UNCTAD VIRTUAL INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS STUDY TOUR TO 18 February 2005 DRAFT PROGRAMME

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1 UNCTAD VIRTUAL INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS STUDY TOUR TO 18 February 2005 DRAFT PROGRAMME Monday 7 February Room E Opening Remarks: Mr Carlos Fortin, Officer in-charge of Introduction: Mr Peter Froehler, Director in-charge of Division for Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency (SITE), Professor Mario Presser, Coordinator, Economic Diplomacy Course, UNICAMP Results of UNCTAD XI, Manuela Tortora, Chief, Technical Cooperation Service UNCTAD Virtual Institute, Vlasta Macku Chief, UNCTAD Virtual Institute Briefing Session: Marisa D. Henderson, UNCTAD Virtual Institute. VISIT TO THE WTO 14: The WTO and the Doha Development Agenda, Mr. João MAGALHAES, Counsellor, Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation WTO Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building, in particular with Universities and Research Institutions, Mr. Gerardo Thielen, Counsellor, ITTC Tuesday 8 February VISIT TO THE ITC 10:00-10:20 Introduction to the International Trade Centre, Mr. J. Gillies, Senior Trade Training Officer, Enterprise Management Development Section (EMDS). 10:20-10:50 Promoting Intra-Regional Trade: South-South Trade - Latin America Focus, Mr. Pablo Lo Moro, Office for Asia, Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Mrs Beatriz Rodriguez, Programme Support Assistant, Office for Interregional Programmes. 10:50-11:20 ITC's Trade Information and Market Analysis Tools, Mr. José Da luz - Trade Information Officer - Trade Information Section 11:20-11:40 11:40-12:00 Introduction to the Enterprise Management Development Programme, Mr. Roger Megelas, Senior Adviser on Training Capacity Development. 12:00-12:20 Capacity Building for Enterprise Competitiveness, Mr. Roger Megelas, ibid. 12:20-12:40 Using Diagnostic Tools for Needs Assessment, Ms. Stefania Casappa, Trade Training Officer, EMDS. 12:40-13: VISIT TO THE BRAZILIAN MISSION.

2 10: Wednesday 9 February Room E 7052 Economic policy challenges in an open economy: Coherence between trade and finance, Heiner Flassbeck, Officer-in-Charge, Division on Globalisation and Development Strategies, Mehdi Shafaeddin, Officer in Charge, Macro-Economic and Development Policies Branch, Market access issues, NAMA negotiations at the WTO, and utilisation of databases, Sam Laird, Chief, Trade Analysis Branch (TAB), Division on International Trade in Goods and Services (DITC), Briefing Session: Marisa D. Henderson, UNCTAD Virtual Institute Thursday 10 February Room E 7052 Foreign Direct Investments and Latin America, Michael Lim, Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development (DITE), Preparations for the simulation exercise. Marisa Diaz-Henderson Trade in Services. Jolita Butkeviciene, Trade Negotiations and Commercial Diplomacy Branch (TNCDB), DITC, Transport Services and Trade Facilitation, Speaker from the Trade Logistics Branch, Division for Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency (SITE),

3 Friday 11 February Room E Video on Access to Essential Medicines. (WHO) , Dr German Velasquez, World Health Organization (WHO) Improving Access to Leprosy and TB Treatment Penny Grewal, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development GROUP 1: Room Conference Room Bocage Legal aspects of e-commerce, Carlos Moreno, Legal Adviser, UNCTAD's work on electronic commerce, Marta Perez Cuso, SITE GROUP 2 Room E7052 Energy and the Millennium Development Goals, Jose Rivera, UNDP, UNCTAD Global Project. Energy, Development And Trade Rules. Simonetta Zarilli, TNCDB, DITC,

4 AM Monday 14 February GROUP 1: Room E7052 Competition Law and Policies. 10: Philippe Brusick, Chief, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, DITC, Hassan Qaqaya, Chief Capacity Building and Advisory Services, A legal perspective on variable geometry in the WTO Agreement, Mr. Rambod Behboodi, CANADIAN MISSION Why reform is needed for a fair cotton trade- The cotton case and the Doha Round of negotiations, Romain Benicchio, OXFAM GROUP 2 Room E10077 Introduction to the group of least developed countries, Ivanka Hoppenbrouwer Rodriguez. Analytical Framework for and Practical Challenges to the Trade-Poverty Relationship in the Least- developed countries, Marquise David, SPLDCs, Policies to Strengthen the Trade-Poverty Relationship in Least-developed countries Michael Herrmann, SPLDCs, Climate Change and Biotrade: New Trade and Investment Opportunities for Developing Countries, Lucas Assunção, Chief of Trade and Sustainable Development Section. DITC, ALL PARTICIPANTS Room E Briefing session: Marisa D. Henderson, UNCTAD Virtual Institute

5 B Tuesday 15 February VISIT TO NESTLÉ HEADQUARTERS, VEVEY. General Presentation of the Nestlé Group. Mr. Hans-Jörg Renk, Assistant Vice President Corporate Communications. Nestlé, WTO and agricultural trade reform, Mr Herbert Oberhänsli, Assistant Vice President, Economics & International Relations. Nestlé Products, visit of the exhibition. 15:30-17:00 VISIT TO THE ITC Focused-meeting with business oriented participants. AM Wednesday 16 February Meeting at CASIN (to be confirmed) PM Meeting with UNHCHR, Room E7052 Palais des Nations AM / PM AM Thursday 17 February Room E7052 Simulation of a WTO negotiation on trade of GMOs (DITC and SITE). Agricultural trade reform: a broader perspective.. Friday18 February Room E7052 Each group reports on the sessions they had; general evaluation of the study tour. UNCTAD, Virtual Institute, SITE.