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GLOBAL SERVICES SUMMIT
Tuesday October 13, 2009
8:00 AM Registration Opens
9:00 Introduction and Welcome
9:15 Opening Keynote Address: Ambassador Ronald Kirk, United States Trade Representative
10:00 Services Trade and Investment: Key to Global Economic Recovery
Moderator: Mike Ducker, Outgoing Chairman, Coalition of Services Industries, and President, International, FedEX Express
Hon. Catherine Ashton, EU Trade Commissioner
Hon. Simon Crean, Trade
Minister of Australia
Hon. Roberto Henriquez, Commerce Minister of Panama
Hon. Luis G. Plata, Trade, Industry and Tourism Minister of Colombia
Hon. Anand Sharma, Commerce and Industry Minister of India
12:00 PM Luncheon Address: Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American Development Bank
1:30 How Services Contribute to Innovation and Growth in China and India
Moderator: Amb. Peter Allgeier, President, C&M International and former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Amb. Demetrios Marantis, Deputy United States Trade Representative
Prof. JC Iseux von Pfetten, Former Member, Chinese Parliament, & President, Royal Institute of East-West Strategic Studies
Hon. Greg Frazier, Senior Vice President, Motion Picture Association of America
Ashank Desai, Chairman, Mastek, and President, Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Association
2:30 The Promise and Reality of International Trade Negotiations in Services
Moderator: Amb. Don Stephenson, Canadian Assistant Deputy Trade Minister
Hamid Mamdouh, Director, Trade in Services Division, World Trade Organization
Aaditya Mattoo, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
3:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1. Seizing the Day: Securing Sound Market-Motivating Regulatory Structures for Insurance
Moderator: George Nichols, Senior Vice President, New York Life
Dr. Terri Vaughan, CEO, National Association of Insurance
Commissioners
Tiff Macklem, Associate Deputy Minister, Canada Dept. of Finance
Jorge Claude, General Manager, Association of Chilean Insurers
John Cooke, Chairman, Liberalization of Trade in Services Committee,
International Financial Services London
2. Creating Growth through Logistics and Trade Facilitation
Moderator: Ian Clough, CEO, DHL Express US
John Simpson, Executive Director, Global Express Association
Bernard Hoekman, Principal Trade Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
Raed Safadi, Deputy Director, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
Gary Hufbauer, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute
3. Development through Enhanced Communications and Technology
Moderator: Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein
Harsh Manglik, Vice Chairman, NASSCOM, & Chairman, Accenture
India
Maria del Rosario Guerra, Minister of Communications, Colombia
Robert M. McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Christine Bliss, Assistant USTR for Services and Investment
5:00 Building Constituencies for Open Trade and Investment
Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
5:30 Ways to Advance the Services Trade Agenda
Moderator: Bruce Stokes, Senior Editor, National Journal
Hon. Charlene Barshefsky, Partner, Wilmer Hale
Hon. Sergio Marchi, Senior Fellow, International Center for Sustainable Trade and Development
Hon. Teruhiko Mashiko, Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
6:30 Reception in honor of the Congressional Services Caucus
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
8:45 AM Opening Keynote address: Services and Development
Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization
9:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
1. Financial Services and the Global Economic Crisis: the Road to Global Recovery
Moderator: Jeff Shafer, Vice Chairman for Global Banking, Citigroup
Hon. Mickey Kantor, Partner, Mayer Brown
Masamichi Kono, Vice Commissioner for International Affairs, Japan Financial Services Agency
John Brogden, CEO, Australian Investment and Financial Services Association
Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
2. Leveling the Playing Field: The SOE Challenge
Moderator: Richard O’Toole, Chairman, Policy Committee, European Services Forum
Crawford Falconer, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, New Zealand
Shanker Singham, Partner, Squire Sanders
James Campbell, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University
10:45 Innovation and the Digital Economy: Enabling Service Sector Growth Worldwide
Moderator: Peter Cowhey, Senior Counselor, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft
Teppo Tauriainen, Deputy Director-General for Trade, Head of International Trade Policy Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
Jonathan Palfrey, Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
12:00 PM Closing Luncheon: Focusing on Services
Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Chairman, New Democrat Coalition
Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Member, House Committee on Ways and Means
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