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1 UNIDO Forum on Strategies and Instruments for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development AGENDA Monday, 23 June :00 Registration at Checkpoint One, Vienna International Centre Conference Venue: Boardroom C, 4 th floor, C-building (C04) 09:30 Welcome coffee 10:00 Opening ceremony Welcome address and opening remarks by UNIDO Director General 10:30 Session 1 The Industrial Policy Revolution: The role of strategies and instruments for pursuing ISID Keynote: Justin Yifu Lin, Honorary Dean, National School of Development Peking University Todd Benjamin Michael Böheim, Senior Expert for Industry Policy and Competition Policy, Austrian Institute of Economic Research Célestin Monga, Senior Advisor/Director, World Bank Omar Hamidou Tchiana, State Minister, Minister of Mining and Industrial Development, Niger Robert H. Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development, London School of Economics Discussants: Amir Hossain Amu, Minister of Industry, Bangladesh Anuar Buranbayev, Chairman of Kazakhstan s Industry Development Institute, Kazakhstan

2 Ahmed M. Darwish, Chairman, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Egypt section and Former Minister of State for Administration Development, Egypt Roberto Kreimerman, Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining, Uruguay James Shinyabulo Mutende, Minister of State for Industry and Technology, Uganda 12:00 Lunch Buffet C04, next to Coffee Corner 13:30 Session 2 Best practices in developing and implementing strategies and instruments to pursue ISID Todd Benjamin Janko Burgar, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia François Kanimba, Minister of Trade and Industry, Rwanda Yong-kyoo Kim, Honorary Chairman, Korean Council on Foreign Relations, Republic of Korea Rebecca Fatima Sta. Maria, Secretary General, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia Discussants: Adan Abdulla Mohamed, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development, Kenya 15:00 Coffee Break Hardy Rudolf Schmitz, Chief Executive Officer, Wista Management, Germany Marat Sharshekeev, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kyrgyzstan Douglas Zhihua Zeng, Senior Economist, Financial and Private Sector Development Department of the Africa Region, World Bank

3 15:30 Session 3 The role of soft and hard business infrastructure and institutional innovations such as public private partnerships Todd Benjamin Prasidh Cham, Senior Minister of Industry & Handcraft, Cambodia Helen Hai, Vice President, Huajian / Advisor to the governments of Ethiopia and Rwanda Odette Herbozo, General Director, General Directorate for Economic Studies, Evaluation, and Territorial Competitiveness, Ministry of Industry, Peru Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana Discussants: Gyan Chandra Acharya, Under-Secretary-General, High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS, UN-OHRLLS Mamadou Syll Kebe, Director of Industry, Ministry of Industry and Mines, Senegal Anatolii Maksiuta, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine Elsie Meintjies, Senior Programme Officer, Directorate of Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment, Southern African Development Community Secretariat Jasmina Muric, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Serbia Robert Sichinga, Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Zambia 17:00 Close of Day One 19:00 Dinner Buffet co-hosted by UNIDO and the Permanent Mission of Hungary at the premises of the Embassy of Hungary

4 Tuesday, 24 June 2014 Conference Venue Boardroom C, 4 th floor, C-building (C04) 09:30 Session 4 Case studies of business infrastructure development What can we learn from successful cases in Africa, Asia, Europe and Central Asia and Latin America? Stephen Taylor Ahmed Abtew, Minister of Industry, Ethiopia Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria Hadja Fatoumata Binta Diallo, Minister of Industry, SMEs and Promotion of Private Sector, Guinea Leonard Mizzi, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Agriculture and Rural Development Shubhra Singh, Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, India Discussants: Guang Zhe Chen, Country Director for Ethiopia, World Bank 11:00 Coffee Break Stephen Karingi, Director of Regional Integration and Trade, UNECA Haidar Kholov, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, Tajikistan Iztok Lesjak, Director, Technology Park Ljubljana, Slovenia

5 11:30 Session 4 continued Jorge Acaiturri, Under-secretary for Special Development Zones of the Industry and Productivity Ministry, Ecuador María-Luisa Delgado-Medina, Deputy Director General of Technology Transfer, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain Hasim Cihan Demirkoprulu, Industry and Technology Expert, Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, Turkey Berenika Marciniec, Deputy Director, Infrastructure of Modern Economy Department, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Poland Discussants: Santiago Creuheras-Díaz, Director General for Energy Efficiency and Technological Innovation at the Secretary for Energetic Planning and Transition, Mexico Ana Teresa Igarza-Martinez, Director General of Special Development Zones, Ministry of Trade and Foreign Cooperation, Cuba Xiaokai Shen, First Secretary, Department of International Trade and Economic Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, China 13:00 Lunch Break

6 15:00 Session 5 UNIDO s approach to business infrastructure and the way forward Stephen Taylor Philippe Scholtès, Managing Director, Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division, UNIDO Mohamed-Lamine Dhaoui, Director, Business, Investment and Technology Service Branch, UNIDO Heinz Leuenberger, Director, Environmental Management Branch, UNIDO Discussants: Representatives from Member States 17:00 Closing Ceremony Closing remarks by UNIDO Director General

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