Statements and presentations
DAY 1 (Monday, 30 March)
Opening of the Integration Segment [WATCH ARCHIVED VIDEO]- Opening remarks by the Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council, H.E. Mr. Vladimir Drobnjak (Croatia)
- Address by the President of the General Assembly of the sixty-ninth session, H.E. Mr. Sam Kahamba Kutesa (Uganda)
- Address by the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Jan Eliasson
- H.E. Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania
- H.E. Mr. Perry Gladstone Christie, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
- H.E. Mr. Stefan Lofven, Prime Minister of Sweden
- Ms. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- Mr. Daniel Funes de Rioja, President, International Organization of Employers (IOE)
The 'Big Think' on Jobs and Growth [Biographies] [Watch archived video]
Moderator
- Mr. Richard Quest, CNN
- H.E. Ms. Marianne Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Mobility
- Mr. Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization
- Mr. Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
- Prof. Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Mind the gap: How widening inequalities undermine development [Biographies][Watch archived video]
Moderator
- Mr. Matthew Bishop, Globalisation Editor, The Economist
- H.E. Mr. Alfonso Navarrete Prida, Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Mexico
- H.E. Mr. Hu Xiaoyi, Vice Minister, Human Resources and Social Security, People's Republic of China
- Ms. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- Professor Stephanie Seguino, University of Vermont
- H.E. Mr. Hanif Dhakiri, Minister of Manpower, Indonesia (Biography)
- H.E. Ambassador Maria Emma Mejia Velez, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations and Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council
Voices from the Real Economy [Biographies][Watch archived video]
Moderator
- Dr Michael Shank, Director of Media Strategy at Climate Nexus and Senior Fellow at the JustJobs Network
- H.E. Councillor Nomvuzo Shabalala, Deputy Mayor of Durban, South Africa
- Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Director of SEWA Bharat
- Ms. Vicenta Trotman, Community leader and member of the Administrative Board of Rural Water Supply in the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous territory of the No-Kribo region, Panama
- Mr. Paul Hazen, Executive Director, Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC), International Co-operative Alliance
DAY 2 (Tuesday, 31 March)
10:00 - 11:30
Solutions to Climate Change: Growing Decent Jobs [Biographies] [Watch archived video]
Moderator- Mr. Michael Renner, Senior Researcher, The Worldwatch Institute (moderator)
- H.E. Mr. Miles Sampa, Deputy Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Zambia
- Professor Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts [Presentation]
- Ms. Gayle Schueller, Vice President, Global Sustainability, 3M Company [Presentation]
- Mr. Peter Poschen, Director, Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department, ILO (discussant)
Making Dignity and Prosperity the Norm [Biographies][Watch archived video]
Keynote:
- Mr. Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)
- H.E. Ambassador Benedicte Frankinet, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations and Co-Chair of the Group of Friends of Decent Work for Sustainable Development (Moderator)
- H.E. Mr. Luis Eduardo Garzon, Minister of Labour, Colombia
- H.E. Mr. Radosław Mleczko, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Poland
- Mr. Phil Jennings, General Secretary, UNI Global Union
- Mr. Edward E. Potter, Chair of Labour and Employment Committee of the United States Council for International Business; and Director of Global Workplace Rights, The Coca-Cola Company
- H.E. Ambassador Simona Mirela Miculescu, Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations and Chairperson of the Commission for Social Development
- H.E. Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations and Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of Women
At Work in Africa [Biographies][Watch archived video]
Moderator
- H.E. Ambassador Ismael Abraao Gaspar Martins, Permanent Representative of Angola to the United Nations and Co-Chair of the Group of Friends of Decent Work for Sustainable Development (moderator)
- H.E. Mr. Ebrahim Patel, Minister for Economic Development, South Africa
- H.E. Mr. Hakim Ben Hammouda, Former Minister of Finance, Special Advisor to the African Development Bank (AfDB) President
- Mr. Aeneas Chuma, Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa, ILO
- Mr. Alioune Sall, Executive Director of the African Futures Institute
- Mr. Maged Abdelaziz, Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa
General debate
South Africa on behalf of G77 and China, France, Belgium, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan and Switzerland
DAY 3 (Wednesday, 1 April)
Finding the Opportunities: Matching Education and Skills to Market Demands [Biographies][Watch archived video]
Moderator- Mr. Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary, ECLAC (moderator)
- H.E. Ms. Omobola Johnson, Minister, Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, Nigeria and Chairperson of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)
- Ms. Elizabeth A. Vazquez, CEO and Co-Founder, WeConnect International
- Mr. Ron Bruder, Founder, Education for Employment
- Mr. Zach Sims, Co-founder and CEO, Codecademy
General debate
Trinidad and Tobago, Italy, India, Paraguay, Tunisia, Russian Federation, Canada [EN, FR], Honduras, Republic of Korea, Panama, Israel, Rwanda, Albania, Argentina, Australia, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Means of Implementation: Financing for Development and Partnerships for Decent Work [Biographies][Watch archived video]
Moderator
- H.E. Mr. George Wilfred Talbot, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, and Co-Facilitator of the preparatory process for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development
- H.E. Dr. Rania Antonopoulos, Alternate Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity, Greece (via video link)
- Prof. Dr. Robert Shiller, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics, Yale University
- Mr. Martin Khor, Executive Director, The South Centre
- Mr. Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD (Discussant)
16:15-17:45 Wanted: 600 Million Jobs! [Biographies][Watch archived video]
Moderator
- Mr. Ali Velshi, Host, Al Jazeera America (Moderator)
- H.E. Mr. Alexander Mora, Minister of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica
- Ms. Marie-José Nadeau, Chair of the World Energy Council
- Mr. Pavan Sukhdev, Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory
- Dr. NS Rajan, Chief Human Resources Officer and Member of the Group Executive Council, Tata Group
- Mr. Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Mr. Thomas Gass, Assistant-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, UN-DESA
- H.E. Mr. Vladimir Drobnjak, Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council