Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Bangladesh organized a two day Trade and Development Symposium on LDCs in Istanbul during the Fourth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (UNLDC IV). The symposium was convened in collaboration with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), OECD Development Centre (DEV), Commonwealth Secretariat (CS), and the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV). 

 

Tuesday May 10

 

Panel 1: Implementation and monitoring of the UNLDC IV Outcome

 

Chair:  Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow, CPD

 

Panelists:

 

-          Mario Pezzini, Director, OECD Development Centre

-          Ana Luiza Cortez, Chief, Secretariat of the Committee for Development Policy, UNDESA

-          Charles Gore, Special Coordinator for Cross-sectoral Issues, Division for Africa, LDCs and Special Programmes,UNCTAD

-          Mehmet Arda, Professor, Galatasaray University, Turkey

 

Panel 2: Enhancing trade capacities in LDCs

 

Chair:  Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Chief Executive, ICTSD

 

Panelists:

 

-          L. V. Ketso, Minister of Trade and Industry, Cooperatives and Marketing, Lesotho*

-          Posh Raj Pandey, Chairman, SAWTEE, Nepal

-          Peter Draper, Senior Research Fellow, SAIIA, South Africa

-          Hoseana Bohela Lunogelo, Executive Director, ESRF, Tanzania

-          Mustafizur Rahman, Executive Director, CPD, Bangladesh

Panel 3: Strengthening LDCs and emerging economies’ partnership

 

Chair: Cyrus Rustomjee, Director, Economic Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat

 

Panelists:

 

-           Sorasak Pan, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Cambodia

-          Mustafa Şahin, Vice President, TIKA, Turkey

-          Ekrem Yener, Chief International Expansion Officer, Turkcell

-          Suchat Katima, Executive Director, Mekong Institute

-          George Mavrotas, Chief Economist, GDN

-          Helmut Reisen, Head of Research, OECD Development Centre

 

Panel 4: Tackling structural vulnerabilities and enhancing resilience of LDCs to crisis

 

Chair: Can Paker, Chairperson, TESEV

 

Panelists:

 

-          Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary General, UNCTAD

-          Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Development

-          Sir Richard Jolly, Member of the LDC Eminent Persons Group

-          Nirj Deva, Member of EU Parliament

-          Michele Klein Solomon, Permanent Observer to the UN, IOM

-          Patrick Guillaumont, President, FERDI, France