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Integrated Programme 2015

High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

under the auspices of ECOSOC Friday, 26 June – Wednesday, 8 July 2015

ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review

Thursday, 9 July – Friday, 10 July 2015

High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)

Theme: “Strengthening integration, implementation and review – the HLPF after 2015”

Friday, 26 June 2015

10:00 am - 10:10 am Adoption of the provisional agenda of the HLPF

 

10:10 am - 10:45 am Opening plenary Remarks by:

• H.E. Mr. Martin Sajdik, President of ECOSOC

• H.E. Mr. Rudolf Hundstorfer Federal Minister for Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, Austria

• Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs (message delivered by Mr. Thomas Gass, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs )

Representatives from major groups and other stakeholders:

• Mr. Kadir Topbaş, Mayor of Istanbul and President of UCLG, Turkey

• Ms. Frances Zainoeddin, Gray Panthers NY

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• Mr. Hirotaka Koike, Japan Youth Platform for Post-2015

10:45 am – 1:00 pm “Shaping the world for 2030: From vision to transformative action” (setting the stage)

Keynote: • H.E. Mr. David

Donoghue, Co-Facilitator of the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda

Moderator:

• Mr. Henry Bonsu, International Broadcaster, Ghana

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, Deputy Foreign Minister for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Mexico

• H.E. Mr. David Donoghue, Co-Facilitator of the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda

• Mr. Mayacine Camara, Director, Department of Planning and Economic Policies, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning of Senegal, and Chair of the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development

• Mr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA

Lead discussant:

• Mr. Marwan Bishtawi, Associate Coordinator of the Pax Romana UN

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Advocacy Team in New York

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm “The role of business in implementation”

• ECOSOC President: Key messages from ECOSOC Partnership Forum

Moderator:

• Ms. Amina Mohammed, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning

Panelists:

• Mr. Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Foundation for the Global Compact

• Mr. Toshio Arima, Director and Executive Adviser to the Board, Fuji Xerox, Japan

• Mr. Jeff Seabright, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever, UK

• H.E. Mr. Jean-Francis R. Zinsou, Permanent Representative of Benin to the UN

• Ms. Annika Lindblom, Director for International Sustainable Development, Ministry of the Environment of Finland

Lead discussants:

• Mr. Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO

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• Mr. Diego Azzi, ITUC – International Trade Union Confederation, Brazil

Monday, 29 June 2015  

8:30 am – 9:45 am Morning meeting with representatives of social and natural sciences “How science can inform policy making”

With Member States

10:00 am – 1:00 pm “Supporting national action through HLPF outcomes”

Moderator: • Ms. Aisa Kirabo

Kacyira, UN-Habitat Deputy Executive Director and former Mayor of Kigali

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Pio Wennubst, Assistant Director General, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

• H.E. Mr. Gustavo Adolfo Meza-Cuadra Velasquez, Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations and Chair of ECLAC Committee of the Whole

• Mr. Manish Bapna, Managing Director, World Resource Institute

Lead discussant:

• Ms. Evelyn Ugbe, Women Environmental Programme, Nigeria

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm “Keeping science involved in SDG implementation”

• Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social

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Affairs: Introduction of the Global Sustainable Development Report

Moderator:

• Mr. Paul Shrivastava, Executive Director of the Future Earth Secretariat

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Gabriel Vallejo López,    Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia

• Ms. Lucilla Spini, Head of Science Programmes, International Council for Science

• Mr. Luiz Augusto Galvao, Head of the Special Program on Sustainable Development and Health Equity at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

• Ms. Maria Ivanova, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, member of the Secretary-General's Science Advisory Board

5 : 00 - 6 :00 pm “The GSDR as a bridge between the SDGs and the scientific communities”

Moderator: • Mr. Patrick Paul Walsh,

Chair of International Development Studies in University College Dublin, Ireland and SDSN, New York

Panelists:

• Ms. Lucilla Spini, Head of Science Programmes, International Council for

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Science • Mr. William Colglazier,

Visiting scientist, Centre for Science Diplomacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

8:30 am–9:45 am

Morning meeting with representatives of major groups and other stakeholders “Reinforcing major groups and other stakeholders’ participation”

With Member States

10:00 am–1:00 pm

“Changing approaches to policy making : the role of the SDGs”

Moderator: • Mr. Debapriya

Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Chair of Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Karel J. G. van Oosterom, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN, on behalf of the Chairperson of the 66th session of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

• Mr. Patrick Birungi, Director at the National Planning Authority, Ministry of Planning, Finance and Economic Authority, Uganda

• Ms. Jaroslava Jermanova, Vice-President of the Parliament, Czech

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Republic Lead discussants:

• Mr. Y. W. Junardy, President Commissioner, PT Rajawali Corpora and President, Global Compact Network Indonesia

• Ms. Galina Angarova, Tebtebba, Russia/USA

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm “Regional support to national action”

Moderator: • Ms. Ximena Ponce,

Member of Parliament, former Minister for Economic and Social Inclusion, Ecuador

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Vajra Narampanawa, Secretary, State Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka and Vice-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development

• H.E. Mr. Mohamed Ashraf Rashed, Ambassador and Member of the African Peer Review Panel Of Eminent Persons

• Mr. Christian Brodhag, senior Expert at the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

Lead discussant: • Mr. Paul Ladd, Senior

Policy Adviser, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP New York

• Ms. Roula Majdalani,

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Director, Sustainable Development Policies Division, ESCWA

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

10:00 am– 1:00 pm “The SAMOA Pathway: translating vision to action”

Moderator: • H.E. Mr. Ronald Jean

Jumeau, Ambassador for Climate Change and SIDS Issues, Seychelles

Panelists: • Ms. Azeema Adam,

Governor of Maldives Monetary Authority

• H.E. Mr. Aliioaiga Feturi Elisaia, Permenant Representative of Samoa to the UN

• Mr. Andrew Downes, Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University Office of Planning and Development, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

• Mr. Ben Glass, CEO, Altaeros Energies, Boston, USA

Lead discussants:

• Mr. Gustavo Fonseca, Director of Programs at the GEF

• Ms. Florence Pignolet-Tardan, Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development, La Reunion - France

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

“Reaching out to the world” • Communicating the agenda

Moderator: • Ms. Cristina Gallach,

Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Francis Lorenzo, Ambassador and Honorary President of South South News, Dominican Republic

• Mr. Grammenos Mastrojeni, Coordinator of environmentally sustainable development initiatives, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy

• Mr. Mitchell Toomey, Director of the Millennium Campaign

• Mr. David Droga, advertising executive and the founder of Droga5, Australia

Lead discussants: • Ms. Edie Lederer, senior

correspondent at the Associated Press

• Ms. Maria Melinda Ando, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, Philippines

• Ms. Mary - Jane Ncube, Transparency International Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm “Reaching out to the world”

• Training and learning for sustainable development

Moderator: • Mr. Jafar Javan,

Director, UN System Staff College

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Hans Winkler, Director, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna,

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Austria • Mr. Romain Murenzi,

former Rwandan Science Minister and Executive Director of The World Academy of Sciences

• Ms. Marianne Beisheim, senior researcher, Global Issues Division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany

Thursday, 2 July 2015

10:00 am – 11:30 am “Sustainable Consumption and production”

Moderator: • H.E. Ms. Maria Emma

Mejia Velez, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the UN and Vice-President of ECOSOC

Panelists:

• Mr. Ulf Jaeckel, Head of Division, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany and Chair of the 10YFP Board

• Ms. Carolina Toha, Mayor of Santiago, Chile

• Mr. Laszlo Borbely, President of the Committee for Foreign Policy in the Romanian Parliament

Lead discussant: • Ms. Swati Shresth,

Center for Grassroots Development and The Global Forest Coalition, India

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11:30 am– 1:00 pm “Investing in the future we want: what will it require?”

Moderator: • Mr. James Zhan,

Director of Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD

Panelists:

• Mr. Hazem Fahmy, Ambassador, Secretary General, Egyptian Agency of Partnership for Development

• Ms. Hildegard Lingnau, Senior Counsellor, OECD

Lead discussant:

• Mr. Stefano Prato, Society for International Development, Italy

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

3:00 pm – 5:45 pm

“Tracking progress through existing mechanisms”

Moderator: • Mr. Thomas Gass, UN

Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs

Panelists:

• H.E. Ms. Gerda Verburg, Chair of the Committee on World Food Security, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Rome-based agencies, Netherlands

• Mr. Adam Bouloukos, Director of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

• Ms. Petra Bayr, Member of Parliament, Austria

• Mr. Charles Radcliffe, Chief, Global Issues Section, OHCHR New York Office

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Lead discussants:

• H.E. Mr. Caleb Otto, Permanent Representative of Palau to the UN and chair of the Pacific Island Forum

• Ms. Louise Kantrow, International Chamber of Commerce, USA

5:45 pm – 6:00 pm

Wrap up session Remarks by:

• President of ECOSOC

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ECOSOC High-level Segment Week

High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development – Ministerial Segment

Theme: “Strengthening integration, implementation and review – the HLPF after 2015”

Monday, 6 July 2015

9:30 am – 10:15 am

Opening plenary Remarks by: • H.E. Mr. Oh Joon (Republic of

Korea), Vice-President of ECOSOC

• H.E. Mr. Sam Kahamba Kutesa, President of the General Assembly

• Mr. Jan Eliasson, UN Deputy Secretary-General

Representative from major groups and other stakeholders: • Mr. Vladimir Cuk, International

Disability Alliance

10:15 am -10:50 am Launch of the MDG Report with a video conference link to Oslo

• Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

• H.E. Ms. Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway

• H.E. Mr. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda Respondent:

• Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University

10: 50 am -11:15 am Messages from the five-day segment of HLPF

• H.E. Mr. Courtenay Rattray, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the UN

• H.E. Mr. Paul Seger, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN

• Ms. Rima Khalaf, Executive

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Secretary of ESCWA

11:15 am – 1 : 0 0 p m Morning session- HLPF “A transformative integrated agenda: how can governments, societies and the UN rise to the challenge?”

Moderator: • Mr. Scott Vaughan,

President and Chief Executive Officer, International Institute for Sustainable Development and former Canadian Commissioner for the environment and sustainable development

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Karmenu Vella, EU Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

• H.E. Mr. Salifou Dembélé, Minister for Youth, Professional Training and Employment, Burkina Faso

• H.E. Ms. Lisel Alamilla, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and Sustainable Development, Belize

Lead discussants: • Mr. Joseph Severe,

Union des Amis Socio Culturels d'Action en Developpement (UNASCSD), Haiti

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Keynote: • H.E. Mr. Kazuyuki

Nakane, Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan (UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction)

Moderator:

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Afternoon Session-HLPF “Thinking ahead: emerging issues that will matter in the future”

• Ms. Irene Khan, Director-General, International Development Law Organization

Panelists:

• H.E. Ms. Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany

• Mr. Abdul Hamid Zakri, Science Adviser to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Chair of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and Member of the UN Secretary General's Scientific Advisory Board

• Mr. Alfred Kammer, Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund, leading IMF work stream on long-term trends

Lead discussants:

• Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw Deputy Executive Director of UNEP

• Ms. Risnawati Utami, CBM, Indonesia

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Morning Session - HLPF “Communicating and implementing a universal agenda at home”

Moderator: • Ms. Laura Trevelyan,

BBC anchor and correspondent

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Panelists: • H.E. Mr. Carlos

Alvarado Quesada, Minister of Social Development, Costa Rica

• H.E. Mr. Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany

• H.E. Mr. Piotr Otawski, Deputy Minister of Environment, Poland

• Mr. Jim Clarken, Executive Director of Oxfam Ireland

Lead discussants:

• H.E. Mr. Josko Klisović, Deputy Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia

• Mr. Peter Davies, Wales  Commissioner for Sustainable Futures

• Ms. Brigitte Johanne Trauernicht-Jordan, Vice-President, SOS Children's Villages International, Austria

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Parallel meetings)

Afternoon Session – HLPF 3:30 pm - 6 pm Keynote:

• H.E. Ms. Oyun Sanjaasuren, President of the United Nations Environment Assembly and Member of the Parliament of Mongolia

“Our HLPF in the next 15 years” Moderator:

General Debate of the high-level week 3:00 pm-6:00 pm Introduction of Secretary-General’s Reports

• Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN Under-

Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

Introduction of CDP report

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• H.E. Mr. Oh Joon, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN and Vice-President of ECOSOC

Panelists:

• H.E. Mr. Tun Tun Naing, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, Myanmar

• Mr. M. Riaz Hamidullah, Director General, Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh

• Ms. Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Chair, Women In Parliaments Global Forum and former European Parliament Chair

Lead discussants:

• H.E. Mr. Pio Wennubst, Assistant Director General, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

• Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General for Intergovernmental Support and Strategic Partnerships, UN Women

• Mr. Daniel Lang, Head of Worldwide Customer Relations at Sutherland Global Services, Inc.

• Ms. Naiara Garcia da Costa Chaves, Beyond 2015, Brazil

• Mr. José Antonio Ocampo,

Chair of the UN Committee on Development Policy

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

10:00 am – 1:00 pm (Parallel meetings)

Morning Session – HLPF Keynote:

• H.E. Ms. Julia Gillard, Former Prime Minister of Australia, Chairman of the

Continuation of General Debate of the high-level week

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Global Partnership for Education

“Reviewing and monitoring progress: What have we learned and how can it advance implementation?” Moderator:

• Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, UNDESA

Panelists:

• H.E. Ms. Faeqa Bent Saeed Essaleh, Minister of Social Affairs, Bahrain, Host of the 2nd Arab Forum on Sustainable Development

• H.E. Mr. Mario Néstor Oporto, former Minister of Education, Chair of the Commission of Communications and Information Technology of the Congress, Argentina

• Mr. Josef Moser, Secretary General of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI)

Lead discussant: • H.E. Mr. Kodjo Menan,

Permanent Representative of Togo to the UN

• Mr. John Romano, TAP Network, USA

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Afternoon Session – HLPF “Realizing the SDGs: Matching ambitions with commensurate means of implementation-resources, technology and capacities”

Moderator: • Mr. Jos Verbeek, Adviser, Office of

the World Bank Group President’s Special Envoy on Post 2015 Development Issues

Panelists: • H.E. Ms. Endah Murniningtyas,

Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry

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of National Development Planning, Indonesia

• H.E. Mr. Shin Dong-ik, Deputy-Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Republic of Korea

• H.E. Mr. Evgeny P. Velikhov, Member of the Academy of Science of the Russian Federation, President of the Russian Association for Sciences Support, Honourable Secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation

• Mr. Rolf Heuer, Director General, CERN

Lead discussants: • Mr. Aldo Lale Demoz, Deputy

Executive-Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

• Ms. Megan Arrowsmith Haddock, Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, USA

3 : 4 5 p m – 4 : 0 0 p m Closing of the HLPF Keynote:

• H.E. Mr. Macharia Kamau, Co-Facilitator of the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda and Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations

Adoption of the HLPF Ministerial Declaration Adoption of the report of HLPF to ECOSOC Closing remarks: • H.E. Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari (Tunisia), Vice President of

ECOSOC

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ECOSOC “From MDGs to SDGs” Adoption of the Ministerial Declaration of the High Level Segment of ECOSOC Opening remarks: • H.E. Mr. Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Permanent Representative of

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Tunisia to the UN and Vice-President of ECOSOC

Keynote addresses: • H.E. Mr. Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria (Statement

delivered by H.E. Ms. Sonja Stessl, State Secretary for Administration and Public Service in the Federal Chancellery, Austria)

• H.E. Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, Founder, Roza Otunbayeva Initiative, former President of Kyrgyzstan and Member, Club de Madrid

• Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University

• Ms. Nanxi Liu, Founder, Nanoly Bioscience

 

ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review

Theme: “Managing the transition from the Millennium Development Goals to the sustainable development goals (SDGs): What it will take” Thursday, 9 July 2015

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ECOSOC “Lessons from the MDGs for the future” Keynote address: • H.E. Mr. Zlatko Lagumdžija, former Prime Minister,

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Member, Club de Madrid

Roundtable discussion: • Moderated by H.E. Mr. Oh Joon, Permanent

Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN and Vice-President of ECOSOC

• Mr. Magdy Martínez-Solimán, Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP

• John W. McArthur, Senior Fellow in Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution and Senior Fellow, UN Foundation

• Ms. Vivian Onano, Young Leader, Women Deliver; Education Spokesperson, Moremi Africa; and Member of UN Women Global Civil Society Advisory Group

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“Headwinds in the global economy” • Moderated by Mr. Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-

General for Economic Development, UN DESA • Mr. Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD • Mr. Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director,

International Monetary Fund • Mr. Yonov Frederick Agah, Deputy Director-General,

World Trade Organization • Mr. John Panzer, Director, Macro and Fiscal

Management Global Practice, World Bank Group Lead discussant: • Mr. Raymond Torres, Director of Research

Department, International Labour Organization

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ECOSOC “Managing the transition to the SDGs: what it will take at the regional level”

• Moderated by Ambassador Juan Somavía, Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile and former Director-General of the International Labour Organization

• Ms. Rima Khalaf, Executive Secretary, UN ESCWA

• Ms. Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, UN ECLAC

• Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary, UN ESCAP

• Mr. Christian Friis Bach, Executive Secretary, UN ECE

Continuation of General Debate of the high-level week

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• Mr. Abdalla Hamdok, Deputy Executive Secretary for Knowledge Generation, UN ECA

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ECOSOC “Implementing a post-2015 development agenda that works for the LDCs” Keynote address:

• H.E. Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia

Roundtable discussion:

• Moderated by Ms. Michèle Montas, Independent broadcast journalist, former Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and former Director-General of Radio Haiti-Inter

• Mr. Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

• Mr. Bruce Lehman, Chairman and President of the International Intellectual Property Institute and

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Member of the SG’s High-level Panel on Technology Bank for the LDCs

Friday, 10 July 2015

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ECOSOC National Voluntary Presentations • Moderated by Mr. Michael Shank, Director of Media

Strategy, Climate Nexus • H.E. Ms. Damira Niyazalieva, Vice Prime Minister,

Kyrgyzstan • H.E. Mr. Gantsogt Khurelbaatar, State Secretary,

Ministry of Finance, Mongolia • H.E. Mr. Arsenio M. Balisacan, Planning Secretary,

Philippines • H.E. Mr. Christopher Mvunga, Deputy Minister of

Finance, Zambia

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ECOSOC “Strengthening and building institutions for policy integration in the post-2015 era” Keynote address:

• H.E. Mr. Abdurrahim El-Keib, former Interim Prime Minister of Libya and Member, Club de Madrid

Roundtable discussion:

• Moderated by H.E. Vladimir Drobnjak, Permanent Representative of Croatia to the UN and Vice-President of ECOSOC

• Mr. Saber Chowdhury, President, Inter-Parliamentary Union

• Ms. Rowena Bethel, Vice-Chair , UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration

• Mr. Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, UN DESA

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5 : 0 0 p m – 6 : 0 0 p m Closing of High-level Segment of ECOSOC Closing remarks: • Mr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General Conclusion and way forward: • H.E. Mr. Oh Joon, Permanent Representative of

Republic of Korea to the UN and Vice-President of ECOSOC