60th anniversary agenda

Global Leaders Forum

Types of events:

UNCTAD at 60

14:00 - 15:30		Opening ceremony: Leaders' voices in a changing world Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speakers: António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Guy Parmelin, Federal Councillor, Switzerland Azali Assoumani, President, Comoros Andry Nirina Rajoelina, President, Madagascar Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, Prime Minister, Timor-Leste
15:40 - 17:00		Leaders dialogue: Charting a new development course in a changing world Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speakers: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Azali Assoumani, President, Comoros Andry Nirina Rajoelina, President, Madagascar Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, Prime Minister, Timor-Leste Stephan Brunner, Vice President, Costa Rica General Haji Abubaker Jeje Odongo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Uganda Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim, Chief Special Advisor to the President, Brazil Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization

08:00 - 09:30		High-level working breakfast Room: Hotel President Wilson (by invitation only) Location: Geneva Speakers: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) John W.H. Denton, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce
10:00 - 10:15		Spotlight intervention by Wang Shouwen, China International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speaker: Wang Shouwen, International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce, Government of the People's Republic of China
10:15 - 11:00		Panel dialogue: Making industrial policy work for trade and development Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speakers: Karien van Gennip, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Government of the Netherlands Souleymane Diarrassouba, Minister of Trade and Industry, Government of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire Younes Sekkouri, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Government of Morocco Jessy Carmelle Petit-Frère, Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Governmnet of the Republic of Haiti John W.H. Denton, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce Peter Ogbu Okwoche, Broadcaster and journalist
11:00 - 11:15		Spotlight intervention by Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speaker: Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations
11:15 - 12:00		Panel dialogue: Shaping a digital future for people and planet Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speakers: Majid Al-Kassabi, Minister of Commerce, Government of Saudi Arabia Stefan Löfven, Co-Chair, High-level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union Ian Saunders, Secretary-General, World Customs Organization Thea Lee, Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs, Government of the United States of America Amandeep Singh Gill, Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Technology
12:00 - 12:15		Spotlight intervention by Dr. Sok Siphana, Senior Minister of Cambodia Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speaker: Sok Siphana, Senior Minister, Government of Cambodia
12:15 - 13:00		Panel dialogue: Preparing for the economies of tomorrow - the urgency of options and actions Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speakers: Rui Miguêns de Oliveira, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Government of Angola Nguyen Minh Hang, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Viet Nam Eva Granados Galiano, State Secretary for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Spain Selim Uddin, Secretary at the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh Pasi Hellman, Undersecretary of State for International Development, Government of Finland Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Africa
14:30 - 14:45		Spotlight intervention by Professor Richard Baldwin, International Institute for Management Development Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speaker: Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, International Institute for Management Development
14:45 - 15:30		Panel dialogue: Reshaping foreign direct investment and global value chains for development Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speakers: Kalthoum Ben Rejeb Guezzah, Minister of Trade and Export Development, Government of Tunisia Sahib Mammadov, Deputy Minister of Economy, Government of Azerbaijan Nuno Sampaio, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal Mohammed Alzarooni, Chairman of the Board of Directors, World Free Zones Organization Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
15:30 - 15:45		Spotlight intervention by Mahendra Siregar, Chief of Financial Services Authority of Indonesia Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speaker: Mahendra Siregar, Chief of Financial Services Authority, Indonesia
15:45 - 16:30		Panel debate: Catching up is hard - development strategies in a world of cascading crises Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speakers: John Mutorwa, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Transport, Government of Namibia Javier González-Olaechea, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Peru Marie Paulette Parfaite Amouyeme Ollame Epse Divassa Boffi, Minister of Commerce and SMEs, Government of Gabon Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, Minister of Trade and Industry, Government of Rwanda Vladimir Ilichev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Government of the Russian Federation José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
16:30 - 17:00		Closing session: Forward together Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations Location: Geneva Speaker: Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

10:00 - 12:00

Panel debate: Globalization, inflected - development and repositioning in the changing global context

Room: Tempus, Palais des Nations

Location: Geneva

Speakers:

José Antonio Ocampo, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Célestin Monga, Professor at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Isabella Weber, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
James K Galbraith, Professor at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

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Pre-events

4 June 2024 Tuesday
14:30 - 16:30		UNCTAD's 60th anniversary pre-event: Maximizing Africa's potential Room: Addis Ababa, UTC+3 / 13:30-15:30 hrs. Geneva, UTC+2 Location: Online and Addis Ababa
7 June 2024 Friday
15:00 - 16:30		UNCTAD's 60th anniversary pre-event: Global supply chains – Charting the course in a sea of disruptions Room: (CET), Room VIII / A-Building Location: Palais des Nations, Geneva.

4 June 2024 Tuesday
14:30 - 16:30		UNCTAD's 60th anniversary pre-event: Maximizing Africa's potential Room: Addis Ababa, UTC+3 / 13:30-15:30 hrs. Geneva, UTC+2 Location: Online and Addis Ababa

7 June 2024 Friday
15:00 - 16:30		UNCTAD's 60th anniversary pre-event: Global supply chains – Charting the course in a sea of disruptions Room: (CET), Room VIII / A-Building Location: Palais des Nations, Geneva.