing ceremony Room: Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Key Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Speakers: Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Erwin Bollinger, Ambassador, Government of Switzerland

UNCTAD stakeholders will host a variety of side events that complement and enrich the conference's official programme, providing space to share experiences, highlight initiatives and bring additional perspectives to the discussions. These opportunities for learning, exchange and collaboration are open to all UNCTAD16 participants.

20 October Monday
13:15 – 14:45	Shaping whose future? Feminist demands for debt and trade justice Room: Concordia I Organization: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) Contact: Sanila Gurung – [email protected]
21 October Tuesday
09:00 – 09:45	Unilateral coercive measures: Obstacles to trade and sustainable development Room: Concordia I Organization: Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations Contact: Sergio Rafael Barazarte Rodríguez – [email protected]
13:15 – 14:45	Cambodia’s development vision in preparation for smooth LDC graduation Room: Room IX Organization: Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia Contact: Kong Sokheng – [email protected]
13:15 – 14:45	Driving economic transformation: ASEAN’s strength in digital innovation and investment resilience for sustainable development Room: Concordia I Organization: Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations Contact: Nurul Aishah Mohd Yunus – [email protected]
13:30 – 14:45	Artificial intelligence for better government, inclusive and sustainable development: Global experiences and cooperation Room: Room III Organizations: Republic of Korea and UNCTAD Contact: Seok Geun In – [email protected]
22 October Wednesday
13:15 – 14:45	Building a resilient and inclusive digital economy with consumer advocates Room: Room IX Organization: Consumers International Contact: Erin Parsons – [email protected]
13:30 – 14:30	From trade to table: Leveraging integrated trade–development to ensure sustainable and resilient food systems and nutrition programmes Room: Concordia I Organization: Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the United Nations Contact: Vienna Adza – [email protected]
23 October Thursday
13:15 – 14:45	Strategic logistics hub and special economic zones: Catalysts for trade connectivity and growth Room: Room IX Organization: Arab Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry Contact: Sophia Aissa – [email protected]

We help developing countries benefit from the global economy more fairly and effectively, providing data and analysis, facilitating consensus-building and offering technical assistance on issues related to trade and development.

We help countries achieve inclusive, sustainable growth by transforming the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals into actions that deliver concrete results. Our work focuses on:

We provide reliable and timely data and statistics to help countries better understand trade and development trends and design more effective economic, environmental and social policies.

Featured

In focus

Our research and publications provide authoritative and evidence-based analysis on trade and development and policy recommendations to help countries tackle today’s biggest challenges.

Featured

In focus

Our meetings and events convene governments, businesses, civil society organizations, academia and international organizations to discuss and build consensus on the most pressing trade and development issues.

Featured

Meeting series in focus

Our technical cooperation helps developing countries better integrate into the global economy by transforming their economies, tackling vulnerabilities, improving competitiveness and empowering people.

Featured programmes

In focus

For registered journalists

Latest