Conference Speeches

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Wednesday, 8 September 2004
Opening Session

Welcoming Address:
Kofi A. Annan, United Nations Secretary-General (by video)

Opening Addresses:
Julian R. Hunte, President of the Fifty-eighth Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information of the United Nations

Keynote Address:
Eveline Herfkens, Executive Coordinator, United Nations

Millennium Development Goals Campaign, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

NGO Welcome:
Joan Levy, Chair, NGO/DPI Executive Committee

Renate Bloem, President, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)

Joan Kirby, Chair, 57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference

Wednesday, 8 September 2004
Afternoon Session

Moderator:
Zia Qureshi, Senior Advisor for Global Monitoring, World Bank

Speakers:
Farida Allaghi, Senior Adviser to the President of the Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND)

Leonor Briones, Co-convenor, Social Watch, Philippines

Albert Likhanov, Founder and Chairman of the Moscow-based Russian Children's Foundation (RCF)

Beatriz Paredes, President, Fundación Colosio, Mexico

John Richardson, Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations

Closing Address:
Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals; Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Thursday, 9 September 2004
Morning Session

Moderator:
Nicholas Kristof, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times

Speakers:
Bineta Diop, Executive Director, Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), Senegal

Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
Miklos Marschall, Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Transparency International

Wu Qing, Director, Cultural Development Centre for Rural Women, China

Thursday, 9 September 2004
Afternoon Session

Moderator:
Alicia Barcena, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Speakers:
Mercedes Canalda (in Spanish), Executive Director, Asociación Dominicana para el Desarollo de la Mujer (ADOPEM), Dominican Republic

Sarala Gopalan, Member, International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)

Barbara M. Kalima, Coordinator, African Forum and Network on Debt and Development, Zimbabwe

Diana Revington, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Friday, 10 September 2004
Morning Session

Moderator:
Salil Shetty, Director, United Nations Millennium Campaign, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Speakers:
Jennifer Corriero, Executive Director, TakingITGlobal

Oded Grajew, President, Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Brazil

Olayinka Jegede-Ekpe, Executive Director, Nigerian Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Paloma Villasenor, Fundacion Colosio

Friday, 10 September 2004
Afternoon Session

Moderator:
Zain Verjee, Anchor, CNN International

Expert Respondents:
Jacques Attali, President, PlaNet Finance

Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Chair, United Nations Development Group (UNDG)

Kavita Ramdas, President, Global Fund for Women

Friday, 10 September 2004
Closing Session

Moderator:
Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information of the United Nations

Keynote Address:
Jacques Attali, President, PlaNet Finance

Closing Remarks:
Joan Kirby, Co-Chair, 57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference

Accreditation
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22-23 Feb. 2006 Annual DPI/NGO Orientation
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