Round table 2
Looking ahead: Mobilizing international resources for development — foreign direct investment and other private flows
(10 a.m. - 1 p.m., 30 November 2008, Al Majlis Auditorium)
Co-Chairs:
- H.E. Mr. Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of Congo
- The Honourable Bob Mc Mullan, Parliamentary Secretary for
International Development Assistance of Australia
Moderator:
- Mr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General, United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Panelists:
(with links to available presentations)
- Mr. Hiroto Arakawa, Senior Special Advisor, Japan
International Cooperation Agency
- Ms. Joyce de Ginatta, President, Federación Interamericana
Empresarial, Ecuador
- Ms. Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International
- Mr. Trevor Manuel, Minister of Finance, Republic of South
Africa, and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Doha
Review Conference on Financing for Development
- Mr. Avinash Persaud, Chairman, Intelligence Capital
- Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General
Statements
Comments were made and questions raised by the representatives of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Sudan, China, South Africa, Senegal, Palau, Bangladesh, Algeria and Bolivia, as well as by the representative of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (civil society participant).