UNCTAD VIRTUAL INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS STUDY TOUR - - 7 TO 18 February 2005 DRAFT PROGRAMME Monday 7 February Room E 7052 09.30-10.00 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 10.00-10.15 10.15-11.00 Results of UNCTAD XI, Manuela Tortora, Chief, Technical Cooperation Service 11.00-11.45 UNCTAD Virtual Institute, Vlasta Macku Chief, UNCTAD Virtual Institute. 11.45-12.00 12.00-12.30 Briefing Session: Marisa D. Henderson, UNCTAD Virtual Institute. VISIT TO THE WTO 14:30-15.30 The WTO and the Doha Development Agenda, Mr. João MAGALHAES, Counsellor, Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation. 15.30-16.00 16.00-17.00 WTO Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building, in particular with Universities and Research Institutions, Mr. Gerardo Thielen, Counsellor, ITTC. 17.00-17.30 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. 12:40-13:00. 14.30-17.00 VISIT TO THE BRAZILIAN MISSION.
10:00-10.45 10.45-11.00 11.00-11.15 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, 11.15-12.00 12.00-12.15 Mehdi Shafaeddin, Officer in Charge, Macro-Economic and Development Policies Branch, 15.00-16.00 16.00-16.30 16.30-16.45 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 10.00-11.00 11.00-1115 11.15-11.30 11.30-12.30 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 15.00-15.45 Trade in Services. Jolita Butkeviciene, Trade Negotiations and Commercial Diplomacy Branch (TNCDB), DITC, 16.15-17.00 Transport Services and Trade Facilitation, Speaker from the Trade Logistics Branch, Division for Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency (SITE),
Friday 11 February Room E 7052 10.00-11.00 Video on Access to Essential Medicines. (WHO) 11.00-11.30, Dr German Velasquez, World Health Organization (WHO). 11.30-11.45 11.45-12.30 Improving Access to Leprosy and TB Treatment Penny Grewal, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development. 15.00-15.45 16.15-17.00 GROUP 1: Room Conference Room Bocage Legal aspects of e-commerce, 15.00-15.45 Carlos Moreno, Legal Adviser, UNCTAD's work on electronic 16.15-17.00 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,
AM 15.00-15.30 15.30-15.45 15.45-16.15 Monday 14 February GROUP 1: Room E7052 Competition Law and Policies. 10:00-10.15 Philippe Brusick, Chief, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, DITC, 10.15-10.45 Hassan Qaqaya, Chief Capacity Building and Advisory Services, 10.45-11.00 11.00-11.15 11.15-12.15 12.15-12.45 A legal perspective on variable 15.00-16.30 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. 16.30- 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, 16.15-16.30 ALL PARTICIPANTS Room E7052 16.30-17.15 Briefing session: Marisa D. Henderson, UNCTAD Virtual Institute
10.00-10.30 B519 10.30-11.30 11.30 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.