OECD Forum 2011

This programme could be subject to changes at any moment.

Tuesday 24 May - Morning

7:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Opening Session : Better Policies for Better Lives
10:00-12:30 Two parallell sessions :
Measuring Progress of Societies : Introduction to OECD Better Lives Initiative

Panel 1 : Better Policies
Panel 2 : Better Lives IdeaFactory : Greening Growth

12:30-13:30 Lunch
Launch of Trade Union Report : Exiting from the Crisis : Models for more Equitable and Sustainable Growth

Tuesday 24 May - Afternoon

13:30-15:30 Three parallel sessions :
New Sources of Growth : Green Your Life !

Panel 1 : Key Lessons Drawn from Green Growth Success Stories
Panel 2 : Innovation and Stimulating Change in Business Practice and Consumer Behaviour Gender : Education, Employment and Economic Entrepreneurship
Panel 1 : Babies and Bosses
Panel 2 : Women’s Economic Empowerment IdeaFactory : Getting Ready for the Jobs of Tomorrow

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Two parallel sessions :

Restoring Trust in the System
- Panel 1 : Financial Regulation and Consumer Protection
- Panel 2 : Corporate Governance
Intergenerational Solidarity : Life After the Babyboomers
- Panel 1 : How to Overcome the Long-Term Effects of the Crisis ?
- Panel 2 : Promoting Solidarity
  18:00-20:00 OECD Forum Reception

Wednesday 25 May - Morning

8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Two parallel sessions :

New Paradigms for Development
- Panel 1 : Sustaining Development
- Panel 2 : Mobilising Domestic Resources and Partnerships
Shifting Wealth
- Panel 1 : Emerging Economies
- Panel 2 : Trade and Investment

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Economic Outlook Presentation : Restoring Public Finances

Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD
Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD

11:30-13:00 Two parallel sessions : Economic Outlook Debate Restoring Trust and Strengthening Governance

Panel 1 : Anti-Bribery Convention and Tax Havens
Panel 2 : Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)

13:00-14:30 Lunch Forum Development Debate (tbc)

Wednesday 25 May - Afternoon

14:45-16:30 Green Growth : Green and Growth go Together
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-19:00 OECD’s 50th Anniversary Commemoration (by invitation / room transmission provided)