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The Coalition of Service Industries and its partners in the Global Services Coalition organized the Global Services Summit 2009: Services Drive the Global Economy and Create Jobs held in Washington, DC on October 13-14, 2009.

United States Trade Representative Ronald Kirk delivered the keynote address at the event, which considered the role of international trade and investment in services in generating innovation and renewed economic growth, and strategies to obtain those benefits through a variety of initiatives.

 

SPEECHES
RAPPORTEUR REPORTS OF PANEL DISCUSSIONS
SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
VIDEO
WRITTEN TRANSCRIPTS
ARTICLES AND MORE

 

PHOTO GALLERY: click here.

 

SPEECHES:

Ambassador Ronald Kirk, United States Trade Representative

Pascal Lamy, Director-General World Trade Organization

 

RAPPORTEUR REPORTS OF PANEL DISCUSSIONS:

Services Trade and Investment: Key to Global Economic Recovery

How Services Contribute to Innovation and Growth in China and India

The Promise and Reality of International Trade Negotiations in Services

Seizing the Day: Securing Sound Market-Motivating Regulatory Structures for Insurance

Creating Growth through Logistics and Trade Facilitation

Development through Enhanced Communications and Technology

Ways to Advance the Services Trade Agenda

Financial Services and the Global Economic Crisis: the Road to Global Recovery

Leveling the Playing Field: The SOE Challenge

Innovation and the Digital Economy: Enabling Service Sector Growth Worldwide

 

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS:

John Cooke, Chairman, Liberalization of Trade in Services Committee, International Financial Services London

Prof. JC Iseux von Pfetten, Former Member, Chinese Parliament, & President, Royal Institute of East-West Strategic Studies

Hon. Sergio Marchi, Senior Fellow, International Center for Sustainable Trade and Development

Aaditya Mattoo, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

Teppo Tauriainen, Deputy Director-General for Trade, Head of International Trade Policy Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

 

VIDEOS:

Introduction and Welcome

CSI President, Bob Vastine

Former CSI Chairman, Mike Ducker

CSI Chairman, Bill Toppeta

Keynote Address: Ambassador Kirk

Ambassador Kirk's Speech, Part I

Ambassador Kirk's Speech, Part II

Ambassador Kirk's Speech, Part III

Ambassador Kirk, Question and Answer Segment

Luncheon Address by Ambassador Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank

Introduction by Chris Padilla

Ambassador Moreno Speech , Part I

Ambassador Moreno Speech , Part II

Ambassador Moreno, Question and Answer Segment

How Services Contribute to Innovation Growth in China and India

China and India, Part I

China and India, Part II

China and India, Part III

China and India, Part IV

China and India, Part V

China and India, Part VI

China and India, Question and Answer Segment

The Promise and Reality of International Trade Negotiations in Services

The Promise and Reality, Part I

The Promise and Reality, Part II

The Promise and Reality, Part III

The Promise and Reality, Part IV

The Promise and Reality, Question and Answer Segment

Seizing the Day: Securing Sound Market-Motivating Regulatory Structures for Insurance

Seizing the Day, Part I

Seizing the Day, Part II

Seizing the Day, Part III

Seizing the Day, Part IV

Seizing the Day, Part V

Seizing the Day, Question and Answer Segment, Part I

Seizing the Day, Question and Answer Segment, Part II

Seizing the Day, Question and Answer Segment, Part III

Seizing the Day, Question and Answer Segment, Part IV

Financial Services and the Global Economic Crisis: the Road to Global Recovery

Financial Services, Part I

Financial Services, Part II

Financial Services, Part III

Financial Services, Question and Answer Segment I

Financial Services, Question and Answer Segment II

Financial Services, Question and Answer Segment III

Congressman Charles Rangel, Building Constituencies for Open Trade and Investment

George Nichol's Introduction

Congressman Rangel's Speech, Part I

Congressman Rangel's Speech, Part II

Ways to Advance the Services Trade Agenda

Advancing Services, Part I

Advancing Services, Part II

Advancing Services, Part III

Advancing Services, Part IV

Advancing Services, Question and Answer Segment

Opening Keynote Address by Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization

Christoffer Taxell's Introduction

Lamy Speech, Part I

Lamy Speech, Part II

Lamy Speech, Part III

Lamy, Question and Answer Segment, Part I

Lamy, Question and Answer Segment, Part II

Closing Luncheon:  Focusing on Services

Bill Toppeta's Introduction

Congressman Crowley, Part I

Congressman Crowley, Part II

 

 

WRITTEN TRANSCRIPTS:

Innovation and the Digital Economy: Enabling Service Sector Growth Worldwide

Opening Keynote Address by Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization

Closing Luncheon:  Focusing on Services, Congressman Joseph Crowley and Congressman Kevin Brady

 

ARTICLES AND OTHER:

Foreward and Introductory Letter from New CSI Chairman Bill Toppeta and Former CSI Chairman Mike DuckerAgenda

Speaker Biographies

Services: A Driver of U.S. Economic Growth


Global Services Coalition Communique


Media Coverage

 

For speaker and rapporteur reports by agenda, click here.
For more information, contact CSI at (202) 289-7460.

 

CSI president Bob Vastine

CSI President Bob Vastine delivers opening remarks.

Keynote Address by United States Trade Representative Ronald Kirk
Featuring:

Congressman Charles Rangel
Chairman, House Committee on Ways and Means

WTO Director - General
Pascal Lamy

European Commissioner for Trade
Catherine Ashton

Indian Trade Minister
Anand Sharma

Australian Minister of Trade
Simon Crean

Colombian Minister of Trade
Luis G. Plata

Panamanian Minister of Commerce
Roberto Henriquez

Inter-American Development Bank President Luis Alberto Moreno

 

 

Minister Panel

Former CSI Chairman Mike L Ducker (left) moderating the panel on "Services Trade and Investment: Key to Global Economic Recovery". From left to right are Mr Ducker and Trade Ministers Crean, Plata, Ashton, Sharma and Henriquez.

 

Stephenson, Mamdouh and Mattoo

Ambassador Don Stephen (left), moderating the panel on “The Promise and Reality of International Trade Negotiations in Services.”  At center is Hamid Mamdouh, Director of the Trade in Services Division, World Trade Organization, and at right is Aaditya Mattoo, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank. 

Vastine and Congressman Brady
Congressman Crowley

CSI President Bob Vastine (left) with Congressman Kevin Brady. On the right, Congressman Joe Crowley addresses Summit participants at the closing luncheon. Both Congressman Brady and Crowley, two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Services Caucus, gave speeches at the luncheon on "Focusing on Services."

 

Global Services Summit Sponsors

ACE Group
AFLAC
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
American Council of Life Insurers
AT&T
Chubb Corporation
DHL
FedEx Express
HP
IBM
Liberty Mutual
Manulife
MetLife Inc.
Microsoft
Motion Picture Association of America
New York Life
Oracle Corporation
Public Strategies Washington
UPS
Verizon
Visa International 
Wal-Mart

 

Global Services Coalition Partner Organizations

Australian Services Roundtable
Barbados Coalition of Services Industries
Canadian Services Coalition
European Services Forum
Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries
International Financial Services London
Japan Services Network/Keidanren
Taiwan Coalition of Service Industries

Partner Organizations

Express Association of America
Global Express Association
Hong Kong Trade Development Council
International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
TimeWarner
US Chamber of Commerce
Washington International Trade Association (WITA)
U.S. Council for International Business

In cooperation with: