Ministerial Roundtable

Addressing the policy challenges for investment and enterprise development
Date
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Event
3rd WIF 2012
Session Type
Parallel Events
Room number
Hall 1, Level 0
22 April 2012
17:00 - 20:00 Asia/Qatar
Asia/Qatar

This roundtable is part of the UNCTAD XIII Conference proceedings: “Promoting investment, trade, entrepreneurship and related development policies to foster sustained economic growth for sustainable and inclusive development”.

The Round Table will allow ministers and heads of international organisations to debate how investment and enterprise development policies can facilitate building productive capacity and integration into global value chains, in support of economic development. Deliberations will serve to guide investment policymaking at the national and international levels, with a view to maximizing sustainable investment, enterprise and development outcomes. The Round Table will distill the visions, strategies and experiences that can contribute to a new policy paradigm for investment and enterprise development.

The discussion will be informed by an UNCTAD paper on “Addressing the policy challenges for sustainable investment and enterprise development”, as well as UNCTAD’s Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship Policy Framework.

Speaker(s)

H.E. Mr. David Wandendeya Wakikona
State Minister for Trade and Cooperatives, Uganda
H.E. Mr. Abdi Elmi Achkir
Deputy Minister of Trade, SMEs and Tourism, Republic of Djibouti
H.E. Mr. Alessandro Teixeira
Deputy Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil, and President of WAIPA
H.E. Mr. Alexey Likhachev
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
H.E. Mr. Arnold Joseph Nicholson
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica
H.E. Mr. Carlos Bianco
Under-Secretary of Investment Development and Trade Promotion, Argentina
H.E. Mr. Dilip Barua
Minister of Industries, Bangladesh
H.E. Mr. François Kanimba
Minister of Trade and Industry, Rwanda
H.E. Mr. Hage Geingob
Minister of Trade and Industry, Namibia
H.E. Mr. Joe Nakano
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan
 Statement
H.E. Mr. Lekh Raj Bhatta
Minister of Commerce and Supplies, Nepal
H.E. Mr. Manuel María Cáceres
Vice Minister for Economic Relations and Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paraguay
H.E. Mr. Mohamed Bin Saleh Al-Sada
Minister of Energy and Industry, Qatar
H.E. Mr. Nasser El Hakim
Minister of Economic Development of Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands
H.E. Mr. Olusegun Aganga
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria
H.E. Mr. Patiendé Arthur Kafando
Minister of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, Burkina Faso
H.E. Mr. Riadh Bettaïeb
Minister of Development and International Cooperation, Tunisia
H.E. Mr. Richard A. Boucher
Deputy Secretary General, OECD
H.E. Mr. Richard Konteh
Minister of Trade and Industry, Sierra Leone
H.E. Mr. Richard Marles
MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Australia
H.E. Mr. Robert Sichinga
Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Zambia
H.E. Mr. Saley Saidou
Minister of Commerce and Private Sector Development, Niger
H.E. Mr. Wilson Laleau
Minister of Commerce and Industry, Haiti
H.E. Mr. Yu Jianhua
Assistant Minister of Commerce, China
H.E. Ms. Amélia Tomás Muendane Nakhare
Deputy Minister for Planning and Development, Mozambique
H.E. Ms. Anabel Gonzalez
Minister of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica
H.E. Ms. Anne Ruth Herkes
State Secretary for Economics and Technology, Germany
H.E. Ms. Beatrice Maser Mallor
State Secretary of Switzerland
H.E. Ms. Deborah A. McCarthy
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, United States
H.E. Ms. Dorcas Makgato-Malesu
Minister of Trade and Industry, Botswana
H.E. Ms. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh
Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana
H.E. Ms. Heidi Hautala
Minister for International Development, Finland
Mr. Cheick Sidi Diarra
Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, UN-OHRLLS
Ms. Patricia Francis
Executive Director, ITC
Ms. Valentine Sendanyoye Rugwabiza
Deputy Director General, WTO
Mr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
Secretary-General of UNCTAD
H.E. Mr. Choong-Yong Ahn
Foreign Investment Ombudsman and Chairman of Presidential Regulatory Reform Committee, Republic of Korea
H.E. Mr. Rob Davies
Minister of Industry and Trade, South Africa
H.E. Mr. Gabriel Duque
Vice Minister, International Commerce, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Colombia