Expert Group Meeting

2015 and 2016 ECOSOC Cycles

UN Women Conference Room

19th Floor- Daily News Building

4-5 December 2014

Thursday, 4 December

Opening:Welcoming Remarks by Mr. Navid Hanif, Director, OESC/DESA

Opening Remarks

• Chair: Mr. Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, DESA
• H.E. Mr. Martin Sajdik (Austria), President of the ECOSOC
• H.E. Mr. Sebastiano Cardi (Italy), Chair, GA Second Committee
• Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women

Session I Round Table: Transitioning Towards a New Development Framework: Changing Mindset

Presenters:

• H.E. Mr. Tekeda Alemu, Permanent Representative (Ethiopia)
• H.E. Ms. Maria Emma Mejia Velez, ECOSOC Vice President and Permanent Representative (Colombia)
• H.E. Mr. Od Och, Permanent Representative (Mongolia)
• H.E. Dr. Mwaba Patricia Kasese-Bota, Permanent Representative (Zambia)

Session II What’s Needed: Institutional Structures and Behaviours for Transformation

Presenters:

• Prof. Steven Bernstein, Associate Chair and Graduate Director, Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Environmental Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
• Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, DESA
• Mr. Felix Dodds, Fellow at the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute
• Ms. Aleesha Taylor, Deputy Director, Education Support Program, Open Society Foundation

Session III What’s Needed: Building the Policy Framework

Presenters:

• H.E. Mr. Lazarous Kapambwe, Advisor to Chairperson of African Union
• Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women
• Ms. Ebba Dohlman, Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary-General, Policy Coherence for Development, OECD
• Mr. David Norman, senior manager of sustainable development policy, SABMiller

Friday, 5 December

Session IV Round Table: Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Delivering on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Presenters:

• H.E. Mr. Lazarous Kapambwe, Advisor to Chairperson of African Union
• Mr. Amir Dossal, Founder and Chairman, Global Partnerships Forum
• Ms. Melissa Powell, Head of Partnerships and Strategy, United Nations Global Compact
• Mr. Alessandro Motter, Senior Advisor, IPU

Session V Round Table: Monitoring and Accounting for Development Results

Presenters:

• Mr. Scott David, Executive Director, Law, Technology & Arts Group, University of Washington Law School
• Mr. Jos Verbeek, Lead Economist, Development Prospects Group, World Bank
• Ms. Francesca Perucci, Chief, Statistical Services Branch, Statistical Division, DESA
• Mr. Marc Levy, Deputy Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Earth Institute, Columbia University

Wrap-up and Next Steps

• Mr. Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, DESA
• H.E. Mr. Vladimir Drobnjak, Vice President ECOSOC (Croatia)