Ministerial sessions (Afternoon) - Global Leaders…

14:30 - 14:45 Spotlight intervention

Professor Richard Baldwin, Professor of international economics, International Institute for Management Development

14:45 - 15:30 Panel Dialogue: Reshaping Foreign Direct Investment and Global Value Chains for Development

Speakers:

• Kalthoum Ben Rejeb Guezzah, Minister of Trade and Export Development, Government of Tunisia
• Sahib Mammadov, Deputy Minister of Economy, Government of Azerbaijan
• Nuno Sampaio, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Government of Portugal
• Mohammed Alzarooni, Chairman of the Board of Directors, World Free Zones Organization

• Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

15:30 - 15:45 Spotlight intervention

Mahendra Siregar, Chief of Financial Services Authority, Indonesia

15:45 - 16:30 Panel debate: Catching Up Is Hard: Development Strategies in a World of Cascading Crises

Speakers:

• John Mutorwa, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Transport, Government of Namibia
• Javier González-Olaechea, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Peru
• Marie Paulette Parfaite Amouyeme Ollame Epse Divassa Boffi, Minister of Commerce and SMEs, Government of Gabon
• Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, Minister of Trade and Industry, Government of Rwanda
• Vladimir Ilichev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Government of the Russian Federation

• José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary, ECLAC

16:30 - 17:00 Closing session: Forward together

Speaker:

• Rebeca Grynspan, UN Trade and Development Secretary-General