• What does it mean to have sustainable development at the heart of the post-2015 agenda?
• What commitments and steps will countries be willing to undertake in order to translate sustainable development goals and targets into national policies?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 1: From Rio+20 to post-2015: towards an integrated and universal development agenda
• A/69/79 E/2014/66 - Report of the Secretary-General on Mainstreaming of the three dimensions of sustainable development throughout the United Nations system
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• Zero draft, Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

Moderator

Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Chair of Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals

Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya is a macro-economist and public policy analyst from Bangladesh. Currently he is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Dhaka. He was the first Executive Director of the CPD (1999–2007), also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). He is currently the chair of two global initiatives: LDC IV Monitor -- an independent partnership for monitoring the Istanbul Programme of Action adopted during the United Nations LDC IV Conference held in May 2011; and Southern Voices on Post MDG International Development Goals -- a network of 48 think tanks from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America that has identified a unique space and scope for itself to contribute to this post-MDG dialogue. He is a former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UN Offices of Geneva and Vienna. He had been the Special Advisor on LDCs to the Secretary General of UNCTAD.

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Mr. Bapna, Manish, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resource Institute

Mr. Bapna received graduate degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School and an undergraduate degree from MIT. In addition to his role at WRI, he also serves on the board of directors of Oxfam America and Hampshire College. His experience in international development also includes advisory roles at Seva Mandir (a leading grassroots nonprofit in India) and Women’s World Banking (a microfinance support organization). Earlier, he worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company in the financial services and technology industries. Mr. Bapna also served as a senior economist and task team leader at the World Bank, where he led multidisciplinary teams in designing and implementing water, watershed, and rural development projects in Asia and Latin America. Mr. Bapna served as WRI’s acting president from 2011-2012.

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Panelists

H.E. Mr. Csaba Korosi, Co-Chair of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals

Prior to assuming his current position, from 2006 Mr. Kőrösi was head of the 1st and 2nd European Departments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2002-2006, he served as Hungary’s Ambassador to Greece. From 2001-2002, he served as Deputy State Secretary in charge of Multilateral Diplomacy, as the head of the NATO-WEU (North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Western European Union) Department. Prior to that, Mr. Kőrösi served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Hungarian Embassy in Tel Aviv. He also was the Chargé d’Affaires at the Hungarian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. A career diplomat, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983. Early in his career he was the desk officer for the Protocol Department, Middle East Department, and the Department for North America, North Europe and Israel. Mr. Kőrösi is a 1983 graduate of the Institute of International Relations in Moscow. In addition, he attended Hebrew University, where he studied Middle East issues. He also completed a diplomatic course at the University of Leeds in 1991, and later, a strategic negotiation course at Harvard University. Born in 1958, he is married with one daughter.

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H.E. Ms. Frankinet, Bénédicte, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the UN

Prior to her latest appointment as the Permanent Representative in 2013, Ms. Frankinet was Ambassador to Israel since 2008. Before this she previously served as Director for the United Nations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brussels from 2003. From 1999 to 2003, Ms. Frankinet was Ambassador to Zimbabwe, accredited also to Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia. Between 1994 and 1999, she served as Counsellor, then Deputy Head of Mission at her country’s Embassy in Paris. In 1992, Ms. Frankinet was an adviser in the private office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and from 1988 to 1992, she was First Secretary at Belgium’s Permanent Representation to the European Communities in Brussels. She served a previous stint, between 1983 and 1988, at the New York Permanent Mission as First Secretary, and was an attaché in Brasilia from 1979 to 1983. Ms. Frankinet holds degrees in political science, social science and journalism from the Free University of Brussels.

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H.E. Mr. Antonio de Aguliar Patriota, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN

Mr. Patriota served as the Minister for External Relations from 2011 to 2013, having been Deputy Foreign Minister from October 2009 to December 2010. He was Ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2009, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at the Foreign Ministry from 2005 to 2007, Chief of Staff to the Foreign Minister in 2004 and Secretary for Diplomatic Planning in the Ministry in 2003. Mr. Patriota served at his country’s Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Geneva between 1999 and 2003, having been Acting Deputy Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for two years. He was also posted in Brazil’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York between 1994 and 1999. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Patriota was Deputy Diplomatic Adviser to then President Itamar Franco. His overseas service includes diplomatic postings in Caracas, Venezuela, from 1988 to 1990; in Beijing, China, from 1987 to 1988); and to the Permanent Mission in Geneva between 1983 and 1987. Mr. Patriota graduated from the Rio Branco Institute, Brazil’s diplomatic academy, in 1979.

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Lead discussants

Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka, Phumzile , Executive Director of UN Women

Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. She was sworn into office in August 2013 and brings a wealth of experience and expertise to this position, having devoted her career to issues of human rights, equality and social justice. She has worked in government, private sector and civil society and was actively involved in the struggle to end apartheid in her home country of South Africa. From 2005 to 2008, she served as Deputy President of South Africa, overseeing programmes to combat poverty and bring the advantages of a growing economy to the poor, with a particular focus on women. Prior to this, she served as Minister of Minerals and Energy from 1999 to 2005 and Deputy Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry from 1996 to 1999. She was a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 1996 as part of South Africa’s first democratic governmen.t She has completed her PhD on education and technology at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

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• What are the best options for financing sustainable development and future SDGs and technology development in the context of the global partnership?
• What can trigger new partnerships and voluntary commitments, and what can make them successful in advancing economic, social and environmental progress?

• Combined Summary of all Workshops 1-4 (Development, transfer and dissemination of clean and environmentally sound technologies in developing countries)
• TST Issues Brief: Means of Implementation; Global Partnership for achieving sustainable development
• TST Issues Brief: Science, Technology and Innovation, Knowledge-sharing and Capacity-building

Moderator

Mr. Saner, Raymond , International Relations & International Management Sciences Po, Paris & University of Basle, Switzerland

Raymond Saner is professor at Basle University (WTO dispute settlement negotiations); Sciences Po, Paris (trade & development and inter-institutional negotiations); and Lüneburg U. (sustainability negotiations). His most recent research project financed by the Swiss Science Foundation focused on interministerial coordination for trade policy making at central government level and the current research project focuses on Greening WTO Agreements to stop Climate Warming, International governance options to strengthen WTO and UNFCCC, Levers to Enhance TNC Contributions to Low-Carbon Development- Drivers, Determinants and Policy Implications, Exploring the relationship between FDI flows and CDM potential; and Sustainable Development and the Post 2015 Implications: A Closer look at the MDG and SDG Processes.

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Panelists

Mr. Mansur Muhtar, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing

Mr. Mansur Muhtar is an Executive Director on the Board of the World Bank Group. He has previously served as Minister of Finance in the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2008 to 2010), as Executive Director of theAfrican Development Bank (2007-2008) and as Director-General of Nigeria’s Debt Management Office (2003-2007). In earlier stages of his career, he had taught in the Economics Department of Bayero University (Kano) and worked as an Economist in the World Bank headquarters for about ten years. Mr. Muhtar holds a Ph.D. in Economics, obtained from the University of Sussex. He is also an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria) and the University of Cambridge, U.K.. He has attended numerous leadership and professional development courses at the Kennedy School (Harvard University), the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and the Singapore Civil Service Administrative College. Mr. Muhtar is a recipient of the Nigeria National Honours Award, Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) for contribution to national development.

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Mr. Rojas , Claudio Rachel , Director for the Economic and Development Unit, Director General for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile

Claudio Rojas Rachel has an extensive experience dealing with financing, especially innovative financing as he worked as Executive Director for Chile´s Group on dealing with Innovative Mechanism for Development Initiative (2004-2010) and worked on the International Task Force for Global Transparency to Fight Illicit Flows and International Cooperation on Tax Matters.

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Mr. Waygood, Steve , Chief Responsible Investment Officer, AVIVA

Dr Steve Waygood is Chief Responsible Investment Officer for Aviva Investors. His team is responsible for integrating environmental social and corporate governance (ESG) issues across all asset classes and regions of the c£250bn of assets under management. Mr. Waygood founded the Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative as well as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Coalition, which is aiming to catalyse a UN Convention promoting enhanced corporate transparency and integrated reporting. He was a member of the UK Government delegation to the UN Rio+20 meeting in 2012, and a member of the European Commission’s expert groups on corporate governance and corporate responsibility. In 2013, he received the Leadership in Sustainability award from the Corporation of London, and the Yale Rising Star in Corporate Governance Award in 2011, and he was among the Financial News Top 100 Rising Stars in 2009. Mr. Waygood was on the board of the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance association (UKSIF) from 2003 to 2010, serving as its Chairman from 2006. He wrote Capital Market Campaigning: The Impact of NGOs on Companies, Shareholder Value and Reputational Risk (Risk Books, Incisive Financial Publishing, 2006) and was also part of the expert group that wrote the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.

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Lead discussants

Ms. Louise Kantrow , International Chamber of Commerce, USA

The International Chamber of Commerce’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Louise Kantrow has been involved in multiple major UN conferences. During RIO+20, she served as co-organizing partner of the Business and Industry Major Group of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

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• How can more sustainable consumption and production patterns contribute to achieve the SDGs and implement the post-2015 development agenda?
• How could SCP help address the linkages between sectors such as transport, energy, sustainable agriculture and climate change?

• TST Issues Brief: Sustainable Consumption and Production, including Chemicals and Waste

Moderator

Mr. Peter Hazlewood, Director, Ecosystems and Development, World Resource Institute

Mr. Hazlewood has worked for 30 years on international environment and development issues. He currently is Senior Associate and Director, Ecosystems and Development, at the World Resources Institute. Previously at UNDP, he developed and served as Global Manager of the UNDP/UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative – a flagship UN partnership for supporting country-led efforts to mainstream environment in development policy, planning and implementation – and helped establish the Poverty-Environment Partnership. Prior to that, he led establishment of the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Program, now operating in 130 countries supporting community-level sustainable development initiatives. Before joining UNDP, he served as Deputy Director of Agriculture and Natural Resources at CARE, one of the world’s leading international development and relief organizations.

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Panelists

Dr. Ulf D. Jaeckel, Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Germany and Chair of the 10YFP Board

In his capacity in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Ulf Jaeckel heads the division for product policy and consumer affair, which deals with sustainable consumption issues, standard setting, green public procurement, and eco-design.

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Mr. Laszlo Borbely, President of the Committee for Foreign Policy in the Romanian Parliament

Laszlo Borbely has operated for the Romanian cabinet as the Minister of the Environment, the Minister-Delegate of Transportation, and the Minister of Regional Development, Public Works and Housing. He now serves as the President of the Committee for Foreign Policy in the Romanian Parliament.

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Mr. Cesar Barahona , President of Global Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Network, and Director of the National Cleaner Production Centre of Nicaragua

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Lead discussants

Ms. Ceille, Kaye , President of Zipcar

Ms. Ceille became Zipcar President in February 2014, bringing to her new position nearly two decades’ worth of experience at Avis Budget Group (Zipcar's parent company), living in numerous Zipcar cities. Most recently she served as the Managing Director, United Kingdom, where she oversaw all aspects of the Avis Budget Group's UK operations, including customer service and fleet management. Prior to that Kaye was Senior Vice President of International Sales and Marketing for North America. She has held numerous other roles during her career at Avis Budget Group in global partnerships, travel industry relations, sales, and business development. Ms. Ceille received Bachelor of Business Administration degree from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, and a Master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois.

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Mr. Christian Frutiger, Deputy Head of Public Affairs Department, Nestle

Mr. Frutiger joined the Public Affairs Department of Nestlé S.A. in 2007. Christian is the Deputy Head of the Department and responsible for issue management and communication as well as for human rights for the Nestlé Group. He also manages the Nestlé Water Taskforce. Prior to this, Christian was responsible for the major donor relations unit at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Christian holds an Executive Master of Science in Communications Management from the University of Lugano.

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Mr. Didier Bergeret, Head of the Global Social Compliance Programme

Mr. Didier Bergeret is a sustainability professional experienced in NGO management, procurement and consulting services for private and public actors. Since May 2014 he became Head of the Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP), a collaborative effort led by global buying companies joining forces together with key stakeholders for more sustainable supply chains. Prior to this, he was the Senior Manager of Global Social Compliance Programme (2011-2014) and Director for Sustainable Development and Procurement of GROUPE SOS (2009-2011), which is one of Europe’s foremost social and societal undertakings. He also served as Project Coordinator of Auxilia Conseil (2004-2006) and Project Assistant of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) in 2004.

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“Sustainable consumption and production in action: The work of the Board of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns”

• What opportunities exist for improving the comprehensiveness of programmes under the 10YFP in support of national sustainable development transitions?

• What key policy measures within the current programme areas of the 10YFP have the greatest potential to provide early wins? Can they be replicated and brought to scale?

• The 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP)
• TST Issues Brief: Sustainable Consumption and Production, including Chemicals and Waste

“Inclusive science: promoting the role of stakeholders in the science-policy interface”

Moderated Dialogue

“How to improve the conversation between science and policy: scope and methodology of a global sustainable development report”

• What lessons can be learned from the key findings of the proposed Global Sustainable Development Report?

• What should be the scope and methodology of future editions of the Global Sustainable Development Report in order to strengthen the science-policy interface?

• Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report
• Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report - Executive Summary
• E/2014/87 - Options for scope and methodology for a global sustainable development report
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Moderator

Mr. Huepe Minoletti, Claudio , Professor of Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

Claudio Huepe Minoletti is currently the coordinator of the Energy and Sustainable Development Centre at the Universidad Diego Portales, in Chile. During his career, he has worked in the public and private sector as well as in academia. He worked as a consultant on environmental and resource regulation issues for over 10 years. In the public sector, he was Director of the Environmental Department at the Ministry of Mining and Head of the Long Term Studies Division of the Ministry of Energy in Chile, where he led prospective analysis and energy technology policy. Mr. Huepe holds a M.Sc. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the University College, London. His Economics degree was earned at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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Panelists

Mr. Manuel Montes, Senior Advisor on Finance and Development, South Centre

Manuel Montes is a Senior Advisor on Financing for Development at the South Centre. He was previously Chief of Development Strategies (DESA) where he led the team that produced the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS). He was also Chief of Policy Analysis and Development in the UN’s Financing for Development Office, UNDP Regional Programme Coordinator at Asia Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative and the Programme Officer for International Economic Policy at the Ford Foundation in New York. Mr. Montes was a Senior Fellow and Coordinator for Economics Studies at the East-West Centre in Honolulu and before that, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of The Philippines. His recent publications have been in areas of macroeconomic policy, development strategy, income inequality, climate change financing and industrial policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

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Mr. Colglazier, E. William , Visiting scientist, Centre for Science Diplomacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science

The fourth Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, William Colglazier has worked to link the increasingly interwoven disciplines of science and diplomacy. He has served as a Professor of Physics and Director of the Energy, Environment, and Resources Center at the University at Tennessee as well as the Executive Director of the Office of International Affairs at the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. National Research Council.

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Ms. Jaeger, Jill , Independent Researcher, (Sustainable Europe Research Institute)

Ms. Jaeger is a former deputy director of IIASA, an international institutional of Academies of Sciences of countries in Europe, North America and Asia. She has been one of the most influential promoters of European sustainability science since the 1990s. Her work has shaped the approach of the European Commission and many European countries over the past decades. She represents the view that scientists are only one type of stakeholder in sustainable development assessments. Her views show an avenue for how to bring together the dominant developed countries' perspective (e.g., focus on IPCC-style model) and the developed countries concerns (e.g., their insistence of including many types of knowledge beyond the peer-reviewed knowledge, and the need for national ownership of the process).

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Lead discussants

Mr. Keola, Souknilanh , Institute for developing economics, Japan external trade organization

Keola Souknilanh is currently a research fellow at Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences from Toyohashi Institute of Technology in 1997, and Master Degree in Economics from Nagoya University in 1999. He was adjunct lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, teaching a subject on economic developments in ASEAN, from 2003-2007. He joined Institute of Developing Economies in 2007. Mr. Keola’s current research interests include spatial economics, economic integration, state-building and sustainable developments.

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Mr. Peng Sizhen , Deputy Director-General, the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, Ministry of Science and Technology, China

Dr. Peng received his doctor degree in the field of seismic geology in 1995 and after he joined in ACCA21. He has been engaged in management and research in fields of sustainable development strategies, policies and planning. He is one of lead authors of China National Climate Change Assessment Report, 12th Five-year Special S&T Plan of Climate Change, 12th Five-year Special S&T Plan of CCUS, and China S&T Roadmap of CCUS. He has been in charge of or participated in many capacity building projects regarding cleaner production, ecological industry and circular economy, CDM and CCS supported by international organizations, including ADB, WB, UNDP, UNEP, EU, UK, French AFD, Sino-US Center for Sustainable Development, Japan JICA/ICETT. He also contributes a lot to the demonstration and promotion of clean technologies in China.

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• What critical new trends and ideas will affect future generations? How should they be reflected in the post-2015 development agenda?

• What are the new trends and emerging challenges on sustainable development that the forum should address?

• Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report
• Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report - Executive Summary
• A/68/322 - Intergenerational solidarity and the needs of future generations
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• E/2014/87 - Options for scope and methodology for a global sustainable development report
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Panelists

Mr. Manuel Montes, Senior Advisor on Finance and Development, South Centre

Manuel Montes is a Senior Advisor on Financing for Development at the South Centre. He was previously Chief of Development Strategies (DESA) where he led the team that produced the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS). He was also Chief of Policy Analysis and Development in the UN’s Financing for Development Office, UNDP Regional Programme Coordinator at Asia Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative and the Programme Officer for International Economic Policy at the Ford Foundation in New York. Mr. Montes was a Senior Fellow and Coordinator for Economics Studies at the East-West Centre in Honolulu and before that, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of The Philippines. His recent publications have been in areas of macroeconomic policy, development strategy, income inequality, climate change financing and industrial policy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

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Mr. Gordon McBean , President-elect, International Council for Science

Prof. McBean obtained a PhD in physics from the University of British Colombia (UBC), Vancouver. After serving as Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences at UBC, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister in Environment Canada (1994 to 2000). As a lead author and review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he was a member of the team that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. His service and achievements in the fields of climate change and natural hazards research have been recognized with the Orders of Canada (2008) and Ontario (2010). He currently holds chairs in the Departments of Geography and Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, and is Director of Policy Studies at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction there. Prof. McBean is also President of Global Change START International. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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Mr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic , Deputy Director of IIASA, Director of Global Energy Assessment, and professor of Vienna University of Technology

Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic holds bachelors and masters degrees in economics and computer science from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA and the University of Vienna, where he also completed his PhD. He also holds Honoris Causa PhD degree in engineering from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a Coordinating Lead Author of several renowned reports and assessments, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Among other positions, Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is member of the United Nations Secretary General High-Level Technical Group on Sustainable for Energy for All Initiative; Member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank Development Report 2010: Climate Change; Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review, and Member of the Global Carbon Project. Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is also Editorial Board Member of several scientific journals.

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Lead discussants

Mr. Peter Davies, Wales Commissioner for Sustainable Futures

Mr. Davies’ career background is in the field of corporate responsibility working for the Confederation of British Industry, Department of Trade and Industry and Business in the Community. Awarded the OBE in 1995 for work in establishing links between business and education under the DTI’s Enterprise Initiative. In 2005, he was appointed Commissioner for Wales and Vice Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, providing independent advice to the Welsh and UK Governments. Following the closure of the UK Commission, Welsh Government appointed him as Wales' first Sustainable Futures Commissioner in April 2011. He was also appointed to be the first independent chair of the Climate Change Commission for Wales in 2011.

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Mr. Marcel Szabó , Deputy-Commissioner for Fundamental Rights Responsible for the Protection of the Interest of Future Generations, Hungary

Mr. Szabó holds a diploma in International Law from the University of Cambridge (1997). He began as Advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1997). From 1998 to 2002, he served as Senior Government Advisor at the Secretariat of the Governmental Commissioner for the Danube, and as Head of the Department of International Law at the Prime Minister's Office. He was Representative of the Hungarian government at the International Court of Justice of the Hague (2011-2012).

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Ms. Catherine Pearce , World Future Council

Ms. Pearce was previously Senior Policy Officer on Climate and Environmental Policy Integration with the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and has nine years of experience in working on climate and energy policy, having worked with the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, liaising with mayors and their advisors on how to reduce emissions and energy use in some of the world’s largest cities. Ms. Pearce co-ordinated the climate campaign for Friends of the Earth International, working with groups across 71 countries and lobbying some of the world’s leading governments and institutions on national and international policy. As co-ordinator of the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group in Westminster she has advised members of the UK Parliament on sustainable energy policy.

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• How best to build the resilience of SIDS and meet their unique challenges in the post-2015 development agenda?

• How can we ensure effective implementation of the outcomes of the Samoa conference on SIDS including through genuine and durable partnerships?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 6: Island Voices, Global Choices: Promoting Genuine and Durable Partnerships
• Zero draft of the outcome document of the Third Conference on Small Island Developing States

Moderator

Ms. Ellis, Amanda , Head of the New Zealand Agency for International Development

An economist specialising in international trade and development, Ms Ellis began her professional career with the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1988 as an economist and diplomat, and served subsequently at the OECD in Paris, as Consul in the French Pacific Territories and manager of NZ aid programmes in Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. In 2004 Ms Ellis founded the Gender Entrepreneurship Markets (GEM) global programme at the International Finance Corporation. Ms Ellis was Lead Specialist in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management group at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she managed the World Bank President’s Global Private Sector Leaders Forum, which includes 23 CEOs of leading companies such as Nike, Cisco, Exxon Mobile, PwC and Standard Chartered Bank.

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Panelists

Ms Peseta Noumea Simi, Assistant CEO of Ministry of Finance, Samoa

As the Assistant CEO of Ministry of Finance, Peseta Noumea Simi aids in the coordination of debt management. In this respect, she coordinates all external assistance to Samoa, provides advice to the government on debt situation and debt status, and liaises with development partners on matters to do with the implementation of aid.

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H.E. Ms. Cristina Duarte, Minister of Finance and Planning, Republic of Cabo Verde

Minister Duarte has extensive experience in Government and in the financial sector. She became a Government Minister in 2006. Prior to this appointment, she worked in Citibank in various functions throughout Africa, and as Head of the World Bank Privatization Program in Cape Verde. She also worked on a joint UNDP/UNCTAD project for two years, and also worked at FAO. She understands the needs of SIDS from an academic, financial, and political perspective, and has been instrumental in Cape Verde’s graduation from LDC status. She has also written or contributed to several papers on finance.

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Dr. Anjeela Devi Jokhan, Dean, Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment, University of the South Pacific

Dr. Jokhan has been at the University of the South Pacific (USP) for over 25 years. She has a very good understanding of the issues relation to SIDS as all of the 12 USP member countries are SIDS. She has been heavily involved in issues of climate change in SIDS and has worked closely with stakeholders working on building resilience to climate change impacts in the Pacific. Dr. Jokhan has been representing the University in numerous national, regional and international forums in areas of SIDS, climate, and the environment. Her involvement with the University Consortium of Small Island States (UCSIS) has been extensive. She is Chair of the Programme Committee of UCSIS and UCSIS has developed a virtual programme in a Masters in Sustainable Development to assist SIDS in building capacity for sustainable development.

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Mr. Taholo Kami , IUCN Regional Director for Oceana and the Pacific

Taholo Kami has worked closely with the Center for Ocean Solutions to develop the Pacific Ocean Initiative. He is currently the Regional Director for the Oceania program of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) based out of Suva, Fiji. A Tongan native, Kami grew up in Papua New Guinea and graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Technology of PNG. He completed an MBA in marketing/eCommerce as a Fulbright scholar at Vanderbilt University. Kami has worked with the United Nations in New York on networking small islands nations by setting up the Small Islands Developing States Network (SIDSNET). He has been involved in various initiatives such as working on development projects at a local level and national development strategies on information and communication technologies and the environment. He currently chairs the Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation.

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Lead discussants

Ms. Noelene Nabulivou, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Women Major Group

Ms. Noelene Nabulivou, works with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), a network of feminist scholars and activists from the economic South Asia. DAWN is also an Operating Partner of the Women’s Major Group working across the United Nations’ Post Rio+20 and Post 2015 Development Agenda processes; and linking with ICPD Beyond 2014.

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• How best to address the needs of countries in special situations in the context of universal goals and a universal development agenda?

• Are we succeeding in building resilience in vulnerable countries and how can these gains be consolidated?

• TST Issues Brief: Needs of Countries in Special Situations – African Countries, Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, as well as the specific challenges facing Middle-Income Countries

“Implementing Rio+20 and reviewing progress: spurring action and ensuring accountability”

“Natural Capital Accounting for sustainable development”

• How can traditional institutional arrangements be reorganized to be more flexible, adaptive and collaborative in order to promote integrated policy and decision making?

• What lessons have we learned from successful integrated policy making in areas such as climate change-energy or sustainable agriculture-water-food security?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 5: From silos to integrated policy making
• A/68/79-E/2013/69 - Report of the Secretary-General on Mainstreaming of the three dimensions of sustainable development throughout the United Nations system
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• Summary of the integration segment of ECOSOC, 27-29 May 2014
• Summary of the integration segment of ECOSOC, 27-29 May 2014

Moderator

Mr. David Nabarro , Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Food and Nutrition

Trained as medical doctor and having worked in South Asia, East Africa and Iraq, Mr. Nabarro served as Chief Health and Population Adviser in the United Kingdom Overseas Development Administration (ODA) in 1990 and became Director for Human Development in the Department for International Development (DFID) in 1997. He joined the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1999 to lead the Roll Back Malaria initiative and moved to the Humanitarian Health Action in Crises network in 2002. He joined the UN Secretary-General as Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza in 2005 and also became Coordinator of the High-Level Task Force on Global Food Security in January 2009. Later that year he was nominated as the Secretary General’s Special Representative for Food Security and Nutrition. In December 2011, Mr. Nabarro also was appointed Coordinator of the Scale-Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement.

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Panelists

Ms. Maria Ivanova, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Member of the Secretary-General's Science Advisory Board

Dr. Maria Ivanova received her PhD from Yale University. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School in the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Ivanova is the Co-Director of center for Governance and Sustainability and the Director of the Global Environmental Governance Project. She has contributed to and published papers relating to the areas of global governance, international organizations and their performance, climate change governance, United States foreign environmental policy, United Nations reform and sustainability on campuses and in organizations.

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Mr. Joel Khathushelo Netshitenzhe , Executive Director of Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, and Commissioner of the National Planning Commission, South Africa

Joining the African National Congress in exile in 1976, Mr. Netshitenzhe served in various capacities with the ANC; as member of the ANC Politico-Military Council, as Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Publicity and as part of the ANC negotiating team. He also was Head of Communications in President Mandela’s office before joining the Government and Communication and Information System as CEO in 1998. He was appointed head of the Policy Coordination and Advisory Services for his government in 2001. Since retirement in 2009, Mr. Netshitenzhe is an independent researcher and Executive Director of the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection. He is also a Member of the National Planning Commission for South Africa, the Advisory Board of the Nelson Mandela Trust and the Board of CEEF Africa (Centre for Education in Economics and Finance). He has a diploma in Political Science from the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow (1984), a post-graduate diploma in Economics and a Master of Science in Financial Economics from the University of London (1999).

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H.E. Mr. Vladimir Drobnjak , Permanent Representative of Croatia to the UN (ECOSOC Vice-President in charge of integration segment)

Ambassador Drobnjak, was elected as Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the plenary meeting held on 30 January 2014 and will perform duties as Vice-President for the integration segment of ECOSOC during 2014-2015. He has served as Permanent Representative since August 2013, and was Head of the Mission of Croatia to the European Union from February 2012 to June 2013. Ambassador Drobnjak began his diplomatic career in 1992, as Deputy Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations in New York. Since then, his assignments have included Assistant Minister and Head of the Division of Multilateral Affairs in Zagreb, Member of the Negotiating Team of Croatia for the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the European Union, and Chief Negotiator for the negotiations on the accession of Croatia to the European Union. He also has worked as a correspondent for Croatian daily newspapers, radio and television, from 1988 to 1992. Ambassador Zagreb holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Zagreb School Of Law.

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Ms. Indomatee Ramma , Agricultural Research and Extension Unit, Mauritius

Working as a research scientist in the crop sector and lecturer at the University of Mauritius, Ms. Ramma is presently head of the Resource Management Division at the Food and Agricultural Research and Extension Institute in Mauritius and is responsible for research and development projects in sustainable land, water and nutrient management, agri-waste recycling, organic farming and seed production. She also has contributed to scientific and technical papers and to the implementation of national projects and country studies. Ms. Ramma holds a Bachelor in Crop science and production from the University of Mauritius and a Master of Science in Postharvest Horticulture from the University of Greenwich (U.K).

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Lead discussants

H.E. Mr. Ferit Hoxha , Permanent Representative of Albania to the UN [TBC]

In his present role since 2009, Ambassador Hoxha has been active in foreign affairs for more than 20 years. He was Director for Multilateral Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Albania, Ambassador to the European Union (1998-2001), and Ambassador to France (2001-2006). He also served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2009). During this time he also served as National Coordinator for the Alliance of Civilizations and as Albania’s Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors. He is a graduate of the University of Tirana in Albania in French language and civilization, and has attended the Netherlands Institute of International Relations at Clingendal in The Hague.

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Mr. Ngum, Ousainou , Executive Director of ACORD International

As Executive Director of the Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), a Pan African organisation working for social justice and development in 18 African countries since 1976, Mr. Ngum is a Gambian international finance expert and chartered accountant. He has 25 years’ experience in leading change in private and non-profit organisations in Africa and Europe and has played a key role in transforming ACORD’s institutional structure and identity from a European consortium of northern NGOs to an Africa-led international alliance. He has a Master of Business Administration and is active in academia, publishing articles and position papers on international finance and organizational transformation. He also actively participates in international debates on citizen-driven change and aid and development effectiveness. His take on citizen-driven change explores and communicates a perspective of change in societies that stems from citizens – social movements - rather than markets or states. He advocates for locally-owned solutions to poverty eradication and social justice beyond aid-development; positioning citizen-driven change as a positive alternative for the post-2015 development agenda process. Bilingual in English and French, Mr. Ngum currently lives in Nairobi.

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• How can the national and regional reviews of implementation under the HLPF be designed and conducted to help accelerate progress on the SDGs and sustainable development, building on the lessons learned from other review processes?

• How can accountability be made relevant to all countries and actors in the context of the post-2015 development agenda?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 4: Preparing the HLPF for post 2015: Reviewing progress and implementation

Moderator

H.E. Mr. Masood Khan, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN

Appointed by the Government of Pakistan as Permanent Representative to the United Nations on October 11, 2012, Mr. Masood Khan also served from 2008- 2012, as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and from 2005-2008 as Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. Over the years, he has also specialized in multilateral diplomacy. He has held various positions in multilateral and intergovernmental forums including as Chairman of the Group of 77 and China in Geneva from 2005-2006. He has represented Pakistan at many UN conferences and summits as a delegate, representative and leader of the delegation. He has spoken widely at various national and international forums, think tanks and academic institutions on Pakistan’s foreign policy, peace and security issues, and disarmament diplomacy. Mr. Khan also has acquired expertise in security and disarmament issues, human rights, and social development; as well as Pakistan’s relations with major countries and regions. Before joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan, Mr. Khan was a Lecturer in English as well as a TV presenter and an English newscaster with Radio Pakistan.

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Panelists

Ms Marianne Beisheim, Senior Researcher, Global Issues Division at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany

Marianne Beisheim is a Senior Associate in the Global Issues Research Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs). She is also a member of the UN-Political Advisory Board of the Federal Foreign Office, the Research Council of the United Nations Association of Germany, and the Executive Committee of the Development and Peace Foundation.

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Mr. Ndangiza, Fatuma Nyirakobwa , Chairperson of the Panel of Eminent Persons, African Peer Review Mechanism

In addition to serving as Deputy CEO of the Rwanda Governance Board, whose mission is to promote good governance and decentralisation in Rwanda, Ambassador Ndangiza has served as Rwandan Ambassador and High Commissioner to Tanzania and also was accredited to Malawi, Zambia, Seychelles and Madagascar. From 2002 to 2009, Ambassador Ndangiza was the Executive Secretary of the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission that spearheaded healing and reconciliation among Rwandans. She also pioneered the Women’s Civil Society Movement and the advancement of women empowerment and gender equality in Rwanda.

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H.E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser , Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the UN

Ambassador Wenaweser has served in his current position since 2002. From 2009 to 2011, he served as President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). From 2004 to 2009, he was Chairman of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression. Other previously held functions include: Vice-President of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly (2006-2007), Vice-Chair of the Open-Ended Working Group on Security Council Reform (2004-2005), Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on the Scope of Legal Protection under the 1994 Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (2003-2005), and Chairman of the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (2002). Previously, Ambassador Wenaweser worked as Counselor and Deputy Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the UN. Ambassador Wenaweser studied literature, languages, history and philosophy at Zurich University and diplomacy at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva.

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Mr. Averous, Christian , Economist, France, Head of Division Environmental Performance and Information, OECD Environment Directorate

As an economist and engineer, Mr. Avérous has worked with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 1973to 2008. He provided governments with policy advice to strengthen environmental management and institutions, environment-economy-social integration, and international environmental cooperation. He has created and led the OECD program of environmental performance reviews with 70 country examinations and publications. These reviews have influenced national progress in environmental management. At OECD, he also created and led programs on environmental information such as pressure-state-response model, environmental data, and environmental indicators, measuring material flows and resource productivity. Mr, Avérous has lectured in universities and worked as a consultant to the World Bank, OECD, UN, UNEP, EU and the ADB. He is Vice-President of the Blue Plan and President of the association E2S2D. A French national, he holds degrees in engineering (ENPC, Paris) and in economics (PhD UC Berkeley, French State Doctor).

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Lead discussants

Mr. Baba Drame , Technical Advisor on Sustainable Development at the Directorate of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Senegal

A Geographer Environmentalist expert on sustainable development, Mr. Baba Dramé has worked since 2004 as a civil servant in the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in Senegal. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Dramé served as Head of the Regional Division of Environment and Classified Establishments for the Kolda region in the southern part of Senegal where he accompanied local authorities in promoting sustainable development in their local development policy. Since 2010, Mr. Dramé has served as Technical Advisor for Sustainable Development working for the Technical Secretary of the National Commission for Sustainable Development which is the body responsible for developing and monitoring the implementation of the national strategy for sustainable development. He is also the focal point of Partnership for Action for the Green Economy (PAGE) which counts Senegal among its beneficiaries.

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Mr. Daniel Angelim, Coordinator of labor and environment work for the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) , Workers and Trade Unions Major Group

Mr. Angelim is an adviser in the area of labor and environment work for the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (CSA-TUCA), a trade union movement with a socio-political approach, including the processes of humanitarian, sustainable and supportive economic and social development, and tailored to the needs of the different peoples and societies of the Americas. He has a degree in History and Master in Anthropology from the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

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“The future of the HLPF – agenda setting”

• What are the key priorities that emerged from the regional consultations on post 2015 that can have a truly transformative effect in the respective regions? Which priority areas are not adequately addressed through the global process to develop sustainable development goals?

• How can inequalities between and within countries be addressed in the post-2015 development agenda including the SDGs? How can employment and inclusive growth be addressed?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 2: The Regional Dimension in the Post-2015
• A/68/79-E/2013/69 - Report of the Secretary-General on Mainstreaming of the three dimensions of sustainable development throughout the United Nations system
  [Arabic] [Chinese] [English] [French] [Russian] [Spanish]
• E/2014/CRP.1 - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
• E/2014/CRP.2 - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
• E/2014/CRP.3 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
• E/2014/CRP.4 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

Moderator

Ms. Amina Mohammed, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning

Amina J. Mohammed of Nigeria is the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning. Ms. Mohammed was previously Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals after serving three Presidents over a period of six years. In 2005 she was charged with the coordination of the debt relief funds ($1 billion per annum) towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria. From 2002-2005, Ms. Mohammed served as coordinator of the Task Force on Gender and Education for the United Nations Millennium Project.

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Panelists

Ms. Barcena Ibarra, Alicia , Executive Secretary of ECLAC since May 2008 (coordinator of UN regional commissions)

Ms. Bárcena Ibarra holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University. In the academic arena, Ms. Bárcena Ibarra was the Director of the South-East Regional Centre of the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones sobre Recursos Bióticos in the State of Yucatán. She served in the Government of Mexico as the first Vice-Minister of Ecology and as Director-General of the National Institute of Fisheries. She was part of the Secretariat that was in charge of preparing the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. As Chief of the Environment and Human Settlements Division of ECLAC, she heightened the profile of the Regional Commission in the areas of climate change, sustainable energy, fiscal policies and environment. She previously served as Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as well as Adviser to the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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Mr. Carlos Lopes , Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) (since 2012)

Mr. Lopes worked for more than 24 years at the United Nations as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative in Brazil and Zimbabwe. A member of several African academic networks, as well as a strategist and socio-economist, Mr. Lopes has vast experience in capacity-building and technical cooperation on the continent. Mr. Lopes was most recently the Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and Director of the United Nations System Staff College.

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Ms. Shamshad Akhter , Executive Secretary, ESCAP

Appointed in December 2013 as USG and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. She also serves as the United Nations Sherpa for the G20. Formerly the Secretary-General's Senior Advisor on Economics and Finance, and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, she led the UN-wide coordination of the post-2015 development agenda and related policy and normative work, including supporting work on the Sustainable Financing Strategy. Ms. Akhtar has previously served as Governor of the Central Bank of Pakistan, and recently also as Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. In her capacity as Governor, Ms. Akhtar was also the Chairperson of the Central Bank Board and its affiliates, as well as a Governor of the IMF.

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Mr. Andrey Vasilyev , Deputy Executive Secretary, ECE

Mr. Vasilyev has more than 25 years of experience with the United Nations.From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Vasilyev was the Director of UNECE’s Technical Cooperation Unit. Before joining the UNECE Secretariat, he worked as Senior Programme Officer for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in New York which he joined in 1993.From 2001 till September 2002, he was also the Principal Coordinating Officer in the Secretariat of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg. He joined the United Nations in 1992 as an advisor for the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, which took place in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in June 1992. Prior to his work for the United Nations he worked for the Permanent Mission of the USSR (Russian Federation) to the United Nations in New York where he was an advisor and negotiator on various economic and environmental issues, from 1987 to April 1992. A graduate of the Moscow State University, Department of Economics, Mr. Vasilyev joined the Department of International Economic Organisations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in Moscow in 1983.

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Lead discussants

Ms. Shahira Wahbi, Chief, sustainable development and international cooperation, League of Arab States

Ambassador Shahira Wahbi is the Chief of Sustainable Development and International Cooperation at the League of Arab States on deputation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sudan, where she worked since 1988. Before that, she worked as a research assistant and volunteered to work with the Sudanese Council of Churches on displaced people in Sudan in 1986.

During the period 1992 /1993, she served at Sudan’s Embassy in Morocco and represented her country to the UN in New York during the period 1994/1997. She was responsible for multilateral relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sudan during the period 1998/2000, after which she joined the League of Arab States in Cairo.

Currently she is in charge of sustainable development issues at the League of Arab States. She coordinates all the work pertaining to cooperation with regional and international organizations. Ms. Wahbi also serves in the technical Secretariat of three Arab ministerial councils, namely the Arab ministerial council for environment, for water resources and for housing. Ms. Wahbi obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Khartoum University in 1985, and a high diploma in international relations from the Institut International d’Administration Public in France, in 1989. She was born on 29 August 1962 in Khartoum.


Ms. Wahbi obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Khartoum University in 1985, and a high diploma in international relations from the Institut International d’Administration Public in France, in 1989.

She was born on 29 August 1962 in Khartoum.

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Mr. Mahomed, Osman , Executive Chairman, Commission on Sustainable Development, Mauritius

Mahomed has an engineering background from Singapore University, and an MBA. Mahomed first joined the Mauritian administration in 2003 with a particular focus on investment and infrastructure. Since July 2011, Osman Mahomed has overseen a national initiative that ensures the sustainable development of Mauritius and a bright future for all its citizens. Through the promotion of strategic areas in energy efficiency and independence, Mahomed and the Prime Minister’s Office seeks to transform the social, economic, and environmental landscape of Mauritius as we know it.

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Mr. Daniel Tygel, Operations Manager Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS)

Daniel Tygel is from Brazil. Theoretical physicist, he is former executive secretary of the Brazilian Solidarity Economy Forum. He works today in the cooperative EITA (Education, Information and Technology for Self-Management), which develops open source information technologies to support social movements, and is also the operations manager of RIPESS - Intercontinental Network to Promote Social and Solidarity Economy. He has contributed to UN processes such as the Rio+20 Conference, the Regional Recommendations on the Post-2015 Agenda, the UN Task Force on Social Solidarity Economy, some of the UNCTAD dialogues and conferences, among others.

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• What kind of agenda setting should the forum have to promote integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions review and respond to new trends and challenges and strengthen policy science interface?

• How can we ensure ownership and implementation of the outcomes of the forum?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 4: Preparing the HLPF for post 2015: Reviewing progress and implementation
• Summary of Expert group meeting on the high-level political forum

Moderator

Ms. Amina Mohammed, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning

Amina J. Mohammed of Nigeria is the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning. Ms. Mohammed was previously Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals after serving three Presidents over a period of six years. In 2005 she was charged with the coordination of the debt relief funds ($1 billion per annum) towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria. From 2002-2005, Ms. Mohammed served as coordinator of the Task Force on Gender and Education for the United Nations Millennium Project.

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Panelists

Mr. Paul Gulleik Larsen, coordinator for the post 2015 process, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

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Mr. Michael O'Neill, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy, UNDP

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H.E. Ms. Liz Thompson, Former Executive Coordinator of the Rio+20 conference

Ms. H. Elizabeth Thompson, a former Minister for Energy and Environment of Barbados, was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as Executive Coordinator for the UNCSD Rio + 20 Conference and assumed her duties in 7 December 2010 . Ms Thompson also served as Minister for Physical Development and Minister for Health. Ms. Thompson was appointed to the Barbados Senate and was a practising attorney as well as a journalist. In addition, she was a lecturer in ecology, economy, energy and politics. Ms. Thompson graduated from the University of the West Indies and obtained an MBA, with distinction, from the University of Liverpool and a Master of Laws from Robert Gordon University, Scotland.

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Mr. Soprano, Paolo , Director, Sustainable Development Division, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, Italy

Mr. Soprano graduated from the University of Rome La Sapienza with an Honours B.A.and has been with the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy since 1988. Since 2000, he is Director of Sustainable Development Division. He has participated in the UN Commission on Sustainable Development since its establishment in 1992, as well as in the Johannesburg WSSD Preparatory Process. He is a representative of Italy in the EU Council Working Party on International Environmental Issues, head of delegation of Italy to UN-CSD and to UNEP Governing Council, and co-ordinator for international activities within the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

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Mr. Janos Pasztor, Director, Policy and Science, WWF International

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Lead discussants

Mr. Michael O'Neill , ASG for external relations and advocacy and Assistant Administrator, UNDP

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Ms. Leena Srivastava, Hony. Executive Director (Operations) at TERI, and Vice Chancellor of the TERI University

Dr Srivastava holds a Masters in Economics and a PhD in Energy Economics. She is a member of various committees and Boards both at the international and national levels. At a think tank/science level she serves on the Energy Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum; Scientific Advisory Panel of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) to reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP), UNEP; International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme Technology, Innovation and Society (TIS) and the Holmholtz Alliance Future Infrastructures foe Meeting Energy Demands. She is an independent and Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Bharti Infratel Ltd. And Shree Cement Ltd. And Member of the International Advisory Committee, the Coca Cola Company; Boards of Directors of the Meridian Institute. She also serves on the research advisory boards of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, the Wuppertal Institute for Climate in Germany, and the Alfred Deakin Research Institute of Australia. She received several awards, including a Certificate of Recognition from the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh. She has worked within the United Nations system, notably within a group of the UN Secretary General’s High-level Group on Sustainable energy for All, within the Planning Commission of India and worked on issues of the IPCC.

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Ms. Shantal Munro, Executive Coordinator at the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), Caribbean Development Policy Center, NGO Major Group

Ms. Shantal Munro-Knight develops and undertakes a regional research agenda on behalf of the civil society sector.

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Remarks by the President of ECOSOC: “Messages for the Ministerial Segment”

• What are the key features of a broad, coherent and integrated macro-economic policy framework to support global sustainable development through economic efficiency, social equality and environmental sustainability?

• How can we ensure economic and financial stability with macro-economic policies that foster robust and inclusive growth of output and employment?

• What are the greatest challenges faced by international financial, trade, development and environmental institutions in coordinating policies for supporting the formulation and implementation of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda?

Remarks by

Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

Mr. Wu Hongbo was appointed United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs on 1 August 2012. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Wu served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Federal Republic of Germany. Among his various diplomatic assignments, Mr. Wu served as China’s Ambassador to the Philippines.

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• What are the ingredients of a universal, integrated and ambitious sustainable development agenda?

• What does the post-2015 development agenda mean for countries at different stages of development and for countries in special situations?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 1: From Rio+20 to post-2015: towards an integrated and universal development agenda

• What are the commonalities and differences between the priorities of the various regions for the SDGs and the post 2015 development agenda and how can we ensure that they are appropriately addressed?

• How will the SDGs and the agenda impact on policies and trends in the respective regions?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 2: The Regional Dimension in the Post-2015
• A/68/79-E/2013/69 - Report of the Secretary-General on Mainstreaming of the three dimensions of sustainable development throughout the United Nations system
  [Arabic] [Chinese] [English] [French] [Russian] [Spanish]
• E/2014/CRP.1 - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
• E/2014/CRP.2 - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
• E/2014/CRP.3 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review
• E/2014/CRP.4 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific input to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

Moderator

H.E. Mr. Juan Somavía, UN Secretary-General Special Adviser on Interregional Policy Cooperation and Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile

Juan Somavia (Chile) was Director-General of the ILO from March 1999 to September 2012. He has had a long and distinguished career in civil, political and international affairs. His wide experience in all areas of public life – as Ambassador, CEO, policy-maker, and his involvement in social development, business, civil and academic organizations have all helped shape his vision of the need to secure decent work for women and men through productive investments in the real economy. He believes that in many ways the quality of a society is defined by the quality of work available. He has been particularly active in addressing the social dimension of the present financial and economic crisis.

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Panelists

H.E. Ms. Sanchez Oviedo, Olga Marta , Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy, Costa Rica

Olga Marta Sanchez Oviedo is a Costa Rican politician and the current Minister of Planning. She was Secretary General of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC for its' Spanish initials). She holds a doctorate in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a Master's in social science from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Latin American Social Science College). In addition, she is a licenciate from the University of Costa Rica.

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H.E. Mr. Marcin Korolec , Special Envoy for Climate Change, Poland

Polish civil servant and lawyer. He was the minister of environment in Donald Tusk's cabinet from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as deputy minister of economy between 2005 and 2011. In the years 1993-1995 and 1997-1998 he worked as a lawyer in various national and international law firms and in the department of law and treaties at the Polish ministry of foreign affairs. From 1999 to 2001, Korolec was an advisor to the Government’s Plenipotentiary for Poland’s EU Accession Negotiations. In 2001-2004, he was the Minister’s Counsellor at the Office of the Committee for European Integration. From 2004 to 2005 Korolec worked as a partner at Euroidea consulting company. On 23 November 2005, Korolec was appointed by the Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the Undersecretary of State in Ministry of Economy. On 18 November 2011, Korolec was appointed by the President Bronisław Komorowski as the minister of environment in the Second Cabinet of Donald Tusk. In November 2013, he was removed from office, but was named as the government climate envoy.

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H.E. Mr Shahidul Haque, Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh

Shahidul Haque currently serves as the Foreign Secretary of the Government of Bangladesh. Prior to that, Haque has served in the Bangladesh Missions in London and in Bangkok, as well as served as a Minister (Director General) in the Bangladesh Permanent Mission in Geneva. From 2001 to 2012, Mr. Haque had worked for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on lien from Government of Bangladesh, occupying several senior positions in field offices and the Headquarters in Geneva, including as the Director of IOM dealing with IOMs' external relations, donors liaison and international migration policy.

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H.E. Mr. Mothae Maruping, Anthony, Commissioner for Economic Affairs of African Union Commission

Dr. Anthony Mothae Maruping holds a BA, a MA, an MBA and a PhD in Economics. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor at NUL from 1982 to 1986. He was later Governor at CBL (1988-98). From 1998 to 2005 he was Executive Director, MEFMI, Eastern and Southern Africa. From 2006 to 2012 he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lesotho to UNOG, WTO, etc. and from 2009 to 2012, to the Swiss Confederation. Since 2013, he is Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union. Has chaired boards, councils and committees in various national, regional and international organizations.

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Ms. Akhter, Shamshad , Executive Secretary, ESCAP on behalf of the five Regional Commissions

Shamshad Akhter (Ms.), Executive Secretary, ESCAP (delegated by ECLAC, current coordinator of UN regional commissions)., Appointed in December 2013 as USG and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. She also serves as the United Nations Sherpa for the G20. Formerly the Secretary-General's Senior Advisor on Economics and Finance, and Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, she led the UN-wide coordination of the post-2015 development agenda and related policy and normative work, including supporting work on the Sustainable Financing Strategy. Ms. Akhtar has previously served as Governor of the Central Bank of Pakistan, and recently also as Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. In her capacity as Governor, Ms. Akhtar was also the Chairperson of the Central Bank Board and its affiliates, as well as a Governor of the IMF.

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Lead discussants

H.E. Mr. Phuangketkeow, Sihasak , Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Thailand

1979 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Attache, Public and Cultural Affairs Division, Department of Information
1981 Third Secretary, Public and Cultural Affairs Division, Department of Information
1983 Third Secretary, Royal Thai Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1985 Second Secretary, Royal Thai Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1987 Second Secretary, Southeast Asia Division, Department of Political Affairs
1989 First Secretary, Southeast Asia Division, Department of Political Affairs (Seconded to the Secretariat of the Prime Minister during 1988-1991)
1992 Counsellor, Royal Thai Embassy, Tokyo
1994 Minister Counsellor, Royal Thai Embassy, Tokyo
1996 Director, Policy and Planning Division, Office of the Permanent Secretary
1999 Deputy Director-General, Department of East Asian Affairs
2000 Consul-General, Royal Thai Consulate-General, Hong Kong
2002 Director-General, Department of Information, and Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2006 Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2007 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
2011 Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affair

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H.E. Mr. Al Nasser, Nassir Abdulaziz , UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations

Prior to his current position, Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser assumed the Presidency of the Sixty-Sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly from September 13, 2011 to September 17, 2012.
A veteran diplomat, Mr. Al-Nasser has the rank of Minister, granted by His Highness the Emir of the State of Qatar.
He has contributed to advancing the multilateral agenda in the realms of peace and security, sustainable development and South-South cooperation over a career spanning nearly four decades. For the past 13 years, from 1998 to 2011, Mr. Al-Nasser served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations. During this period, he played leading roles as Chairman of the General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonization (Fourth) Committee (2009 to 2010) and as President of the General Assembly High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation (2007 to 2009). He also chaired the Group of 77 and China at the United Nations in New York (2004), guiding action that paved the way for the Second South Summit of the Group, which took place in Doha, Qatar, the following year, and led to the establishment of the South Fund for Development and Humanitarian Affairs, a financing mechanism aimed at assisting the countries of the South in addressing issues such as poverty, hunger and natural disasters.Mr. Al-Nasser represented his country on the United Nations Security Council during the two-year term of Qatar as a non-permanent member (2006 to 2007).

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Ms. Francisco, Gigi , Global Coordinator of the Development Alternatives for Women in the New Era (DAWN), Chair of the International Studies Department of Miriam College in the Philippines, Women Major Group

Gigi Francisco is currently the Chair of the International Studies Department of Miriam College in the Philippines, and a member of the Selection Committee of the Yayori Peace Award. She has conducted research on gender, poverty, development and feminist movements.

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• Which long term trends have the greatest impact on poverty and equality?

• What have been successful strategies to reconcile the imperatives of eradicating poverty, reducing inequality, strengthening resilience and preserving natural resources? How can policies ensure the sustainability of gains across generations?

• TST Issues Brief: Poverty Eradication
• TST Issues Brief: Promoting Equality, including Social Equity

• What new commitments are countries willing to undertake for cooperation to truly spur sustainable development progress? How do they plan to reach existing commitments?

• How can all countries harness new and transformative technologies to support sustainable development?

• TST Issues Brief: Means of Implementation; Global Partnership for achieving sustainable development

Moderator

H.E. Mr. Saber Chowdhury, Member of Parliament, Bangladesh

Mr. Chowdhury holds Bachelor degree of Political Science and Economics from London University and LL.B in Westminister University, London. He served as Deputy Minister of Shipping from December 1996 to March 1998 and thereafter as Deputy Minister of Local Government & Rural Development (LGRD) till July 2001. He was also a Member of the Parliamentary Committee for the Ministry of Sports and Cultural Affairs for the term of 1996-2001. Duringhis tenure as the Member of the Parliament and also as the Deputy Minister. He is also the Managing Director of Karnaphuli Group of Companies.

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Respondents

Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University

Professor Sachs holds both a MA and a PhD in economics from Harvard. Mr. Sachs is also the Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General’s MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development. He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the past seven years: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). His most recent book is To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace (2013).

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Panelists

H.E. Mr. Fulbert Macaire Amoussouga Gero, Minister of MDGs policies and Sustainable Development, Benin

Amoussouga heads the Economic Analysis Unit of the President of the Republic of Benin and is current chair of the African Union. He is also the Director of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Abomey, where he specializes in research on African economic development.

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H.E. Mr. Borge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Børge Brende graduated with a BA in economics, law and history, NTNU, Trondheim. He began his career as a political adviser in 1985. He was Minister of the Environment from 2001 to 2004 and Minister of Trade and Industry from 2004 to 2005. He was a Member of the China Council for International Environment and Development (advisory body to the State Council) (2005–2013) and a Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment (Norwegian Parliament / the Storting) (2005–2009). He was also a Managing Director of the World Economic Forum in Geneva, a Member of the Board, Statoil and a Chair of the Board, Mesta.

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H.E. Mr. Han Seung-Soo, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water

UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Disaster Risk Reduction and Water (2014-)
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (2008-2009)
President of the 56th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (2001-02)
UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Climate Change (2007-08)

Mr. Han was President of the fifty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly from 2001 to 2002, and Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 2008 to 2009. He served as Chairperson of the Global Green Growth Institute Governing Board and, from 2011 to 2012, was a member of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability before the Rio+20 Summit. Mr. Han is currently Chair of the High-Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters and a member of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation. The recipient of an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2004, he is a current member of the Club of Madrid.

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Lead discussants

H.E. Ms. Emilia Pires, Minister of Finance, Timor-Leste

Ms. Pires is the Minister of Finance of Timor-Leste. Ms. Pires has a background in development, and senior experience in planning, public finance management, development and aid policies. Ms. Pires also Co-Chairs the International Dialogue of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding with the Netherlands, which has recently taken over from the United Kingdom. Ms. Pires began her professional career as a junior public servant in the Victorian Government in her early 20s. She then rose to senior management level. Before becoming Minister of Finance, Ms. Pires held senior positions with the World Bank, Senior Aid Management Specialist in West Bank and Gaza, where she advised both the Ministries of Finance and Planning of the Palestinian Authority and donors on aid coordination to the economic sector. She worked as UNMISET’s Senior Advisor to the Timor-Leste Ministry of Planning and Finance, United Nations. She was also UNTAET’s Head of the Planning Commission Secretariat as well as the Chief of the National Development and Planning Agency (NPDA), and Chief of the National Development and Planning Agency (NPDA).

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H.E. Mr. Pekha Haavisto, , Minister, International Development, Finland

He was the Chair of the Parliamentary Human Rights Groups from 1990 to 1995 and of the European Green Party from 2000 to 2006. He has been a Special Representative to the Minister for Foreign affairs in African crises from 2009 to 2013. He worked in Helsinki City Council (1988–1992, 2005–2008). He has been Member of Parliament, (1987-1995, 2007 to present). He also served as Minister of the Environment, Minister at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Lipponen I), 13 April 1995–14 April 1999.

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H.E. Mr. Federico Ramos de Armas, Vice Minister for Environment, Spain

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Mr. Hiroshi Imanaga, Deputy Mayor of Kitakyushu, Japan

Mr. Imanaga Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Hiroshima University in 1978. He began his professional career as Technical Staff of the City of Kitakyushu in April 1978 (for nine years). From April 1989 to October 2004, he was Manager and later Director of several different Bureaus (General affairs, Seaport, City Planning, and Construction). He became Executive Director of the Environment Bureau in October 2004, and then Director of the Buildings and City Planning Bureau in 2007. He worked in different Bureaus as Chief Executive from 2009, until his current position (since April 2014).

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• How can we promote partnerships to achieve the post-2015 development agenda including the SDGs?

• How can we promote accountability in the context of multi-stakeholder partnerships?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 3: Multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development
• SD in Action - Special Report on Voluntary Commitments and Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Moderator

Mr. Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director , UNFPA

On 1 January 2011, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, a physician and public health expert, became only the fourth Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. He holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before this appointment, Dr. Osotimehin was Nigeria’s Minister of Health. Prior to that, he was Director-General of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS, which coordinates HIV and AIDS work in a country of more than 160 million people. Dr. Osotimehin qualified as a doctor from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1972, and went to the University of Birmingham, England, where he got a doctorate in medicine in 1979. He was appointed Professor at the University of Ibadan in 1980 and headed the Department of Clinical Pathology before being elected Provost of the College of Medicine in 1990. Years later, he served in several organizations, including as Chair of the National Action Committee on AIDS, from 2002 to 2007. Dr. Osotimehin received the Nigerian national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) in December 2005. At UNFPA, he has introduced major reforms to make the Fund more focused and results-oriented as well as intensified efforts to promote the rights and ability of young people to build a better world in the context of sexual and reproductive health. He is married and has five children.

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Panelists

H.E. Mr. Pio Wennubst, Ambassador and Deputy Director, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation

Ambassador Pio Wennubst is currently operating under the Swiss Permanent Mission to the UN in New York as the head of the economic and social development team. As Assistant General Director of the SDC, he manages the Global Cooperation Department.

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Mr. Juan Carlos Lastiri Quiros, Deputy Secretary for Perspective, Planning and Evaluation at the Ministry of Social Development, Mexico

Mr. Juan Carlos Lastiri Quirós is Deputy Secretary for Perpective,Planning and Evaluation, Ministry of Social Development, Mexico. He is responsible for planning, designing and evaluating actions for social development, so as to ensure their conformity with the poverty reduction goals of the National Development Plan. Prior to his present position, Mr. Lastiri has served as a parliamentarian at the federal and local levels. For his native State of Puebla, Mexico, he has served as Secretary for Social Development. He has also held the post of Technical Secretary of the National Commission for Social Development. Mr. Lastiri holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the Autonomous University of Puebla.

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Ms. Petra Bayr, Member of Parliament, Austria

An Austrian politician and member of the Austrian National Council, Petra Bayr has served as the Vice-President of the European Parliamentarian Forum on Population and Development, a Board member of Parliamentarians for Global Action, and a Member of the Governing Council of the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa.

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Mr. Dagfinn Høybråten, Board Chair of the GAVI Alliance

Dagfinn Høybråten is the Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board. As of 3 March 2013, he is the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Prior to these positions Mr Høybråten has held several senior positions in Norwegian Government including Vice President of The Norwegian Parliament representing the Christian Democratic Party and a member of the Standing committee for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Minister of Health, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and State Secretary, Ministry of Finance and a Member of the Board of Governors of Norway’s Central Bank. As a Minister, Mr Høybråten was responsible for initiating several major health and social reforms, including new tobacco control legislation, a comprehensive Mental Health Plan and a reorganization of the welfare administration.
Mr Høybråten has also served as the Director General of Norway Social Security Administration, an Executive Director of the Norwegian Association of Local Government and a Chief Executive of the municipality of Oppegård. Mr Høybråten holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Oslo.

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Mr. Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary General and CEO, CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation, NGOs Major Group

Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah has been Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation since January 2013. His previous posts include Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Interim Director of the Commonwealth Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research. Danny is the author of numerous reports and academic articles on international migration and economic development, writes and appears regularly in the media on a range of topics. He sits on several boards, including those of the Baring Foundation, International Alert and Ockenden International, and has been a consultant to several international organisations. He holds a degree from the University of Sydney, and an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2012, he was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

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Lead discussants

H.E. Mr. Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Iceland since 2013, he has been a member of the Parliament of Iceland (Althingi) for the Northwest Constituency since 2009. During this time he has been a Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2011-2013), Member of the Special Committee on the Standing Orders of Althingi (2011-2013) and Member of the Industry Committee (2009-2011). He is also Chairman of the parliamentary group of the Progressive Party (2009-2013). Prior to becoming a member of parliament he was a political advisor to the Minister of Social Affairs (1997-1999).

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Ms. Myrna Cunningham , former Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Indigenous Peoples Major Group

Ms. Cunningham Kain is an Indigenous Miskita woman from the community of Waspam, located on the banks of the Wangki River in Nicaragua. After studying as a Primary Education Teacher, she went back to Waspam to work as a teacher.
Ms. Cunningham Kain has also served as the coordinator of the Intercultural Indigenous Council (CII), formed by 60 indigenous scholars from 18 Latin American countries. The CII is a course that forms part of the curriculum for postgraduate study offered by UII in the 25 academic partner centers, and to provide information, analysis, conceptual and methodological contributions to knowledge, spirituality, world view, rights and processes of the struggle of Indigenous peoples. The CII presents Indigenous knowledge from the most relevant experiences of Indigenous scholars, and from a conceptual and practical vision organized didactically in order to facilitate the use of conceptual, procedural, attitudinal and spiritual content. Its purpose is to supplement postgraduate courses conceptually, politically, spiritually and philosophically. It utilizes the CII’s position in the Network of Universities of the UII to raise awareness of Indigenous issues within the university community and school governing bodies. There is also an exchange between organizations and local Indigenous communities.
In September 2010, Ms. Cunningham Kain was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), thereby becoming the first Indigenous woman to receive such recognition from the UNAM.
Dr. Mirna Cunningham was recently named Chair of the UN Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues for the period 2011-2013.
As an Indigenous woman Ms. Cunningham Kain acknowledges the collective contributions of previous generations in her training and experience, and especially her family, parents, sisters, sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and grandchildren.

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• What would be the best way for HLPF to review implementation and progress towards future sustainable development goals?

• How can the agenda and working methods of the forum allow promoting integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions?

• HLPF Issue Briefs 4: Preparing the HLPF for post 2015: Reviewing progress and implementation

Remarks by

Mr. Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs

From 2009 to 2013, Thomas Gass served as Head of the Mission of Switzerland to Nepal. Before then, Mr. Gass was Head of the Economic and Development Section at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in New York, representing Switzerland’s interests to ECOSOC. Currently, Thomas Gass serves as Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs in UN DESA.

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Panelists

H.E. Mr. Rémi Allah Kouadio, Minister for the Environment, Sustainable Cities and Sustainable Development, Cote d’Ivoire

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H.E. Mr. Attila Korodi, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Romania

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H.E. Mr. Shinji Inoue, Senior Vice-Minister of the Environment, Japan

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Mr. Joseph Moser, Secretary General, International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions

Dr. Josef Moser is President of Austrian Court of Audit and Secretary General of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). He assumed office on the 1st of July 2004. Since 2011 he has been Honorary Professor of the Nanjing Audit University in China and since 2009 he has been member of the Working Group on New Administration in Austria. Dr. Moser has professional experience in the private sector and public administration. Dr. Moser was member of the Supervisory Board of the Austrian Railroad Infrastructure Company. He also was a member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Railroad Holding Company and the Railroad Construction Company. Before his engagement in the private sector, Dr. Moser was Executive Director of a political group in parliament.

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Lead discussants

Mr. Erik Solheim, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee

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• What is the cost of inaction on sustainable development?

• What does science tell us on the best policy choices to a sustainable future?

• Prototype Global Sustainable Development Report
• A/68/322 - Intergenerational solidarity and the needs of future generations
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• E/2014/87 - Options for scope and methodology for a global sustainable development report
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Moderator

Mr. Romain Murenzi, Former Rwandan Science Minister and Executive Director of The World Academy of Sciences

Romain Murenzi is a physicist and former Rwandan Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research. He has also served as the executive director of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries.

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Panelists

H.E. Ms. Elba Viviana Caro Hinojosa, Minister of Development Planning, Bolivia [TBC]

Ms. Hinojosa studied economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and obtained a master's degree in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She obtained research experience in the Analysis Group for Development in Lima, Peru. She later served in Bolivia, as a consultant for Muller & Associates, Center for Labor and Agrarian Development (CEDLA) and as Assistant Director of Policy for macro-UDAPE. Ms. Hinojosa was a member of the Committee of the Master Thesis CIDES - UMSA. She published in the areas of commerce, industry, agriculture, environment and natural resources and micro-enterprise. She served as director of UDAPE since February 2007.

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H.E. Ms. Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany, and Member of the German Bundestag

Ms. Schwarzelühr-Sutter obtained a MBA degree from the University of Zurich. Since 1999, she served as municipal councillor in Lauchringen, and served as deputy Chairman of the ASF, District Association of Waldshut. Since 2001, she was Chairman of the SPD Kreisverbands Waldshut. Since 2004, she was a member of the county council district of Waldshut. Since 2007, Ms. Schwarzelühr-Sutter was a member of the state executive of the SPD Baden-Württemberg. From 1999 to 2013, she was in the municipal council in Lauchringen. She was a member of the Regional Association of the Upper Rhine and Lake Constance (2005-2014). She was a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2009 and again since October 2010. Since 2007, she has been a member of the state executive of the SPD Baden-Württemberg.

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H.E. Ms. Vesna Kos, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia

Vesna Kos holds a Phd in International Human Rights Law from the Law Faculty in Zagreb (2011). She graduated at Zagreb Faculty of Law in 1992. She went to the Diplomatic Academy, MFA in Croatia from 1996 to 1997. She also graduated with a LLM in International Human Rights at the University of Essex in the UK in 1997. In 1993 she worked as Trainee at the County Court in Zagreb. From 1993 to 1998, she was Adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Human Rights Department, at the International Legal Department. From 1998 to 2002, she was First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations Office in Geneva. She later was Counsellor at the Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2002 – 2003). From 2003 to 2008, she was Deputy Permanent Representative –and later chargée d’affaires (2008-2009) at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Croatia to the Council of Europe. In 2010, she was both Head of the International Organisations and Human Rights Department, MFAEI and Head of the Department for International Development Cooperation. In 2011, she became Director General at the Directorate General for Multilateral Affairs, MFAEI. She has been Assistant Minister at the Directorate General for Multilateral Affairs and Global Issues since 2012. She can speak Croatian, English, French and Basic German. She is married and has one child.

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Lead discussants

Ms. Irina Bokova , Director-General of UNESCO

Ms. Bokova graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and has postgraduate studies from the University of Maryland and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has received Doctor Honoris Causa from prestigious universities. Ms. Bokova joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria in 1977 where she was responsible for human rights and equality of women issues. She was later appointed in charge of political and legal affairs at the Permanent Mission of Bulgaria to the United Nations in New York. Ms. Bokova participated in the drafting of Bulgaria’s new Constitution, which contributed to the country’s accession to the European Union. She was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Coordinator of Bulgaria-European Union relations from 1995 to 1997; Ambassador of Bulgaria to France, Monaco and UNESCO from 2005 to 2009; and Personal Representative of the President of Bulgaria to the "Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie" (OIF).

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Ms. Irene Khan , Director-General of the International Development Law Organization

Ms. Khan studied law at the University of Manchester and Harvard Law School. She worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for 21 years at headquarters and in various field operations. She was Secretary General of Amnesty International from 2001-2009. She was Visiting Professor at the State University of New York Law School (Buffalo) in 2011. Ms. Khan is Chancellor of Salford University (UK), and a member of the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention. She sits on the boards of several international human rights and development organizations. Ms. Khan received the Sydney Peace Prize in 2006 for her work to end violence against women and girls. Her book, The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights has been translated into seven languages.

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Mr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Professor and Director General of CERN

Prof. Heuer studied physics at the University of Stuttgart. He then obtained his PhD in 1977 at the University of Heidelberg for his study of neutral decay modes of the Ψ (3686). His post-doc studies include the JADE experiment at the electron-positron storage ring PETRA at DESY, and from 1984, the OPAL experiment at CERN, where he also became spokesperson of the OPAL collaboration for many years. Having been offered a full professorship for experimental physics at the University of Hamburg, Prof. Heuer returned to DESY in 1998. In 2004, he was appointed DESY's Research Director.

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• Adoption of the HLPF Ministerial Declaration

• Adoption of the report of HLPF to ECOSOC

• Closing remarks by the President of ECOSOC