BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS

Organised by the OECD Investment Committee in co-operation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

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OPENING PLENARY

Mr. Angel Gurría Secretary General, OECD

Born on 8 May 1950, in Tampico, Mexico, Angel Gurría came to the OECD

following a distinguished career in public service, including two ministerial

posts. From December 1994 to January 1998 he was Mexico‟s Minister of

Foreign Affairs and from January 1998 to December 2000 he was the minister of

Finance and Public Credit. As OECD Secretary-General, since June 2006, he has

reinforced the OECD‟s role as a „hub‟ for global dialogue and debate on

economic policy issues while pursuing internal modernization and reform. Next

to this,Mr. Gurría is an active participant in various international not-for-profit

bodies, including the Population Council, based in New York, and the Center for

Global Development based in Washington. He is a member of the International

Advisory Board of Governors of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, based in Canada, and

was the first recipient of the Globalist of the Year Award of the Canadian International Council to honor

his efforts as a global citizen to promote trans-nationalism, inclusiveness, and a global consciousness. Mr.

Gurría holds a B.A. degree in Economics from UNAM (Mexico), and a M.A. degree in Economics from

Leeds University (United Kingdom). He speaks Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and German.

Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin Minister of Investment, the Arab Republic of Egypt

Dr. Mohieldin was born in Egypt in 1965. He received his Bachelor of Science

in Economics, with highest Honors, First in Order of Merit, from Cairo

University, Egypt. In 1989 he received a Diploma in Quantitative Development

Economics, from Warwick University, England and in 1990, he received a

Master of Science in Economic and Social Policy Analysis from University of

York, England, and in 1995, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from University

of Warwick, England. Dr. Mohieldin has been the Minister of Investment of the

Arab Republic of Egypt since 2004 and is a Member of the General Secretariat

of the National Democratic Party, the majority Party in the Arab Republic of

Egypt. In addition he is a Professor in Financial Economics, Faculty of

Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. Dr. Mohieldin holds leading

positions in numerous think tanks, research centers and academic institutions. He has worked as an

Economic Advisor to the Minister of State for Economic Affairs from 1995 to 1997; Senior Economic

Advisor to the Minister of Economy & Foreign Trade from 1997 to 1999; and Senior Advisor to the

Minister of Foreign Trade from 1999 to 2002. He has served as a Member of several Boards of Directors.

Dr. Mohieldin has published several papers and studies in the areas of Financial Economics, Financial

Reform, Prudential Regulation, Trade in Services, Globalization, Exchange Rate and Monetary Policies,

Corporate Governance and Competition Policy.

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Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki Chief Executive Officer, NEPAD

Mr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki of the Republic of Niger is the new Chief Executive

Officer of the Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa's Development

(NEPAD), headquartered in Midrand, South Africa. Mr. Mayaki, born in 1951,

holds a Masters degree from the National School of Public Administration

(Enap), Québec, Canada and a PhD in Administrative Sciences from the

University of Paris I, France. He worked as a Professor of Public Administration

in Niger and Venezuela. Between 1996 and 1999 he was successively appointed

Minister in charge of the African Integration and Cooperation and Minister of

Foreign Affairs. In November 1997, he was appointed Prime Minister, a function

he held until January 2000. In August 2000, he set up the Analysis Centre for

Public Policy. He is the author of the book entitled "Quand la caravane passe..."

relating his political career. From 2000 to 2004, Mr Mayaki was a guest Professor at the University of

Paris XI. In 2004, he was appointed as the Executive Director of the Platform in support of Rural

Development in West and Central Africa, the Rural Hub, based in Dakar, Senegal, from where he was

recruited as NEPAD CEO.

Marco Vinicio Ruiz-Gutiérrez Minister for Foreign Trade, Costa Rica

He is an Industrial Engineer graduated from Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR),

obtained his Masters degree in Business Administration from New York

University (NYU). He has developed business activities in the fields of agro-

industry, technology and agriculture. Marco Vinicio Ruiz has had an outstanding

performance as a leader of the business sector at local, regional and continental

levels. He has served in many high-profile positions, both at national and

international level. He has participated actively in the coordination of

negotiations of trade agreements with Mexico, Dominican Republic and Chile.

As a President of the National Business Council for the Free Trade Agreement

between Central America and United States (CONCAUSA, in Spanish) and the

Central American Business Council, he coordinated the participation of the Costa

Rican private sector in CAFTA negotiations. He has been an international advisor for the private sector of

Ecuador in negotiations of Free Trade Agreements between Andean countries with United States. He has

served in several working groups both at governmental and legislative levels and published a wide variety

of articles about foreign trade-related policies in national and business fields. He has received several

accolades, among which – on behalf of the Costa Rican Solidarity Movement – Solidarity Businessman of

the Year. The Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce granted him the Commercial Award of Merit. The

Costa Rican Chamber of Food Industries granted him the Award for Industrial Effort. The Central

American Federation of Chambers of Industries acknowledged his contribution to the CAFTA negotiation

process.

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Carolyn Ervin Director, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

Carolyn H. Ervin is the OECD Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs

(DAF). Her Directorate helps governments to improve the domestic and global

policies that affect business and markets. It works in the fields of anti corruption,

corporate governance, competition law and policy, investment, financial markets,

insurance, private pensions and private sector development. OECD member

governments are the principal clients, but the Directorate and its committees also

have extensive relations with non-OECD countries that wish to improve their

economies and become more integrated in the global economy. The Directorate

and its committees also engage in extensive consultations with business, labour,

professional communities and civil society in order to enrich their work and build

constituencies for it. During over twenty years at the OECD, Carolyn Ervin has

held posts in several areas. She was director of the secretary-general’s office from 2000 to 2005. As

counselor in DAF in the 1990s she led the project to negotiate the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and

was a main drafter of the OECD Jobs Study. During the 1980s and 1990s she handled programme and

budget issues in the secretary-general’s office, and helped to set up the Centre for Co-operation with the

Economies in Transition. Prior to joining the OECD Carolyn Ervin spent six years in the United States

diplomatic service. Carolyn Ervin is a U.S. citizen. She has a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from

Stanford University. She is married and has one daughter.

Dr. Karl P. Sauvant Executive Director, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment

Dr. Karl P. Sauvant is the founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia

Center on Sustainable International Investment, Senior Research Scholar and

Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, Co-Director of the Millennium Cities

Initiative, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Until July 2005,

Dr. Sauvant was Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and

Development's (UNCTAD) Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise

Development (DITE), the focal point in the UN system for matters related to

foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology, as well as a major interface with

the private sector. While at the UN, he created, in 1991, the prestigious annual

World Investment Report, of which he was the lead author until 2004. He is the

author of, or responsible for, a substantial number of publications on issues related to economic

development, FDI and services. In 2006, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the European International

Business Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.

James Zhan Director of the Investment and Enterprise Division (UNCTAD)

Mr. James Zhan is Director of the Investment and Enterprise Division at United

Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The Division under

his direction is the focal point in the United Nations System dealing with

investment and enterprise development issues. It conducts research and policy

analysis, builds international consensus among 193 countries and provides

technical assistance to institutions in over 150 countries. Mr. Zhan provides

overall guidance and management to the key programmes/products including

World Investment Report, FDI/TNC statistics, FDI study series, investment

policy reviews, investment promotion and facilitation, international investment

agreements, World Investment Forum, international standards for accounting and

reporting, entrepreneurship training, corporate social responsibility, and

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intellectual property. Mr. Zhan has over 20 years of international and national experience in the area of

investment and enterprise development. This includes advising many governments in formulating

investment policies and building investment promotion capacities, facilitating intergovernmental

conferences and negotiations, and leading a number of research and policy analysis projects. Mr. Zhan

holds a PhD degree in international economics, and was research fellow at Oxford University. He is author

(or co-author) of a number of books and articles on economic and legal issues.

Jeremy Gaunt has been Reuters European Investment Correspondent, based in

London, since 2002. Prior to that he was bureau chief for Greece and Cyprus, in

Athens, senior EU correspondent in Brussels and a financial reporter in

New York. Before joining Reuters in 1990, he covered U.S. politics and culture

for The Economist and was a reporter for Congressional Quarterly in Washington

D.C., specializing in elections. He won State Street's Investment Correspondent

of the Year in 2006.

SPEAKERS

Sedat Aybar, Assoc. Professor of Economics, BSc. (Econ), MA (London), PhD

(London), is the Head of Economics Department and the Director of Middle-

eastern and African Studies Centre at the Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He

taught, researched and published on a variety of topics that includes, International

Economics, Banking and Finance in Economic Development, Development

Economics, Central Bank Independence, African economies and Turkey. He has

worked as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Overseas

Development Agency (ODA) and the UNDP. He is the Director of joint

Executive MBA Program of Kadir Has University with Fordham University of

New York. He teaches distant study courses at graduate level at University of

London’s, Centre for Finance and International Management (CeFiMS). He has

also worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in London, England. He is currently the country

team leader (Turkey) for a joint research project, Emerging Markets Global Players (EMGP) with the Vale

Columbia Centre of the Columbia University in New York.

Fernando Cepeda Ulloa Ambassador of Columbia, Paris, France

Fernando Cepeda Ulloa has been Ambassador before the OAS in Canada and in

the United Kingdom; Colombian Permanent Representative before the United

Nations; Minister of Government, of Communications, and Plenipotentiary

Minister in Washington and Business Responsible; Vice-minister for Economic

Development; Chancellor in charge and Vice-chancellor of the Universidad de

los Andes; Director and Professor, Department of Political Science; and Director

of the Centre for International Studies.

Jeremy Gaunt Reuters European Investment Correspondent, London

Sedat Aybar Associate Professor of Economics, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Jeremy Clegg Head of International Business Division, University of Leeds Business School

Is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and International Business

Management at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. His chair

is supported by the European Commission.

His research interests include the determinants of foreign direct investment by and

into developed and developing countries, and the impact of foreign-owned firms

on the productivity and performance of firms in developing countries, particularly

China. He is leading a project on outward foreign direct investment by Chinese

firms in the UK and the EU, and has recently been working on an Engineering and

Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) research project on the

determinants of productivity, and international productivity differences in

services. Previously he held appointments at the universities of Bath, Reading, Swansea and Exeter.

He recently spent seven months as a visiting fellow at UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade

and Development) in Geneva, working with the team that produces the annual World Investment Report,

on a collaborative project to investigate the impact of national policy changes, such as regulatory changes

and regional integration, on the international investment behaviour of firms and the international flow of

foreign direct investment. He served as Chair of the Academy of International Business, United Kingdom

& Ireland Chapter, from 2001 to 2007.

Karim Dahou Executive Manager, NEPAD-OECD Africa Investment Initiative, OECD Secretariat

Mr Karim Dahou was named Executive Manager of the NEPADOECD Africa

Investment Initiative in July 2008. Mr Dahou is responsible for the operational

leadership and management of the Initiative: defining its strategic aims and

objectives; directing its high level meetings; and overseeing core activities,

including country investment reviews. Before joining the Initiative, he held

several related positions in international trade and investment, notably in Africa.

He has previously served as a senior advisor to the Africa Partnership Forum

Support Unit, where he worked on investment in Africa in the framework of the

German G8 Presidency. Mr Dahou has also previously served as the Chief of

Staff to the Executive Secretary of the Pan-African NGO Enda, where he also

launched and managed the policy think-tank Diapol. He is a graduate of the Paris

Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and holds a Masters degree in law from La Sorbonne University.

Stephan J. Dreyhaupt Head of Research & Knowledge, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), World Bank Group

Stephan J. Dreyhaupt is the Head of Research & Knowledge at the Multilateral

Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group. Stephan has

over 15 years of professional experience with international finance institutions,

having advised governments in more than 40 member countries as well as worked

with corporations engaged in foreign direct investment across a broad range of

issues related to investment climate, risk mitigation and knowledge

dissemination. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Dreyhaupt worked

for the German federal investment promotion program based in New York

(NYC), the World Trade Center Vancouver (Canada), and a strategic consulting

firm in Berlin (Germany). Mr. Dreyhaupt holds a PhD in International Economics

from the European Business School, an MBA from the Technical University

Berlin and an MA from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS).

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Haruo Funabashi Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy. CEO, SIRIUS INSTITUTE Inc.

Mr. Funabashi served as a government official for thirty-three years after he

graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo. He joined the

Ministry of Finance in 1969. Mr. Funabashi has served as Deputy Vice-Minister

of Finance for international affairs, Deputy Commissioner, National Tax

Administration, Secretary-General, Securities and Exchange Surveillance

Commission, Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. He founded

the SIRIUS INSTITUTE Inc., a think tank in the field of business ethics and

economic ethics in 2003. He is the author of many books on history and

philosophy, including: “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (1983); “The

window at the Age of Isolation, Nagasaki 1569-1868” (1986); “A Journey

toward the Native Land of Japanese Economy” (2000); “Japanese wisdom and

Economic ethics” (2001); “The secret of long-lived Japanese companies” (2003); “The Sirius Method – A

methodology to strengthen the power against corporate irregularities” (2007) etc ( in Japanese ). More

recently he published “Timeless Ventures – 32 Japanese companies that imbibed 8 principles of longevity”

by TATA McGrawhill (in English).

Kathryn Gordon Head of the Freedom of Investment unit, OECD

Kathryn Gordon is a senior economist in the Investment Division of the

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Kathryn is

currently working on the role of national security and of emergency responses to

financial crisis in international investment policy. Earlier, she was one of the

main Secretariat participants in the negotiations that led up to the successful

review of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and was

responsible for OECD research on corporate responsibility. In earlier positions at

the OECD, she dealt with fiscal, tax and regulatory issues. Prior to taking her

position at the OECD, Kathryn was a professor at a French business school

(École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales). She is a US

citizen and has been a resident of France for more than 20 years. She obtained a

PHD and an MBA-Finance from the University of California, Berkeley before moving to France.

David Hallam Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

David Hallam is Deputy Director of the Trade and Markets Division at the

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome where he leads

work on agricultural commodity market analysis, agricultural trade and

development issues and food and agricultural trade policy. He has recently

completed a major study on the 2007-2008 food price hike. He is now leading

FAO's work on international investment in agriculture and has written

extensively on this subject. He is leading FAO’s collaboration with the World

Bank, UNCTAD and IFAD on the development of international guidelines for

international agricultural investment, especially investment in land in

developing countries. He is the editor of FAO’s flagship publication The State

of Agricultural Commodity Markets and is Secretary of the Committee on

Commodity Problems. Before moving to FAO in 1999, he taught Agricultural Economics in the University

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of Reading, England specialising in analysis of agricultural commodity markets and policy. He was also

Director of the Centre for Agricultural Strategy in the University, an independent research centre analyzing

agricultural policy issues for governments. He has written numerous books and articles on agricultural

commodity markets, trade and development and was Editor of the Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Before moving to FAO he was a regular consultant for the OECD, World Bank, governments and the

private sector on international food markets and policy. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and

Reading. David Hallam was born in Leeds, England in 1953.

Seev Hirsch is emeritus professor of international business at Tel Aviv

University. He was Jaffe Professor of International Trade at the Leon Recanati

Graduate School of Business Administration since 1981. He joined Tel Aviv

University in 1965, after getting his MBA and doctorate from the Harvard

Business School in Boston. He was the Recanati School's second dean. Prior to

becoming an academic he was a member of Kibbutz Maagan Michael. He studied

economics and statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After retiring

from Tel Aviv University he founded and was head of the MBA program of the

College of Management, at Rishon Lezion. In recent years, he has been directing

a series of courses on entrepreneurship and industrial management for Arab and

Jewish university graduates. The program sought to promote entrepreneurship, export oriented industrial

development and business cooperation between Arab and Jews. By 2008, over 230 students, including

more than 70 Arabs, participated in the program. Several have established their own businesses. Dr. Hirsch

has served on a number of public committees. During the 'eighties he served on a panel, advising the

minister of finance on economic aspects of the Middle East peace process. Dr. Hirsch has published

numerous books and articles on international trade, investment and business, on the economic relations of

the European Community with small outsiders and on economic aspects of the Middle East peace process.

Mr. Toru Homma has a long career in industry, trade, investment and private

sector development in Africa and Asia. Currently he is working for Japan

International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as the Advisor in the Industrial

Development Department of its Headquarters and as the Regional Advisor on

Trade, Investment and Private Sector Development in the Regional Strategic Unit

for Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is involved in various technical

cooperation projects and policy dialogues of JICA on investment and industry

throughout the African continent.

Since 2006 until recently (June 2009), Mr. Homma worked for the OECD

Secretariat and served as the Project Manager of the NEPAD-OECD Africa

Investment Initiative in the Investment Division of the Directorate for Financial

and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD. He has contributed to launching and shaping up the Initiative as one

of the most prominent forums of African investment policy community together with his African partners

and his colleagues in OECD.

Before taking up the position in OECD, Mr. Homma has experienced several relevant positions during his

career in relation to Japan’s bilateral technical cooperation since 1993, including i) Assistant Resident

Representative on Trade, Investment and Industry Promotion in JICA Indonesia Office for 3 years, ii)

Expert on SME Development in a JICA supporting industry development project in Indonesia for 3 years,

Seev Hirsch Emeritus Professor, The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Toru Homma Regional Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Kenya

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iii) Associate Specialist on Small and Medium-Scale Industries Development in JICA Mining and

Industrial Development Cooperation Department for 2 years and iv) JICA Volunteer in Zambia on market

research in a household fuel development project for 3 years.

Mr. Homma has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Strategy and Trade Policy from the Institute for

Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree

in Administrative Engineering from Keio University, Japan.

Peter Kusek is Investment Policy Officer at the World Bank Group’s Investment

Climate department. He leads the Investing Across Borders indicators project,

which benchmarks the ease of establishing and operating a foreign-owned

business in countries across the world. His areas of specialty include regulatory

and administrative barriers to investment, investment law and commercial

arbitration. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Kusek worked on small-

enterprise development in Bangladesh and microfinance in Tanzania. He also

served as Deputy Program Director at the Center for Strategic and International

Studies (CSIS), where he worked on economic policy reform and implementation

in the transition economies. Mr. Kusek holds a Master in Public Affairs (MPA)

degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at

Princeton University, where he specialized in Economic Policy and International Development.

Alexey V. Kuznetsov was born in 1978 in Moscow. He graduated from the

Moscow State University in 2001 (diploma in economic geography with

honours). In 2003 he became a PhD in economics (kandidat nauk) at the Institute

of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of Russian Academy

of Sciences and joined the staff. In 2008 Kuznetsov became the youngest Russian

professor (doktor nauk) in the field of world economy. Kuznetsov has been the

head of the Section for EU studies since 2006 and the head of the Center for

European studies at the IMEMO-Institute since 2009. He is a member of the

Academic Council of IMEMO and a member of the Dissertation Council in the

field of world economy by IMEMO. Kuznetsov is the author of several books

and more than 90 articles (mainly in Russian but also in English). He has taken

part in various Russian and international scientific projects. At the moment he is a team-leader of the

Russian Humanitarian Fund project “The influence of Russian investment expansion on Russian image in

Europe”. Main fields of his research are European FDI, Russian multinational enterprises, Russian foreign

economic relations, economy of the EU and especially Germany, regional policy. Kuznetsov became “Best

economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences” prize winner in 2004. Also he received a grant of the

Russian Federation President for young PhD in 2005 and the Russian Academy of Sciences medal for his

book “Internationalization of Russian economy: an investment aspect” in 2007.

Dr. Peter Kusek Investment Policy Officer, Investment Climate Advisory Services, World Bank Group

Alexei Kuznetsov Head, Section of EU Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow, Russia

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The Hon. Marc Lalonde, P.C., O.C., Q.C. Lawyer

Mr. Lalonde holds a master's degree in law from the Université de Montréal, as

well as a master's degree from Oxford University (M.A.OXON.) and a Diplôme

d'études supérieures en droit (D.E.S.D.) from the University of Ottawa. In 1971,

he was appointed Queen’s Counsel by the Governor General of Canada. Policy

Advisor to the Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, 1967-1968. Principal Secretary

to Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau, 1968-1972. Elected Member of Parliament

and appointed Minister of Health and Welfare (1972-1977). Between 1972 and

1976, was Minister Responsible for Sport. Between 1974-1979, assumed the

additional portfolio of Minister Responsible for the Status of Women. In 1977,

appointed Minister of State Responsible for Federal-Provincial Relations. In

1978, appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General for Canada. In 1980,

appointed Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources. In 1982, appointed Minister of Finance. He

terminated his mandate as Minister of Finance on September 17, 1984 and on October 1st, became partner

at Stikeman Elliott LLP, with offices in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, New York,

London, and Sydney. Between 2003 and 2006, he served as senior counsel to that firm, practicing more

particularly international commercial arbitration and mediation. On 1 July 2006, he terminated that

arrangement and now acts as sole practitioner. Chairman of the Council of Governors, Canada-Chile

Chamber of Commerce (1995-present). Vice Chairman of the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and

Commerce Inc. (2002-2005). Co-chairman of the Canadian-German section of Atlantik-Brücke (2001-

2005).

As the World Bank’s Agribusiness Team Leader, Mr. Lamb manages the global

Agricultural and Rural Enterprise program in the anchor Agriculture and Rural

Development Department. This program subsumes various multi-country

initiatives: “Mainstreaming Agri-food Standards”, “Rural Investment Climate”,

“Doing Business in Agriculture”, “Responsible Agro-investment”, and “Regional

Agribusiness Trade & Investment in SE Asia”. He also represents the Bank

before the WTO SPS Committee and Standards and Trade Development Facility.

Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Lamb acquired more than twenty years’

experience in the consultancy firms Chemonics International and Abt Associates,

where he specialized in non-traditional exports, competitiveness, market

information, value/supply chain approaches to agroenterprise, and private

agricultural and trade organizations. Over an eight-year period he served as Team Leader in Guatemala for

the USAID-funded Central America-wide Non-traditional Agricultural Export Support project, which

catalyzed and solidified that region’s role as supplier of winter-season fresh and processed produce to

North America and Europe. For seven years he operated his own fresh produce sourcing operation in Latin

America, while serving as International Strategy Advisor for the Produce Reporter Company (Blue Book),

and consulting with a dozen U.S. and foreign trade, industry and exporter associations. Mr. Lamb began

his international agricultural development career with a 3+ year stint in the Peace Corps, serving in

Morocco, Ecuador and El Salvador, after which he started up new country programs and served as Country

Director for TechnoServe Inc in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Mr. Lamb holds B.A. (Magna cum laude) and

M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University.

John Lamb Senior Agribusiness Specialist, World Bank

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Karin Millett Head, Investment Generation, Vienna Office, Investment Climate Advisory Services, World Bank Group

Karin Millett has been Head of the Vienna Office of the Investment Generation

practice of the World Bank Group’s Investment Climate Advisory Services since

March 2008. In that capacity, she is responsible for leading and managing work

of a team of specialists providing advice and assistance to countries in the region

of Eastern and Southern Europe and Central Asia to support improved policies,

conditions and strategies to attract and retain productive cross-border investment.

Her areas of specialization include foreign direct investment, economic

development, mining and infrastructure, local governance and decentralization.

Her undergraduate studies were completed in Ireland and Germany. She holds

Ph.D. and MA degrees from the University of Denver in the USA, and a post-

graduate diploma in economics from the University of London. Dr. Millett joined

the World Bank in 1995, first as a Manager and subsequently as a Director of the Multilateral Investment

Guarantee Agency, in charge of the global technical assistance and advisory services focusing on foreign

direct investment. Later, as a Director of the World Bank Institute (WBI) she was responsible for global

knowledge and learning products that included analytical work on knowledge economies and knowledge

for development. Dr. Millett served as the Director of the Joint Africa Institute (a joint World

Bank/IMF/African Development Bank Institute to support policy related training) for three years, ending in

September 2007. Immediately prior to taking up her current position, she served briefly as Senior Advisor

to the Vice President of the World Bank Institute.

Theodore H. Moran Non-resident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute of International Economics

Theodore H. Moran holds the Marcus Wallenberg Chair in International Business

and Finance at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, where he

teaches and conducts research at the intersection of international economics,

business, foreign affairs, and public policy. His most recent books include

Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Policies for Developed

and Developing Countries, Center for Global Development, 2006. Does Foreign

Direct Investment Promote Development?, editor, with Magnus Blomstrom,

Stockholm School of Economics and Edward Graham, Institute for International

Economics, 2005; Beyond Sweatshops: Foreign Direct Investment,

Globalization, and Developing Countries (Brookings, 2002); and Foreign

Investment and Development (Institute for International Economics, 1998). In

1993-94, Dr. Moran served as Senior Advisor for Economics on the Policy Planning Staff of the

Department of State, where he had responsibility for trade, finance, technology, energy, and environmental

issues. He returned to Georgetown after the NAFTA and Uruguay Round negotiations. In 2000, he was

appointed Counselor to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank Group.

In 2002 Dr. Moran was named Chairman of the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards

of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Moran received his PhD from Harvard in 1971. He is a

Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and at the Center for

Global Development.

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Pamela Muckosy Head of Research, Ethical Corporation

Pamela Muckosy is Head of Research at Ethical Corporation, a London-based

organisation dedicated to researching, publishing and facilitating corporate

responsibility. She has built her research and management skills while working in

Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Europe. Previous responsibilities

include research and project management for the Overseas Development Agency,

International Development Research Council, International Monetary Fund, United

Nations and various national government aid agencies and leading corporations.

Pamela completed her masters degree at the London School of Economics and

Political Science.

Anant G. Nadkarni Vice-President of the Tata Council for Community Initiatives

Anant Nadkarni is currently Vice-President of Group Corporate Sustainability and

coordinates social, environmental and related initiatives with nearly fifty major

Tata companies. Mr. Nadkarni is certificated in environmental management,

Global Reporting Initiatives and sustainability reporting. He also represents Tata

on several bodies promoting social responsibility and corporate sustainability. He

developed a series of initiatives and helped Tata companies to evolve a common

process and a set of Guidelines on Social Development and Environmental

Management. This resulted in a network of senior level participants across group

companies providing inputs that evolved into a comprehensive “protocol and

leadership model” for corporate sustainability. Owing to the paucity of credible

social indicators, he conceptualized and partnered with the UNDP the Tata Index

for Sustainable Human Development. Mr. Nadkarni has had the opportunity to work in diverse fields,

interact with an extremely interesting and wide variety of people, and assist authorities and citizens to

innovate ways of addressing new challenges in community building. At present he conducts programmes

in CS Leadership and Sustainability for the Tata group, other businesses and institutions. After graduating

with a degree in Economics and Commerce, Mr. Nadkarni took his MDBA from Pune and served for Tata

Motors for 18 years in different capacities in manufacturing, projects and audit. Mr. Nadkarni sought

assignments / sabbaticals with the Center for Development Studies and Activities (CDSA) in Pune and the

Public Affairs Center (PAC) in Bangalore where he developed programs in improving the quality of local

self-governance.

Richard Parry Head of Unit, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration

Richard Parry has been Head of Global Relations in the OECD’s Centre for Tax

Policy and Administration since 2001. His primary role is to encourage global

perspectives in the development and implementation of OECD standards and

guidelines in the tax area, and to provide assistance to developing countries to

strengthen their tax systems.

Previously, Richard was responsible for the development and implementation of

international anti-avoidance rules in the UK Inland Revenue. He has a doctorate in

African development from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.

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Joachim Pohl Legal and policy analyst, Investment Division, OECD

Joachim Pohl is legal and policy analyst in the OECD Investment Division. His

current assignments include analytical work on policies for responsible investment

in agriculture and monitoring of investment policies for the OECD Freedom of

Investment process and for the G-20. Mr. Pohl joined the OECD in 2003. In his

earlier roles in the Organisation’s Anti-Corruption Division, he assessed

governance and anti-corruption policies in developing countries in Asia, monitored

compliance under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and coordinated the Asian

Development Bank/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific.

Before joining the OECD, Mr. Pohl, a German national, taught public and

administrative law at Humboldt University Berlin and MGLU Moscow. He holds a

PhD in law from Humboldt-University and a master’s degree in political science from the University of

Bordeaux.

Mr. Pierre Poret Head of OECD Investment Division

Pierre Poret is Head of the Investment Division, in the OECD's Directorate for

Financial and Enterprise Affairs since 2001. The OECD Investment Division is

responsible for international investment policy, corporate responsibility,

investment for development, international agreements and statistics. Pierre

Poret joined the OECD from the French Ministry of Finance in 1986.

His previous positions at the OECD included principal administrator dealing

with accession of new members and financial aspects of the 1995-98 MAI

negotiations, and deputy-director of the Secretary-General's Office.

Daniel M. Price Senior Partner, Sidley Austin LLP; former Assistant to the US President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics

Daniel M. Price is Senior Partner for Global Issues and a member of the Executive

Committee at Sidley Austin LLP. He works with Sidley lawyers worldwide

advising clients on a wide range of international regulatory, transactional and

policy matters, including global financial regulation, trade and climate change.

He also represents clients in the resolution of international disputes. Mr. Price

rejoins Sidley after serving as Assistant to the President and Deputy National

Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs in the Administration of

George W. Bush. In this role, he was the senior White House official responsible

for international economic issues. Prior to his White House service, Mr. Price was

chair of Sidley’s 50-member International Trade & Dispute Resolution group and

counselled multinational companies, financial institutions and trade associations

on market access, services, investment, CFIUS and sanctions issues and matters arising in

intergovernmental negotiations. From 2002-2007, Mr. Price served by Presidential appointment on the

Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and was a

party-appointed arbitrator in a number of investment disputes. He also serves on the Board of Directors of

the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Price received his B.A. with high honours from Haverford

College in 1977; a Diploma in Legal Studies in 1979 from Cambridge University, where he was an

American Keasbey Scholar; and his J.D. in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Editor

of the Harvard Law Review.

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Manfred Schekulin Chair, OECD Investment Committee

Manfred Schekulin is Director for Export and Investment Policy at the Federal

Ministry of Economics and Labour of Austria, Chairman of the OECD-Investment

Committee, Co-Chairman, South East Europe Compact for Reform, Investment,

Integrity and Growth and Lecturer at the University of Management Studies,

Krems, and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

He owns a doctorate in Law, a master in Social and Economic

Sciences/Economics (University of Vienna) and a MBA (Vienna University of

Economics and Business Administration).

Kenko Sone received a B.A. in Law from Hitotsubashi University in March, 1989

and a B.A in Government from Wesleyan University in May, 1990. He has been

the Director, OECD Division, Economics Affairs Bureau since August 2008.

Immediately prior to that he was the Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Japan to

the International Organisations in Geneva (from August 2005). He entered the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April 1989 starting in the Second North America

Division followed by the North American Affairs Bureau May 1989, then the

Treaties Division, Treaties Bureau, October 1989. In September 1990 he

undertook the Foreign Service Training Program (Wesleyan University, CT, USA)

and was made Third Secretary, Embassy of Japan in the United States May 1992,

promoted Second Secretary in April 1993. He was made Deputy Director of the

Japan-U.S. Security Treaty Division, North American Affairs Bureau in 1996 then Deputy Director of the

First International Organization Division Economic Affairs Bureau in February 1998. Other posts include:

Assistant Director China and Mongolia Division, Asian Affairs Bureau, October 1999 becoming Principle

Deputy Director in December 2000; Secretary to the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, July 2003.

Astrit Sulstarova: Economic Affairs Officer, Division of Investment and Enterprise, United Nations

Conference on Trade and Development. He is involved mainly in research, and econometric and statistical

modeling of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of transnational corporations (TNCs). He is

contributing to the analysis of FDI related to transition economies (Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of

Independent States and South-Eastern Europe) mainly for the World Investment Report. He is actively

involved in UNCTAD technical assistance aiming at helping different countries to enhance their

institutional capacity as regards the compilation, dissemination and analysis of data on FDI and the

operations of TNCs. He obtained a degree as Mathematician from Tirana University in Albania; M.A. in

Applied Economic from Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria and Ph.D. in International

Economics from Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Main publications

outside the United Nations include articles published in major professional journals including the Journal

of International Money and Finance.

Kenko Sone Director of OECD Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Astrit Sulstarova Economic Affairs Officer, Division of Investment and Enterprise, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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Marjan Svetličič is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of

Ljubljana, Head of the Centre of International Relations, and a Fellow of the

European Academy of International Business (EIBA). He was President of the

EIBA and a member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group of the

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), a Dean of the Faculty and is

Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia. He is also a member of many

editorial boards of scientific journals and a consultant to international

organisations. His bibliography includes over 300 items. Among them books in

English: Facilitating Transition by Internationalization; Outward Direct

Investment from Central European Economies in Transition (ed. with M. Rojec),

Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot; Enhanced Transition by Outward Internationalization: Outward FDI

by Slovene firms (with A. Jaklič), Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, 2003; Small countries in a global

economy (ed. with D. Salvatore and J. P. Damijan), Palgrave, St. Martin’s Press, Basingstoke, New York,

2001; The world economy: Challenges of globalization and regionalization (ed. with H. Singer),

Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press, Basingstoke, New York, 1996; Foreign Investment in Central and Eastern

Europe. New York, St. Martin’s, 1993, 206 str. (z P. Artisenom in M. Rojcem).

Dr. Stephen Thomsen Senior Economist, OECD

Stephen Thomsen holds a Ph.D. in international economics from the Graduate

Institute of International Affairs in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to earning his

doctorate, he worked in a research institute in Washington DC and afterwards spent

five years as a Research Fellow at Chatham House in London. He has been

affiliated with the OECD since 1995, both on the staff and as an external

consultant, and is now a Senior Economist in the Investment Division of the

Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs.

Nicolas Véron’s research at Bruegel covers two main areas: financial regulation

and supervision, including banking surveillance and accounting / financial

reporting policy; and interactions between companies and nations, such as

policies to promote or protect “national champions”, regulatory competition

among countries, or public screening of FDI. He has been involved with Bruegel

since its inception in late 2002 and has worked there on a full-time basis since

2005. Since October 2009 he is also Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for

International Economics in Washington DC. Véron’s prior experience is in

public policy and corporate finance, working for the Saint-Gobain Group in

Berlin, Rothschilds in Paris, and as economic aide to the state representative

(Préfet) in Lille, France. Subsequently, corporate adviser to France’s Labour

Minister (1997-2000), chief financial officer of MultiMania/Lycos France, a publicly-listed Internet

company in Paris (2000-2002), and in 2002 founded ECIF, a financial-services consultancy. He is the

author of Smoke & Mirrors, Inc.: Accounting for Capitalism, (Cornell University Press, 2006); of

numerous policy papers at Bruegel alone or with co-authors; and of several books in French. Véron is a

Marjan Svetličič Head, Centre of International Relations, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Professor Nicolas Véron Senior Research Fellow, Bruegel, Brussels

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member of the Corporate Disclosure Policy Council of the CFA Institute and of the Accounting and

Auditing Practices Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network. A French citizen born

in 1971, he has a quantitative background as a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique (1992) and Ecole

Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (1995). He speaks fluent English, French, German and Spanish.

Hu Yuandong UNIDO Investment & Technology Promotion Office for China in Beijing

Mr. Hu Yuandong was born in Dec. 1954, EMPA and PAD candidate of

University of Colorado at Denver, U.S.A. Mr. Hu’s working experience includes

two years with a civil engineering company, over six years as a professional

diplomat in early 80s and 4 years with UNDP China Country Program. In late Dec.

1995, he was appointed by the Director General of United Nations Industrial

Development Organization (UNIDO) to be Director, heading UNIDO Investment

& Technology Promotion Office (ITPO) for China in Beijing in charge of

investment/trade promotion and technology transfer till now.

GFII SPECIAL SESSION: BRIEFING WITH DR. IBRAHIM ASSANE MAYAKI,

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, NEPAD

H.E. Maurice Peter Kagimu Kiwanuka Uganda’s Ambassador to Switzerland

H.E. Maurice Peter Kagimu Kiwanuka is Uganda’s Ambassador to Switzerland

and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International

Organisations in Geneva since July 2009. Prior to his appointment in Geneva, he

was Minister of State for Economic Monitoring, Office of the President and Ex-

Officio Member of Parliament from 2006-2009. From 2002-2006 he was Member

of Parliament for Bukomansimbi Constituency and he was the Bukomansimbi

Constituent Assembly delegate from 1993-1994. He has also worked as

Adminstrative Officer, National Housing and Construction Corporation and

Banking Officer, Bank of Uganda. He holds a B.A. (Hons) Economics of

Makerere University, Kampala and a B.A. (Hons) Philosophy of Urbaniana

University, Rome.

Dr. Dinesh Bhattarai Nepal's Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations

Dr. Dinesh Bhattarai has been Nepal's Ambassador/Permanent Representative to

the United Nations including Conference on Disarmament (CD) and International

Organizations since 26 November 2007. He is accredited to the World Trade

Organization in Geneva, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome and

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna. Dr.

Bhattarai is also concurrently accredited as Ambassador to the Swiss

Confederation, Republic of Italy and the Republic of Croatia. He joined the

Nepalese Diplomatic Service in April 1983. He served as First Secretary (Political

Affairs) at the Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi from 1991-1994, and Deputy Chief

of Mission at the Embassy of Nepal in Washington D.C. from 1998-2003. Dr.

Bhattarai has worked in various capacities in Divisions of Protocol, Europe and

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America, Southeast Asia and Pacific, North Asia. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador in 2007, Dr.

Bhattarai headed the United Nations, International Organizations and International Law, and Multilateral

Economic Affairs Divisions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He did Masters in Public Administration,

Economics, Bachelor of Law from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu and Post Graduate Diploma in

International Relations and Development from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, He

obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He

has co-authored a book, "Nepal-India: Democracy in the Making of Mutual Trust", published in 1993 by

Nirala Publications, Jaipur, India.

Joaquim Fonseca Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the United Nations Office

Joaquim Fonseca is the Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of

Timor-Leste to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations at

Geneva since January 2009, with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to the

Swiss Confederation. Prior to this post, Mr. Fonseca held various positions within

the Government Timor-Leste, and was actively involved with civil society

organizations both prior to and after the independence of Timor-Leste. Between

September 2007 and December 2008, Mr. Fonseca was the advisor to the Prime

Minister on Civil Society. In this position, while devising policies and facilitating

the process to strengthen the relationship of cooperation between Civil Society

and the Government, Mr. Fonseca was engaged in the process of negotiation to

resolve the conflict which stemmed out of the dismissal of half of the country’s Defense Force in 2006.

Working directly with the Prime Minister, Mr. Fonseca was a key player in process of reintegration of the

former militaries, thereby bringing a peaceful solution to the crisis which held the country hostage for over

two years. In the area of human rights, Mr. Fonseca has held the position of Human Rights Adviser for the

Government and was leading the development Timor-Leste’s first human rights treaties reports. Mr.

Fonseca was a human rights activist holding a senior position in one of the main human rights

organizations in Timor-Leste and played a significant role in the engagement of civil society during the

development of the Timorese Constitution.

H.E. Mr. Sun Suon Ambassador of Cambodia

Educational background: Baccalaureate II, Lycée Preah Sisowath, Phnom Penh,

Cambodia; Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences, University of Phnom Penh,

Cambodia (Pre-Bachelor Studies); Law Degree (Jurist), Sofia University,

Bulgaria; PhD in jurisprudence (International Law), Sofia University; MA in

International Relations, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts

University, MA, USA. Professional experience: 1979-1980 joined the

Government Civil Service (Administration Unit). 1991 joined the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs (after PhD studies). 1993-1994 Head of Legal Bureau,

Administration Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International

Cooperation (MFA&IC). 1994-98 Deputy Director, Legal Department

(MFA&IC). 1998-1999 Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United

Nations (NY). 1999-2003 Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of

Cambodia to the UN in New York. 2004-2005 Director (Ambassador’s rank), Department of America,

MFA&IC. 2005-2006 Director, Department of Asia and the Pacific (Asia II), MFA&IC. 2006-2007

Director, Department of International Organisations, MFA&IC. Other main occupations/academic

activities: 1992-1995 Member of the Legal Advisory Group on Principles of Utilization of the Mekong

River and Related Resources and member of the Inter-Governmental Working Group of the four riparian

countries (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) to draft the 1995 Agreement on the Cooperation for the

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Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin under the auspices of UNDP. 1993-1995:2005-2007

Member of the Cambodian national Mekong Committee. 1995-1996 occasional Visiting Lecturer of

International Law, Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences, University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 2004-

2006 Member of the Academic Board of the University of Cambodia.