Business Sector Standing Committee
Chair: Dr. Louise Kantrow
Business Sector Steering
Committee
Vice-Chair: Herman Mulder
SECOND
Vice-Chair: Dr. Barbara Samuels
Oludotun
Ajayi, Coordinator
Africa
Business Roundtable
Chair: Louise
Kantrow,
International
Chamber of Commerce
Emily Altman
Jonathan Brooks, Policy Team Leader UNDP
Vice-Chair: Dr. Barbara Samuels, Global Clearinghouse &
Ricardo Espina, Economic Affairs Officer Multi-stakeholder Engagement
Samuels
Associates
and Outreach Branch Financing
for Development
Khalil Hamdani, Special Adviser on South Business Forum
South Centre
Vice-Chair: Herman Mulder, Independent Advisor
Barry Herman, New School University
Georg Kell Executive Director UN Global Compact
Oludotun
Ajayi,
African
Business
Rachel Kyte
Vice President,
Advisory
Services
IFC Roundtable
Ricardo Espina,
forBanks
Development
Office, UN
Anne-Francoise
Lefevre, Financing
World Savings
Institute | European
Savings Banks Group
Khalil Hamdani, South-South Centre
Lynn S. Martin Director,
Investor Relations
Blue Orchard
Group
Barry Herman,
New School
University
Patricia Maw, Administrative Associate UNDP
Georg
Kell
Global
Dr. Damon C. Morris,
Director
of UN
Policy
StudiesCompact
and Publications
Rachel
Kyte
IFC
World Bank
Ricarda McFalls, Managing Director, Development
Focus Area World
Business Council forLefevre,
SustainableWSBI
Development
Anne-Francoise
European Savings Banks Group
Ann J. Miles, Director
Blue
Finance
Damon
C.Orchard
Morris,
eStandards Forum
Melissa Powell Project Manager UN Global Compact
Ricarda
McFalls,
World
Business
Council for Sustainable
Peter Robinson, President/CEO United States Council for International
Development
Business
Ann Director
J. Miles,
BlueOrchard
Finance USA Inc
Oscar de Rojas,
Financing
for Development
Richard Samans,
Managing
DirectorUN
- Centre
for Public-Private
Melissa
Powell
Global
Compact
Partnerships
World Economic
Forum Council for International Business
Peter
Robinson,
United States
Funmilayo Alaba Sanusi, Africa Business Roundtable
Oscar
dePartner
Rojas,
Financing
Parag
Saxena,
Vedanta
Capitalfor Development Office, UN
Saxena,
Krishnan Sharma, Parag
Economist
Special Vedanta
Assistant toCapital
the Director Financing
for Development
Office
Krishnan Sharma,
Financing for Development Office, UN
BjornBjorn
Stigson,
PresidentWorld
World Business
Business Council
for Sustainable
Stigson,
Council
for Sustainable
Development
Development
John D. Sullivan, Executive Director Center for International Private
John D. Sullivan, Center for International Private Enterprise
Enterprise
Swabury,Director,
Europe
– SADC
Bridge
Christian Alawi
H. Thommessen,
Private
SectorStates
Division,
Partnerships
Bureau
UNDP
Alex Trepelkov, Financing for Development Office, UN
Clementina
World Economic
Forum Business Roundtable
AlhajiTodor,
Bamanga
Tukur, African
Alex Trepelkov, Chief Multi-stakeholder Engagement and Outreach Branch
George J. Vojta, eStandards Forum
Financing for Development
Tom
Watson,
World
Economic
Forum Roundtable
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur,
Executive
President
African Business
George J. Vojta, Director Financial Services Forum
Tom Watson, World Economic Forum
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS
FORUM
2008
Doha, Qatar
November 28th 2008
Speakers
Poonam Ahluwalia, President, Youth Employment Systems
Habiba Al Marashi, Chairperson, Emirates Environmental Groups
Norm Anderson, President & CEO, CL/LA Infrastructure LLC
Robert Bestani, Director General, Martin Consulting; former head, Private Sector
Department, ADB
Uwe Bott, President, Cross Border Finance
Carole Brookins, Managing Director, Public Capital Advisors, LLC and former US Executive
Director, World Bank
Richard Carey, Director, Development Cooperation Directorate, OECD
Javier Chamorro, Executive Director, ProNicaragua Investment Promotion Agency
Julie Cheng, Senior Investment Analyst, BlueOrchard Finance S.A.
Tom Cochran, Infrastructure Experts Group
Mercedes de Mena, Central American Tourism Integration Secretary, Central American
Tourism Secretariat
Chris de Noose, Managing Director, World Savings Bank Institute
Amir Dossal, Executive Director, United Nations Office for Partnerships
Kamran Elahian, Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners
Ashraf El-Rabiey, Chairman, International Cotton Advisory Committee
Ufo Eric-Atuanya, Founder & Managing Partner, Rimsom Associates
Robert Filipp, Head of Innovative Financing, Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and
Malaria
Henrietta H. Fore, Administrator & Director U.S. Foreign Assistance, USAID
Michael Gerstin, Senior Economist & Program Manager, OECD
Martin Grandes, Execitive Director, Center for Financial Stability
Angel Gurria, Secretary-General, OECD
Thomas Karol, CEO, Sovereign Investment Council
Majid Sabbagh Kermani, Senior Economic Adviser, Islamic Corporation for the
Development of Private Sector
Justin Lin, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, World Bank
Carl Linaburg, Senior Vice President, Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, Inc.
Morena Mercado, GIN Network Administrator, Central American Integration Secretariat
Nachiket Mor, President, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
Rod Morrison, Editor, Reuters Project Finance International
James Mutende, Senior Executive Officer, Head, Uganda Investment Authority
Umaru Muttallab, Chairman, First Bank Nigeria PLC
Avinash Persaud, Chairman, Intelligence Capital Limited
Hon. M. Saifur Rahman, Minister of Finance, Government of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh
Nick Rischbieth Glöe, Acting Executive President, Central American Bank for Economic
Integration
H.E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabir Al Thani, Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Trading, Government of the State of Qatar
H.E. Sheikh Kalifah bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, Chairman of the Qatar
Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Government of the State of Qatar
Bob Sheppard, Infrastructure Experts Group
Pradeep Singh, President and CEO, Infrastructure Development Finance Company
Diana Smallridge, President and CEO, International Financial Consulting
Mitch Strohminger, Director of Operations, Global Clearinghouse
Laura Gabriela Uzquiza, Director, Latin American Trade Network
Silvina Vatnick, President, Center for Financial Stability
Luz Valenti, President, Camara Nacional de Turismo de Nicaragua
Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Programme
8:30 – 9:00 am: Welcome
9:00 – 10:30 am: Opening Plenary: Assessing the Global
Financial System and Next Steps for Ensuring Stable Financial
Flows for Development -- Developing country governments,
development agencies, and donors need to understand the
dimensions and magnitude of the current financial crisis, and the
actions they need to take to increase financial stability and aid
effectiveness. Private sector companies need to know how they
can manage risk and also contribute as corporate citizens to
development. In this plenary, leading authorities will provide their
views on the current global financial situation, and actions the public
and private sectors can take to increase their capacity to ensure a
stable global financial system that delivers development results
across all developing countries.
10:30 – 10:45 am: Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:30: Panel One: Proposals for Building a Stable
Public-Private Framework for Development
WORKING LUNCH 12:30 – 2:15 pm: Panel Two: Proposals for
Building Business-Enabling Environments and Enhancing
Donor Effectiveness
2:15 – 3:45 pm: Panel Three: Proposals for Leveraging
Limited ODA with Private Capital: Proposals for Advancing
Infrastructure, Domestic Capital Markets, and Venture
Capital
3:45 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm: Panel Four: New Paradigms for
Development Finance
5:30 – 6:30 pm: Closing Plenary: How to Implement
Proposals for FfD Follow-Up
6:30 –8:00 pm: Cocktail Reception